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Resistance Report — 10 Aug 2024

CNN report exhibits what Gaza resistance has proven for months, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer takes a look at a new CNN report titled, “Netanyahu says ‘victory’ over Hamas is in sight. The data tells a different story,” exhibiting what Palestinian resistance in Gaza has been reporting from the ground for months.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by journalist veteran journalist and analyst Helena Cobban on the day 306 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/live/4pwsAMT1HWQ

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Full transcript
I know you've been getting a lot of questions on uh a recent U report that CNN uh put out a couple days ago it was you know kind of surprisingly decent um the report says that Hamas is reorganizing and regenerating its ranks despite what Israel's been claiming um of course the Israeli Army rejected CNN's findings the the Army told the Times of Israel quote from the intelligence and findings on the ground most of the Hass brigades have been dismantled it is estimated that most of the battalions are at a low level of Competency and can no longer function as a military framework um you know completely uh Belling what we just saw in your resistance report and and all the weeks prior uh John what do you make um of CNN's report and does it tell us anything new you know I.E anything that you haven't been saying already anything that our audience hasn't heard no this this doesn't bring anything but it's interesting because they're using I mean they call it forensic we don't we haven't done that we maybe should start calling it The for resistance rep let's let's do it but no they're using primarily Israeli uh sources so for Israel to say this is not true when um the bulk of the sources for this um are the Israeli military that's where they're getting their information this is the institute for the study of War um and the American Enterprise Institute critical threats projects so these are right-wing think tanks pro-israel think tanks um giving this data they weren't crunching the the Hamas the Kasam and S K's data they're uh talking about the data and they do they do daily reporting that it is one of the people um that are doing it sort of uh on a parallel track to what I'm doing um tracking it every day and building a log um that's the underpinning of the work that I do is that log and their log is what they shared with CNN um and so the CNN is able to sort of say like these battalions are not wiped out based on you can tell they're not wiped out for the same reason I say is that when they go back to telawa you see structured military operations immediately being carried out when they went into con Yunis it was the same thing when they went into Shaya for the second time it was legendary with the guys on the swing being like we're waiting for we're waiting to come in and destroy your tanks um when they reinvaded jabalia Camp remember when they captured a soldier where where's that Soldier nobody's admitted to that the Israelis just pretend like that we didn't see that Soldier get dragged down the tunnel in jabalia so these these battalions are able to reform they're also not strict numbers it's not like there's 100 uh it's not like there's 1,000 a battalion is a thousand roughly um but that's not all it is some of them are 1600 some of them are 1900 some of them are 800 um some of them have special forces detachments Noba forces um you can't just say you killed X number and therefore that Battalion is um you know combat ineffective and calling it combat ineffective means you can't carry out your missions and I'm still week after week showing 45 minutes of videos of them carrying out their operations and they show us on video that they planned where this operation was going to come and I give you detail on that that is all showing you that they are combat effective um and so this kind of game that Israel is playing where they're say like we've wiped out the battalions and now they're trying to play Counting games where you like you know they have cards and they cross off the names of people they kill they cross off the battalions that they um that they made combat ineffective but the battalions can reform they reform because they're a military structure that's able to replace their um their Cadre they have people just like Hezbollah who step in when someone is is taken out um but the CNN report still has um so as a lot that I would have disagreed with they they take the Israeli numbers as as gospel they admitted they they just included uh Muhammad alde as assassinated and also Marwan Isa the two top commanders of Kasam which we don't have any evidence at all that they've been assassinated they just added it into the story like they are um we don't there's no evidence of that that is something that Israel is telling us and for the same reason we were talking about senoir um they don't have Intelligence on the ground they don't have assets feeding them information so they actually have no idea if if Dave and Issa are alive they have no way um to check it out because they don't do battle damage assessment and go into these buildings and do forensics and see if um you know they well did raid shifa Hospital looking for Maran isa's body and created a mass grave and dismantled the hospital um but there's no no evidence no evidence for for those commanders being killed just like there's no evidence of the battalions being dismantled because all information that we have um like in Rafa for example that Commander that I showed in the video he was saying this was an operation by this Battalion he listed the four battalions so it can't be combat ineffective if they're out there destroying your tanks like that's just not how it works because it's not a gorilla Army we're still seeing KAS Kasam operate as a national Army and that's something that I've been saying for 10 months that we've been keeping our eyes on because once you see them move into the stage of Guerilla Warfare um then maybe you could look at their battalions and see how they've been impacted but we're not seeing that [Music]