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Resistance Report β€” 11 Jul 2025

Hand-delivered bomb destroys Israeli tank, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer, contributing editor, analyzes recent actions by the resistance across Gaza, including fighters in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, destroying an Israeli tank with hand-delivered explosives and a deadly ambush in Beit Hanoun in the north. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s livestream on day 643 of the Gaza genocide. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by researcher and analyst Shir Hever. You can watch the full show here: https://youtube.com/live/MCWzluxvoRI

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You are watching and listening to the electronic inifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 643 of Israel's genocidal war. I am reporting this on July 10th, 2025. And this is day 557 of the ground war in Gaza. Israeli troops on the ground in Gaza for 557 days. the Palestinian resistance with no supply lines, uh, no ability uh, to have a hinter land to retreat to, um, like the gerillas in the mountains uh, in the jungles. Um, the Palestinian resistance has still uh, standing in the same places uh, that they were on the first day of this war fighting and we are going to see that throughout this next uh, 25 minutes or so. And uh like always, everything that I am showing you this week uh on the show happened between now and the last time that you saw me do this report. So let's begin with the maps. As we always do, we've been showing these United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs maps that show increasing shootto-kill zones in Gaza. You can see there on the map that we are now up to 85% of Gaza shoot tokill zone. You can see the three ghettos that Israel is attempting to set up. And the goal is to push people down into Rafa uh which will become uh according to the Israeli plan uh another ghetto, a smaller ghetto inside the Gaza ghetto. But of course, as we know, tracking this war day by day through the whole thing, Israel's plans are often and continually thwarted by the resistance. But um just want to make a quick note on ceasefire talks because there's a lot of that going on and a lot of people ask about it. Um the principles um that Hamas has stood by since the beginning of this war remain in place. End the war, withdraw from Gaza, open the crossings, and exchange prisoners. that are the same conditions for Hamas, for Casam, for all of the resistance factions that speak in a unified voice on this topic. Uh the latest addition to those principles of course is not just open the crossings, but for aid to be distributed through the um original mechanisms of the United Nations, not through this murderous um private uh mercenary company that's killing hundreds of Palestinians. uh trying to get aid. So um and on the Israeli side, Netanyahu, same. He won't end the war. He won't allow the war to end because he has not obtained um achieved his four objectives, which we repeat on this show all the time to show the failure of this war. His objective number one, return the captives through violence. That has failed. There's still 20 soldiers in Gaza u to be exchanged. uh destroy the Cassam brigades. You're going to watch uh again on this program that that is not the case. Quite the contrary. Destroy the government. We've seen the uh municipal government across Gaza reestablish itself when um it was attempted to be destroyed and that number four, Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel. Um we know that that is also uh not going to be achieved. So 0 for4 for uh BB's um objectives and it's just worth noting because this is a crucial point. Um the idea of the aid mechanism returning to the United Nations is a critical point of Palestinian sovereignty. What we're seeing with this Gaza um Gaza Humanitarian Foundation um is appalling. Um and this cannot be the future for Palestinians. And uh at this point in the negotiations, Hamas cannot uh relent on that point. So if people want to follow it day by day uh back and forth uh the promises uh by uh the American president um uh keep those notes in mind because they remain consistent week after week. And now looking at this map here, you can see all of the areas that are nogo zones that are shoot tokill zones. But if we flip to map number two here, the Israeli military has released this map this week um that shows actually the land that they control. And you can see on the bottom left there, the 36th division is along the Bor corridor there. That is the piece of land um that they separate uh Conunus and Rafa with to create this Rafa ghetto. Um and the blue areas are just the extensions of the buffer zones. And you can see in Conunus that they're uh they're not controlling Cunis. They're not controlling along the middle camps. They're attempting to widen the buffer zone um in eastern Gaza City in the north there. Um and then um the area that is shown in blue in the bottom right corner in the u northeast side of Gaza is Beth Hanoon. And we're going to talk about Beth Hanoon because uh that map makes it look like Israel has control of Beth Hanoon. But uh there was an operation this week uh that killed five soldiers and wounded 14 others in that area. It's clear that the Israelis do not have control over that territory, but we will get to that in a bit because we're going to start in Conunus map that we