Israeli military destroys sites of battlefield losses, with Jon Elmer

All right, you are watching and listening to the electronic inif. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 776 of Israel's genocide in Gaza. It is also day 42 of the ceasefire that Israel has violated now more than 400 times, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Palestinians in the past 41 days and 30 more overnight last night, mostly children. Uh I'm going to break this down into three parts. First, we're going to take a look at the uh exchange of fallen captives that the Casam Brigades is uh executing. Um and then we're going to look at uh the way that the Israeli military has carried out destruction on the eastern side uh of the yellow line. And finally, I'll share some videos from the resistance uh video communicates that came out uh in this past week from the resistance. So, what you're looking at on screen right now is uh the Kasam Brigade's shadow unit um working on recovering the fallen soldiers and security uh Kabut security officers. Um this is in Shaya last week. You can see the heavy machinery uh in the background of this. They have uh been given access to heavy machinery to search for the Israeli captives, but not yet to search for the 10,000 Palestinians who are uh buried and missing in the rubble throughout Gaza. Um Israel has violated the ceasefire, but what you're seeing on your screen right now is the resistance abiding by the agreement. They have been men of their word. um and they know they're dealing with a duplicitous and dishonorable enemy but are still uh carrying out their responsibilities in the first phase of uh the ceasefire deal. So the next one shows the unit in Shujaya. Again you can see there the heavy machinery and you can see the Egyptian flag hanging off of that. The Egyptians want the flag on the gear that is helping find Israelis. But again this gear has not come in uh as it was supposed to through the uh agreement. So this is another violation of the ceasefire by Israel. We are at uh 26 out of the 28 uh captives that were to be returned have been returned and the ratio is 15 to1 for Palestinian captives. And we know um that only a fraction of the Palestinians have who have um been returned. the bodies of Palestinians who have been returned have been um only a fraction of uh have been identifiable because they were tortured, mutilated, executed um and the Palestinians are still going through the process of trying to identify them. Um if we look at the next one, we can see the shadow unit here working in um Zetun neighborhood. They have worked in Rafa, Conunis, um Shuaya, Zetun uh in Gaza City. Um, in the next slide you'll see them. Uh, again, Trump said the other day that uh at the White House that uh Hamas is doing a lot of work uh and that many people believed they could not do it. That's what Trump said uh about the recovery of the bodies, but Kasam has done it. Here they're working with the International Committee of the Red Cross on the eastern side of the yellow line. If we look at the next one, it's a video that you can see and you're going to see um the heavy li the excavators uh in the caravan here with the Red Cross and Casam's shadow unit. And if you look to the sides, you can see nothing but destruction. There's not a single building in this entire frame standing. This is in the Zetune uh neighborhood. It's completely flattened and destroyed. Um this footage is unbelievable and we uh of course see it all over Gaza. Um the next slide shows how the uh shadow unit has been working handin glove here with the international committee of the Red Cross which I think is uh uh interesting to note uh in comparison to the Israeli military's work with these international um uh who have been attacked by the Israelis regularly uh on the ground in Gaza. So that is the first phase of the ceasefire. Israel um according to the first phase of what the Palestinians agreed to um was to stop the aggression, a gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from populated areas and the flow of aid. Israel has blocked uh most of the aid, barely a quarter of the amount of aid that is supposed to have uh been agreed upon to enter Gaza has entered Gaza. Um and like we say now there are two more bodies remaining and that will wrap up the first phase of the uh ceasefire negotiation. Um the second phase uh needs to be negotiated on. Although um as you heard from Craig Mccyber um on our show today, if you didn't, you should check it out. Um the plan is barreling ahead on phase two without negotiation from the Palestinians. So, um, that's something that we'll have to keep, uh, keep our eye on. Um, we're going to look at the yellow line now and see what Israel is doing in violation of the ceasefire. Assam al- Nabia, who uh, has been a guest on this program, a regular contributor to the electronic inif, and an engineer at the Gaza Municipality, is reporting now for Al Arabi television. and he his first his inaugural report for uh Al Arabi uh he used his uh understanding of the Gaza municipality, he went out into the