Infobae presents exclusively in Spanish the series, which promises to become a historical document on repression, terror and resistance in contemporary Lebanon.
The Center for Peace Communications presents an unprecedented investigation with eight episodes that document, through real testimonies and animation, a network of terror, child recruitment, sex trafficking and systematic oppression of the Iranian-backed Lebanese organization
A revealing documentary series offers a unprecedented look at the crimes of Hezbollah, exposing through chilling testimony the brutality of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist group.
Produced by the NGO Center for Peace Communications, The series “Hezbollah hostages” presents eight episodes built with interviews of Shiite opponents and Sunni victims who risked their lives to tell the truth.
To protect the identity of those interviewed, the producers used cutting-edge animation techniques that preserve the authenticity of the stories. The voices are genuine: people who have directly experienced Hezbollah oppression and who decided to break their silence despite the personal risk.
The producers used cutting-edge animation techniques that preserve the authenticity of the stories.
This is the same technique that the NGO had used in “Whispering in Gaza”, another animated series that showed the testimonies of Palestinians subjected to the Hamas regime.
Now, the new ones shocking testimonies offer a devastating overview of how Hezbollah has spread terror in Lebanon, Syria, Israel and beyond (among other things, the group is held responsible for the devastating 1994 AMIA bombing in Buenos Aires, considered until October 7 to be the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust).
Stories that shake
The series addresses Dark aspects of the terrorist group from multiple perspectives. From the child recruitment to fight in the Syrian civil war up to networks of sex trafficking, Through the drug smuggling and the systematic repression of dissenting voices, each episode reveals a more sinister face of Hezbollah.
A particularly striking episode tells the story of a young Lebanese Shiite, Hussein, whose upbringing was marked by hate propaganda towards Israel. However, his encounter with Israeli students during an exchange in the West radically transformed his outlook, leading him to risk his life to advocate for peace within his community.
“Hezbollah hostages” It is also a testimony of courage. Women like Nadia, who manage to escape ultra-religious oppression, or activists who challenged the group during the October 17 Revolution in Lebanon, represent the resistance against terror.
Below are the eight chapters of the series:
The fighter
A harrowing portrait of the recruitment of Shia children in the Syrian civil war. The documentary follows the story of an innocent young boy seduced by the Hezbollah machine, showing how the organisation transforms minors into soldiers, tearing them from their childhood and indoctrinating them in an ideology of violence and hatred.
The sex slave
A chilling account of a Syrian woman kidnapped by Hezbollah. The episode reveals, for the first time in such raw detail, the organisation's sex trafficking network. The victim recounts her ordeal of months of captivity, systematic rape and abuse, exposing the darkest side of the terrorist group's brutality.
The jihadist drug
An in-depth investigation into Captagon, the drug that finances Hezbollah's operations. Through the testimony of a repentant smuggler, the documentary exposes how drug trafficking has become a key instrument for financing terrorism, attracting young people into a world of personal and collective destruction.
A Lebanese man who was taught to hate Israel
The transformation story of Hussein, a young Shia man whose personal journey challenges the narrative of hate. Raised under Hezbollah propaganda that portrayed Israelis as “zombies,” his encounter with Israeli students during a university exchange completely demolished his prejudices, turning him into a peace activist.
Hezbollah
A comprehensive analysis of Dahiyeh, Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut. The episode unravels how this neighborhood has become the nerve center of Iranian power in Lebanon, a state within a state that operates with its own rules and power structure.
Hit by Hezbollah
The brutal account of Ali, a young Shia man who was savagely attacked by Hezbollah members after walking with friends. Despite warnings from his family about the dangers of defying the group, he decided to bring his attackers to justice, exposing his bravery in the face of institutionalised terror.
Hezbollah suppressed a revolution
First-hand accounts from two women who participated in the October 17 Revolution in Lebanon. The episode shows how Hezbollah agents brutally attacked protesters while the police stood by, revealing the group's role in suppressing popular movements for freedom.
The Lebanese woman who defied orthodoxy
The portrait of Nadia, a woman who managed to free herself from Hezbollah's oppression. Her story is a symbol of resistance against ultra-religious control, showing individual courage in the face of patriarchal and fundamentalist power structures.
I don't know how the communist parties can support Iran and its satellite jihadist terrorist organizations. They will surely say that these videos are invented or an exaggeration, because in none of them is there anything similar or even remotely close to the leftist ideals or the political programs of these parties in the West. They are always the ones who most defend the rights of women, homosexuals, etc. They are especially against sexual abuse, or even against prostitution.
It is not that the far right and its many comrades are less coherent, for example the Spanish, unlike many of their European coreligionists, are also usually very Catholic, not to say that they are more papist than the Pope, with what this presupposes, or for example the Spanish fascists and neo-Nazis have always been, at least publicly, against vices such as sex or drugs. However, we have Spanish cities where fascists and neo-Nazis are numerous and more organized, such as Madrid or especially Valencia, where they have been denounced for their violent acts against left-wing citizens, homosexuals, and the long etcetera of anyone who does not fit into their very narrow ideological spectrum. Allowing for the differences, these Spanish fascists are not far removed from the control that Hezbollah exercises in the areas it controls.
In Valencia, the fascist and neo-Nazi party España 2000, which was destined to become the great Spanish far-right party by copying others from the new rise of the far right in Europe, gained strength. This party is led by José Luís Roberto, alias «el Cojo», the one destined to be «the Spanish Le Pen», he even received the support of Le Pen senior when the latter already had numerous votes in France, but in the end it was the fascist party Vox that took the cat to the water in Spain, which arrived later and by rebound when the party of «the Spanish Le Pen» became evident that it ended up being a bluff, perhaps because it is a well-known party full of violent Valencian fascists and neo-Nazis who received continuous complaints for attacks, apart from the fact that its leader in the past was tried for far-right terrorism, or currently was in charge of running several companies, such as the violent private security company Levantina de Seguridad, or vele-tudo fights, or a Spanish network of gyms for fascists that they have expanded throughout Spain, even training Spanish police officers or were also hired by various administrations to provide private security for public buildings. This fascist leader, together with his followers, also headed the Spanish brothel association ANELA. They wanted to legalise Spanish brothels, arguing that their brothels were different or distinguished from other brothels or from the many other prostitutes in Spain, with theirs clean and controlled from venereal diseases. In Spain, it is well known, or has been published many times in the Spanish press, that the number of women who practice prostitution is very large, controlled by many mafias from various countries, with the Romanian mafias controlling 60% of this business in Spain. There are also many types or levels of prostitution, however, in general, the most common profile may be the immigrant prostitute who began working as a prostitute when she was a minor, surely deceived or under the threats of the very violent mafias dedicated to prostitution. And many were still minors when they arrived in Spain or the mafias transferred them to Spain. There is also trafficking of sexual slaves, even with groups of neo-Nazi bikers who have been accused in recent years of dedicating themselves to this, among their many other criminal businesses. Among Spanish neo-Nazis there is also the phenomenon of drug trafficking, as for example is the case of the leader of the neo-Nazi Yomus club from Valencia, Vicente Estruch, a very violent neo-Nazi who is also a friend of José Luís Roberto, who decorated him in a public act for fascists for being an exemplary citizen, which for these pearls is being very violent against citizens of other ideologies.