Resistance hits Israeli troops with complex ambushes in southern Gaza, with Jon Elmer

as every week we are going to show you things that happened since you last saw me all these videos took place in the last week um we look at this map here of Gaza and we've talked about many of these areas on the show already today Nora talked about them in newscast um we're going to focus uh at first we're going to go from the south as usual we're going to start in Rafa this zoom in here we can see the Philadelphia Corridor which is still at the heart of the uh situation right now now the Israelis are trying to remain in the corridor yev Gant the defense minister visited the Philadelphia Corridor this week and said that to the Troops that they were keeping uh the corridor and the fighting this week as pretty much for the last month has been focused on teles sutan there in the west of Rafa um and pretty much that is the focus of the fighting in Rafa The Invasion is 115 days old in Rafa which of course the Americans said was a red line um was bulldozed by the Israelis um but that operation has been now focused pretty much primarily on the Philadelphia Corridor as Israel attempts to hold the Strategic Corridor uh in negotiations uh for a prisoner exchange um just to note this is today is the 300th day of the ground war since the Israeli military invaded the Gaza Strip on the 27th of October uh so 300 days of ground war and uh on Tuesday the 500th heavy airlift the Israeli Ministry of Defense acknowledged the 500th uh heavy airlift by the United States of weapons and material to the Israelis to carry out this genocide um the ministry of Defense uh boasted about that and it's 500 heavy airlift airplanes but there's also 107 ships which are cons considerably larger um than the airlifts although the c17s that fly uh the airlifts are massive planes they're uh almost hard to believe the size of them um and it's been 50,000 tons of weapons delivered from the Americans to the Israelis which are then turned around and dropped uh on the Gaza Strip the tiny area that Nora described in her uh excellent newscast at the beginning uh more than 55,000 strikes uh in this tiny territory that now Palestinians are pushed into 10% of and that 10% is under threat uh by Israeli evacuation orders this week as we saw the United Nations stopped their um operations uh the other day so uh another week let's uh let's get started though on the resistance because the resistance is steady uh there is no indication of any decline in the resistance at all despite what the Israeli say this is a nam Troop Carrier that's going to get an elevated Yasin strike they still uh are firing these weapons uh consistently there was more than uh a dozen operations by Kasam and SEL hoods alone in Rafa uh this past week you can see that that strike is an elevated strike down on the roof of the namr and uh from too close for the active protection system to engage and through too much and you can see again uh videographer was the spotter he uh in the audio of this you can hear the spotter saying fire they're part of a team uh that carries out these operations um so that is uh in tesalan there was a couple of these uh strikes in tesan um we can go to number two after this one here tomorrow uh this is the second one um again Fighters down on the ground moving through the streets still you can see the just the unbelievable destruction everywhere gassam gives us a little bit of a longer feed here of the exit of this fighter and again you can see no active protection system detonating in time for that round uh also in tesalan and these are still as ever uh cassam built yesen 105 RPGs being used h no indication of any uh lack of these weapons no indications of using other weapons they're still using appropriate weapons s uh in all of these instances and this battle scene is from this week in tesalan and again tesalan is right on the edge of the Philadelphia Corridor so the Israelis are expanding this Corridor um if we look at number three here um we've got a anti-personnel Yasin being used here you can see the soldiers in a window again still 300 days on um you can see them coming out just have a smoke of Dart here on the deck just like their not in an active war zone and these guys are going to pay the price for this behavior um as ever and this week the Israelis claimed uh the most killed in action that they have in several months this week um and you can see this is a combination this is a u thermobaric Warhead an Iranian single charge 105 millimeter Warhead um that's being used here and also an F7 uh fragmentation Warhead and they're using these in combat Nation we've been seeing this for a few weeks maybe months now um using this as a standoff anti-personnel weapon which is what they're designed for um being used properly um but the combination of the thermobaric which is a fuel air explosion the round has a powder uh and a fuel that distributes um throughout the space and it's ignited uh in a fire and so the F7 the fragmentation Warhead which we'll see coming up in an operation you can see the fragmentation um is devastating anti-personnel weapons so they're using these from distance and we've seen