Palestinian fighters set up ambushes in battle with Israeli forces in northern Gaza, with Jon Elmer

yeah thanks Nora and as ever we are going to start in the southern Gaza Strip we'll give you a map uh to get your placements and your footing here for this uh uh next 40 minutes or so we're going to cover all of the Gaza Strip there's operations happening from the south to the north um and as Nora pointed out in her newscast there's massacres happening all over Gaza that don't have anything to do with the battlefield um air strikes and artillery hitting civilians um is something that we have been dealing with through this entire war and there's no letup uh of that as Norah's report always uh brutally uh puts in uh puts in context so I will be focusing on the battle spaces uh if we look at the next map here we can see Rafa um there hasn't been fighting in Rafa for the past several weeks but this week uh there was quite a bit of fighting actually uh in Rafa Israel believed that Rafa has been cleared of humans as we know uh Yahya sinir was killed in a in a confrontation in teles sutan there that you can see at the north of the map uh Rafa Crossing down at the bottom of the map is the um the the outside the access to the outside world that Palestinians uh desperately need in Gaza and have not had since the 6th of May when Israel uh moved into Rafa but from Israel's point of view they have cleared Rafa or believed they had cleared Rafa like like all other places in Gaza they will likely return to Rafa because they haven't cleared it and I think the reporting on this show has uh Illustrated that but on uh the past few days Kasam Fighters were able to carry out a complex operation against enemy soldiers and vehicles uh near the BGE aad Junction in Rafa a short while ago our Fighters spotted a number of occupation soldiers in the area and successfully sniped three of them with with Al goul rifles uh and confirmed two dead as soon as a Zionist Mar marava tank arrived to rescue them it was targeted with a Yen 105 shell so we're having multi-stage attacks happening uh in Rafa uh over this week um the targeting of the tank uh left the crew fleeing the tank according to this field report and helicopters medac helicopters were spotted by Kasam uh which is something we have seen of course on film many times so far this video is not on film uh we may have one by next show but uh so far not uh not yet uh but then there was another operation the next day a multi-stage Ambush uh of an infantry uh of an engineering infantry force that is still moving through the Border area along the Philadelphia Corridor um five soldiers were hit with an anti-personnel IED um and then just again today an armored personnel carrier struck in Rafa so we have operations happening uh continually over this past week in Rafa and not just Kasam operations the dflp and the popular resistance committees were both involved in uh artillery attacks uh in the Rafa area so uh the battle in Rafa does not appear to be over um despite Israel's declarations and moving their Fighters their soldiers from the uh 162nd Division up to jabalia where they have been carrying out the now uh two months Siege uh of jabalia so if we look at uh map C here uh we got the zoom in on the narim corridor and as I stated over these last few weeks the narim corridor has been widened it's now 7 kilometer wide uh piece of Israeli territory that includes bases um outposts not bases yet but Israel's intention is to hold on to this Corridor um according to reports in Army Radio um for at least another year um and operations happen in the nsim corridor multiple times a day by The Joint operations room which is the uh unified command under Kasam of all of the other groups the popular resistance committies the popular front for the liberation of Palestine the demograph uh de Democratic uh front for the liberation of Palestine other smaller groups like The mujahadin brigades and the ansar brigades um fight together uh in this Corridor SAR Al Good's Islamic Jihad um carrying out joint operations both with gassam and with each other in the narim corridor firing artillery uh onto the Israeli positions in the corridor while the Israeli military is attempting to um expand the corridor into telawa and zetune which we have been covering for many months that is still an ongoing process but of course the main focus has been on the North U jabalia uh and the jabalia refugee camp which is north of uh the city of jabalia um and B lahia which is on the opposite side of B hanon there in the northwest of Gaza these have been the centers uh of this Siege policy that Israel has invoked and attempting to cut off uh the jabalia camp from the north of the West Bank of banon and B lahia of course we'll remember back that the War Began in b Laha the first operations um of the Israeli ground war now 390 days of ground war there has been uh were in B lahia and they're still fighting fiercely in B lahia and we'll see that um later on in the show as well um army radio released uh an interesting assessment from the Israeli military talking about uh the operation in jabalia which they say has cost them 28 uh soldiers including multiple Battalion commanders and the um the most senior officer killed in the war the commander of the 401st armored Brigade uh was killed in jabalia but they're talking uh about a a semi-permanent presence in jabalia not simply a raid in the way that we have seen before there has been multiple raids uh as I've talked about there was a a major operation in December in November December to quote unquote clear uh