Deadly Iranian missiles strike US barracks, with Jon Elmer

You are watching and listening to the Electronic Intifada. I am John Elmer. This is the resistance report on day 1,021 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, day 146 of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Um we'll start with the maps, but as always, I'm reporting this on the afternoon of Thursday, July the 23rd. Here's the map of everything uh that we're going to be seeing today. We have two blockades now, blockade of the Strait of Hormuz choke point and the Bab-el-Mandeb uh into the Red Sea choke point by uh the Yemeni armed forces. You can follow the Red Sea up there into the Suez Canal and into uh southern Israel. Um we will get to Yemen after um but let's look at this next map because we're going to start this week in Jordan. Um and here's a map of the site of the 17 uh principal bases that have been battered throughout this um these last particularly these last two and a half weeks. The Americans are bragging about 12 straight nights of attacks. The Iranians respond to each and every one of those attacks. Um and you can see the bases. So, Jordan uh right underneath the O of the of Jordan there is Muwaffaq al-Salti. That is an airbase, key strategic airbase that the United States has been using both as a shield for Israel, but also to project uh over to Iran for this war. And I started tracking this base before the war even started because um we were seeing the build-up on that base. There wasn't enough room on the tarmacs for on the aprons for all of the American fighter jets that had been taken uh to Muwaffaq al-Salti airbase. So, um we're going to start with that today. Um and the first video is going to have audio in, and I just want to warn you that the sound is loud. We're going to watch a ballistic missile land at Muwaffaq al-Salti. So, if you have your headphones on, be uh be prepared for what it sounds like inside a US military base when an Iranian missile hits you. So, that is the chaos after a Friday strike at Muwaffaq al-Salti. It was one of a number of strikes on that base. The US admitted that uh three people were killed, although they did it in a very odd way, saying two people had been killed and one person was missing. And that missing person only was identified yesterday, 5 days after the attack. So, um that gives you a sense of the carnage, I believe. Uh that's the only way you can confuse uh persons and body parts. The roll call didn't show someone was there, then you know the person that's missing. Uh if somebody's in the infirmary without body parts, then you know uh you know, the so the the fact that they didn't know if it was body parts or a person um until uh yesterday is really telling about the chaos of that strike that the Americans are just simply lying about. Um although they were pressured after those first deaths, because that's when the American media immediately wakes up and says like, "Oh, no. Uh soldiers have been killed, so therefore we have to pay attention to casualties." Um the US has been hiding these casualties throughout the war in a way um and lying in a way that I think makes the Israelis even blush um with the way that they have been doing it. Um although the Pentagon admitted that there's been at least 100 casualties since um since July 7th, which is when the ceasefire crumbled. Um let's take a look at one of those strikes uh at So, you see these These are strikes recorded by American soldiers. And this is really the only way we can get this kind of footage. I know a lot of people ask why can we see on the ground footage? Well, this week we have on the ground footage. This next one has audio in as well. So, that's taken from outside the wire. You can see they're on the other side of the fence. But watch this one here coming in. And you can tell that it's coming for them because of the trajectory of it. You see how it seems like it came from the bottom. So, these are very significant strikes. And the warhead on these weapons is comparable to the warheads that the Israelis and the Americans dropped themselves. The Mark 82, Mark 83, Mark 84, 2,000-lb bomb, 1,000-lb bombs. The warheads on these Iranian missiles are comparable to those. And you can hear that just in the thunder after the strike and the way that that fills the area. So, this gives you an idea, when we're showing these the launches of these missiles, what it looks like on the receiving end. And we appeal to American soldiers to send us more videos of what it's like on the inside. Because obviously, the people that are in charge are taking the lives of these soldiers um not very seriously. And that they are wounded and don't seem to be counting them doesn't seem to be relevant. Um so maybe we uh will we can get more of these videos from American soldiers sending out what's actually happening because their government and their military is lying about it. Let's take a look at number six cuz you can see the damage on these bases. We're starting to get this kind of damage report. Again, this is the sore Atlas that I've been telling you about over the last few weeks. Because of the way that the Atlas operates with layers, each map is They're calling it 3D because each map is layered and you can add layers to the map and that has made this censorship that the United States is going for fail because we're we're able to use these maps um to uh to build out what is different in each um in each satellite image and track it to its location as you can see here clearly. We're looking this week particularly at the targeting of barracks. Soldiers' barracks were the target this week. Soldiers' barracks and hangars. And again, these are now what we saw in the early weeks of taking out all the radars, the um the significant long-range radars. Um this week we're seeing that as well, but we're also seeing bases being targeted. Now, base