Resistance announces capture operation in Jabaliya refugee camp tunnel, with Jon Elmer

so now this we're we're going to move a little further north now to the jabalia refugee camp because the jabalia refugee camp and if you haven't watched our program for the last two weeks um they were extended resistance shows and I did more than an hour on jabalia because the resistance in jabalia has been unbelievable the Battle of jabalia is the same again first inata began in jabalia not just began but was fought in uh in in jabalia um in all through the second andata jabalia was the heart of the fighting in fact after the Israelis said they were leaving the Gaza Strip their last operation was to besiege jabalia a 17-day war on jabalia that looked in many ways like the war we see today but localized just in a small spot they destroyed everything the interviews with people um say you know they say we had no phones no phones no power no water no food no medicine all the things we're hearing about now complet completely encircled by Israeli armored vehicles um in the 2004 Invasion um so this is the heart of the resistance and it and it always has been um with Shaya these are the two most trained most highly trained most effective uh cassam brigades uh brigades um battalions their battalions under their brigades um and so if you didn't see the last two weeks of this show I really uh I really hope you'll go back and watch watch the hour the two segments on jabalia you can find them on the YouTube channel uh very easily um and yeah so in the jabalia camp on Saturday night at midnight local time there was an announcement from the camre Gade spokesperson Abu obeda that said he was giving a speech in 15 minutes so he gave time for everyone to crowd around their televisions all over the Arab world all over Palestine um Le so in Gaza because there's a complete blackout from the north to the South um but he gave a he gave a statement let's throw that up tomorrow number 40 a complex operation carried out by our Fighters this Saturday afternoon in the north of the Gaza Strip it was in jabalia Camp where Fighters lured a Zionist Force into one of the tunnels in the jabalia refugee camp and Ambush them inside the tunnel and at its entrance so they were able by the grace and strength of God to engage with the members with the IDF members from this force from Point Blank Range the fighters then attacked the reinforcement force that rushed to the scene with explo that rushed to the scene with explosive devices and directly hit them as well the fighters withdrew after blowing up the tunnel used in this operation and all had inflicted casualties on all members of this Israeli force between killed wounded and captured and seized its military equipment captured so what we're hearing Abu obeda say for every day the enemy spends in its aggression on our people and our families will they will have to pay a high price but what we're hearing is Abu abeda telling the world and the latest of our three operations sorry is that looping a complex operation carried out by our Fighters this Saturday afternoon yeah where they lured the into a force so he came out on Saturday night at 12:30 and gave this speech um it was an audio message but people were all crowded around the TVs waiting to listen to it and all of a sudden uh there was just an enormous cheer broke out uh because this is the first time since October 7th that a soldier has been captured Israel has fought this whole War to avoid their soldiers being captured that's why they don't come out of their tanks until the very last moment that's why you never see dismounted soldiers walking alongside tanks covering territory the tanks drive them to the front door of a house they believe is safe and they move into that house um that's the closest you'll see you'll never see what you saw with the Americans in Iraq where you have infantry escorting the tanks and looking down the streets looking for snipers um so this was the first capture operation and S sent people um celebrating out into the streets um and if people think that the massacre in Rafa the next day is totally divorced from this military success um I I think you're missing a key point of the way Israel operates if you look at their history you can see it all through in the 2014 war in shua uh the Israelis moved into the Eastern edge of Gaza City and got smoked um they withdrew immediately they thought they lost they thought they had seven captured soldiers in that operation and they attacked like uh that in Shu and carried out Massacre of the type that until this war was the worst massacre that they had carried out in the last uh two decades against Palestinians of course massacres from 1948 um but um so then the next one let's go to the next one um here because so Kasam followed this up by showing a video and so we see here we're seeing cheze submachine guns 9mm submachine guns and then this says um to continued um to be continued because they're not going to instantly say who the captives are or how how many of them are captives but um we have edited this video um this video shows u a fighter in flipflops in the tunnel dragging a special forces Soldier um by his arms dragging his feet through the tunnel so it's clear they they have at least him and we're showing here kits from three soldiers um so the implication is that there is at least one possibly two um and if this guy wasn't dead um there could be as many as three um that were captured the IDF immediately came out even though it was 12:30 uh on a Saturday night they came out and said it's not true um that it happened but it's an interesting story because and I don't want to get too speculative here but um the Thursday before Thursday of last week two days before this operation um the Israelis posted the Israelis said that they found two of the uh they found two batches of captives which is the first time that they done that in this way where they believe they operated on intelligence and it's something that I've watched for this whole War because the signposts of marginal military success um are things like you'd see them fighting in tunnels you'd see weapons captured um not just one or two weapons you'd see a whole bunch of Yasin if you were over overrunning their bases cassam bases and crucially you would be getting intelligence from the fight you'd be getting field intelligence from overrunning the bases um you'd be getting field intelligence from the fighters that you're capturing that they're not um they're capturing innocent civilians who have no who don't know anything and don't give them and that's why eight months into this war Israel can't find its captives so this week on Thursday uh the IDF says that the the four that were located were in a tunnel in jabalia Camp in the same area where the bodies of another four were recovered a week earlier the IDF says that troops of the 75th armored Battalion killed a terror operative who was apparently a lookout over the area where the bodies were held so already dead bodies they killed one guard the soldiers then raided and captured the a short while later troops of the uh yahalom tunnel engineering unit and shinb units um and special forces of the uh America of the uh Israeli military intelligence directive entered the tunnel and located the bodies the bodies