jabalia of uh Kasam Fighters which failed even though the Israelis claimed operational control they came back in May and fought a five-week battle in May where they destroyed 70% um of the refugee camp of the jabalia refugee camp uh and again left declaring Victory only to reinvade in early October um and Carry Out The Siege policy that they are uh currently brutally involved in more than 2,000 people killed more than 6,000 people wounded of course these are Under counts because the civil defense is not able to operate the ambulances the fire trucks this hospitals are under siege as Norah reported even the doctors themselves are being targeted um which um the doctors that remain are being targeted we know that many of the doctors were uh frog marched out of the hospital and taken to uh to Israeli torture camps in southern Israel so the idea that the uh that Army radio put out over its Airwaves uh just the other day was that the purpose of the clearing operation in jabalia and the north um was to set up a plan that would last for three more months so this is the first that we've heard of a timeline for this brutal operation and this is just really this this invasion of jabalia is taking the genocide to the next level um it's returning to these places again and again to continue to carry out the genocide it's not a linear process uh they're returning back to carry out what wasn't finished in the first two operations and that's why we're seeing uh such brutality um their goal is scorched Earth to clear the area totally of people and that we know is not happening people are not fleeing the north on Mass they're not crossing the narim corridor and going south in numbers at all we're talking in total we're talking a couple of dozen um according to un figures what is happening is people are internally displaced within um the north as well moving from one place to another as their shelters are burned but this three-month plan is the first time that we have heard any kind of a timeline uh for how long Israel intends to to carry on this operation for three more months um it's hard to even imagine that uh given how brutal the situation is right now but amid that the resistance has been significant and the first video that we're going to show here is actually from south of the nerim corridor this is bar uh al bar camp and these are Fighters digging out uh an offensive tunnel um that they've been based in and again it's fighters from uh the bar battalion who previously were saluting their commanders Iman nol who was killed earlier in the war um and these Fighters are talking about their friend Haled and Haled was previously injured in the war they come up from this tunnel and spot a D9 armored bulldozzer and are hitting it with uh uh y 105 we know that this is the briti you can also see this is coming out of a tunnel emerging from a second tunnel with an rpg7 anti-tank Warhead to fire at a D9 armored bulldozer and though you can see there in that picture the slat armor it's not full armor it's not sandwich armor like on the tank so an rpg7 from that distance firing at the cockpit of a D9 is an effective weapon so still using appropriate weapons here's the fighter emerging from the third tunnel uh and getting his grasps um and picks up here a marava tank in his uh in his sight so this fighter Haled they said in that original part of the video was previously wounded you can see him disappear down into the tunnel there so three successful tunnel operations in barage where there hasn't been fighting in months and the fighters ident identifying themselves as the barage Battalion they're not Fighters that came from narat they're not Fighters that came up from Rafa or conun to fight and here we're seeing the tank that was hit being towed they had to call the this is the calling the tow truck uh move and again Kasam not targeting this uh this process um they've been consistent throughout the war because you can see the two guys coming outside so here's what I was saying this is the fighters talking about howed who was hurt earlier in the battle and they're saying that uh they're they're saying that uh that the blood ignited HED khed and that uh here are the men that we watch closely khed has returned announcing when the sword is angered um they will fight and so he is previously wounded coming out of these tunnel operations um Israel hasn't gone in tunnels in many months we haven't seen any kind of field reporting at all of tunnels in months um and the fighters are able to still use them in barage again this is south of the narim corridor uh and the Israelis are carrying out these operations to widen the buffer zone there's also operations happening in narat uh Camp which mostly involve bombing from the air they haven't carried out a sustained ground operation in either Nur at uh nor barage um they're on the outskirts of both of those so interesting to see that this many months into the war that you still have these units fighting uh in their place something we've been watching for all along the war do conun Fighters come up and and augment the fighters in the central camps uh or is this the central camps Battalion later in the show we're going to see that that's the same case in B lahia it's not the jabalia fighters fighting in B lahia it's the B lahia Battalion fighting so these Fighters have not been dismantled uh in any meaningful way and even if they were to be they would move around but we haven't seen that moving around yet at all so this is the tow truck operation in al bar this was from a few days ago this next uh operation is a complex