housing, which you see in the bottom left corner, being targeted. You're seeing the aprons of hangars being targeted, which means you're hitting planes, you're hitting drones. Um so this is a significant escalation by the Iranians and it's a part of the degradation of the missile defense array that the Americans and the Israelis have. That's been picked off and you saw you know, saw a report here there. I've been reporting on it every week uh of the taking out of these radars. These radars are significant. They're long-range radars that make massive uh gaps in the missile defense array and that is what's going to lead to these strikes um hitting more often. We can look at the next one. Um number seven here. You can see these are the um the airplane hangars here and out on the uh apron. The apron is just the name for the the parking area that you see in front of those um shelters. If we look at the next slide, you can see um direct hits on those and you can also see if you look in the left side of the screen, you can see two MQ-9 Reaper drones and they're parked generally parked straight and you can see that anytime you look at the satellite images. And so those have been blown off their squares. Um they're presumably, for sure the one on the right is done. What the status of the one on the left is, they're getting these Reaper drones in the air with air defense systems and they're getting them on the ground um and this the number of these um destroyed MQ-9 Reaper drones is significant. The Americans are trying to buy back a bunch that they sold to other countries because um they're just losing them in battle. Um [snorts] let's take a look at the next slide here that could show the same thing. Um with a bit of movement, so you can see the eraser of that hangar. So maybe that hangar is empty. Maybe they're all empty and we can do that through this entire uh show. Maybe all of these bases uh that are being hit uh maybe there's no soldiers on them, but that's just not the case because all of these bases are protected by air defense crews at the most skeletal um uh uh posture that they have is their air defense crews are still on these bases. They use these shelters for their um for their air assets. So um I think you don't need to really use your imagination to imagine what is inside of those uh and what is being destroyed. Let's take a look at number 11 cuz this is really the key for this week. This is base housing. This is the barracks that the soldiers are on and we're looking here at about 36 uh containerized uh living units they call them. Um they're just basically portables at go trailers that the troops are in and you can see in the next slide they're basically uh about 26 of the 38 are destroyed here and the other ones I mean you'd have to be on the ground but the ones on the edges look like they're destroyed too. But the ones in the middle are completely destroyed were they totally empty completely empty of soldiers or are these the 100 casualties that they're talking about it's still not clear and the Americans are making it not clear because they're losing the war and like the Israelis did in Gaza they believed that if they hid the number of true casualties or or release them slowly release them after the fact that it would kind of blunt the the sharp focus on casualties and whether that means you're winning or losing the war. Let's take a look at 13. This is what the actual housing looks like. This is from the US from a US base in Germany. And they're the exact same trailers right at go trailers one by one one after another and each room there's soldiers barracks bunks. That's where the soldiers are that's where they are when they're not on post on station. So just wanted you to see what it actually looks like. One soldier from Muafaq al-Salti he spoke to the Washington Post the other day and he said that he had previously deployed to Muafaq al-Salti and he said that in early March during an exchange an intensive ex- sorry during an intense exchange of missile strikes between the US and Iran a direct hit on the hardened barracks at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait the US Army facility in Kuwait broke through the layers of protection destroying about half of the structure the soldier said similar heavy destruction has occurred at US military facilities across the region he said. So now we're getting soldiers as the ones who are telling us the story. And his his pull quote here is, "We're getting beat up across the board. All of the bases across the Middle East are being hit. The soldiers know it, obviously." You could hear at the end of that first video that I showed you, you could hear the the chaos of the soldiers trying to find out who's alive or not on those strikes. So, Muafaq al-Salti in Jordan hitting these uh base housing, a significant escalation by Iran, tactical escalation. Um these bases are being destroyed, and now the places where the soldiers are are being destroyed. And on these bases that are not near cities, um the soldiers stay on the base. Um in the cities, in the more urban areas where there bases, we know because they US told us um that they moved the soldiers from these kind of containerized housing units on base off the base use human shields in the cities to put them in hotels behind civilians, um hoping that they wouldn't be targeted behind civilians. So, uh that just gives you a little wrap of Muafaq al-Salti. Let's take a look at the maps again that we're more familiar with from the Strait of Hormuz. Again, the Strait of Hormuz is an issue this week. Um the numbers are way down uh through the strait, and there have been a number of statements this week about the danger of traveling through the southern route through the Omani waters, that is the US uh route. And the IRGC said uh in one example, said, "A few hours ago, two oil tankers deceived by American intelligence