Rafah ambush keeps pressing the battle in southern Gaza, with Jon Elmer

we will start in Gaza because um that's the point of these attacks in Lebanon is to split off as rqua said to split off the uh Gaza front and the Lebanon front and to try to weaken gaza's uh negotiation position uh by splitting off the more powerful hasz Bala front uh in the north so um it has been a busy week and just we throw up the couple Maps here again we're at uh Israeli focus on the narim corridor and Rafa and the narim corridor in the center they removed the 98th division this was the Raider division that we've talked about the division that raided um shiffa hospital and Nasser hospital it's the division that raided Shaya for the second time and the uh jabalia camp for the second time um and that fighting force with their uh paratroopers who just got smoked in Lebanon um they've been removed and the Israeli military doesn't have the ability to replace that kind of fighting force and that's why they had to move that division up to the northern border to fight uh in the north and they can't do those two things simultaneously so what we're seeing in Gaza uh is the troops focused on the Philadelphia Corridor um and moving their supply routes and their supply routes between um The Border uh of Israel I mean it's not a border but the edge of the ghetto of Gaza those supply routes have been targeted this week and uh there's been seven qualitative operations this week targeting uh Israel forces east of conun uh and east of Rafa and we're going to take a look at those uh on this show today so let's start right with the first one this is a three-stage Ambush here that we're looking at um Ambush uh the promise of Victory Ambush and here we see again Commander troop leading procedures they told the Israeli military told us these guys don't exist and here we have a commander with a closed line uh his sign notes that it's the Ambush uh promise of Victory we're seeing aerial surveillance Drone footage uh with the American and Israeli military called iar intelligence surveillance Target acquisition and reconnaissance and you can see this is Target acquisition they're using this Drone footage to track the supply route for uh the Israelis down to the Philadelphia Corridor you can see they've got eyes on this Corridor uh eyes on the Supply route I should say heading to the corridor you see their Armored Division there um their armored Battalion there with the multiple tanks multiple Nar troop carriers multiple D9 bulldozers Fighters get in position and this and the commander was detailing this operation he was talking about how there's going to be three strike groups here we're looking at strike group number one who's going to Target this first marava tank look at how close is to him uh we have two cameras on each one each aspect of this Ambush um so you get the first yesen strike here dead center of the tank uh no apparent uh interception by the trophy system too close proximity um so that's stage one of the three-part Ambush then stage two here is aimed at this first D9 armored bulldozzer in uh in the Convoy again another strike right on the cage uh where the commander and the Navigator are in the D9 bulldozer again we see it from multiple angles they have brought this media to us for the entire War showing us the battle that we wouldn't see otherwise and Hezbollah will do the same Hezbollah was the founders of these kind of operations of embedding media into your fighting this is the third uh um D9 bulldozer gets it in the uh back engine area debilitating um we saw last week a captured drone and here we go with a metac uh coming in again to uh to rescue injured soldiers maybe we can Loop it around one more time because I just want to talk about some of the things that we're seeing uh so promise of Victory Ambush here we look at we see a a a barrel chopped AK-47 Chinese AK-47 uh Barrel chopped off for Close Quarters battle so you've got a Close Quarters battle fighter there you see the closed line phone in front of him he's working on a computer Compu connection he's connecting it to this Drone footage that's marking the route um and they've been on top of this there's they say they don't exist but they're out here uh running these are not gorilla operations in the in the standard sense of a of a ragtag gorilla Force um this is a military that has for sure taken losses so has the Israeli military and of course civilians uh take the most brunt but we see here the fighting force uh Kasam is still fighting in the exact same way that we've seen all throughout the war they're not using different weapons they're showing us our commanders um they're showing us their commanders ordering uh their troops into position and he talks about it as three task force there's two strike groups so we're looking at strike group number one here um so you have you know eight 10 12 people involved in this uh Ambush itself could see the proximity these Fighters are still getting to these vehicles um this is something in South Lebanon that the uh the Lebanese have an asset because they have much more sophisticated anti-tank weaponry and by early reports as we were coming on air there's a number of merkabas that uh got smoked in Lebanon too we're probably going to have to get towed home like they were in 2006 um you wouldn't