Israeli special forces hit by deadly ambush, with Jon Elmer

are watching and listening to the electronic defa. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report for day 615 of this war. As always, we're going to start with the maps. Get uh our grounding here. We are using these United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs maps because they show um the kill zones. Uh there's not really any better word for it than that. 82% of the Gaza Strip are within Israeli militarized zones under displacement orders um or have been completely evacuated um of its population like down in the south that you see in Rafa. Um you can see the push is happening in Conunus. Um and Israel is attempting to create three enclaves. Gaza City that you can see up there in the north uh where it says Gaza, that's Gaza City. uh Darabala in the middle camps area is going to be one and then uh the Moasi coast which is the sand dunes along the coast uh in front of the communist refugee camp which used to be the Gushkatif settlements um that uh are the three enclaves that that's what Israel's push is for. Again, we always um say that the these are Israel's plans. Um we've had many plans. We all remember back to the general's plan, which was to uh push everybody out of the north uh of Gaza. That didn't happen. The population didn't leave. The population has a vote. Uh the resistance has a vote. Um and they have thwarted these plans throughout the war. So, um we're just telling you what the Israelis are trying to do. We're not telling you the future. Um, but the way that they are pushing the population, uh, we'll show you some of the, uh, dispossession maps as we go through this report today. Um, the goal is to push them into those three areas because those three areas allow for the rest of the Gaza Strip to be completely destroyed. In the past 3 weeks alone, 10,000 buildings in Gaza have been destroyed. That is the purpose of this stage of the genocide. The Israeli military, as I've been pointing out week after week, is not uh framing this op this stage of the operation as an operation against the Cassam brigades to dismantle the Cassam brigades. They're talking about territory and they're talking about destruction. Um so they want to move forward from the buffer zones, which is the purple, um and they want to move into the orange, um and destroy from the uh outside in. And that's what they're doing. um a report came. So they've dismantled the education system. We've watched that happen. They dismantled the medical system. They dismantled the industrial base of the Gaza Strip. They dismantled the commercial base of the of the Gaza Strip. Um a report came out just the other day from Kent State University talking about the ecoside. Um talking about crop and vegetation destruction which is part of Gaza's sustainability. um indigenous sustainability under blockade. Now, this year 18 of the blockade, um this vegetation land is the land that feeds Gaza um through the blockade. And this Kent State report uh talks about vegetation damage of annual crops up to 98% tree crops 94% destroyed, brush land 98%, and grassland 98%. And that is when the Israelis are pushing in from the it's not a border from the fence uh that demarcates the ghetto of Gaza. Uh as Israel pushes through that territory, they're destroying all the farmland um that kept uh Gaza sustained. And actually just as a point on that, the Gushkatif settlement itself um looked like a uh suburb in the United States. And when the Israeli military left the Gaza Strip because of the resistance of the second inifat, these uh suburbs were turned into crop land. So from the mythology of the Zionists saying they made the desert bloom, what the Gaza Strip did actually is make their settlements bloom. Um and that area has of course been destroyed. uh all throughout the settlement areas that Israel left, all of that turned into crop land um for the sustainability of the Gaza population. So, by way of introduction to the resistance report, we uh like to frame this uh also just in terms of the destruction that's happening. Uh if we take a look at the next map, I think this is I showed you m this map last week. This is one of the we don't show these Israeli maps very often because they're normally lies. Um, but this one was actually pretty honest um because it shows the blue is what the Israeli military has uh taken, which is the buffer zone. You can clearly see that along uh all the edges of Gaza. If you look at the far left of the map on the border with Egypt, you can see that that's Rafa completely depopulated uh in the f last stage of the war. And you can see that dotted line. That's the Morag corridor that I told you about over a number of episodes. And you can see that they're pushing from the Morag corridor between Conunice and Rafa. Um they're pushing forward into Conunus, but you can see how much of Cunis um the military does not have. So those UN maps show the kill zones. Um but that does not match with military control. Um, and as we know, the Israelis um have been lying about operational control since the beginning uh of this war. But according to um military sources speaking to Channel 12 this week, the main goal of this stage of the operation is to turn Kunis into another version of Rafa, which was completely destroyed with no homes or even the remains of homes left after its complete and the complete o uh occupation of the Israelis. And that is what we are seeing um in in the effort to push through in communis. If we take a look at this next map, you