operation that took place in jabalia um you see the commander here setting up again his troop leading procedures you can see the uh thermobaric Warhead on the right there he's identifying here these buildings uh there's two buildings where Israeli Special Forces are in I have edited out uh the movement of these soldiers but you can see I edited in the bottom corner that they're in that building and then here's the fighter the guy on the right holding the beige uh thermobaric Warhead that is a cam built Warhead the normal RPG uh thermobaric Warhead is a single charge but Kasam has made a tandem a yasine tandem charge thermobaric Warhead that will punch through the wall with the first charge and the second charge is the fuel air explosion here's the sniper with his SVD is dragging off and again I've blurred out these soldiers but they're in that building and they get sniped that is a sniper on sniper attack Palestinian snipers killing Israeli snipers and we'll see later on in the in the video uh what what that uh room would have looked like we won't show you the room because of community guidelines but here's these Fighters with the thermobaric Warhead um the tandem charge getting into position firing from an elevated position at this Israeli troop position that their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance has exposed um and hitting it directly we're going to watch three uh yasen strikes two thermobaric and one yasen 105 strike on three Israeli positions that are in two buildings so these last two will be in the same building but they're separate troop positions and this is what we've seen also all war the intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance reconnaissance uh movements of the resistance particularly the cassam Bri Gades has their eyes on all of these Israeli positions these fortifications so this is the third one uh in the same building the the Upper Floor of the same building um and at the end of this video they're going to do what the Israelis don't do which is an after a battle damage assessment so here you can see I've edited this that's the punch in the Hole uh hole in the wall that was made by the thermobaric Warhead and then that last uh scene was the call signs from the soldiers who were shot they left behind um we can't show it but maybe tomorrow can throw my Twitter up on the uh ticker and you can watch the full video uh a full video there but um the after action the battle damage assessment that Kasam does they go to the room uh that this operation that we're watching right now takes place in they go to the room and they find a bloody mattress they find what I showed you there the hole in the wall which is punched by the precursor charge the charge that's leaning on the ground right there on the when the guy's holding it right there you see the um the secondary charge the small charge at the top you can see it when he's holding that beige the beige yene is the thermobaric Warhead so that first charge punches through the wall and allows the second charge uh the the fuel air explosion here's the sniper doing his calculations and then he's going to fire you can see the sniper setup of the IDF there um so that's a sniper on sniper hit and of course the Israeli snipers are just wreaking havoc in Gaza those there endless stories of doctors treating young children with sniper wounds you can see the thermobaric Warhead in that Fighter's arms there um and the twin uh the tandem charged thermobaric Warhead is a Kasam built uh weapon the Iranian and other makers of rpg7 warheads that are thermobaric are single barrel they're not tandem charged so this is a a cassam built weapon um and it's very effective and you can watch um to keep your eyes on it because at the end I'm going to show you the hole in the wall that it punched and in that room what I have edited out is that um the soldier's uniform had to be cut off him uh the mattress is soaked in blood it's clear that this was a successful operation they actually left behind the field shirt of the soldier which identified his sniper unit um and the fighters uh pointed that out in the uh after Action Report or battle damage assessment um which is not what the Israelis do the Israelis usually just bomb a building and leave it so there's the hole that's punched by the thermobaric Warhead and here this is the call signs they came they captured the call signs for all of the Israeli units uh in the area and that's what they have done um and I have pixel mask blurred out um the blood that's on them so a clearly successful operation by cassam finding um pretty useful I mean you can change your call signs pretty easily um but to find all the call signs and all the units in the area is uh a pretty significant operation that I wanted to bring you and uh was worth doing those edits to meet the community guidelines of Twitter which we do uh steadfastly um for the record so number three is another thermobaric operation these are four Fighters again units of four when you read that they're 50 killed in jabalia it makes it's nonsense uh it's nonsense these fight these guys fight in small units and we've seen those units four to six men um often sometimes they're fighting in Twan units but this fighter is saying the commander is saying um that we're going to the we're going to Ambush uh an IDF special units Force hold up in a building in the west of the city he addresses Netanyahu and says the IDF hides in their tanks armored vehicles and fortifications where we H we they seek shelter in their tanks fortifications and armored vehicles we seek shelter um we