show here. There are six Casam battalions in Conunus plus one special forces battalion. you have to presume that the s there's a significant uh Rafa brigade um presence in uh Kunis since the cleansing of uh Rafa doesn't require the full Rafa brigade to be there. Um so six battalions in the communis brigade, one special forces uh Nukba battalion and this week um carried out 30 operations against Israeli military vehicles alone. that goes with 160 operations since this um the expansion of this war began uh in late um in late April effectively uh early May. Um we are going to turn to the first operation this week. Um this is a handdelivered shawad EFP. We're watching the fighters here moving. Uh I'm gonna I've broken this video up into pieces to show you a little bit better what is happening. But you are seeing fighters under fire here uh in Conunus carrying out this three-part operation where they're going to literally handd deliver the Shaw's EFP which we have seen throughout the war. You can see the fighters mouse holeing, moving through the rubble here, um moving across uh destroyed houses. Um this is their neighborhood. They know how to move through these areas. We've watched that now uh for 600 uh days, 500 uh plus days of ground war. Um and this is the fighters. They're cheering on this. Uh there's first they're spotting. You can see the uh mark of a tank there that they're spotting. We're going to have three cameramen on this operation plus the uh fighter with the schwaz. We also have a Yasin archers team that is with them that are going to follow up. Um, and the fighters are here right on top of the Israeli position. You can see the BMS. Again, this is a theme. The BMS that were created uh in the battle last year that are now overgrown that the Israeli military is using as an attempt to cover. The fighters here are cheering them on. They say the fighters uh that the Israelis burn houses, demolish houses, they kill children and civilians. Um, by God it's vengeance for our blood, our women, our honor and our dignity, O Lord. And the other uh fighters uh are talking about identifying the um the tanks and there's two tanks and two APCs. Are we frozen here on this video? Okay. Um so that's the setup for this operation. Um here comes the Shawad fighter. uh the other cameraman. You can see the triangle there. That is the merc of a tank. The fighter is holding the schwad in his hand. He's going to navigate through the rubble here. We're going to see it from three different cameras. Um they're cheering him on, telling him to go, go, go. Uh the hero went the one fighter says it's a commando operation with a shawaz. They're cheering him on. You can see him running there. Um he's blurred out like always uh in these videos. There you can see him again moving towards the tree, the the date palm there. and he's going to climb over the burm here. Now, we're going to show it from another angle as he goes over the burm. So, we've got three cameras here that we're seeing. Cassam's showing us that this is camera number one, but he has just placed the shawad behind the tank. Now, he comes back over the hill, over the burm, and you can see the tank detonate. You can see the massive cookoff uh from the uh blowout panels that uh are attempt uh that the tank has to attempt to uh save the crew inside from the ammunition that is being detonated. And these blowout panels are not magic. Uh we saw them being used uh we saw them on October 7th uh a number of times and the and the crew inside were all killed on those operations. Again, we're seeing this multiple times from multiple angles. If you look at that middle camera, you can see him running back. He returns to his base safely in this operation. Um, and the Israelis claimed one dead and three seriously wounded in that operation. We'll just watch this one more time. The fighters here with the navigating through the destruction. And again, the BMS that the Israelis created in the first battle of Conunice, which happened from December till April 2024, um now are 14 months overgrown. There's actually uh as we saw last week on the operation with the Shaw dropped inside the Puma armored personnel carrier that there's growth in these BMS and that's what you're seeing. Um you see him advance there on the right to climb over the burm. the tank clearly doesn't see uh him at all. He places it, climbs over the burm, places it, and then climbs back to the burm, returns to his base safely. Pretty remarkable operation. We keep saying each week, these operations are the kind of operations that can turn the war because the Israelis watched this operation. Uh a lot of it censored in Israel, but this one um they they talked about this one on the news and the fact that they had this three camera angles. um the the preparation of this operation really upset the Israelis um because they continually lie and say that they have some sort of control over these areas uh which they clearly do not. We're also still seeing Shawad devices. We're still seeing uh appropriate weapons being used and this is only one part of this operation. Like I said, there's uh multiple stages to this. Um, we're going to see this tptic again uh in the next shot because um the fact that the three We can skip to that next shot now. Number six um to just show that again. If you watch the middle frame, you can see the fighter emerging back safely um back to uh his base safely. And number seven is when we crack right into after this operation