can see this is from satellite map from Israeli um open- source intelligence. Um so if we start by following the purple line, it's all in Hebrew, but I'll explain this map to you. You follow the purple line from the top. That's the sea. Uh Egypt's on the left. You follow that purple line all the way down. You hit the green node. That's the Rafa crossing that was closed on May 7th, 2024, effectively isolating the Palestinians in Gaza. And then Karam Shalom crossing is down on the bottom. That new brown patch, if you move over to the right a bit, that is Yaser Abu Shabbab's uh gang's uh Israelibbacked enclave that he has set up under uh Israeli military opaces. And you can see where it's situated there. And his intention is to that's also Lutters Valley um not coincidentally Lutter's Valley because the trucks came in from Karam Shalom and his gangs would intercept the trucks take with forklifts uh take the aid um and jack up the price on the black market of aid with the help of the uh Israelis. Anytime security would interact with them um the Israelis would bomb the security. We've been watching this happen for uh virtually for the whole 20 months that this has been going on. Um but you can see his enclave in Rafa u that he has been uh telling people that they can move to that enclave if they pass through Israeli uh security checks. That hasn't happened yet. Uh but we'll keep our eyes on that. And then if you follow up from that brown uh across that line which is the MOAG corridor again you see the three blue uh nodes those are the aid distribution sites that Nora described in her news report um that are the deadliest places in Gaza for any Palestinian in Gaza are these aid distribution points. There's two in um Talis Sultan in the western end of Rafa and there's one just above the Morag corridor there. Um and you can also see that the yellow shading is satellite mapping of uh Israeli troop movements. So in the center there is Cunis. So you're looking at Conunus um and then up on the coast that is Moasi. So um giving you an idea of where the Israelis are at this point and the fact that these open- source guys um have put this uh that um Yaser Abu Shabbab's gang uh mercenary gang uh collaborator gang uh you can see where his spot is. Um we're going to go next. There's audio in this. I wanted to leave the audio in this operation. And this is a Yasine strike by the Cassam brigades in Kunis this week against a D9 armored bulldozer. You're going to watch this bulldozer working. You're going to hear that this is a battle scene um while they're working. The resistance is present within feet of the bulldozer and you can watch him uh the bulldozer destroy the famous date palms um of southern Gaza uh in this video that we will roll right now. Heat. Heat. [Applause] They don't miss. Uh they are very accurate with the Yasine 105 as we have been seeing all throughout this war. And that bulldozer got it. It's unclear if that's a man bulldozer. Um but you can see what they're doing. They're just destroying literally anything. These are uh makeshift homes. These are shacks in some cases um destroying the trees um destroying the wildlife of the growth the um the flora um all over all through this pushing forward from uh the edge of communis into uh into the center of communist. We'll see how far they get. Um, Harets reported this week that these um, operations, not this one, this is a military operation, but they uh, reported this week that the IDF's clearing operations in the buffer zone are being carried out by civilian contractors who demolish houses and are paid according to the number of houses they manage to take down each day. So that's from Harets on June 8th. Uh, they have a quota system where they're paid by the number of houses they destroy. So, genocide for uh peace meal payment. Um so, there's a number of operations in Conunus, almost 30 in the last week since you last saw me. 30 operations. Yesterday, there was two Israeli soldiers inside a tank hit by a Yasine 105 who were seriously wounded. Um and two others that were hit by a single uh according to the the Casam. The IDF field report said two soldiers were sniped in uh Kunis. The Kasam field report um says that it was a single sniper. So he might have we might have uh video coming up of the twin twin hits, one bullet, two soldiers. That's what it looks like based on the field reports uh out of conun this week. Um if we take a look at this next operation, this was a significant operation that the Israelis talked about all week in the media. Um it was in uh it was on Friday of last week in uh in Bani Saha in uh Kunis. This is an area where the Israeli military 14 months ago told us they had dismantled um the Casam uh battalion in the area. Um which we've been reporting all throughout this war is ridiculous. They the the term the um they call it combat effectiveness and they put the term at 70%. If you degrade uh the Cassam battalion by 30% down to 60 to 70% combat effectiveness, they say they defeated the brigade um the battalion, which is just clearly not the case. So um this was a significant IED operation that um had a lot of people talking in conun Friday morning because there was heavy gunfire. There was a lot of helicopters. There was helicopter gunships as cover for the medevac. Um, and this was a significant operation. The Israelis talked about it all week because the military is wanting them to the the troops to go slowly, to go carefully. They're not supposed to be battling Casam. They're supposed to be moving and destroying houses