field and followed the yellow line uh in the neighborhoods through Gaza City um and came up with a figure that the yellow line actually extends uh nearly 10% more into Gaza territory than uh was said and that in fact Israel controls uh in effect 62% of Gaza as a free fire and demolition zone. Hamas has released a couple of statements on this. They said the occupation continues on a daily and systematic basis to demolish homes located inside areas it controls outside the yellow line in clear explicit breach of the ceasefire agreement. These violations have continued for a full month without stopping, leading to widespread destruction of citizens property inside that area. The occupation has not adhered to the agreed upon withdrawal line for the first phase. It is exceeding the yellow line by an estimated area of 33 square kilmters, which includes fire control within distances ranging from 400 to to uh a kilometer inside the line. And these incursions of military vehicles continue in this area. The occupation also placed concrete blocks that exceed the yellow line by distances ranging from 2 to 800 m along that temporary line. I reported on that uh a couple of weeks ago because you could see that process was already happening. This map from the BBC um came uh from BBC Verify this week. And it's interesting to compare to this next map which um we can see here that was on the wall of the uh United States Central Command Civil Military Coordination Center that is in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel. Um it is staffed by more than 200 US soldiers as well as soldiers from several other countries. And this was in the background of a photo of a journalist who was touring um the facility. And you can see that this is the map that they're using at that um center which is supposedly um where the entire ceasefire um is being monitored by US forces. And we can see by this map that this map is larger than any of the maps that we've seen produced uh up until now. It's a very uh telling map and you can see that it's um broadcast on the wall of that building. You can see in the corner right of that picture that there's um that that's the wall. You can see the electrical outlets and whatnot. Um so interesting little catch there from the civil military coordination center run by the central command. Um, last week the Washington Post wrote a story about this uh this CMCC uh center in Kiryat Gat and they talked about how the US would be monitoring the aid flow into Gaza from this center. Well, the Israeli military immediately reached out to Army Radio to correct that story and they wrote quote this is from Israeli security officials from the IDF to Army Radio. The political echelon in Israel will continue to make exclusive decisions about the types of materials allowed and forbidden to enter the strip and the entire coordination system of international organ organizations and the United Nations uh for humanitarian aid trucks will continue to operate through the coordinator of government activities in the territory. That's the IDF branch called KGAT. Um it is further clarified in Israel that all security inspection processes of aid trucks and their contents will remain at the crossings under the control of the Israeli security bodies alongside the necessary actions uh alongside taking necessary actions um by security by the security system to reduce Hamas involvement in humanitarian aid. And we've heard that from aid workers uh and from aid organizations that Israel is blocking aid which is again a violation of the ceasefire agreement um that Kasam um and the resistance faction signed on behalf uh of the Palestinians. Um so that map is telling as is that uh quote from the Israelis that they control aid into Gaza. Um if we take a look at this next um image here, we can see the destruction that has happened on the eastern side of the yellow line just since the ceasefire. So this is all destruction in entire neighborhoods erased just since the ceasefire on um October 11th. Uh they say BBC Verify says that Israel has destroyed more than 1500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas that started on October the 10th. Satellite images were viewed uh reviewed by BBC verify show the new photos, the latest of which was taken on November 8th, um shows that entire neighborhoods controlled by the IDF have been leveled in less than a month. The actual number of destroyed buildings could be significantly higher with satellite imagery for some areas being unavailable for BBC verifies assessment. That also tracks with Israel blocking uh highquality satellite um footage uh over Gaza that has been going on for many years. BBC says that US President Donald Trump's 20point peace plan uh for Gaza, the basis for the ceasefire, stated, quote, "All military operations will be suspended. The war is over." Um that is not how Israel has uh treated this. And we're looking at on the screen right now, uh, the eraser of Abbisan al- Kabira, which people who, um, have been watching the resistance report know that there was many operations during Gideon's