be surprised to see that later on today uh I expect we'll see Hezbollah footage throughout this war um so this promises a victory Ambush um this is the second Kill Zone uh of the D9 armored bulldo these are americanmade caterpillar bulldozers that have been um wreaking havoc in Rafa for 25 years all through this the second andata uh they committed brutal crimes with these bulldozers Americans may remember Rachel Cory Rachel Corey was defending uh a row of houses in Rafa that the Palestinians defended for months before that um and so we see here another medac Chopper and just interesting note on the medac uh in Vietnam the in Vietnam metac Us metac in Vietnam um they just got a congressional gold medal for their service in Vietnam and uh the pilots talk about onethird uh of their flights were targeted uh their Medevac flights their marked Medevac flights from Vietnam were targeted one-third of them uh by Vietnamese guillas and we're still seeing 11 months in that the uh principles of the bo fighters in Gaza have still not changed they are not targeting Medevac helicopters that are well within uh their range so we see a complex ambush in Rafa there promises a victory Ambush troop leading procedures commanders military structure using weapons that we've seen them using all through the battle um so when you're looking for for indications that the the group has been dismantled you don't see any of them in the fighting uh you don't see it in the field reports uh the field reports have been consistent um I'll give you a sense of those as we go through U these first Gaza videos but we had uh significant qualitative operations all week this week since you last saw me seven operations um two complex ambushes two Mine Fields uh seven armored vehicles hit in various strikes and then we have the constant uh artillery attacks on the narim corridor so if we go to number two here we're going to see Sarah El coulds carrying out those uh this is their mortar teams again setting up making sure they get their um their angles and their distances uh on these Maps correct they're 11 months into this battle they have gotten better at this and as you'll see in the footage of this um they're Landing with these 107 millimeter uh Rockets rocket artillery and mortar rounds and the mortar round here for Nas Hassan nasrala immediately they're able to communicate the death of nasala uh and say his importance this fighter says in the presence of the martyrdom of s Hassan nasala we say as our secretary General Dr fatti shikaki said blessed is the party whose Secretary General becomes a martyr for it is a party that does not die and it is a party that is Victorious so you can see here the fighters again communicating with the outside world we see him here loading 120 millimeter round mortar bomb that's built in Gaza these are uh saral hoods built mortar bombs these are not imported through the Philadelphia Corridor Philadelphia Corridor is not the oxygen for the resistance the oxygen for the resistance is inside Gaza and it's in their tunnel networks and you can see a a tank there in that footage they have eyes on the tank they have eyes on multiple positions along the the nsar rim Corridor this is the nsar rim Corridor that splits Gaza in half a number of people on foot another of gazin on foot attempted to come up to the narim corridor uh and the Israelis shot them out of a crowd unarmed uh civilians uh looking to come up to the border so Israel has declared you can see there that's footage of the soldiers scurrying around underneath the uh the mortar fire there that that lands and so um these Fighters are immediately able to uh get these reports out still their Communications haven't been impacted in any way this report uh this field report for this operation came out um the next day we see the video and we see it with nasala uh in timed all within less than a 24-hour window of time and these Fighters have been able to do this all throughout the war and this is SAR coulds doing it but all of the factions have this week been involved in um shelling uh mortaring the uh Israeli positions along the narim corridor and because the Israeli military this 98th division that's um taking casualties significant casualties today uh in the north I think we're going to see uh a down a downtick in uh operations from the Israelis which is what we saw this week they just switch from that to massacring civilians and the places where civilians are at this point in the battle are in the shelters that Norah talked about they're in the orphanage uh that was bombed last night as part of a hundred civilians being killed so is is still able to kill from the air Kill from distance um from cowardly distance but the face-to-face fighting as we saw last week on the videos the fighters are saying come fight us face to face you've cleared out the population from the battlefield people aren't living in Rafa Rafa has been a complete uh has been completely um ethnically cleansed and destroyed it's a massive Battlefield that if the goal was to fight and defeat Kasam then you would go and fight in Rafa where the fighters are of Kasam thousands many thousands of Fighters not including new recruits are ready to fight that battle but Israel doesn't want any part of that they they bomb from the air they bomb from the sky they target