um the fighters move immediately with a Yasine strike that hits uh the Nomber that's behind. At the beginning we saw the uh commander of the operation point out that there was um two sets of tanks and troop carriers. Um and the Israelis admitted that u that second um Yasine strike there killed and wounded soldiers in that second tank. the fighters here come back and he's saying, "Oh Lord, make us firm. Come on, guys." Um, and he says, "Come on, give me your head. Let me kiss it." And you can literally hear him kiss uh his head in that video. Maybe tomorrow I can throw it up. I have the audio track and the uncensored um on my ex and you can see him kissing there. You see the soldier emerging from the tank to of the second tank to see what's going on. and he's immediately hit uh by the uh the by the Kasam fighter that we were watching on camera too. Um that soldier was also wounded. Um the Israeli report from Army Radio describes um that that company commander who was in the second tank was injured by shrapnel and was taken to the hospital. Um and they admit Army radio that in the preliminary investigation of the incident indicates that the fighters emerged from the alley towards the tank. The tank crew uh identified the fighters behind him but not immediately and after the uh explosion occurred. The crew could not find him anymore. He returned to his base safely. And here's where uh the fight the fighter says, "Kiss on him. Can I kiss you on the head for that operation?" And when you hear the original audio track, which I think is worth going and listening to, um you can hear the way the fighters are communicating all through that uh operation. Um so a remarkable operation again, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, understanding where to be, understanding what weapons to use, all the appropriate weapons still being used. They're devastating shawads that are being that are built by them. Um let's go to number eight here because this is uh the day earlier. This is uh three Yasine strikes against Nom troop carriers again using the rubble the devastated terrain as the Israeli military planners call it um to move through their own villages which they know uh the e even though that's disorienting to them because the buildings have all been destroyed. A lot of people in Gaza talk about how you don't know where you are. uh you lose your bearings because all of the buildings that you used to use as landmarks um are gone. This is one of six Yes operations this week versus Nmer troop carriers. Um and those troop carriers carry um an entire infantry squad in the back of them. So they can be um deadly operations, many wounded, but of course Israel has been covering up, especially their wounded. They've been covering up uh of late. We know that um June was the deadliest month for their soldiers. Um but they didn't give us a wounded count um to tell us um how many more were wounded. And I still think the death the death counts are they don't seem to add up to these uh to what we're watching there. Only one soldier killed inside that tank that destroyed and is in flames. Um it just seems some of these things uh believe hard to believe. um eight more yesine operations versus tanks and D9s this week. Um and there was 15 IEDs uh also this week versus tanks and troop carriers in uh Conun. Here's a SL goods tunnel operation still in Cunis also against a troop carrier. See the fighters emerging out of the tunnel here. The tunnels are still the principal tool that the fighters have. um they don't have mountains, they don't have a supply line, but they do have unexloded Israeli bombs, and they do have um a remarkable tunnel network that runs through all of the Gaza Strip and is what has facilitated these actions. You can see this is a Takib EFP, explosively formed penetrator. The fighters are going to disguise it. And there you see them setting up a camera uh in the rubble. The the the stones have eyes. Hzbala used to say that as well uh back in Lebanon uh during the occupation days uh in Lebanon and that's what we're seeing in the rubble um in Gaza that they're setting up these cameras that can't be seen in the rubble uh and capture these operations. And you can see now the fighters are going to detonate in the tunnel from the safety of the tunnel. So when they detonate uh and the tank explodes here, they're going to call in heavy the Israelis are going to call in heavy fire um all over the area of this operation, but because the fighters are in the tunnel um they're protected from that and they can um they live to fight another day. We haven't seen in all of this war 643 days. We have not seen a single suicide operation um or even a suicidal operation uh of so much risk. Um the fighters are returning to their base safely and that is also part of why they're able to continue these fights. And I just want to report on another operation in Kunis that we do not have video for yet, but we are going to apparently get video for it tonight. Um I will break it down next week on the show. But in Abisan Alabira in East Kunis um uh according to the Casam field report we targeted uh the field report says we targeted a Merk of a tank and two Zionist personnel carriers with Alasin 105 shells. Alkasam fighters also targeted two military excavators with the Assen 105s. After that, our fighters advanced towards the enemy soldiers and engaged them with light weapons and tried to capture one of the soldiers, but field conditions did not allow