Is Israel running out of armored vehicles? with Jon Elmer

the chief of staff of the IDF uh halevi he spoke to his troops he spoke to officers on the northern border um the other day and he said that um that he he was giving them uh encouragement saying another Hamas Battalion need to dismantle he's talking about the achievements he listed them another Hamas Battalion you dismantle another underground infrastructure and get this another another neighborhood where the population evacuates to Safe areas all of these push for the release of our hostages so he's including the ethnic cleansing as an achievement uh of the Israeli Army and the same Chief of Staff halevi uh released a communic to his soldiers uh a week ago that said which tells you really everything you need to know about this operation he said guys we are not on a killing spree a Revenge spree or a genocide um do not steal uh people's belongings do not take trophies and do not shoot trophy videos which we know is essentially built into the Israeli uh uh project here these Tik Tok videos um they're not individual soldiers taking a video with their buddy we've seen and you can see and check it out in all of these Tik toks that you see there's dozens of soldiers involved um when those uh the women soldiers took that photo uh trophy photo last week that people probably saw in the ruins um there's dozens of people in those photos so and we also know that the IDF themselves their operations uh Department ran one of these snuff channels uh where their soldiers submit the videos of torture and murder of Palestinians and then the um mutilating their bodies um all stories that of course the New York Times covered uh that didn't exist but of course it does exist for Palestinians and we don't see any of that covered uh in the New York Times so maybe we can go to number five here tomorrow because this is um um these are some these are Yasin strikes this is in zetune we can see a tank's going to arrive uh on the scene here and be hit before the active defense um before the active protection system on the tank um can activate and again this this was a casualty report that the Israelis put out just before this video emerged that said two um two tank crew were um seriously injured in a strike um and another Soldier was killed fighting Hamas uh in zetune so then Hamas within hours released that video that clearly showed a sniper kill um and then there I I I believe what you're seeing there is what they said were the two tank um tank crew injured and so and we'll talk about this a little bit later on but that's that's a strike to injure the tank crew means you've penetrated the armor of the of the vehicle um and and those fixes aren't simple you don't just take them to your base and strap a piece of armor on them um they're significant especially that shot which appears to be hitting the hull um the hull on the mara tank is what um is what separates it from other tanks its weight and its thickness of armor on the on the bottom Parts because they don't have to fly with these vehicles um they can make them super heavy but because of that um strikes like this which damage crew which are also difficult to train um at some point there's there's a limit to these um so maybe we could do number six here to tomorrow so this is also in zetune and we can see the fighters here again uh carefully moving through the streets um that Israel says that in November that they had absolute uh operational control over they clearly don't there's another strike on a vehicle there uh on a marava tank um also before the active protection system can um can uh engage and so these Fighters are here in this video sitting in the bushes uh waiting here for a tank that drives by I don't know how many feet that is 40 feet away um well within uh too close for active protection system um to operate and we're also seeing here um we can see that fighter there is holding a yassine 105 um Fighters are still choosing um appropriate weapons is the language that they use uh meaning that there isn't any indication that they're running out of these they're not using uh any weapon they're using the weapon that's the most important uh the most appropriate for these strikes and also these videos as I said about the Israeli casualty report that matched these videos coming out we're also seeing these videos from Gaza City released within hours of the operations you can tell by the field reports uh and by the videos that these are being released within hour hours so there there's no disruption um to the media Ops Department the fighters are moving through zetune um because there's no operational uh control for the Israelis as we've reported throughout this war it's a series of lies that the New York Times among others republishes to say 10,000 Hamas Fighters have been killed which there's simply no way 10,000 Hamas Fighters would be killed even if you included the municipal workers which Israel is almost certainly including um because they're killing family members of the municipal government run by Hamas and then counting them as as Hamas Fighters um so maybe after this rolls this last time tomorrow we can go to number seven um because the fighting is also uh it's taking place in zetune major battles in zetune but Israel said that they've also uh uh taken over uh and cleared conun which we clearly show is not the case maybe number seven here tomorrow this is a a strike uh from an elevated firing position uh on a Namer Troop Carrier uh in con Yunis and so this is one what we're watching here and what we've been watching for the last three videos is one of 1,200 uh Yasin strikes uh the indigenous produced uh RPG uh round and Warhead that are devel are produced as a clone of a Soviet weapon uh produced in the Gaza Strip uh and given to their Fighters more than 1200 yine strikes against tanks and armored vehicles um and many of them that we know uh penetrate and that's just the cassam brigades that's just effectively the national Army