and taking territory. So, they're not they're trying to not fight with Kasam, according to Netanyahu, according to the chief of staff. Um, but this house was booby trapped. say uh the Maglin and uh Yahalom Special Forces um Commando Maglin Commando unit and Yahalom Special Forces Tunnel Engineering Unit uh got hit by a Kasam uh IED that uh vaporized the entire team. According to the mother uh who reported it, the Israelis spent many hours in communist trying to extract the bodies from the rubble. Um, and the mother here is testifying that she that they didn't ever find the body um of the soldiers that he was uh he was um named by or recognized by DNA uh after this operation. Um the Israeli uh army radio this week said eight soldiers were killed in the Gaza Strip. Um and that uh of the 18 soldiers that they have acknowledged, they don't acknowledge all their soldiers, some special forces soldiers are don't get acknowledged. Um we've seen this throughout the war. Um and the number of wounded was also um really underplayed this week. They don't match their field reports. Um but Harets ventured uh dozens were wounded this week and we could see that all throughout uh Gaza. Um of the 18 soldiers uh that have been killed. Uh 12 of them have been killed by IEDs. So these are set up in homes. Um and Abu Obeda spoke to this on Friday and he said in a message that our fighters continue to hurl the stones of David at Gideon's chariots. That's the name. Stones of David is the name of Kasam's operations right now and Gideon's chariots is the name of the IDF operation. Um so he said, "Our fighters Gideon's chariots, striking down the arrogance of the occupation until it is vanquished. With their heroism, they havecribed the triumph of the faithful and the oppressed under, sorry, over the arrogant and tyrannical. The losses inflicted upon the occupation today in Conunus and Jabalia are but a continuation of a series of precision operations, a model of what awaits the occupying forces wherever they step set foot in Gaza. Um, the enemy public has two choices. force their leadership to end this genocidal war or prepare to receive more of your sons in coffins. Netanyahu said uh a few minutes later that it was a sad and difficult day for Israel. The defense minister uh spoke up about the communist operation and said soldiers from our finest units were killed. Uh Harat said the dead and wounded were combatants in special elite reserve and conscript units specializing in operating behind enemy lines and in underground tunnels, magalan and yahalom units. And the IDF chief of staff came out on Friday ordering the tightening of operational procedures following the deadly uh operation in Bani Saha in Kununis emphasizing a key directive for all forces operating in Gaza. advance as slowly as necessary to ensure troop safety and to prevent further casualties. So, they're not trying to fight the resistance. They're just trying to destroy the Gaza Strip. And um previously they had told us through lies that they were destroying the resistance. We know that that is not true and now they're not even bothering to include that in their operational uh statements. So, let's move from Conunus where there was 30 operations in Conunus alone this week. Um, and let's go to Gaza City. This is the north. The map uh looking at the north again, that's just the downtown Gaza City is the only area not covered in this um shoot to kill order. And as Norah reported in her newscast, that doesn't mean that there's not air strikes in Gaza City, massacring people in school shelters um or in their tents that are set up cuz they were all week. Um if we look at the next map, you can see the um since 2023, you can see the eraser here of Gaza City from the far east to Shajaya and uh Zetun um right down to the coast and to the Talhawa and Braal neighborhoods. These are the commercial core, the downtown core of uh Gaza. Um this is uh basically completely erased down to the harbor. You can see the harbor there. And the harbor today is a tent city. Uh people are even out on the jetty uh in tents uh for the eraser of Gaza. We take a look at the next map is another one of these evacuation notices of the Shijaya neighborhood. Um you can see these are mass everything red has been given evacuation orders um pushing them into smaller and smaller areas. I keep these maps in here um for history cuz these maps are going to be in the genocide trials. Uh Israel believes that these maps give them plausible deniability for moving the civilian population. But um what they do is they show the scale by scale um um um genocide that is happening. Um let's take a look at number nine. This is a Sri Kuds operation. You can see these are United States provided anti-tank mines that Sri Kuds is using in a return to sender operation. Um the fighters are uh burying it. They are saying a Quranic verse that prepare your forces against them and the fighter says we are preparing our forces now. Uh and he said with the support of God we will succeed. Um there's gunfire all throughout this track but you can see that this Humvey is going to expose himself with the light. Um, and the uh fighters are going to trigger that IED that was buried in the road made up of Israeli anti-tank uh mines that are used to destroy houses. Um, when the uh vehicle passes over, you can see the light there. Uh, it's going to get hit by this uh IED made up of Israeli um mines that are used to do the destruction of from the maps that I just showed you. Uh there's also a Shijaya mortar operation this week uh