it. So, they eliminated the soldier and seized his weapon. Um, the fighters observed the landing of aircraft. The Israeli military admitted on Wednesday night that an excavator driver was killed. And on the IDF field report, it says that an Israeli soldier was killed and nearly abducted in the southern Gaza Strip. Earlier today, the military announces the name of the slain soldier was not released. The IDF says that he will be named later. According to the probe, several Kasam gunmen emerged from a tunnel and attacked Israeli forces in Kunis. Um, during the attack, the operatives attempted to abduct the slain soldier who was operating an excavator. The sold the IDF says the soldier struggled with the Palestinians and he was shot and killed. Israelis says Israeli forces guarding the area open fire on the op on the operatives uh to prevent the abduction attempt. So that reads like a Hannibal, but we will see what uh what the video shows uh when it was when it is released. Uh if and when it is released. Uh word just before we got on air was that we are going to see that video tonight. Um so that is Conunice again. um the main thrust of the battle right now for the Israelis. They're trying to turn Kunis into Rafa and they are failing spectacularly in that objective. Uh but let's take a look now at Gaza City and northern Gaza because there's operations um there this week as well. Gaza City, you can see um Shajaya on the east of Gaza City and Tufa which is just outside of the old city of Gaza, old Gaza city. Um, Jabalia Jibalia camp is north of Jabalia. It's not on the map there, but it's an extension of Jabalia. Um, and it's north between Beth Hanoon and in the upper uh left on the northwest edge is Baha. Uh, but Beth Hanoon is um the area that the Israelis showed you on that previous map that they believe they had full control over. Uh, but we will get to that operation in due time because we're going to start with Shajaya. If we look at this next picture, you can see what the Israelis have done to Shijaya. Um they have not defeated the resistance, but they have certainly destroyed the eastern half of Shajaya. This is aerial photography from Harareets um from um late June. Um so it's even worse now because they've been shelling and air striking the area in preparation for their troops to go in. Um, in number 12 now we're on, we can see a Sri Aluds multi-stage ambush that takes place in Shujaya. You can see the six IEDs there of various types. Sariah aluds uses a lot more um improvised uh explosive devices. They're uh adapting to um the fact that their manufacturing is a different set of manufacturing than Casam. Um and you're seeing them be um adaptive and using return to sender operations where they rewire Israeli weapons um and return them there. We saw them using um propane tanks with explosives. We see them use barrel bombs with explosives. So this is the operation begins with six IEDs detonated uh against Israeli military vehicles. We're seeing it here from multiple angles. Um the Israelis said two killed and eight wounded in this operation. This is a special forces versus special forces operation. This is Sarah's special forces against the Israeli military special forces. Um in in this uh operation the fighter says here whoever desires to take our weapons we will take his soul. And the point of that is is uh I think something that needs to be said. You can see the fighters are now act uh using this tunnel um to access the uh to get position on the Israeli military um where they the the people that were hit would retreat to. So we see this the tunnels being used in Shijaya. The tunnels began in Shaya uh for the resistance. resistance tunnels. Uh the first tunnels were in Shajaya uh to hide Kasam fighters in the early days of the uh armed struggle in the 1980s. Um and this is where the fighter says if they desire to take our weapons, we'll take uh their soul. And this is another point because you'll see it in the uh in the ceasefire talks that um that the the Israelis proposed disarming Gaza. That is not even worth talking about. Even if they say that it was the commanders said to the fighters, "We're disarming." The fighters of Kasam and Sri could would not listen to their commanders. Um their commanders would not say that, but the the fight is not uh something that you can take away. This is a national liberation struggle. No commander would take their weapons away and if they did, they would be not listened to and there would be replaced. Um, so there's the uh thermabaric warhead that is fired at the Israeli position uh that killed two more in that uh operation. You can see the Israelis fleeing uh from that operation. Um and you can see them in their buildings here. These are EGO's units and Sarai is going to use rocket artillery here, 107 uh millimeter rocket artillery, and they're going to fire it at that uh troop position. So using um artillery rockets fired on a instead of on a trajectory firing straight at the uh Israeli position which is adapting with a shortage of weapons presumably um although it's a very effective weapon to use. Um and that was the thermabaric warhead that you see here. The sural kuds are saying that there's 20 soldiers holed up in that building that they are targeting. Um and they made a point of also here with small arms fire firing on uh the soldiers who are attempting to leave. So two killed, eight wounded at least in this operation. They're showing you the burning from the thermabaric