An Israeli officer watching a Hezbollah filmed operation Hezbollah's filmed operations are one of the key media texts that constitute the group's discourse of resistance and their strategies of representation in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1986 Hezbollah introduced an innovation in their strategies of resistance. Their militants filmed one of their armed operations in the occupied southern Lebanon and broadcast it on television. This film, followed by numerous others, had an impact on the growing popularity of the movement and on the construction of their image in the minds of the public. First broadcast by national media, they are now placed in online archives accessible to anyone at any time through Hezbollah's internet sites. By looking at these two aspects of the film presentation and reception (as event and as archives) this paper analyzes their function that goes beyond simple journalistic value to become part of a narrative of identity and self representation. Stemming from Michel Foucault's and Edward Said's notions of power and knowledge, the paper looks at these films as a strategy of resistance and as an attempt of self

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