seek shelter in the verses and words of God and the Holy Quran so he's ju opposing the belief systems of uh the two uh combatants in this case and again you're seeing uh tandem charge that's a perfect view of the tandem charge yesen uh thermobaric where they have the second uh P the second charge the precursor charge for punching holes in the wall unclear if that was a message to uh Muhammad alde who was famously looked at his watch uh in that one video the Israelis released of him the only picture they have of him since uh he was university um that was released was found in Gaza during one of their searches and he he Muhammad Al looked completely different than what Israel said he was um and so the fighters have been often looking at their watches because that's what Dave was doing in the in those pictures so uh again successful thermobaric Warhead charges uh uh deployment of these weapons have been very uh well used and and these V these buildings they're not being cleared right the IDF Chief of Staff hery hevi called it a CIS Copan task to try to clear these areas which is the the analogy where the ball trying to roll the stone up the hill and it rolls back down on top of you in the that's basically what happens in these Villages um in particularly in jabalia which has been the center of resistance in Palestine for decades since the beginning of the Armed struggle um there's no surrender happening in jabalia and and until the Israelis you know what the Israelis tell the the Palestinians all the time to lay down their arms the only way is if the Israelis lay down their arms and release the Palestinian political prisoners um the Palestinians are not going to stop fighting particularly not in jabalia so we look at this next operation in jabalia number four this is a a shawah you can see the fighters wiring it up again multiple Fighters involved in the process they've gotten at this point in the game very good at it here this is their surveillance camera spotting the unmanned uh remotely operated M11 three so that's a truck bomb a tank bomb that Israel packs with explosives and then sets about to clear the area by exploding it so they've made a remote control car bomb that they use those m113 Zelda tanks to do um and so we're going to watch this shuah detonate twice here's again we're seeing the backup cameras the reverse camera being used for a second angle constantly repurposing these cameras for CCTV footage and and very effective it's a devastating strike um to hit these um to hit these tanks which uh I'm going to show you in the next video uh after we do this we'll see just one more time because I want you to see how they're deploying the m113 they just only give us a short clip of it here but here it comes you can see it in the dark so they've got surveillance on it it just turns the corner drives like any other vehicle but it's packed with explosives and is going to be used to detonate against a building that they believe people are in they're killing civilians with these weapons they're um they're using tanks that the Americans gave them that they have thousands of that can't uh withstand battle but they're using them as essentially suicide bombers um unmanned uh car bombs vehicle born IEDs is what the uh military lingo is for them but it's it's really astonishing that they're using these I think maybe there's just been so much happening in these last 14 months that people haven't zoned in on it but let's look at number five tomorrow because this is what's this is this is something that people often ask like what happens to the tanks well this is from a uh an IDF tank crewman crewman um he brought these pictures to the world of this um marava markv Barack it's brand new this is the newest version of their you know in famous uh heavily fortified tank and if you look just down the barrel maybe switch to the next one actually tomorrow we can see it even closer if you look down the barrel there you can see the four the sandwich armor um to the left of the barrel that is the thickness um of the uh of the tank and inside those are um reactive armor that go off to detonate to try to um take the energy out of the incoming round but you can see the way they use the plates the plates that we talked about on the show last week that are used for um for fixing these vehicles but the way the sandwich armor in this case um is used and shown because this tank was completely destroyed uh three the commander the Gunner um and the loader were all killed and the driver who's up in front of the engine block survived according ording to the IDF but there's a few more pictures we can see here of the total Destruction if we go to the next one um completely destroyed this vehicle and it's not clear what operation did it there's a few videos um that I've shown over the last couple of weeks that that could have done something like this especially we saw that one barrel bomb um which is probably what we're looking at um did this so a barrel bomb is using unexploded Israeli Miss and then taking the explosive material out of the missile and putting it into a a a kassam canister which you can make as big as you want once you've dug the hole you can fill it up with multiple uh missiles if you want multiple explosives from missiles um from multiple missiles anyways look at that it just it's completely destroyed um this you know famous tank that you know their Chariot of God uh vehicle that they believe is impenetrable um and this is being shown because it's a it's because it's a markv Barack um they haven't shown us many of these of the other versions