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Resistance Report — 5 Aug 2024

West Bank resistance continues to grow amid attacks by Israeli military, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the latest resistance news across multiple fronts in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by journalist Donya Abu Sitta live from the Gaza Strip, and Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, on the day 299 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkWFq_Wu2Us

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Full transcript
wanted to bring in some uh also from the West Bank here so we just get a quick look at the West Bank the north of the West Bank um as Abdul Jad said on the show uh I think it was last week that uh you know I've been saying that we would be calling this a third inata if it was uh any other time but what's going on in Gaza um and Abu you know focuses in and says that it's particularly the case in the north of the West Bank so um what the Israelis uh historically have called the triangle of terror even before their state tarum Janine and nablas um as the centers of resistance two bosses just north of uh nablas on the way to Janine and it's also uh a core uh spot of resistance um so if we look at number 15 here we're seeing cassam brigades operations in the West Bank cassam filming operations this is a three-part uh Ambush so they set off uh this is the separation wall this the apartheid wall that runs around uh in genev it's a it's a fence you could see the fighters here preparing their multiple IEDs they're going to prepare three bombs they're going to detonate one against the fence um just against the fence as a decoy there you see it there and then when the Israelis uh come as you see them there I've eded this a little bit but the uh Israelis show up here and you can see them to come and fix the fence um and they're hit by the second blast um and then when the uh reinfor enforcements come uh there's a third blast so a three-part IED operation in the West Bank with camera on it is a qualitative development um that is happening in the West Bank with these operations the sophistication um the getting the camera work as embedded in into the operations is happening uh in a way that's more than what we were seeing uh before and there's been fighting all over um the West Bank tarum and the 2G camps around tarum balata nablas of course Janine has been uh fighting significantly as always tubas even DEA in Bethlehem the refugee camp in Bethlehem and there's an operation in Hebron today a number of shooting operations uh against Israeli soldiers and this is something that Abu abeda has pointed out if we look at this uh number 15b here this is the poster uh a poster that kassam put out uh or put out earlier this week but has a quote from Abu abeda from his speech earlier in the month where he talks about the continuous escalation of resistance operations in the West Bank in Janine um of isad alasam citing um that the birth of the Armed struggle uh with isad Al Kasam dying in the Hills uh around Janine in 1935 sparking the Arab Uprising the Arab Revolt um Abu abeda cites that he cites the pride of taram um and in nablas the Mountain of Fire uh as it's known as and this is he says this is our response to genocide it's our choice of our people in the face of systemic systemic Slaughter and you can see this artwork the cassan brigades and and the other factions put out these resistance posters as well um and you can see the Israeli soldiers standing in a bear trap uh looking uh looking off across the border fence uh in Gaza uh to the resistance uh in the West Bank so uh just wanted to bring that abua shouting out the West Bank resistance um the factions are all talking to each other the West Bank Gaza and as we'll see later in Lebanon as well so let's look at the uh number 16 this is an alaxa martyr Brigade operation because there's multiple uh factions in the West Bank carrying out these operations this is in the taram Camp there was a battle all week in the taram camp this is the alax Mars brigades youth of Revenge and Liberation um and just to give you a sense this is one of 2004 444 uh resistance operations since October 7th you're going to see them hit a D9 bulldozer there uh 2,444 operations 1533 shooting operations and 680 IEDs um so this is one of the 680 IEDs that you're seeing uh Target there um by the alaxa Mars brigades and tarum camp we could do 17 is Kasam IED also in talarum against uh an Israeli bulldozer um there's been 855 this is from Mo's research uh in the West Bank 800 Research Center a resistance Research Center 855 operations in Janine that's the number one 855 out of the 2400 operations nablas is number two in operations and taram is number three and that's armed struggle operations popular resistance there's been 3,771 Stone throwing uh in 750 demonstrations and as we know 585 Palestinians have been killed uh in the West Bank 4,000 wounded 10,000 arrests since October 7th so this is something that's been happening consistently in the West Bank we don't get enough time to cover it on the show uh so I want to bring you um that into the show uh today um let's look at number 18 quickly um this was an operation this is the only one that wasn't this week this is earlier in this month in nor Shams where um Sarah Al Good's um tarum Brigade blew up a panther Troop Carrier um with an IED significant as you can see clearly significant IED um that was buried more than a meter and a half into the ground and the Israelis believed that they were safe you can see the road is all torn up and you can see the troop carriers going to that spot he believes that spot is the safe place to drive um and as you can see that is not the case um so that's West Bank resistance um that has been really consistent um day in and day out uh since October 7th so I just wanted to bring that uh a little bit to focus thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm and it helps us to get around Silicon Valley censorship as much as possible it does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you