them use anti-personnel weapons of course uh packed as bombs um improvised explosive devices um so this combo of the F7 which is a North Korean fragmentation Warhead you can tell those by the red stripe around them if you're looking at these videos and the single charged therm thermobaric Warhead is um the plump Circle that you see um so this operation uh again successful uh soldiers in a window still doing it let's look at number four here tomorrow because this is a another operation this is in tesan this is an attack on the Kamal adwan High School which is the Israelis are using as a base and this Kasam fighter in flak jacket here he's pointing out that the tanks are right outside he says look at that soldier with his head popping out um and then they're going to track these seven triangles heading into the school using the school as a base of course every accusation uh of the Israelis is a projection of their own activities they immediately go to these schools as their bases um and when they're not bombing the schools uh of Palestinians in Sheltering in these schools they're using them as bases you can see the round in this one um you can see the round coming from the upper right uh to the left you can see this stainer motor uh kick in on the uh rocket propelled grenade uh that's hitting there um and this fighter he's saying uh when we go back around the fighter saying yeah the Fighter's holding actually in his hand you can see he's holding a gorilla action device um this is a Close Quarters battle that we're seeing here we took out the audio of this still trying to uh Dodge guidelines to keep these uh videos on air um this is them firing uh on this after the operation firing so the Close Quarters battle took place after and when we loop back around here I'll show you you can see he's holding the gorilla action device there that was what we saw them building uh during the war a couple months back and he says oh Netanyahu we will shake you to your core we're not afraid of these tanks next to us and that's what he's looking at there out the window the spoted the cameraman looks out the window and shows the tanks right outside he says they are right in we are right in front of them and you're doing nothing God willing will bring the hammer down on your head which is um the way that they're approaching this operation again seven triangles heading into this building and the tank crewmen hanging outside uh of the tank there and again you can notice the sustainer motor coming through the uh as this um round comes through the screen there it's kind of neat you don't usually see that I guess it's perfect angle for that um and during this gunfight that's going to break out here um this Close Quarters battle that follows up this combination again this is the thermobaric this is a kassam thermobaric and then um uh the F7 that's a combo they're using again and then during this shootout they say here we are here we are the tesan Battalion um with a little more energy than that but um obviously these Fighters are consistently uh fighting with a certain joy to be defending their people at defending their territory um in face of liquidation the Israelis keep saying they're have been liquidated and it's of course never the case uh this is another example of it and then so number five here is actually the second part of this operation U the first part was the uh attack on the school and these are the armored vehicles that are protecting the school uh this is a high school in tesan and you can see an elevated Yasin strike there right into the turret gap which is what they're uh aiming for um that that uh APS the active protection system that went off there missed the round it it detonated after the round hit you can see that on this too when you don't see the massive flare of uh of flame that's where you have a penetration and that's what the goal of yassen uh the tandem charge the goal is to send um a pierce it's to pierce it's you don't the tanks don't explode in the sense that sometimes you see uh in Ukraine uh or in Russia um the goal is to to pierce the tank and send the hot uh steel inside the tank and then the tank ignites from the inside or it just bounces around in the steel bathtub uh where these soldiers are inside the tank the tank is a crew of 10 and usually has um an infantry a bunch of infantry soldiers in there usually between four and six in inside the tank so it's close quarters and when those pieces coing around the soldiers inside the tank die and there was two killed in action by the Israeli military this week that they admitted were from anti-tank fire and that's from Yasin um so people sometimes wonder why you don't see the spectacular uh destruction although we have seen several uh spectacular destructions they you can see in the casualty reports that the soldiers are being killed by anti-tank fire and we took out the audio in this part but the guy at the end basically goes oh for hitting it uh for his buddy hitting that round from the from a pretty good distance and from an elevated spot so he was impressed with that shot number six here this is an interesting operation a complex Ambush takes place they scouting this position