and then there's as I showed on the show last week there's 10 other Guerilla groups that operate within the Gaza Strip that also have their own Weaponry not as much not as significant as the tandem charge uh Yasin Warhead but RPG charges um they have uh the Palestinians also have shaah devices um e explosively formed penetrators um that have been used against armored vehicles um and so we're seeing uh wear and tear now let's hop to the next one here number eight tomorrow and then maybe we can just pause it um when we see the vehicle uh that's right here pause it maybe here if you can so the question has been asked how how many of these tanks can you hit uh before the Israelis uh uh ground operation is impaired and what we're seeing here is a vehicle that's older than any of us on this show um this is a 1960s era m113 which is a an aluminum armored personnel carrier uh that the Americans created in order for it to be put on planes to be air dropped or to be put on uh boats and for sea Landings um they're not uh able to perform uh under the the pressures of urban Warfare in the 21st century uh in fact in the 19 1973 yam Kapur War um they performed so poorly uh that there was uh articles and discussion within the Israeli uh intelligence and Military Industries about a solution to this problem in 1973 um in 1978 in the invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut the m113 that we're looking at right here uh wasn't allowed on the front lines they were just a a Battlefield bus as they call it that would shuttle the troops within a couple hundred uh meters of the front lines because they couldn't handle uh battle in um in the 1978 yam Kapur War um so maybe just roll it here tomorrow because the Israelis have up armored these they've added additional armor that you can see on the back so it's not as weak as the original vehicle but it has absolutely no chance against that round that you're seeing fired at its back door which is its weakest Point um destroying this m113 and this is a second one I can't identify this one because they're pulling out these vehicles from Storage um that they haven't used in more than a decade and um just well these Loop a couple times to show you that there's no way anyone survived uh in that vehicle in 2004 the last time Israel said this is the last time that we're ever going to use m113s in Gaza was in 2004 when in Gaza City they were hit by an IED and destroyed two of their armored vehicles m113s that you're seeing there and killed everybody inside in 2004 a generation before the yasine which is a tandem charge Warhead that would penetrate as I showed on a couple shows ago uh would penetrate uh 600 millimeters of armor and that vehicle you're looking at there has less than 20 um and so it doesn't stand a chance against these and in 2014 the Israelis called it the APC disaster when their m113 was hit um and the the IDF had to come out and say to the public that m113s will no longer be operating inside Gaza but we know that they were used inside Gaza again because in 2014 the Battle of Shaya began with an armored Convoy uh entering Shaya and being hit by an ambush um in these vehicles m113s and the cassam Bri Gades talk about um stopping the Israeli said that the the m113 stalled um kassam said that they stopped the armored column and then attacked these vehicles separately um but they entered the back of the vehicles they opened the doors and entered the back of the apcs and captured a soldier and at the time of the attack in shua um the Israelis believed that they had lost many soldiers to capture in this vehicle and that's what led to the massacre in shua when they they massacred the civilian population because of the stunning defeat that their forces faced in Shaya immediately upon entering so the question has been how long uh until the Israelis run out of these armored vehicles uh and I think we're seeing the answer right now there's absolutely no military uh justification for sending these vehicles in in fact in 2014 uh IDF soldiers uh submitted to the uh to command leadership to their officers that they would not go into Gaza uh in these vehicles um and so these vehicles can carry uh half a dozen six to eight uh people in them and what what you're seeing there is even if this just a tank even it's just a crew that operates the vehicle it's two um you're seeing casualties in both of these operations that aren't being reported by the Israelis right now um and and this story hasn't seemed to be picked up in the Israeli uh media which is I I think is is surprising to me I believed that this would be uh when this video came out a few days ago I thought this would be a big deal within the Israeli press I'm not sure maybe we're getting our answer that they actually don't watch these videos maybe we can go to number nine here tomorrow because we have a an old favorite here soldiers in a window uh in conun this is an IDF force with their guns poking out the window but they put curtains up this time no curtains though usually they decorate when they well you can see they're sticking the nose of their rifle out the window which shows them to anyone who's watching um and so you see the fighters here climbing up to the top floor because they can access the building right across from it and you can see the tan Warhead on the end of that that's a a thermobaric um again a thermobaric warhead that's used against troop positions um that you see is a fuel air explosion and so again to use the language they use appropriate weapons we're seeing them use the weapon that is appropriate for uh that operation not just any weapon that they have left so indications suggest that the Israelis are running out of gear and the Palestinians have we haven't seen any suggestion that that's the case rocket fire is down um lately but uh there's lots of reasons that could explain that rocket fire being down I don't think there's anything that explains an m113 being used in Gaza 2024 um and also on this video just to point