agencies attempted to pass through a minefield south of the Strait of Hormuz and exploded, resulting in a large fire. The IRGC Navy declares with certainty that the Strait of Hormuz is extremely unsafe due to the crimes of the American child-killing army, and it is completely closed. The strait is completely closed. Until the aggressions of the criminal America cease, it is impossible to export even a single drop of chemical fertilizers, of oil, or of gas from this region. So, and again, the US route on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of last week, zero crossings. Um, so they uh the the stra Iran has the ability to block the strait. If you want to go through the Iranian route, you can exit through the strait uh as normal, but the US is uh prohibiting their allies from doing that. And you can see on this map all of the countries impacted by it. UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait's up at the top, Saudi uh as well. Uh greatly impacted by this. This is where 35% of the world's seaborn oil crosses through the Strait of Hormuz. And when we get a little later into the show, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait that is also closed, closing both choke points uh and sending ships around Africa. Let's take a look at number 15. Um, people like these uh from space photographs. Again, this is another astronaut photograph, gives you an idea of the uh concentration of population along the desert along the coast of the Persian Gulf in from the desert. And you can see uh the distance uh for Iran to target each of these countries. I say it every week, but it's the key element of this war and it can go on forever because they are short-range attacks. They're highly precise and when they're executed attacks executed from a distance this short, missile defense is not um as capable as it is uh with longer distances to prepare. Let's take a look at 16. This is the Strait of Hormuz from a different angle that you're seeing here. That on the upper right is the Iranian coast. Again, you can see the mountains. Uh they have every military asset. I talked about that a couple shows ago. Uh every military asset from the geographic from the top topographical uh realities of the straight. But, you can see how tiny um the Strait of Hormuz is and it's shallow water as we saw in that previous map. Let's take a look at 17 cuz this is a psychological operations uh that the uh IRGC put out. This is the um Marine [clears throat] Expeditionary Unit, the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit uh along uh on board the USS Tripoli, which is an amphibious assault machine that assault ship that just actually fled from the battle space uh after this photo was taken. Uh and they docked yesterday in Japan. So, the Marine Expeditionary Unit that was going to raid all these islands and uh was going to go get the nuclear dust as the president calls it. Um they are now docked in Japan. But, the Iranians wanted the US to know that the Marine Expeditionary Unit ground troops were uh under surveillance. The uh IRGC Navy said, "The movements and equipment of the American terrorist army are under surveillance of naval units of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Americans are getting closer to the zero hour for operations against CENTCOM naval units in regional waters. Just wait." That was the statement from the IRGC. Let's take a look at the next map cuz we're going to go for some missile strikes here and I just wanted to bring up these core uh bases in these uh core four countries that you're looking at here. Um and this is the United States security architecture that was established. I mean, it began to be established in the First Gulf War in 1991, but really this is a um a product of the um the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the uh the so-called global war on terror. Uh and these bases have all been battered uh from the first days of the war and we know from from when we did have satellite imagery when the US before the US censored commercial satellite imagery, we know that destruction on these bases is significant. And these are the targets that you're going to see in these next series of operations. We can go to number 19. This is launch from just the day before yesterday. These are Khaibar Shekan medium-range ballistic missiles Fatah 110 short-range solid fuel ballistic missiles. Like I said, you can always tell the solid fuel by that white >> [snorts] >> opaque and lasting exhaust that we see there. And the difference between the solid fuel and a liquid fuel is its readiness. The solid fuel can be launched without being filled. It could be um And there you see a liquid one. You can see the clear difference there in the at the gutter there. Um and then back again to solid fuel. So the solid fuels are easier to store, they're safe to store, they can store them underground. That's a Shahed Shahed 136 drone that you can see again drone swarms being set up. These are called waves. Um and like I said on last show, a wave is not equal to a salvo. A wave is a series of operations sometimes spread out over hours, sometimes coordinated all at once. Um but the terminology that they're using is waves. Um but these are not A wave is not an individual salvo. It is a series of salvos as you see here with the multiple launch systems that we are watching. And And note, we're going to see that this week in particular. I'll show you on the next one. Let's go to 20. Um cuz you can see the same thing. This is again solid fuel. Uh and then you're going to see an Emad um which has a heavy warhead like a comparable to a Mark 84 2,000 lb bomb that uh uh dropped on civilians in Gaza every day uh for the last 1,200 uh 1,021 days. Um >> so you can see the uh both the stores, the stockpiles, the readiness, all of that all those numbers that we were told, they're all a lie. They're all