warhead which creates a fuel air explosion and would create um that fire. So um and again the telltale sign uh the medevac helicopter dropping flares here um they say to be continued because there will be more from the resistance in Chaya as we see in this next video number 13. This is uh multiple EFPs set um uh by Saral Kuds. Um the fighter here says uh don't talk to us about their army, about their drones, about their fighter jets. It's all nothing. God is with us is what he says as he's planting these EFPs. Two EFPs that are going to be simultaneously detonated versus army vehicles that you can see here uh from uh the triangles dropping in here in the upper corner. You can see they're detonated. We watch them uh plant a pressure plate. So essentially when the vehicle drives over it, it puts enough weight on it, triggers the spark that lights the fuse and detonates the explosive. Um, so you don't need to have fighters uh right there to detonate them, which is also safer. And we see sural kuds using these uh often. You can see pieces flying off the tank there that they're showing you um in those red circles. So this is still in Shaya, still this week. Another uh tandem EFP operation against tanks. Um and there was 10 um 10 IED operations in Shijaya alone this week. Um this next one is a close quarters battle in Shijaya between the Kasam brigades and Israeli special forces. Um this also came along in a video that has two sniper operations that I'm not going to show because they don't show the sniper um and we can't show uh Israeli soldiers being hit. So, and they were hit. So, you can check out again on my X feed, which is simply uh an archive of these resistance operations. Um, that's all that's on there. So, uh you can see it there. Uh so, that was another uh soldier killed in that operation. And then this is in Tufa uh in the just outside the old city of Gaza, part of the old city of Gaza. And this is a Zazal uh 4. Essentially, it's called an earthquake. It's an EFP that U SL Kuds has um adapted and improved throughout the war. Here you're seeing them burying it here. Um and we see them, like I said, using more of these um adaptations. When we see Kasam, we're seeing them using all still appropriate weaponry. You can see the tank there uh that's going to go detonate this. Uh as you can see there from the second camera, the tank rolls over uh trips the uh pressure plate um and detonates the explosives. And these explosives are created like some of them are barrel bombs where you just fill up with you harvest the unexloded Israeli bomb. You put it into a barrel, you bury it, you set it with a pressure plate detonator um and you have a serious uh bomb. This one is an EFP which is even worse because it sends uh it sends the uh projectile dart which penetrates the armor of the tank. Another Casam operation in Tufa here. Um this is from July the 8th. You're going to see fighter uh thread the needle here with his Yasin 105 to hit a Merkova tank that's um uh can't see him because he's hidden in the destruction of of the Israeli attack. um these number of operations, these yes operations in Gaza City um this week uh numbered more than six. Uh so we're talking about daily operations even though the troops are only on the eastern edge of Tufa and Shu Jaya. Uh we have one more operation by SLuds in the Jibalia camp. We're moving further north with each of these operations out of Gaza City now and a bit further north. There you can see how they're using the propane tank. You can fill the propane tank up with Israeli with American and Israeli uh bomb uh explosives uh and then bury it. You're going to get a good shot here of how they uh set the pressure plate on this one. And this is an interesting footage because they also managed to capture uh Israeli um footage, CCTV footage um that they had up of their operation. And you're going to see u at the end of this um the uh the footage from the Israeli side, which we don't we don't see that all that often, but this captured footage. So, you can see how he's trying to set the pressure the pressure plate and bury it. He wants it to be the same size um as the hole so that it sits right on top of the device um and wires to the device. And then they bury it in. So, they fill it in here and then they move out of the way. And because they've been uh surveilling the area, they know that the D9 armored bulldozers are going to destroy everything in their path. So you can see here the D9 destroying uh tents that have been evacuated. Uh and the D9 drives right over that explosive that was set. Um if if the D9's weren't wantingly destroying tents uh after people have left them because they have evacuated um they wouldn't have tripped that one. Um this next one is a Cassam mixtape. They threw it together a mixtape and um we remember some all of these operations. Some of them I'm showing you uh on the show today. These are Stones of David operations. Um but we remember the the one in Bhanoon that you're going to see um coming up uh here where they flipped the jeep here. We remember that when the war resumed. This operation in Beth Hanoon uh was executed. So the Beth Hanoon battalion is still very much in play. Sniper operations that had to be edited. Again, you could find the unedited on my uh X feed for that. There was the tunnel operation. Here comes the uh shawad uh onto the into the cabin of the troop carrier that we broke down last week. If you didn't see that, go check out last week's show. Um and