out um Kasam is going back so here we can see them again walking up to a position right across the street um and using a thermobaric warhead able to send a cameraman and a shooter um to eliminate that Israeli position and then here we can see after when this rolls um they're going to go back to the same spot and take uh an after Action Report or to do battle damage assessment which is which you can see there the hole in the wall from where the the round hit this is actually something Kasam is doing this battle damage assessment this is something the Israelis don't do um even the Americans when they strike in Iraq and say that they assassinated a leader their forces go back the next day to the site of the attack and try to get evidence that they killed the person they intended to kill Israel doesn't have any of that they just Massacre civilians and they don't feel the need ever to just ify uh their their attacks with an with a battle damage assessment which is something that is a core part of uh NATO militaries that the Israelis um don't feel any need uh at this point to um to be doing which is I think a telling about the uh impunity with which they they operate that they don't even have to pretend um that they're killing militants or killing Fighters when they're massacring uh civilians so maybe we can go to number 10 after this here tomorrow um this is a an operation in conun and what we're seeing here we take out the audio here to try to keep these videos online um but if you hear the audio here you're seeing a gunfight happening uh in the distance there straight ahead in the middle of the camera and you're going to watch uh a series of bombs detonate here that blew the cameraman um back but you can see it's a series of of of explosions um that the that the cassam Bri Gade said was a barrel bomb and this is something that U that Fighters are able to do um when they use unexploded ordinance which we're seeing dropped on Gaza right now 30,000 air strikes um 30,000 targets and we know that some of targets by definition have multiple air strikes hitting them so there's been more than 30,000 of these and there's a certain dud rate um in these weapons um and so the Palestinians are able to reappropriate that explosive material and set up Mass massive bombs because you can fill the the barrel up with as much explosives um as you can fit in that particular barrels you're not limited um and you can see that against a troop position uh there being used um in conun and then let's go to these field reports tomorrow because um yesterday so that's what a barrel bomb looks like um and this is Islamic Jihad they say um in this message yesterday they said in a complex engineering operation we trapped a Zionist force in a precise Ambush inside a building that was booby trapped using an F-16 missile launched by the enemy towards civilian homes the missile did not explode our Engineers worked to activate it and detonate it in the vicinity of the daa junction south of zeton neighborhood in Gaza City so that was yesterday and then first thing this morning uh if we go to the next one here the IDF acknowledged uh in an operation Tuesday the IDF announces the deaths of two officers killed during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday raising the toll to 242 their names are and they list them one is a company Commander so the overall commander and then the other one is a platoon commander and the IDF says that seven other soldiers in the sabar Battalion uh were seriously wounded in the same incident um and so as the result it says there seriously wounded the result of an explosive device blast in Gaza City's zetune neighborhood so it looks like we have confirmation from the Israelis of this Sarah Al coulds operation uh they'll call it a Hamas operation but a Sarah Al's operation to re-engineer to to reuse an unexploded bomb um that's dropped on Gaza and back after castled um operation um the uh the Hamas government and the cassam brigade set up about establishing an unexploded ordinance unit that went around and removed unexploded bombs from people's homes which is a a municipal service um but then using those bombs um and reusing the explosive material in those bombs um and sending them back to Israel and so what we're seeing in this war over the last 145 days uh is enough exploded bombs to uh to propel a generation of warfare back at the Israelis um and it's just I think something that's important to note that the Palestinians are able to do this under a a Siege so brutal uh that the Jordanian King has to pretend he's a special forces commander and push Aid deliveries uh from the air into the sea for children uh to get that's how strict The Siege is um but Palestinians under that with their own hands um are able to manufacture resistance uh economy um such that um we can see and we can see the results of which uh reported uh in these Israeli reports so the Israelis are lying about their casualties they've only acknowledged six casualties in the fighting in the last week and on this videos that I showed you today the numbers are clearly as anyone can see significantly higher than that um but occasionally they do report uh and sometimes it's with these large attacks where many people's families know about it because you're talking about seven injured and nine uh total uh here you're talking about many people communicating the injuries and it's harder to cover it up um so we do see occasional moments where we see this acknowledgement um but nothing that matches um the videos that we watch all the time so just to wrap um to say all these videos for from the last week we're still covering the ground war and the resistance uh on a day-to-day basis um and so it's still going strong and uh I think you'd be surprised by that if you're only getting your English language uh uh if you're only getting your news from English language media I think you would be surprised by that um so there's 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