not true and we're seeing now uh that that these weapons can be deployed from all over. Um these can be deployed by road mobile trucks. They could be truck launched. But you see how they're blurring? Um they've started to blur the launch method of all of these. So we can't tell if they're silos um or if they're truck launched and that's interesting. See there you see a liquid fuel again. It's very clear the difference between the two and liquid fuel is problematic. You have to fill it up. Um you have to take crews have to go out and fill it up on the launch pad which takes time. It's dangerous and you can't store them. You can't store them underground with liquid fuel um because they corrode and they can explode. So solid fuel is um battle ready and that is what we're seeing in these rounds. Presumably many fired from silos that were dug out um during the period of pause. Let's take a look at the next slide. It's just one of those Fateh-110s uh to show you and there's a series of this rocket of this missile uh the Zulfiqar um at the Fateh-110 and the Fateh-3 uh 313 is shorter range that they use uh on shorter range operations. Um let's take a look at number 22. Um this week the Americans were trying to tell uh the Washington Post that of 8,500 drones and missiles that have been fired at the region, the American an American source who obviously wouldn't put his name on record because it's pretty embarrassing. Uh he said that 8,400 out of 8,500 uh missiles have been detected. I I mean, there's a little wiggle room in the language that they use, but to claim a 98.8 interception rate on maneuverable re-entry vehicle missiles is absurd. Even the Israelis were talking 65% on those missiles even by their most advanced air defense system. So, the Americans are just telling outrageous lies as if nobody they think nobody understands what they're talking about. So, Let's look at Let's take a look at 23. Are we at 23? Yeah, this is some Shahed 136 drone launches. You can see they're rocket boosted, so they're fired off a simple rail as you see there. Very easy to set up, takes 2 minutes. Um it's got a rocket booster that fires it up to speed. You can see that once it gets once the rocket booster is expended, it's dropped um to get rid of its excess weight um and for the long-term flights. I mean, these these could these drones can target Israel. They have 2,000 km plus range depending on how they're structured. Um and the they're highly precise. They're uh they are satellite tracked and they're very precise. We can see in the next slide that um the Iranians are release are using now these matte black ones that um are newer models. So, we're seeing newer models. And that was something the Iranians said. They were said they were firing their old stuff in the early part of the war. Um these Shahed 136s, the black matte is better for night flight and it indicates a more recent batch that is being manufactured. Again, lied. The Americans destroyed the manufacturing base. Um It's a lie. Let's look at 25. Got a couple more launches here, uh targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan with these ballistic missiles. These were waves 17 through 20 that happened this week. They are now up to wave 26, so multiple in a day. And many dozens in a single You're going to see here half a dozen just launch simultaneously there of the Fattah 110s. And the Fattah 110s carry a heavy warhead as well for their size. There you see a good shot of it going into space. Let's take a look at 27. Oh, that's the missile. I just wanted to give you guys a good shot of what it looked like cuz it's always flying. But there's a good Fattah 110 shot as well. Could be a Khaibar Shekan. Tough to tell with the size, but same same type, same family of missiles. There's three types, three different sizes, four different sizes of them. Let's take a look at 27. This is the Arash 2 drone. This is the army the Iranian army Arash. This is their primary weapon. You can see it's also rocket-boosted. It's going to drop that rocket booster once it gets up to speed. The Arash 2 has a 2,000-km range and also a heavy warhead, 150-kilo warhead. And these were designed for long-range attacks. I.e., they were designed to strike Israel. They can easily strike all of the countries that are far closer than Israel. And we'll see that in this next series. I stuck together the week's worth of Arash drone operations. And these are them launching all throughout the week. They're up to now 25 stages. They're calling them stages for the army. And they're a little bit smaller than a Wave. The IRGC Wave is much larger than the Artes stages, but it gives you a sense of how both the militaries are operating together. And in their field reports on these, they're very specific about what's being targeted. Um, Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, a parking area for helicopters was targeted. A building housing forces in the US terrorist army at Ali Al Salem base in Kuwait was hit with attack drones. And then they describe what they are. The Arifjan base is one of the largest centers of deployment of the US forces and headquarters of the US ground force in Southwest Asia. Uh, the base is where the US Navy and Air Force helicopters, including attack helicopters, are hosted. And the Americans said that they lost multiple attack helicop- Well, they said to sort sources said, "Nobody will go on record telling the truth." Um, that a bunch of their attack helicopters were destroyed on the ground this week. Let's all get a look at take a look at 29. This is an anti-ship cruise missile fired by the army. Can't get a good sight of it cuz they want the operational security about the launch method and the missile itself that's being used. But we know they have a a strong supply of anti-ship cruise missiles. These are being fired at the US Navy. This was in the 13th stage. The the army