Palestinian booby traps target Israeli troops in Rafah, with Jon Elmer

Let's start uh with with Rafa. We're going to start with Rafa. The Philadelphi Corridor uh is still the focus of Israeli operations in Rafa um and creating and expanding the Philadelphi Corridor. Uh Israel's looking to expand it to as much as a kilometer uh along the border with Egypt. And so a lot of their operations over the last week have been related to uh to that. So let's uh look at number one here because what the fighters in Rafa did this week uh was show us a series of booby trap ambushes a series of videos here. We can see a listening and uh camera gear here that the Israelis put into one of the tunnels um and the fighter shot at it. So we have in this example uh the Israelis going into the tunnel. The fighters here are dis- are showing how they wired it up. Um you can see they're disguising a television IED uh Qassam-built weapon there. He was hiding that. Um and now we're going to see them placing radia IEDs. You can see the two fighters here holding them. Um those are area blasts um that are anti-personnel. Um they aim at anti-personnel. And of course yeah we've seen this all throughout the war. They're using a a car backup camera to uh to monitor that operation. So that was the first um operation. This is a second uh booby trap here. We're watching uh the Israeli unit squad. They're going to come in here. Qassam counts them up to nine uh in this operation. But again, you can see in the way that the Israeli soldiers are moving here how they approach these houses and what it takes to uh carry out these booby trap operations. Um there's many layers to it because the uh the soldiers have to be lured into the area um where the weapon is. And you're going to see the the soldier here uh approach it and lift up the disguise that's hiding the IED. Um and it just didn't interesting that Rafa has been showing us these because the Israelis the Israeli military has been saying for weeks this is now three months on this Rafa operation. Um and the Israelis have been saying that there's more booby traps in Rafa than anywhere else and that might be uh related to the fact that the fighters have been able to watch everything that's happened in um elsewhere in Gaza but also it's part of the creation of the Philadelphia corridor. Israel's looking to demolish these houses. They're looking to find the tunnels the smuggling tunnels on the border into Egypt um and it's so it's put them uh in danger here. You're seeing the soldier here lift up the device there and it detonates uh on them. So that's uh the first operation. We go to number two Tamara is um a continuation of the series um the ambushes of death series part two. this is in Yibna uh in Rafa in central Rafa and fighters are luring an IDF unit here with a canine. They showed us the canine. Um and 10 soldiers here and the fighters in the audio of this you can see the soldiers coming through the mouse hole in the wall there. So the soldiers have blasted that hole in the wall and are using it to come in uh to this building believing that using not the door um uh allows them to move around the booby trap but as we're going to see here that is not the case. We'll watch them come in and the fighters are on on this recording saying they're counting them. They're counting each of them as they come through the hole. Five, six, seven, eight. Uh the one fighter says are you filming this? That's eight, nine. Um and Qassam said that they're filming these operations in particular these booby trap operations that don't normally lend themselves to filming very well. Um they're showing these in Rafa because Qassam says that Israel's been hiding its casualties. And when you see operations like this with no uh correlation in the casualty reports, now we see fighter Israeli soldier number seven entering, number eight's about to come through uh the tunnel uh the mouse hole uh that they've created in the wall here. And there's going to be 10 in total and a canine. Um you're going to watch the canine come into the screen here just as it's detonated. And the Jerusalem Post wrote about this um the other day and they said that this that there's been 30 canines uh combat dogs uh killed in the war uh so far. So, they've been playing, as we know, a brutal role attacking civilians um and killing civilians um as we know in multiple cases uh throughout Gaza. Um these dogs are the targets of these operations um as well. So, you can see them come uh all through the hole uh in the mouse hole there. Do you want to do number three tomorrow cuz this is one more booby trap. This is a booby trapped entrance in Al-Shaboura camp. Um you can see the fighters wiring it up here. Um again, we're seeing we're going to see repurposed uh car backup camera be used to record this. Um the fighters here, you can see them carrying these are Radia devices. That's a barrel bomb that could be filled with explosives, that is filled with explosives um likely filled with unexploded ordinance from previous um Israeli missiles that didn't detonate as we've shown. You can see them just using the tunnels consistently still uh under the houses um to set up these operations. And now you're going to watch the soldiers here enter. Um and the fighter says on camera, he says um they think nobody is here defending this territory. He He says to us, "Come watch as we wipe them out." Um so, these detailed uh booby traps have been happening in Rafa consistently, but this week Qassam wanted to show us those on footage. If we look at number four, you can see why these operations are are challenging. This is an Israeli drone and this has been a major major aspect and advance in this war is the tactical deployment of drones for both sides. But for the Israelis especially, constantly deploying these small drones and sending them into buildings to look for to to look what's in to see if the buildings are booby trapped, to see who's inside. Here they see a tunnel that's very obviously marked not hidden, but you can see just wanted to show you this video because you can see the way that the drones the drones have been deployed. And it adds an extra element to how to plan these booby trap operations when the Israelis are coming in like that. They also in Rafa in a field report, we didn't get a video from it, but we also saw the red arrow, the HJ-8, the Chinese anti-tank guided missile that we saw a few weeks ago be deployed for the first time in Rafa. In the field reports, they said it was deployed again against an Israeli armored vehicle. So that'll be interesting to see if there's footage of that, but we have seen that footage before. So they're using that weapon again, indicating that they have more rounds for that. 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