that wounded two soldiers. Um and last week I told you about that ninja operation in Shijaya where the fighter came out from a tunnel through the alley, ambushed Israeli soldiers uh Israeli soldiers. He killed one and seriously wounded another and got back through the alleys down through the tunnel and returned to his base safely while there was helicopter gunships overhead escorting the troops and the troops didn't lay eyes on him. There had no field report for that, but the field report came a couple days later and the Kasam brigades took uh to claimed that operation unsurprisingly that they said after returning from their combat lines, fighters confirmed the elimination of two Israeli soldiers from point blank range on Al-Naz Street east of the Shujaya neighborhood. So even though that neighborhood is completely demolished, the resistance is still there fighting. And we've seen this before for operational security reasons that they are not releasing the field reports right away. Shay is one of those areas that they have been careful about the field reports and sometimes they come out uh days later. So moving a little further north um there was eight operations this week in um the Jabalia refugee camp uh a little further north from Gaza City. Um if we look at map 10A, we can see the evacuation uh here of the Jabalia camp um and Atara and the areas uh in the northwest uh pushing people down into that small enclave that is Gaza City. Um and if we take a look at the next the next uh slide is another return to sender operation in the Chibalia camp. these with 155 shells, these are the 155 mm shells that the Americans uh give to the Israelis. And you can see when these shells don't detonate, uh it's usually the reason why is the fuse breaks off. So these fighters are using plastic explosives here and rewiring these um these shells that rain down on Gaza by the hundreds of thousands. I report on the number of air strikes because the Israeli military tells us the number of air strikes. Um but the number of 155 shells that are fired into Gaza is measured in the hundreds of thousands. Um by the end of October into by the first ceasefire in November, they had fired more than a 100,000 of these shells. Uh so we're talking about like in five weeks um they rain these shells down on uh civilians in Gaza. These are provided by the Americans. Um, and you can see that's just one of four IEDs that is put uh prepared for this group. We can see we've blurred out these soldiers here to match with YouTube guidelines. Um, but these soldiers are uh appear to be moving into this building that we just saw that uh booby trap setup. Saral Kuds Islamic Jihad is showing us here which room in the building it is. and you'll see uh a very effective detonation of those American weapons that the Israelis leave behind. So, return to sender operations all through the theme uh of this week. The Israelis also reported on a drone operation in Jabalia. Uh at the end of last week, uh a Kasam drone dropped an explosive grenade on a fighting force in Jabalia uh in the Jibalia in in the city of Jabalia uh which is just south of Jibalia camp. Um, two IDF soldiers from the Nahalom unit and one Shabbach uh operative, intelligence operative uh were wounded, seriously wounded in that grenade drop. And there you see on the screen right now, you're seeing the pressure plate uh detonator that they are setting up uh to trigger. So once you put the weight down, uh the electric shock triggers um the wiring in the explosives. And these are uh explosively formed penetrators that are being buried here. So you're seeing the 155 shells being used. You're seeing explosively formed penetrators here being buried. Um so there's at least four different uh IEDs in this attack, which is explains uh going back to the Conunus attack why the destruction of the buildings is often so total um that the Israelis can't even find uh their soldiers. And Soldier Tom's mom said that he was vaporized in that operation. Um so this is uh these return to sender operations. Um there's no end to these because the amount of uh ordinance dropped on Gaza is providing the next generation of these resistance tools. We're seeing this from three different cameras from Saral Kuds showing us um this operation. And just all these videos, it's just look at the total destruction all through all of these videos. It's the theme that runs through them. The next one is another uh return to sender um with a with a EFP. This is what this is a sural Kud's version of the shawad um explosively formed penetrator. These are devastating weapons. Um that you can ask any soldier uh who served in Iraq about these uh weapons. They're devastating. And of course, you can ask any Israeli soldier as well cuz the shawath has devastated a number of tanks uh throughout this war. We've shown you these videos. So you can see these fighters moving uh the shad into place. And there's the pressure plate. And because there's so much destruction, he can just take this pressure plate and throw it in the middle of the road. Normally we see them bury it, but because there's so much destruction around there, he doesn't need to. And you see the EFP there right on the side of the road. So the pressure plate is on the road. Here comes the Nom troop carrier, which you can see the flag that was flying on it from the previous surveillance. He's going to drive over that pressure plate and detonate um the EFP. There was this is one of five qualitative operations in Baha uh this week. So, a number of operations carried on. Even