that they Kasam says has 23 uh soldiers plus a Special Forces Unit you can see this uh Commander here uh marking out the operation they put the triangle on the stickman that he's drawing in the window window but he's drawing a floor plan and the floor plan is accurate he's got the kitchen with the master bedroom beside it with an on Suite he's got the staircase the guest room he draws the head of the soldiers and then this is the tunnel Ambush that's the second part of this operation um so he's marking where the soldiers would go you can see there's the F7 with the red stripe on it and these Fighters going through the tunnel still using their tunnels in taslan in an actually sorry this is in conun um where con Yunis was um the six months of operation in conun to destroy tunnels and you still the fighters are still using it here um so that's setting up the operation and this is the execution of the operation the soldier in a window you're going to see the U the cassam built thermobaric Warhead hit here and a the over pressure blows the curtains right out of the building um so you have an infantry force in that building and then then you can see there that's the F7 you can see the fragmentation uh element of that in that strike and then they have multiple camera angles on this operation because they've been casing this building for multiple days as they point out in this video um and that's you can see the inside of the room there how the thermobaric Warhead works and why it's such a a devastating anti-personnel weapon you fire it into these Israeli positions inside a building um and it fills the entire floor with the explosion um and these operations again there you can see the fragmentation element of the f seven each of those are pieces of of hot steel flying around um and so the combination of these two weapons is is a tactical thing that we didn't see earlier in the War uh but we have seen for the last couple months being used very effectively now these Fighters are going to go underground here and link up this Radia anti-personnel uh weapon if you can get through the tunnels you do the anti-personnel weapon if you're standoff you fire uh the anti-personnel weapon with a yine so here they're uh Fighters uh detonating uh in a tunnel entrance um in conun this is in alcara on the North to the north of conun the operations of the 998th division have been moving around again look at here you's got the entire floor plan of the building and he's got it in three dimensions because they're going to fire from the side angle so those windows on the side are key to uh the way this operation takes place and so again you can see the triangles on his Stickman uh the boys have a sense of humor uh and a sense of purpose both in their operations which is um something that we have seen consistently and communicating with each other and as a commander which is uh showing command and control these operations are tunnel born operations the Israelis haven't even come close to dealing with the tunnels um they's still uh anytime you see Israeli tunnel achievements they're talking about achievements that are less than 10 meters deep which is essentially basements um the tunnel apparatus especially in in in in Rafa in tesalan um these tunnels are 80 meters deep so they're not even close to getting down to the layers um that would would neutralize the tunnels and you know as Israeli military uh people have said there's not enough TNT in Gaza to destroy 500 miles of tunnels under Gaza they don't know how many miles of tunnels uh but 500 is the number that uh that they've using this war yeah senoir said 500 kilometers a couple years ago so it's a believable number um and you can see the round uh blowing out the curtains that the Israelis love to put on these otherwise empty buildings to indicate where they are um and these positions the they feel safe in these they clearly feel safe in these positions and they are clearly not safe there's Fighters All Around we're watching here from three different camera angles so you saw the people getting briefed um by the commander you saw multiple Fighters involved in the operation you saw the the bomb Linker and Detonator and then you're seeing three cameramen so they're all over this area um casing intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance of Israeli positions and because of the predictable uh the predictive nature of their intelligence they're predicting the route that the Israelis will take to that tunnel entrance so really interesting operation there in uh conun after the conun uh Brigade was under attack for six straight months from December uh until the um until the Ramadan Ambush when they got chased out and now they're carrying on in uh in conun with the 998th division and have met nothing but resistance 15 operations this week alone in conun so um as you can see this guy doing his his sketch again okay let's go to number seven tomorrow because we have um rocket fire here um we have the uh the the M90 named after you can see the size of this rocket uh named after imim madma who was a senior Kasam founder founding uh fighter and thinker um and you can see this fighter says the mission we are