First look at resistance fighting inside tunnels, with Jon Elmer

while all of this uh Carnage is going on of course Israel's uh objective is to attack civilians and to attack hospitals and schools um and their military objectives are very very thin and I think we're going to see in this next uh half an hour of videos uh what that looks like on the ground and um just to say I I organize these videos all of these videos have happened since you last saw us um I'm not picking the best of the entire War this is what's happened in the days since we last saw you and also they're organized by location um in part because that's how the cassam brigades fight they're broken down like a military order um into Regional battalions and those battalions fight um uh on their Terrain in their areas in the areas that they know um and so I think just for the historical record it's important to say that we we're following each of these battalions in their battles uh in the defense of Gaza so um maybe if you want to just show the map tomorrow we we've we talked about a lot of places um we've talked about a lot of places uh location places in this tiny little place uh of Gaza 25 miles long um we're going to start in the north b hanoon b lahia that you can see up at the top of the map I'll just go through the map quickly for people who aren't uh as familiar with the terrain so you have the North B lahia and B hanon um then you see that darkened area that's all Gaza City and there's fighting and battalions all throughout Gaza City shik radwan and tufa and Shaya um and then you see that open space that open space is the Farmland um that Ali talked about there's Farmland along the Eastern Edge um in the middle camps you see bur there in the builtup area where you see the dark in the middle of the map right in the skinny Center um that's the middle camps that Haider was talking about those are the the middle refugee camps and because of the way that Israel has set up uh their occupation of the Gaza Strip since the 1950s it was to cut these areas off and so what they're doing right now is uh basically a battle plan that has existed in Israel for more than 70 years when we saw that grid map uh of where the areas they're telling people to live uh to move that aren't safe areas those are actually maps that Ariel Chiron used in the 1970s um to police Gaza um you can see in the South there K Yunis um what Haider was talking about about K Yunis is that gush was the settlement that you can see all along the coast there so con Yunis an entire generation two generations of people grew up in con Yunis looking at the sea but never able to access it because of the settlements um and that's the reality of the Gaza Strip so we're going to start in the north here with these first videos tomorrow we're going to just show people um because the battle in the north Israel says the battle in the north is over um they say that uh they've dismantled Kasam as a military framework which is clearly just an absurd claim because what we're watching here is Fighters literally on the next block uh observing Israeli soldiers on the ground in the Northwest um the Fighters clearly still have command and control in this area and in the next part of this clip you're going to see them um they're attacking that ground force there um within one block so we're talking Street by Street um fighting in this shot we're gonna Kasam is going to take us first person as if we're there through the streets uh of b lahia um and you can see that the the Fighting Force still exists you can see them here signaling to each other professional fighters disciplined Fighters we're not even into the Guerilla part of the army uh at this point we're seeing well-trained Fighters um creeping up here um you're going to see a tank around this corner um and he's calling and signaling to the fighters because the fighters have control of these streets um although there's drones in the air um and tanks on the ground the Israelis have nothing like control in this area um and so you're going to witness here um an ambush of this tank where we have the spotter the shooter and the cameraman all being able to deploy to the same operation and as we've seen these information operations having these camera Crews operating on the ground with the fighters has given us a unique view into this fight but as abua and Abu Hamza the saral coulds spokesperson have said obviously these what we're seeing on video is not all of the operations all of the units don't have cameramen embedded with them um but we can see here um again able to use the houses able to use the destroyed buildings um to Target the armored vehicles in the north and showing us uh evidence of the burning vehicles um from these strikes um and this is the north where where Israel says they've dismantled Kasam as a military framework whatever that means and that they fighting pockets of resistance now so they're trying to wrap up this war um with no military objectives achieved um and and that's that's in the north and now we move on to the next one um tomorrow number two here this is a tunnel Ambush um we know that they have hundreds of Kasam has hundreds of kilometers of tunnels that have to be uh combed and we've heard the false story about them flooding it with water we haven't heard anything about that in a month since they told us this story but what we're looking here is we're looking at it a CCTV camera footage of watching uh the Israeli Special Forces Unit this is a yahalom unit an anti- tunnels unit and we're watching somebody here watching on a CCTV camera talking to Fighters above ground preparing the Ambush here um you can see the dogs moving through the dog is part of the Special Forces dog and the guy in the CCTV is controlling by telephone Fighters above and below ground he's saying they're coming they're coming and they're setting this Ambush properly above the ground there's still Fighters above the ground what we're watching here and Fighters below ground so there's fighters in three different places here you're watching on CCTV above ground and below ground now we're watching from inside the tunnel the Commander's able to watch them dangle this camera down down to try to see if they can go into this tunnel yesterday in the New York Times um the Israeli and American intelligence officials revised the amount of kilometers of tunnels that they believe they've been saying that there's 500 kilometers of tunnels and yesterday they're saying there's now 725 so they've added 50% of the tunnels um and what we're seeing here is this Commander on CCTV footage control telling his Fighters where to go to set off an ambush in a tunnel and this is just a small uh sampling of what would have let's watch it around