one more thing from Bed Hanoon. Um there we got leaked video here. This is thermal imaging of a night operation on Monday night local. Um, this is a still footage of an ambush that killed five Israeli soldiers at least and 14 wounded and caused total chaos. Um, we can't show the full video on uh this program, but you can see from the still that it's chaos. Um, and I just want to point out that this is um the place Beth Hanoon is the place where the war started at the end of October 2023 when the Israeli military went in. They went into Beth Hanoon first. um in about a month later, it was the first place the Israeli military told us they had operational control over and we scoffed at that at the time. Um and it's been uh proven to be ridiculous uh every time they say it since then, which has been uh roughly half a dozen times for Behanoon. Um they've been invaded repeatedly throughout the war. for its battalion commander Hassan Fiad Abu Hamza was said to be assassinated by the Israelis on May 24th, 2024. Israel celebrated it that they had killed the commander uh of the Beethanoon battalion that had caused so many fatalities of Israeli troops. The ceasefire happened in January and we saw people will remember footage of Abu Hamza walking around in Bethanon without a security entourage. uh he doesn't need uh any protection from the people. It's the opposite. We saw Abu Hamza, who's supposed to be dead, walking with a couple other people and greeting families that had come back to Behanoon. um greeting them and giving them condolences for their losses that um that had occurred during the uh that stage up to that point in the war, which is of course pretty embarrassing for the Israelis cuz they had already made one of their little kill sheets for him uh and said how successful a raid it was by their Yahalom tunnel unit that they had killed him in a tunnel. Um that was totally false. And we'll also remember that um that ceasefire that we're talking about came about uh on the heels of uh a couple dozen serious operations in Beth Hanoon that foiled the general's plan. The general's plan which was to ethnically cleanse all of northern Gaza. That plan went to die in Beth Hanoon. And the final operation before Israel said, "Okay, we'll accept a ceasefire." um was the one where we saw the Merkova tank uh had its turret blown off, tossed meters away from the hull of the tank which was flipped upside down um in a pretty spectacular show of defeating uh the Merk of a tank that Israel has so much uh pride behind. The ambush that happened on Monday night, the Israeli military talked about it. Uh they had sent two brigades in uh and they because they had bombed it so heavily before going in with artillery and air strikes that they believed that there was nobody there. Um forgetting of course that there's a massive tunnel network underneath Beethanoon that continually kills Israeli troops. Um but nevertheless the Nets Yahuda battalion um went in. The first ultra orthodox battalion in the IDF went in on foot and that's what we're seeing here. Two IEDs detonated simultaneously on the foot patrol um killing at least five and wounding 14 causing a chaotic scene. Um the uh IDF said that the area was significantly attacked from the air in the weeks before the operation to soften it up and that the two explosive devices were uh detonated precisely as the force passed through. The initial assessment said that that had been that device had been uh prepared in the previous 24 hours. So the fighters in Bethanoon are all over the Israeli military's movements. The first movement into Bethanon after um the January uh ceasefire. Um and you have this operation that Israeli media was calling the worst one of the worst operations since October 7th. Abu Ba who uh we note has been speaking a number of times before field reports. We haven't got the Beth Hanoon battalion field report operating from the tunnels as they are, but Abu Odeta said the other day that the complex Beth Hanoon operation is an additional blow delivered by our mighty fighters to the prestige of the frail Israeli occupation army and its most criminal units in the field that the occupation thought was safe after it had left no stone unturned. uh he's referring to the bombing campaigns. The battle of attrition of our that our fighters are waging with the enemy from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south will inflict additional losses every day. And it is recently succeeded in miraculously freeing its soldiers from hell. If it is, it may fail to do so later and additional prisoners will fall into our hands. Abu Oba suggesting they are going to attempt to capture more soldiers uh for the ones that they have right now in Gaza. The steadfastness of our people, Abu Obeda said, and the bravery of their courageous resistance fighters are exclusively what forge equations and shape the features of the next phase of this war. The most foolish decision Netanyahu can make can be to keep his forces inside the Gaza Strip. So that is Abu Oa speaking on the B Hanoon ambush. We will maybe see footage of that um in the coming week although like I said it was at night and night operations uh we don't generally see those on film but we do have that thermal uh imaging and uh I can do my best to try to make that to uh YouTube standards for next week's show if there is not another video. So that is the resistance report for day 643 of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. [Music]