because those older tanks were um they're not as um they're not as new they're showing this because it's the newest version of the tank just mangled uh in this way so you can see um a lot of people you know they ask in the comments like we don't see the after the the after action we don't see the battle damage because the fighters are skilled Fighters and they leave the area before uh they see this but this is something that would have had to be dragged through the streets in this shape and they get it out into the buffer zone and show you uh something that's just a twisted pile of you know 70 tons of metal um so that's what happens when you get hit by IEDs and the Israelis admitted that and showed this footage um at least their tank their tank crew uh showed this shared this footage um but just wanted to bring that to you so that is um this is from jabalia this was an operation in jabalia um that did this the the date is it's Circa the 25th of uh October is around the time uh that this happened um in pieces and you can see the soldier who's taking the photo there you can see his outline so it's an Israeli soldier taking a photo of an Israeli tank that gave this information to the public well they didn't mean to give it to the public they give it to each other um and us we grabbed a hold of it and are showing it to the public um okay I think that's the last one for the blown up tank um number six this is an operation in Bahia like I said and this is the focus is because they're saluting their F their Commander W rajab uh Abu SU um he was the Battalion commander of the uh Bahia Battalion and he was killed in the first month of the war he was killed along with Ahmed gandur when the uh Israelis bombed um in the early days of the war before the ground War uh even started these Fighters are saying that he uh his fingerprints are all over these operations like we've seen the fighters do this all the time saluting their um their previous commanders but here they're they've got uh a window of opportunity on a marava tank and they're going to hit it with a yasen 105 still seeing all the weapons they're using appropriate weapons in all spots some people asked because of last week when I showed a video um that showed that they were manufacturing weapons if that meant that they don't have weapons we haven't seen that uh be the case they would be manufacturing weapons in order to continue to do so um not necessarily because they have to um and we haven't seen any indication that they have to and here's the soldiers again in this building um being exposed in these buildings uh we blurred them uh also out uh for YouTube guidelines um you can see the full video uh at my Twitter feed but multiple things have been edited out of this video because after this operation the fighters of uh W rajab he they went out and caught these soldiers here um that were coming across that we see here they get in a shootout with these guys that we can't show on video um but it was an unsuccessful operation for the israelies and that's where the video ends for us but there's about a 30- second shootout that you can watch um where the deputy Battalion Commander was seriously wounded uh of the 90th Battalion so pretty senior officer Deputy commander and another Soldier was killed in that operation and so you see the fighters here holding their Commander their bait lahia leader who's also a senior figure in the Northern Division um he was killed early in the war and he was he was one um one of only a small number of uh leaders that has uh that Kasam acknowledged their deaths right at the time of them and they've been saluting him throughout the battle but this is the most direct one uh that we saw and of course he's he's saying that the Fingerprints of the leadership are on all these operations these are not Guerilla operations these are I mean they're they're textbook Guerilla operations but the organization is functioning in the way it was created before the war that's what they mean by their fingerprints are on these operations the loss of their leadership doesn't mean that they can't carry out these actions um and that's the same case with Hezbollah the loss of those leadership um they exist in a collective leadership and they have trained cadres so the loss of the leader is devastating but it's not something that ends the uh the the arm struggle and in any way and so this is uh this operation is another successful one a Yasin versus a tank uh thermobaric versus a troop position and then hand toand uh you know Close Quarters uh gunfight with an SVD with a dragonov sniper rifle um that they have up in B lahia so bit lahia has been essentially wiped out almost entirely but the resistance is still there fighting um and when people when the Israelis move or redeploy from people will move back as they always do and clean up um and clean up and carry on um they're not being uh it's a war of annihilation but the Palestinians refuse to leave so those are the operations from the Gaza Strip over these past few days I want to take a little bit of a look at the West Bank um because the West Bank never gets enough attention and I always want to do more but we're going to bring in a couple operations here we remember back a few months ago at the end of the summer and early September there was a multi-week operation in the West Bank where Israel went around and essentially dug up all of the roads and infrastructure in the camp as a punitive measure against the resistance they did that uh when it was clear the Americans weren't going to do anything they had uh Biden as a lame duck