Gaza City snipers continue targeting senior Israeli military officers, with Jon Elmer

So, we're going to move now to Zaytoun. I organized these by by area, by battalion. So, this is Zaytoun in Gaza City that we're going to watch here. This is number 10. And you're going to see this fighter with his Yasin 105. And you can see written on his Yasin 105, it says, "For the soul of the martyr hero Sheikh Yasin." The founder of Hamas who the weapon is named after. So, that was a nice little touch just written on his on his warhead. And you could see that this is Zaytoun. If we will remember in February in Zaytoun, the Israelis invaded and that's where Saraya al-Quds repurposed an F-16 bomb that was dropped and didn't explode. And Saraya al-Quds rewired the bomb and blew up the Israelis. And they left. That fight was a two-week fight that was fierce enough that we called it a battle. We called it the Battle of Zaytoun. Something that we don't hand out lightly. Because it's very significant. And it was a battle, the Battle of Zaytoun. The Israelis lost the first Battle of Zaytoun in November and December. They reinvaded in February and lost the Battle of Zaytoun. And here they are for the past week fighting in Zaytoun and they pulled out today surely with nothing accomplished besides more destruction and aimed at civilian targets. Their IDF field reports talk about a hundred killed fighters, 20 killed fighters, 50 killed fighters. But it doesn't match anything that we're seeing. And the Israelis don't have the intelligence. They're not going and doing battle damage assessments and going to see if they killed 50 people. They're just throwing out these numbers. And that's how they end up with the fake numbers in the 10, you know, 10,000 fighters killed which I I is an absurd number. I think it will find it's considerably lower than that. Uh maybe even half that. Um so in Zaytoun there was a famous sniper operation that you guys probably saw on social media. It was a Al-Ghoul. I mean, the Al-Ghoul is a copy of an Iranian uh Sayyad or a Austrian Steyr.50 cal sniper rifle. Um we're watching him set his scope here. He's got camouflage gaffer tape uh to hide the barrel so the barrel doesn't shine in the sunlight. He's using pillows, blankets, and a pile of rubble here um for a direct hit. And we had to cut out um we cut out the uh soldiers being killed, but you can go to my Twitter account um and tomorrow I'll probably throw that up on the banner at some point and you can go and watch these videos. Tamara has expertly edited out the things that uh invoke censorship. So, we want to keep this on. But, this that sniper hit the target. And the Israelis didn't say it was in this event, but the Israelis said in Zaytoun that Brigadier General uh Brigadier General Bar Shechet was the most senior officer wounded in this war. He was the Nahal Brigade's chief forward command team and he was shot on Friday. And he's an interesting character because he was also in uh the ICJ the South African case for the ICJ because when he was fighting in this area in November, he said, "Whoever returns here, if they return here, will find scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future." So, he was a genocidal intent guy. Uh and he just gets one right here from uh Qassam sniper who got him directly. The footage shows the bullet uh passing through him, an armor-piercing incendiary bullet. There's multiple rounds for the Al-Ghoul sniper rifle, for the.50 cal sniper rifle, there's uh armor-piercing there's armor-piercing incendiary, and there's incendiary, and there's regular. Um and so, it looks like what we saw here was an armor-piercing incen- armor-piercing incendiary uh uh weap- uh round used in um and it appears that what happens is it blows through his gun that he's holding there. It throw- blows through the magazine of that gun, but you can see the exit of the bullet very clearly um on that shot. So, another sniper, another time Qassam is picking the highest commander in any of the group. And you can see Let's show it one more time, Tamara, yeah? Um you can see the commander in this shot. Watch him talk to the other people. Watch. He's the one talking. Look at them looking back. He's the one talking. He's the commander. Qassam waits, picks him. He's moving. Sniper's picking a moving target is an elite skill. They're now running, and he has cover of another soldier in front of him. And Qassam still got him. Um so, those are hunter-killer teams working together. The spotter uh is the hunter. Uh and the sniper's the killer, and then we also have uh the cameraman embedded in these units. Um and the cameraman bet- embedded in the units is what gives Qassam the ability to show us these videos that show that Israel's lying, uh and shows definitively that they're losing the war, which we've been saying all along because their goals were impossible to achieve, and they will not be achieved. So, after this sniper attack, uh, Qassam put out a mixtape. So, that's number 12, Tamara. Uh, Tamara had to do some skillful editing of this one cuz there's many kills. Uh, there's many kills, so uh, the text says, "Sharp eye, calm breath, single shot, confirmed kill." That's the recipe of a sniper, and we remember these ones. If people have been following this show for the whole war, we've shown you every single one of these literally. We've broken every single one of these operations down, sometimes at length. Um, and uh, that is that mixtape is a lot better on my Twitter than it is on the YouTube with the censorship, and we want to keep it family-friendly uh, on the show, but again, you can see the skill of these fighters. Multiple different shooters, multiple different barrel types. Um, they're not all technically Al Ghoul's. Uh, some of them are Sayyad 50 cows. you can tell by some of the markings on them. But, we call them all the same thing for simplicity, and because that's what the fighters call them. And that's one of the thing about being a fighter, you get to name your weapons. Um, as we know, the Americans name all their weapons after indigenous nations and tribes, um, that they fought against. and Qassam names them all after their leaders. This is named after Adnan al Ghoul. He is the father of the arms industry. He was the man who said, "We need to get a weapon in every hand of every fighter and that your military organization is only as large as armed fighters. So, it doesn't matter if you have 70,000 soldiers, if they don't have they don't all 70,000 don't have a gun, then they're not um they're not in your army. You need to have weapons in their hands. So, Adnan al-Ghoul did that. Uh we've told some stories about Adnan al-Ghoul over the course of these eight months. Um he famously escaped Gaza in the first Intifada when he was wanted um and swam back into uh Gaza with a barrel of TNT to basically literally begin the arms industry in Gaza. Um and we have one more from Zeitoun. Um this mortar barrage that uh Oh, no, this is a sniper. We'll skip the mortar barrage. This is a uh Saraya al-Quds operation. Saraya al-Quds sniper operation. They're going to use the same rifle you're going to see here. Um so, that is a engineering team, an Israeli engineering team on the border uh fixing the fence, probably fixing the breaches that Qassam and Saraya al-Quds blew through the wall on October 7th, the uh 60 places that they breached the wall. They're constantly patching those back up uh throughout the course of the war and you watch here how long the fighter uh Saraya always gives us the longer cut. So, you can see how long he he calms his breath um before firing to be in the most relaxed position. You can see again it his rifle on a pillow, on rubble. Uh these fighters are making do with what they have and they're doing it very effectively. And it's created a situation uh for the Israelis where anywhere they are in Gaza, they're within reach because Gaza is small enough that you can reach the soldiers when they're in these buffer zones, they're within reach if you have intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance such that you can pick their positions, and then you can move through tunnels, move through rubble, move through alleyways, move through protected areas that are your own neighborhood. You can get yourself into position, which is the most dangerous part of being a sniper is to get into the location. And the second most dangerous is to exit the location after you fire. Um so you fire, and you need to get out of there um in case the radar has tracked your firing position. Um and I think we're seeing a medical evacuation here in Zeitoun. So Israel wrapped up the battle in Zeitoun today. They've left uh battle of Zeitoun number three ended today. They left um today. And um so that's Gaza City. 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 to electronicintifada.net and clicking on donate now. Thank you.