chariots in uh, Kunis in the Abbisan Kabira area, highquality operations, many casualties by the IDF. Um and so they were unable to carry out this work uh during the war uh because of the resistance and now they're doing it under uh the guise of this ceasefire um duplicitously. Um in the next slide we'll show you in Rafa. This is in eastern Rafa in the Bayuk area. Um BBC explains how they did this process. They said, "We used a change detection algorithm to analyze radar images taken before and after the ceasefire to highlight the changes um which might indicate destruction, then manually counted visibly destroyed buildings. So BBC using its considerable resources and applying it to these ceasefire violations in a way that we didn't really see during the war. Um but certainly a welcome addition here as you're seeing uh satellite footage that most uh organizations can't get their hands on in this quality. Also in Rafa there are been there have been ongoing negotiations over the last several weeks um to try to free um uh some number estimates range between 150 and 200 fighters that are on the uh eastern side um of the yellow line in the Rafa area. The Kasam brigade spoke to that. Hamas spoke to it as well. Hamas said, "We informed the mediators of our readiness to remove the fighters from the yellow zone." And last week, the Kasam Brigade spoke to this entire um event like this. They said, "The occupation bears full responsibility for the clashes of our fighters in Rafa who are defending themselves inside the area under its Israeli control. The enemy must know that the principle of surrender and handing oneself over to the enemy does not exist in the lexicon of the Alkasan brigades. We place the mediators before their responsibilities and they must find a solution to ensure the continuation of the ceasefire to prevent the enemy from using flimsy pretextes to violate it and to exploit that to target innocent civilians in Gaza. The process of recovering bodies just the the process of recovering bodies during the past phase, this first phase took uh place under complex and extremely difficult circumstances. Despite this, we and the Cassam Brigades adhered to what was required of us in the agreement. Um and they expect that from the Israeli side too. Um Jared Kushner visited Netanyahu to try to talk uh about getting these fighters out and um no movement on from the Israeli side. The Israeli side wants to violate the ceasefire and execute the fighters on this side uh that are trapped in Rafa currently right now. So we'll have to keep our eyes on that story as well. In the next slide, you can see um the way that the Israeli military has been uh looking for tunnels on they're not just destroying neighborhoods. Um they're also carrying out operations against the resistance that they could not do during the war. Here we're seeing uh Israeli soldiers um with massive augur machines um and and augur bits that are being um sent down from a massive machine into the ground poking holes into the ground looking for tunnels. And then when they find those tunnels um which they were unable to do during the war um they're doing it here under the guise of the ceasefire to destroy that tunnel network. And we're watching on screen for people listening. um just a major um uh heavy machinery project that requires dozens of workers uh several large machines, things that could not exist during the battle. Um and again, so this is a main thrust of Israel's war aim was to uh destroy the tunnels. And when we see this kind of um apparatus necessary to do that um we know that they were not telling the truth throughout the war that they were uh attacking the tunnels or fighting in the tunnels. Um all of those stories were exaggerated because what we're seeing here is something that could not take place uh during the war. Um if we look at the next slide, we can see um uh Shua here also getting the same treatment um as we saw in in Rafa and in Abbisan Al- Kabira in Kunis. Um and this is the way the Israeli military is fighting. The chief of staff uh visited on Sunday to the Gaza Strip to Rafa and he said in the Gaza Strip we control more than 40% of more than 50% of the territory without controlling the population. Then he said, "The yellow line serves as a line of encirclement and control, and we continue to act to prevent Hamas's buildup by holding the strategic terrain and the gateways into Gaza." So, the yellow line is part of Israel's war plan. It is not part of a ceasefire plan. Israel is using the yellow line uh in order to take uh military action that is ongoing, including what you're seeing on the screen now, the total eraser of entire neighborhoods in just the same way that we saw um during uh Gideon's chariots at the end, but all throughout this war, um this is what we're looking at is the neighborhood of Shijaya in eastern Gaza City. It's one of the largest neighborhoods in Gaza, more than 100,000 people. um and it's being systematically destroyed under the cover of the ceasefire. The Shijaya battalion was never defeated. Um this work could not have gone on during