um he wasn't going to stop it and so they uh went ahead and just destroyed the main fighting centers in the West Bank which are Janine um the camps around nablas tolam and tubas the Northern West Bank what the British used to call the triangle of terror when the anti-colonial resistance uh Palestinian resistance at that time was against the British um and so take let's take a look at some of these photos tomorrow we have a video from free Palestine TV uh reporter uh obada Taha he shows this on uh free Palestine TV from Janine and showing uh that the occupation we saw this I I I showed you guys this months ago but this is what it still looks like and now Winter's coming in so it just turns this all to mud and all these roads are all completely dug up that was the goal just to dig up the roads um but what we'll see later in this segment that it doesn't work it's simply a pun ative measure because it actually helps the fighters bury explosives what it does do is make it impossible for ambulances to come and go and take people to the hospital which is what tractors are being used for four-wheel drives are being used for the hospitals use them to get patients uh to the hospital they've been working on this now you see the family working on the outside of their house um they work on it themselves to try to get it into shape we have another one from uh noram because the same operation happened in nor Shams and the New York Times covered that today uh or yesterday over this weekend and you can see nor Shams looks just a pie looks like a Sandbox they just dig up all the road um and leave Palestinians to clean it up and in the meantime uh it's used as um well let's look at these next operations because you can see what it's used as um if we look at video 73 um you can see the way that the road being du up as I said at the time and as anyone I don't think it's secret information if you dig up the road and make it dirt it's easier to plant IEDs so here's an IED um in Nur Shams Nur Shams outside of taram um there's two uh outside uh nurs or in nur's uh Camp these two operations are then we're going to watch a after this you can't see it because it's a night battle which is when oh there was a third one there's a third uh this is all three of these are against bulldozers because they're in with bulldozers tearing up the street that's their primary purpose um and then we get a couple of Close Quarters battles that happen in the West Bank at night um when the fighters have the ability to um to move around a little bit more safely and with the Drone footage um a little bit uh a little bit more difficult so in the West Bank the fighting happens at night in the day it's kids in the street throwing stones it's protests um at night the guns come out and that has been the case um for many many years um we show after this one you're going to see the um this we took the audio track out of it I don't think YouTube likes the gunfire tracks but we're hearing um the track the gun the gunfight happen in this video which again you can see on my Twitter feed um and then we're going to see these vehicles these Panther armored uh vehicles that the Israelis use in the West Bank and they need to call a tow truck because they disabled one of their uh vehicles on one of these IEDs so there's footage of the Israeli military hooking up one of these Panther armored personnel carriers so that they can tow them call a tow trucks so then if we look at number eight um you can really see why this is a this is in uh Janine um we saw them dig up the road you can see the road dug up and then naturally you plant an IED there and the Israeli Jeep Parks right beside it and that jeep is an MDT David this these Jeeps rolled off American Cargo uh planes the first cargo planes that landed in Israel after October 7th brought these Jeeps um to fight they don't fight in Gaza in them these are for fighting in the West Bank so the arms shipments which at the time were the first arms shipments from is from the US to Israel in the war which we now know uh carries on multiple times a day but that IED lifted that jeep right off the ground in jine um so this was the first operation bringing um and and just to say to to repeat that the digging up of the ground does the opposite of what is intended to do if if the intention is to find IEDs it doesn't do that it gives you an opportunity to plant IEDs in a much easier way um and then this poster from Janine um really summarizes the link between the West Bank and Gaza where s C's Janine Brigade puts out this uh this poster and you can see there's the panther vehicle in the back again that I just talked about but it says Janine will continue to fight as if it were jabalia or Rafa um and again the West Bank in Janine they call themselves small Gaza in uh nurs they call themselves little Gaza because the central um the localized um raids are doing very similar things destroying houses uh destroying infrastructure um closing schools um so they feel solidarity in a tight level of connection between the West Bank and Gaza and of course many oper ations going on in taram they're naming their new IED in taram they're naming it after abush shua who was the leader who was killed um back in this summer in the raid so you're seeing the naming like we have the Yasin and the alul rifle U now in the West Bank the IED is called the shua one uh and the next generation of Fighters will grow up uh detonating uh weapons against the Israelis named after their previous Commander so that is the Gaza Strip and the West Bank uh summary of The Resistance report [Music]