again so we see the Drone come in with the Infantry unit the Drone is checking out to see if they can see anything but because that's an Israeli drone Israeli drone yeah so they can see the Israelis are coming in and seeing that they can't see anybody because they're being watched on CCTV footage with a closed line um a commander uh commanding his troops who are both above and below ground so the drones giving them footage outside to say that nobody's there he says leave the water tank lid open he's setting up the cam he says set up the camouflage create it like there's the like the lid is showing a bit they're trying to get the the exact luring of the troops and they're saying now they've entered the room now go downstairs so the fighters are upstairs at that moment and the command ER on the CCTV footage is telling them okay move out of the room now the soldiers are coming so now they move from the above level to the fighters on the below ground level and we're going to pause it here with three six eight soldiers that they're showing right there that are going to be a part of this tunnel operation um this is them scoping out the tunnel that's an Israeli camera coming down the Israeli camera coming down being seen by the Palestinian camera um and he's saying so leave there's still people above ground at this point they're that's the the flashlight of the Israeli troops coming over to see if they can go down in this tunnel um and the commander above the commander above says deal with them do it and you see the fighters emerge from the tunnel and this is I believe what we're seeing here is the first time we have seen in this three plus month War shots in Anger fired underground um so you're meeting the Ambush under the ground and then detonating the tunnel and this kind of an operation gives you first of all the understanding that the command and control of this group is clearly uh not collapsed whatever the opposite of that is is having people at three different locations uh plotting your uh tunnel Ambush um and you can see that no matter how much the Israelis spend on their gear on their drones no matter how many forces they're sending into these areas basically Kasam with the most basic tools a CCTV footage a commander watching on a computer screen is organizing his what that do you think that Commander is above ground or underground John he's in a third location I he's in a third location so I don't even know if he's on he doesn't have to be on site there as long as he's getting that video feed we could be seeing something here where he has multiple video feeds um and then they're communicating clearly communicating on a closed telephone line so as these Soldiers with all their jamming equipment and all their technology are coming in the Palestinians are literally on the telephone command look at you can see the line there on his hand they're literally on the telephone commanding their forces above ground and below ground to carry out this Ambush and this kind of FO thing didn't get rid of their landlines then like the rest of us yeah well they closed their landlines and then the Israelis have tried for a decade to get into this system and maybe there'll be more time on other shows to talk about a couple of those raids were spectacular Counter Intelligence operations by the cassam brigades to prevent the Israelis from planting bugs in this closed Network and so we've seen the fruits of that throughout this war we saw that footage from shua where we had the fight ERS coordinating multiple sides of the Ambush on the telephone um so this closed line is above and below ground and clearly being used to great effect whatever the opposite of collapsing your command and control John is question for you at the end of that clip you see the you see the guys going down the tunnel and they're firing those are the Palestinian Fighters and then they presumably go back and then you see smoke or dust coming in the tunnel which suggests there was an explosion uh that presumably the Palestinians set off previously you talked about the dangers of underground combat particularly setting off an explosion in the context of a narrow underground tunnel where oxygen is limited where probably the effects of it explosion would be Amplified because basically you're like in a gun barrel what what what are we seeing there how could how is it possible to set up explosions in tunnels and only harm the Israelis and not harm the resistance Fighters I mean what can you tell us about that yeah I mean sub size of the explosion whether you're carrying out a catastrophic tunnel collapse operation or just blowing up that one entrance but like I said this is the first time that I believe that we've seen shots in Anger underground because even your guns the Acoustics of the guns are crazy um everything that you know above ground doesn't work underground so all of their systems don't work um and that's why these yahalom units have been training to try to do this kind of operation and if we were seeing um Israeli military successes we would see footage like this every day because there's hundreds of kilometers of these tunnels and their own people are in these tunnels so presumably um they're attempting to find their people in these tunnels and we haven't seen anything at all like that this is the first one and I'm showing you this one because it's the first one that we've seen uh of this way some of the ways that they can detonate we know that they use a door system that their doors are very important part of the structure of the tunnels um so we saw in that footage just from that that was a CCTV camera footage underground and we could see the fighters advance and then withdraw so it's possible they're withdrawing back back behind a door and then closing that door to seal off the blast um and that's something that they can do all throughout the network because as the Israeli captives who were released told us the the the network is a spider web um it's not straight lines it's not a grid um and so they're able to close off these whole sectors by closing these steel doors which are also blast proof doors which help keep the structure against these air strikes from above which is also why the air strikes from above don't destroy this tunnel Network the Israelis know that they said that before the war that there's no way you can get at these tunnels that um we know that are as as deep as 80 and 100 meters it's not even close to being affected by what's happening on the surface so that detailed tunnel operation that we saw being coordinated from three different places is taking place somewhere that Israel is saying uh Kasam has been dismantled completely absurd uh CL 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