the war because the Shuja battalion was still in their positions um defending the territory and continued to operate against the military right up to the final day of the war. Um the next uh the next slide will show you how the IDF has treated this. They're bragging about it. Hamas weapons depot located in the heart of the Shu Jaya neighborhood. Uh this IDF press release reads uh in bold writing. Uh it says in this article that troops from the 252nd division are operating in the Shujaya neighborhood in northern Gaza east of the yellow line in accordance with the ceasefire framework and directives from the political echelon. Um so the idea of admitting here that the political echelon is telling them to violate the ceasefire. Um during operational activity in Shijaya, a weapon storage facility belonging to Hamas was located by IDF soldiers. Now let's look at those uh at that weapons depot which um spoiler alert is not a weapons depot. This is a single position. Um, we're seeing here uh a few rounds, three at the most rounds. Uh, yes 105 rounds. We see a gorilla action device without an uh um without its uh still needing to be put together. We see a couple of breaching charges. Um this is not a weapons depot. This is uh weapons in a single fighter's position. Um, and the Israeli military is bragging about them violating the ceasefire and showing these videos that they believe uh show them accomplishing things, but accomplishing things that they couldn't do uh during the war. So, I think it's very telling that they're publishing these as some kind of um war trophies. Uh it's clearly uh shows the failure of their operations. It's also something that we didn't see. People familiar with this program will know that we showed these kind of uh we were looking for these kind uh of footage throughout the war for the Israelis to overrun a major weapons depot to overrun a Kasam position and capture dozens of weapons. We never saw that throughout the entire war and now under the cover of the ceasefire um they're doing that. There's another example here from Kunis that we can throw up and it is uh very similar a single algul rifle uh component parts of the rifle. It's not even the complete uh rifle. You can see here uh it's showing you three RPG rounds, just the rounds. Um ammunition for the Al Ghoul, which is almost certainly captured Israeli ammunition. There we see a guerilla action device, a single guerilla action device. And this is being uh boasted as a weapons cache. Uh and there we see uh the final one there is an RPG29 round, which is interesting because that weapon was used a number of times to great effect uh in Gaza, but there's not very many of them there. Um so they're showing that those weapons for position. So the Israeli military bragging about this very uh basic um weapons finds of single fighters, at most a squad. um this is not significant uh capturing of weapons, but it is uh the first time we've really seen them show off uh this many weapons at all because throughout the war the Israelis were not overrunning Hamas positions and capturing and capturing their weaponry and we just did not see that throughout the war. Um we never saw more than uh small numbers, two, three, five. We never saw dozens, let alone hundreds of weapons at any particular spot. Um, one more example of this is that the Israeli military is trying to destroy now areas where they suffered um high-profile military defeats. This is a press release from the 15th of November from the IDF that says 11 months since the three soldiers from the 92nd battalion fell. The tunnel which uh the tunnel route in which they fell has been dismantled. So there's this uh IDF press release about the destruction of this tunnel. Um and I'm going to remind you of the operation that they're talking about here. Let's we can go to that now. This is from the Casam Brigades the 23rd of December 2024. This is on the screen. It says snake hunting. And the text says that um in essence that they lured uh an Israeli military um u set of fighters into a complex ambush with multiple IEDs. Now, that is significant because this was in December of 2024 during the general's plan when they had claimed that they had um ethnically cleansed and destroyed the resistance in north uh in the north of the Gaza Strip in Bahi and Beth Hanoon. And so they were bragging about that in the media. And then this video came out at the time showing a complex operation. We're looking at soldiers right now casing um a position that um the fighters have lured them into. We can see a drone there flying uh the drone in the upper right corner there as well. These are drones that we saw throughout the battle. Um but you're going to see um dozens of soldiers that are involved in this operation that they believe is in an area that has been cleared. But because there's tunnel access and because the Bethanoon and Bethlia battalions were not defeated like Israel said they were, um their fighters you can see entering the scene now uh were targeted by these two IEDs um that you're going to see that we're watching right now on