executing is on the occupied city of Tel Aviv which will be under Fire from the from the alasan brigades and the enemy will know no matter how much they try no matter how much believe they've accomplished their goals here we are on the ground fighting we will bomb them with rockets of this heavy caliber This Is Our Land and the land knows who loves it and the enemy is a stranger to it so we're seeing these M90 Rockets these were the um the M the smaller version of this the m75 was the first Rockets fired out of Gaza to hit Tel Aviv and that happened in the uh 2012 war and you can see him here with his iron uh Peacemaker peace enforcer uh rocket controller which is a play on the Iron Dome and you can see the Rockets heading up and in the background of this video you can hear a kid shout uh from one of the camps in the distance there it goes um so you you often get in these rocket videos uh cheering from people inside Gaza when they go off that's actually been the case for decades uh when these go off and then you can see that was from a makeshift launcher to launch those uh heavier rockets on Tel Aviv uh and these are shorter range rockets that are fired on Israeli concentrations on the other side of the border of K Yunis so these Rockets were fired from K yunes right under the nose of the Israelis while they're carrying out this operation and of course civilians have been pushed out um of conun so there's no civilians these are not being these are being fired right under the nose of uh the Israelis and if we go back one more time quickly tomorrow the um you can see what when they're programming the rocket controller um you can see they're setting the time and this is going to be something that's relevant for the hbal operation too they the rocket controller sets the time uh of the launch so they set up in the day um they set up beforehand they set the rocket up um and then they program the launch to be for after dark usually they program them for 900 p.m. and that's part of the psychological operation is that they they tell you that the Rockets are coming uh at 900 p.m. and then uh and then they do and the Israelis are looking for where those Rockets are launched the Israelis look at this launcher here this makeshift launcher that they're using the Israelis dug in the Israelis bragged that they blew up this launcher uh this buried launcher so they're just scrambling for any kind of you see there he's setting the time there uh for the launch and he's setting the multiple launches and so the Fighters are gone from this area when the Rockets are fired and if there's counter fire counter battery fire um the fighters are gone from that area at the time and that's going to be something that we see in the Hezbollah operation coming up too um and again these are named the m90s after ibraim uh madma and madma was an important leader uh of Kasam he wrote a book about the path of armed struggle guidepost on the road to liberating Palestine 1994 um that's an important book that's studied by the fighters and read widely in Gaza talking about not repeating failed mistakes how to build the culture of armed struggle and a lot of those things um now 30 years on from that book being written um have really come to fruition and that's one of the reasons why the kasan brigades and Hamas more broadly um are not able to be defeated they're not a group that you can defeat these ideas are embedded in the population and the spirit of resistance is is is a critical part of their um their popularity it's all their popularity um and so the Israelis have uh failed of course in all of their objectives against Kasam and the will for generations to come because of this kind of um in in part because of these leaders um that were assassinated mcad was assassinated in 2003 he was partly responsible for the plan to attack the settlements in the Gaza Strip in the latter half of the second and he's uh credited with um the operation that blew up marava tanks on the outside of settlements one particularly in b lahia um that the Israelis said they were responding to when they assassinated him and these operations were these tank destroying operations were part of the reason that the Israelis left the Gaza Strip because these operations um were a qualitative increase in the nature of the operation than anything that they had experienced before in the 40 years um of the settlement project so again naming their weapons after very important people and if you want to study um the cassam Bri Gades you can look through their weapons and look at who they're named after and do a little reading about who they are and you can see why they name those weapons after them so um that is the South conun and Rafa operations again uh more than 30 operations combined in those two uh locations just in the last seven days so no indication of any degrading um of course the war is costly the war is costly for Palestinians it's costly for the fighters it's costly for the Israelis it's costly for Israeli citizens as well um so we're not pretending that it's not costly but uh in terms of destroying the military infrastructure um of the group we're not seeing any indications of that being true [Music]