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Resistance Report — 22 Jan 2024

Palestinian resistance pays tribute to movement elders, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the battle in central Gaza.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Haidar Eid, scholar and activist; Ahmed Abofoul, legal researcher and advocacy officer at Al-Haq; Shahd Abusalama, educator and activist, on the day 103 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/G5HLRmcH6T0

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Full transcript
it it's I mean looking at that footage I mean it's very difficult to to look at it just purely objectively but I mean I don't think anyone seeing that last video in particular um you know could objectively say that that didn't take courage to just walk up to that tank and put that um rocket shell just on it at Point Black Range incredible amount you're never going to defeat that you're never going to defeat their courage but they ALS just have military acument training preparation skill um to go with the with the courage that we see um I mean we see the courage all through the society look at the videos we see of these children who have no food no water no medicine put on these Trail of Tears marches to the South um look at the courage that they've handled that situation with um you know shahad talking about her her family um you know elderly people how the courage that they've had people who are older than the state of Israel themselves um the courage uh in of the resistance um and of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip in the face of this genocide it's something history is going to record um and generations people will talk about this it's inspiring movements all over the world let alone inspiring generations of Palestinians who will refuse to be defeated by the Israelis after knowing that they can do this after seeing that they can build with their own hands a resistance movement um that can attack Israel um successfully let's do the barrage uh one just the last one tomorrow number 12 um this is footage that has audio from it again we take out the audio because um we don't want to have these videos uh flagged um but this is a joint operation that you're seeing that's a is Islamic Jihad fighter uh fighting that um but what we're seeing here is Fighters come out of a tunnel um in barage where they're fighting in the middle camps um they come around the corner here and you're going to spot the back of a nmer Troop Carrier and he's right there he comes out the tunnel within spitting distance of The Troop Carrier fires hits the back door the weakest spot of the tank um and the most uh dangerous spot to hit he says I hit him and he says this is from the fighters of uh the B Battalion and he says this is for uh ibraim uh maama who is was a founder of Kasam um Iman Noel who was uh a brigade um uh Commander killed in the north um in October of the war and for Marwan Isa who is the operations commander of the cassam brigades and he says the cowards if we could pause it if we get the shot tomorrow where we can see that there's the second armored Troop Carrier right beside it you can see in that shot with that Arrow uh that's a second nammer Troop Carrier so there's 12 soldiers under the triangle and then there's 12 soldiers under that Arrow the fighter comes out and says this is from The Barrage Battalion for and he names three critical commanders in the cassam Bri Gades says not one coward among them and then he says look at that look at these guys the guys right beside them they're not even going to come out of their tank and help the guys their own troops they're not going to out and help those guys that are right beside them and that's what they say in the audio and if people want to check this audio you can check them on my Twitter feed I I put these videos up with the audio um that you can listen um but you can see the fighters communicating both communicating with their people saying that this is a gift from the bar Battalion but also the fighters have a history an understanding of who the leaders in the movement are who the founders who were assassinated um were and and what their role is in this battle and now we're seeing a helmet so maybe there was a a camera attached to that helmet and that's how we're getting the helmet cam footage um and that's just part of the information operations that Kasam does they don't tell us that maybe they'll tell us after in the documentaries um but it's sufficient for them to lay the seed that that's probably what's happening and that video uh those two videos to finish on those two videos um just incredible videos to see three months into the war that the capacity and qualitative uh nature of the operations is increasing not decreasing they're not being degraded like the Israelis are saying we're seeing full command and control we're seeing Fighters with skill and we're seeing fighters who have a his a revolutionary history that understand who the leaders were um and give them shout outs and Abu abeda did that too in his speech he gave shout outs um to important leaders of other factions of Islamic Jihad of the alaxa martyrs brigades um uh he did that in the last uh Speech as well so the Palestinians have an opportunity here to fight together unified um and to put aside the division uh in the Palestinian national struggle um especially under the leadership of Yahya sinir who wants to put the division of this of the Palestinians aside and have a national Unity government um which is something that while the Israelis are trying to claim these milary victories I think we have to remember that there's going to be a day where thousands of Palestinian prisoners are released uh from Israeli jails and that's going to be a spectre of Victory um that's far greater than any of these lies that Israel tells the New York Times that they just uh they they just parot uh Israeli uh military propaganda shrouded in censors um and with a Blackout um where we haven't gotten information from Gaza in two days days now U because Israel doesn't allow any information to come out uh but the fighters they can still communicate and they can still hit Israel uh in these ways and we're able to put together a video package like this every single week with just videos from the previous week um and so I think the the resistance is still strong if if anything uh it's stronger than it was thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit hit like 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