camera. There's the Casam commander pointing out um the fighters from their command center. Again, showing command and control of these operations. The soldiers are clearly standing right beside the IED, which is what the commander just pointed on the screen to. And then we see it cut. Says no video because the explosion has taken out the camera. Now we're watching the soldiers run away to their positions. And in this shot, you can see 2 4 6 8 10. You could see a dozen soldiers um in this company. And again, detonated right beside them. Um, and Casam here uh says that they're lying about their casualties and they put this out right away and it embarrassed Israel and they had to uh adapt their story after this video came out. So what they do is they say today after the ceasefire in an area where they failed, where they suffered a tactical defeat um that they uh are now destroying, we can flip to that to the destruction of the of the tunnels that they showed that was released just the other day. And it's this black and white um uh thermal imaging from their drones showing uh the destruction of the tunnel um which is I guess supposed to play to their domestic audience that said that uh you know they got revenge for um uh for a battlefield defeat. But what it really says is look, here's a place. We suffered a decisive tactical defeat. Um, and now that Casam is adhering to the ceasefire and have in effect laid down their weapons for now, um, we're going to use this moment to send our soldiers in uh, and do something that we could not do throughout the war to uh, to accomplish our objectives. So, it's just uh another example of the Israeli military using this media in a way that um seems tonedeaf because what they're doing is simply showing um that they couldn't accomplish this through war uh two years of genocide. They couldn't defeat the resistance. They have to do it now in violation of the ceasefire. They have to take advantage of the fact that the resistance is upholding the ceasefire. Um and the Israelis are not and they don't have any problems with that and they haven't in uh either of the three previous ceasefires that were violated. Um so moving on now we have uh messages from three resistance groups Kasam, Sarah Aluds and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The first one up is from the Kasam brigades published this week saluting the people of Gaza for their uh steadfastness during this battle. Um they o the track the voice track that you're uh that you would be hearing over this is al-hadad who is now um the Kasam brigades uh chief of staff. He's the head of the Cassam Brigades now at before he was the uh Gaza division uh chief and he was a Nukba commander um for the north. So a senior leader who is uh who we see now on camera here saluting um uh beside his Kasam flag. We saw that on the Al Jazzer documentary, what is hidden is greater about October 7th. But Isidian Al-Had says uh over these many months of pain and bloodshed, our people have refused to surrender and stood anchored on their land. Our great people who are unparalleled in all the world were the backbone of this struggle as they stood tall recording in the pages of history that they are a people who refuse to bow to injustice offering everything for their homeland. He said, "We in the resistance salute our people for their bravery, dignity, and honor." Um, and this is showing uh significant scenes that many uh many people will be familiar with from Gaza. Um um and the uh video ends with Abu Oda. Abu Obeda said um in his July 2025 speech that we are proud of the steadfastness and heroism of our fighters and we are deeply aware of the pain and suffering endured by our wounded people and their patient families. Um we we whose pain whose pain we live with day by day said Abu Ba in that speech that you'll see coming up here at the end. Um he says indeed your steadfastness despite abandonment your patience your generosity and your defiance of oppression and deprivation are what most enrages your enemies. Um this night will surely have an end and the victory and victory comes with patience. Um and he ended that speech by saying, "So we kiss the heads of all the elders of our patient and steadfast people." Now, of course, many people have asked me about Abu Oda. We haven't heard from him in several months. Um the resistance has not spoken about it. Um and we don't have any information, but uh if any information comes and the resistance speaks about that, we'll of course bring uh that to you. Um he has been um u hasn't been speaking for the last um uh couple of months now. Um but there is no word official word from the resistance on uh his status at this point. But this speech was very um well-known speech in Gaza because it addressed um the return to battle um to the return to war after Israel violated the ceasefire and carried out operation Gideon's chariots. Um so that's the Kasam message. Sariah aluds um uh released a video as well. Again uh scenes well known to this show um from the battle in Gaza. They also show here some training scenes um from before October 