though the Israelis are trying to avoid the resistance, they're getting it every time. And this next one, number 12. Um, this is interesting cuz we don't get this very often. This is uh the view from an Israeli camera. You can see the fighter there. Take the shawad. This is a Kasam fighter planting the shawad behind the back door of the tank. You're going to get another view of it. Um, but you can see him setting it there. This is from an Israeli camera. Um, this is from their camera. uh it was released this week uh through their channels. Um a devastating hit. We're going to give you another shot to see it. Here you see him run. That's the back door, the weakest point of the Merkova. Um and the area where the cabin is where there's uh infantry soldiers in the cabin. Uh and a devastating hit there. And then we have um cropped it just so you can see get a better shot uh of the closer up versions of it uh in these next two slides. So you see him there. You can see the Kasam fighter carrying the shawad. And you can see the distance he's putting it, optimal distance um from the door to allow the EFP, the explosively formed penetrator to fully form before it blasts through the door on top of the blast wave which goes into the cabin uh and rattles the cabin uh on top of the piercing metal dart that goes flying into the cabin. And then we can see here a more cropped vision. This is the same video just cropped so you can see the fighter close up here. Um, hand delivered. So, we've seen these throughout the war, but um, we usually see them from the helmet cam uh, from the headcam of the Kasam fighters that this is from the Israelis. Um, this was in they said it was in the northwest. I think this is in Jabalia camp. There was some claim that it was in uh, Baha, but they uh, they're beside each other. But I think that this is probably the um Jabalia uh camp battalion. So a pretty remarkable operation to see it from the Israeli camera there. Um not as good a camera as the Casam and Silkuds cameras. U but what you can see uh from the Isra you can see the Israelis sitting in this operations room watching this uh this video. So, another significant operation in uh Baha in the northwest of Gaza. In the next one, um you could see just wanted to bring you some PFLP Abu Ali Mustapa brigades still in the battle. Um they're in the battle every week. They're just firing off these uh rocket artillery. You can see on the sign there that it says um the the date June 7th and that's the Eid date. And so it says our Eid is resistance. Um, and you can see the date on it. And this was published the next day. So, you're still seeing the command and control. You're still seeing their communications functioning. And you still see these smaller groups still on the on the battlefield doing what they have done throughout the war, provide auxiliary operations, rocket artillery, uh, mortars, um, and they're staying in the battle um, still. So they haven't the Israelis uh haven't defeated even the smallest of the resistance groups and they are still uh on the front lines of this battle. This is in Baha. Um and you can see the that's the 107 millimeter rocket artillery fired at Israeli positions um just behind the uh their from their their rear positions. And you can see the next slide is um Sel Kuds firing the famous Casam rocket that you just saw there built in Gaza. This was these were the first weapons that the uh resistance had that could exit Gaza that could reach the settlements in Gaza in the uh at the turn of the century. Um and you can see them there. And these were fired at Ashcolon, which is of course significant because the um the previous uh the previous owners of the houses in the area of Ashcolon uh Majal are the refugees in Gaza. Many of the fighters or families are from uh that area. So it's always potent when they fire their rockets into uh Ashkalone, which is just uh north of the Gaza Strip. And I just wanted to bring you up to date with Yemen. Uh take a look at this uh video salute. Yahiasari and the Yemeni armed forces uh made a little sizzle reel here of all of a bunch of Saral Kud's operations. Um uh Yahasari says the Yemeni armed forces continue to follow closely the developments of the battle in Gaza and stand in reverence and respect for its sacrifices and its ste steadfast and free sons. And you can see the calligraphy in the bottom right there. The calligraphy says even if the entire world lets you down uh they will not is the implication. And they show here these are the uh Kasam and Sariah hugging during the prisoner exchange. Um that was the operation against Yaser Abu Shabbab's people. Um that's Sarah Kuds. That's um martyed leaders uh Yahinar um Hania and uh Rafa Salame from uh the Rafa brigade or communist brigade sorry um and these are the demos and um the demos Abdul Malikal Houthi spoke this week and said that there had been 1,060 demos in Yemen uh and he also pointed out that there was 11 ballistic missile attacks on Israel as part of its aerial blockade happened in just this past week. Just everything is just since you last saw me. U but I wanted to bring in the Yemen front cuz they are continuing to support uh the resistance in Gaza and they say uh even if the entire world lets you down, they will not. They will stick with uh Gaza until the siege is broken and the war is over. But the key is the siege is broken because they understand this conflict so well that they know that the siege is what has to break um for for Gaza to be free. So that is the resistance report for day 615. [Music]