were extracted from the tunnel in a complex overnight operation the IDF says the locations of the bodies that were extracted were from intelligence obtained in recent Days by the milit Terry and shinbe we have not seen that throughout the entire War I read their reports every day every day their field reports so so they got Israel got one-of-a-kind intelligence where there was only one guard guarding these bodies they got these eight bodies and then 36 hours less than 36 hours later they're lured into a tunnel um and they're fighting fting in a tunnel that they didn't intend to fight in and have captured soldiers I don't want to speculate we'll follow this story um this was the first time and I had flagged that that what I just read you I had flagged that three days before the soldier capture operation I had flagged that as being unique we hadn't seen the Israelis use that kind of language which was is something that I've been looking for throughout the war to see if they're actually having success because if that's the case you'd get intelligence and you might find a batch of of captives four or five you might find them here or there they haven't done any of that they've only found civilian captives that were held by civilian families that were trying to um sell them um uh back to Israel and so had made Communications with Israel and then Israel vaded that place in Rafa a while back people may remember that there was two uh older people um in that that were rescued from from not from fighters from a civilian home um that were actually hostages um from civilians but we haven't seen them find any of their soldiers and that's um I think something that's important to note so let's go to number 46 because we're still in the jabalia refugee camp because jabalia has been fighting fiercely um for the last three weeks so number 46 um is Kasam versus uh so you can see the Kasam fighter through again the military through the rebar uh of someone's house here with a Yassin 105 he's going to hit a tank that's also pointing the tank Barrel at the at the shoot at the cameraman um in this shot this shot doesn't show us much except the proximity that the fighters are getting to because the cameraman is separate from the Yasin fire um and so that's significant and um if we go to number 48 after this rolls um we can see the fighters using the terrain here uh moving through these destroyed buildings that uh he's got an rpg7 here it's not a yene and he's got an 85 millimeter Warhead um which is not a tandem charge and he comes out this window and he looks and he sees a nomer Troop Carrier with a marava tank behind it he fires from an elevated firing position down on on to the tank and the uh single charge Warhead 85 mm is not as good as the a gine 105 it doesn't have the tandem charge but firing down on top of the top armor of the armored personnel carrier is what Kasam is trained that's one spot that they're trained um to hit on and again the fighter uses um actually it's a 70 mm I think I might have said it was an 85 mm it's a bit smaller than that it's a 70 mm anti-tank ground um and you can see them just using the alleys you can see them using the rubble of their Villages where they live um to move around going up the stairs instead of firing from the ground level getting an elevated firing position and just look out that window and look at the destruction they just completely destroyed the place the places are left standing but they're all trash if anything's left standing it's completely trashed um and that's the places that Palestinians are going to go back and live in they're going to go clean that up after this battle and the family will um will make do with what the situation is for the house let's do 45 tomorrow this is a an Al gou sniper attack here you can see the Kasam Fighter pulling it out of his bag you can see him set up here inside the window unlike the Israelis that stick their guns outside the window you can see the cameraman has a view of these dis mounted soldiers um standing in front of destroyed shops these are shops that are destroyed um oh that pause means we don't get to see the shot um again a great edit by tamarrow there um but unfortunately you don't see um you don't see the kill but it's clearly a kill he falls forward in a way that you do uh when you're hit and the Israelis have claimed five seriously wounded uh soldiers in these oper operations in they just say the north they don't say jabalia Camp um when they do it they just say the north so let's go to 47 here because this is actually interesting this is this is the AL moodi Brigade um of the alax and martyrs brigades there's a lot going on here so he's throwing water on the floor here not entirely sure there's a couple of theories about what he's doing to uh to pat down the dust that would people uh that the gunfire would put Dust In The Air I think more likely one is that there's actually blast residue um because these buildings have been bombed and he's worried that the muzzle flash will will trigger the blast residue that's in the dust um so not just the dust itself um but look at him here he's wearing a tanker's helmet he's wearing a tank crew helmet what appears to be an IDF tank crew helmet you can see it there under his uh yellow um headband so the this this s this and this is an alax of Martyrs Brigade sniper they don't have this weapon they haven't used this weapon all war um and then we have this guy show up who's wearing uh apparently an IDF helmet we'll have to ask him about that um he's using here a rangefinder scope secondary to calculate um you know the distance the height you got to calculate the height the distance he's doing it for the sun he's correcting for the sun um you know for wind for Gravity for the drag um just doing ballistics calculations to see this Soldier here he's gotten his his he's got a cover over his scope here so that the sun doesn't flash off the scope and give up his position um and then he's going to fire and I can I can tell you this one you can watch it also on my Twitter um this that one is straight through the shoulder blades of that Soldier um with a weapon that you don't survive that shot with um and so really interesting let's do it one more time tomorrow because there's so many elements of this one so look at his helmet he's wearing a tanker helmet first time we've seen that um is C presumably a captured uh tanker helmet um he's using his Rangefinder separately here and making his calculations Kasam doesn't show us this part uh of the fight sods has shown us it um and likely it's a sar lud's weapon um that he's using it could be an Al goul but it looked like a Sayad 50 50 cal um it's not easy to tell them apart uh all the time without being able to see the markings um on the side they're they're virtually identical weapons one has a a bit bigger of a barrel um and one can chamber uh 14.5 millimeter instead of the 12.7 so a lot going on in that video that we're going to have to ask him about but that's the first alaxa martyr brigades video um that we have seen from their Fighters and there's just a couple more here uh sniper attack thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm and it helps us to get around Silicon Valley censorship as much as possible it does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you