7th and that happened with the uh joint operations room where all the resistance factions work together uh in training um and then we saw them fight throughout the war together. This is footage from inside Israel um and training for going inside Israel and then the October 7 crossing operation. And it includes um voice over by Abu Hamza who says that we tell the enemy. This was from uh a week or so after October 7th. Um that we tell the enemy that what um that we have defeated you in the heart of your enemy in in we tell the enemy that we have defeated you in the heart of your entity. So what do you think when you have to come to us on foot said uh Abraham Hamza about the ground invasion into Gaza? He said um so you'll you'll be welcomed um to the expanse of hell that Gaza will be an expanse of hell for um the Israelis. Zad Nala who was the founder of Sar Alkuds also gave a speech the other day at the um Arab National Congress speaking about the ceasefire. He said uh that uh um for two years we fought. Gaza did not yield against the strongest forces on earth. An international coalition led by the United States remaining a formidable opponent until the very end was the resistance. Um they never retreated, never surrendered. Um, our pal our Palestinian negotiating delegation sat opposite a massive international forum to sign an agreement to cease the aggression against the Palestinian people. This would not have happened were it not for the steadfastness of our great people and the bravery of its fighters on the battlefield. They wanted our people and our resistance fighters to surrender. Um, but we emerged from this battle with our weapons still in our hands. Our fighters are still on the battlefield and our people are holding their heads high, dignified and honorable. All of the resistance factions um were a single hand on the gun and on the political front the resistance spoke with a single voice and a single position. We must continue this unity into the political stage. The battle is not yet over. Um he said Charal Shake was an expression of the extent of the global crisis. um for Israel and the United States. And he said because each clause of the Trump plan required detailed negotiations between the resistance and Israel, the plan from the conference in Charal Shik resorted to generalities. Um Israel is trying to achieve through this process what it could not achieve through war. They could not defeat the resistance nor the Palestinian people. Um so again another salute from the resistance to um the Palestinian people in Gaza who stood tall um but also an understanding by the resistance how they see the ceasefire negotiations um and what they agreed to. They agreed to um the end of the aggression, to the phased withdrawal of Israeli troops, and the flooding of Gaza with aid um and in ex and the exchange of prisoners um and bodies, which is what is happening uh in its final stages. Now, from their understanding, from the what the resistance signed and agreed to, the next phases would be negotiated between Israel and the United States. They did not agree to have it go sent to the United Nations um and to have a protectorate uh rule over them, which is why the resistance has rejected the Trump plan um at the United Nations. Um and if you want more on that, Craig Mccyber was on the show today um talking about that uh with Alli. So you should check out their segment uh as well on the United on the United Nations Security Council resolution. So that is the SAL Kuds video and this last video is the popular front for the liberation of Palestine, the Abu Ali Mustapa brigades. Uh this video is called we will fight you until liberation. It also includes a speech um at the same event that Zad Nala spoke at in the popular front. Uh deputy secretary general Jamil Masar um delivered the speech um where and that is what is excerpted in this video mixed in with uh operations during the Gaza war. He said we will not surrender. The struggle will continue until the liberation of Palestine. The answer to brutality and genocide is not surrender but more steadfastness and resistance. The battle is not over. We reject the American colonial plan to liquidate the cause of Palestine. So the resistance is un um uniform in their uh rejection of the Trump plan uh that has not been negotiated. All of these stages were to have been negotiated and are to be negotiated in the second phase of this deal which is supposed to begin as soon as the final uh captives are exchanged. Um, right now 20 um I think I said as I said 26 of the 28 have been returned and the 28 20 live Israeli soldiers have been returned and virtually all of those um both the bodies and the living captives were all Israeli soldiers or security officers um almost down to a man um and we knew that um but those were all soldiers or kabutz security guards. So um again this is um this is the PFLP operations during this war that we saw artillery operations, rocket operations, support operations for the uh joint operations room. So that is the resistance report for day 776 of Israel's genocide in Gaza.