civilians they target civilians in the only piece of land that's left to them in the Gaza Strip which are these schools that should be teaching children now for the second year are closed and are uh really difficult living condition conditions for the Palestinians that live in that in those schools at the best of times and then to Massacre them in those schools killing entire families four generations of the same family taking shelter in a school in a place that you told them to go the Israeli military and then they attack them there by um and so their field reports they I watch Israeli field reports every day too their field reports from Gaza have all but stopped their operations in Gaza have all but stopped in the last week the only reports they say are the massacres in the school which I've been telling you for months that the Israelis have been bragging about these massacres they call them Hamas command centers uh when they're destroying families in homes like that so uh consistent uh all along let's go to number three tomorrow because the popular resistance committees released this video on their 25th anniversary um this is Jamal Abu Sam hadana who is a senior resistance leader in the Gaza Strip and the founder of the popular resistance committees Naser Saladin brigades uh and here we see a fighter introducing his antimaterial uh sniper rifle of 14.5 millimeter sniper rifle bigger larger than the Alou the same size as the Alou version one shooting a 14.5 millimeter uh round you can see behind 25th anniversary of uh the nasar Saladin brigades who were founded um as a fighting force by veteran Fighters uh at the time of the second Tata they were veteran Fighters that founded uh the popular resistance committees and that was uh 25 years ago the date and this is rifle they're calling their AMA um and you can see there it indicates a 14.5 round and you can see the size of the uh of the bullets that he's firing and they dedicated this weapon to uh two previous snipers from the second and Tata the alaran brothers uh who were famous in the second and tofat were assassinated in 2006 so again shouting out their leaders connection to their uh to their history so it's called the AMA here you're looking at 14.5 by4 millimeters the length of the uh of the of the weapon is 196 cmers 135 of it is a barrel um the it weighs 14 kilos and fires a 64 gram bullet that's what the uh indications that they want you to know and the fighter said on the 25th anniversary of the launch uh of the popular resistance committees this weap was put into into service at the beginning of the war so they're not showing you this because um they just put this weapon together they're saying that they have had this weapon in service throughout the battle and the popular resistance committees were founded in Rafa Jamal abhu sadana is from Rafa and he is a senior leader of the Palestinian resistance overall a very popular leader when he was assassinated uh hundreds of thousands of people came to his funeral uh his funeral March us was a serious resistance leader in the Gaza Strip and his fighting force the popular resistance committees brought on action-based fighters from other parties from other uh political groups in Gaza committees were an action-based organization um so they attracted fighters from from all factions and uh Jamal Abu sadana was made an interior Ministry in the early days of uh the Hamas after the Hamas elction ction so he was put in charge of security over overall in Gaza because of his legitimacy as a fighter uh and as a military leader so um interesting connection to to that history and to see another fighting force uh with these antimaterial rifles that are um critically important in this fight because they reach uh up to two kilometers range so it puts Israeli Targets in these buffer zones when they're afraid to come in and fight um as we've seen many times these sniper operations take c um are taken are taken in the buffer zone when the soldiers are in the buffer zone believing that they're safe or in their building with their curtains believing that they're safe um so it's a long range weapon an antimaterial weapon and the popular resistance committees have that and like I said uh there was a mine Minefield operation east of con Unis that I believe we're going to see video of that um later today uh early reports are that the cassam Bri Gades are putting out a video of that there was also a complex ambush of two ners troop carriers a tank and two D9 armored bulldozers that required a Medevac the other day uh multiple Yasin versus tanks versus D9 in east of Kan Unis um another marava east of con Yunis and then in the North in B lahia uh SEL coulds put out an uh Field Report that said that they hit uh an Israeli foot force with an explosiv formed penetrator Barrel bomb um and they put that field report out one day before the Israelis said we did a pin prick operation uh precise operation in in b lahia um so the resistance is telling you the truth ahead of the uh Israeli military that's still been going on and of course there was the promise of Victory Ambush that we just saw 12 mortar operations in the narim corridor and two more in um in the edge on the east Eastern edge of conun so that is the resistance report for this 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