fired coast-to-sea cruise missiles targeting an enemy aggressor vessel in the northern Indian Ocean. So, we're seeing the ships of the US being fired at. That's something that Trump confirmed, too. He said they've been fired at hundreds of times, but um, you never know what what where he gets his numbers. Let's take a look at number 30, downing drones. Um, something that we do here on the show every week. There goes another 30-plus million uh, MQ-9 Reaper drone. And there it is on the ground in case some people say uh, that that the radical watching the radical and watching the uh the drone explode isn't real, they showed you on the ground that they're all very real. Um now let's take a look at some battle damage assessments because these are the things that are also um match exactly with the targeting um that the um Iranians say what they're targeting and then we see it uh sure enough within a day or two on satellite images. Let's take a look at 31. This is the Al Udeid Airbase. This is the main uh main airbase for uh CENTCOM's forward headquarters positions and you can see significant warehouse there just destroyed and maybe it was empty. That's what they want you to believe. This is the also the home of the combined air operations center which was rendered inoperable. That's their command center for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Syria. Uh it was rendered inoperable by strikes in March and these are uh Uh let's look at 32 is in the uh desert. This is Tower 22. Again, we're circling base housing there. You can see eight base housing units there. This is Tower 22 right at the border of Jordan, Syria um and Iraq in the desert. So the troops here didn't leave this base and go and stay in high-rise hotels uh or maybe they did, but there's still people on this base. Uh maybe they went to Amman to run away. Um there's a lot of troops that have fled the region and are fleeing the region still this week. Um so this is so uh Tower 22. Let's take a look at the next two. Um you can see here the base housing again. And then if we look at the next slide, we can see the complete elimination of one of those and there's various other satellite images. Again, I could we we could do a whole show on satellite images. Um if we if we had 2 hours, we could do that. Um but I just picked some of the most um clear-cut ones, but there there's literally a dozen more that I could have brought on this show. Let's take a look at 35. Um [snorts] cuz they're also firing on air defense arrays. So, this is Erbil Airport. This is a major uh US base in northern Iraq in Kurdish uh held territory in northern Iraq. And those Patriot launchers are the launchers I broke down last week that fire $4 million each interceptors. And you can see there that has been targeted and destroyed. If we look at 36, this is the same base um battling drones. This is a uh counter rockets, artillery, and mortars unit, a C-RAM unit um firing essentially uh heavy guns to try to stop the drones from coming in. The drones are targeting them. Those are army drones that I saw they I showed you be launched and also um Shahid 136s by the IRGC. Let's take a look at the next one is um this is a base in uh Abu Dhabi. This is the Zayed Military City, a sweeping multifunctional army complex uh designed for ground forces uh characterized by vast rows of ground force warehouses, troops barracks, training ranges, and administrative command facilities, according to them. Um you can see three major installations, the three largest on the base. If we go to the next slide, you can see um that they have been removed and we'll get better and better satellite imagery of this in the coming days. You already stuff stuff that I covered last week, there's more satellite imagery of it this week that's even more clear. Um so, as the weeks go on, it just gets better and better. Um the optics of the battle damage assessments that are clearly um successful. And there was, like I said, many other that I could have shown, a dozen others that I could have shown, Um but those give you good examples of the state of the war between the US and Iran. I'm going to go to Yemen here briefly for a moment because Yemen has this week announced a siege for a siege, an eye for an eye, a blockade for a blockade against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who attacked the Sana'a Airport, the capital of Yemen when an Iranian delegation was arriving. They bombed the runways and spent tens of millions of dollars launching long-range aerial launched cruise missiles because they were too scared of Yemeni air defenses to actually fly over. But right away, that was 2 weeks ago. Right away, the Yemeni said that they were going to respond and they have. Let's take a look at the maps here just to show what we're talking about. Again, we've been focused on the Strait of Hormuz for the past while, but going back to our October 2023 Roots of the Resistance report, the Yemenis joined Al-Aqsa Flood virtually immediately and blockaded the Red Sea. And so the port in Eilat that you can see up there on the top right if you take a follow the Red Sea up to the top past Saudi Arabia. If you if you hang a right on that one fork, you end up at Eilat, which was a major Israeli port that is completely bankrupt now and basically nonexistent. And if you go up to the left, you go up to the Suez Canal, which is problems for very large crude carriers. They cannot go through the shallow channel. There's also payments through the Suez Canal that have to be paid interestingly because there's a big fuss over the Strait of Hormuz tolls, but the tolls that Egypt charges are seen as legitimate tools. So, let's take a look at the next map because the Bab el-Mandeb, you can see it from a couple different angles here. So, this was ships coming in yesterday. The Washington Post reported that a large cargo ship bound for Saudi Arabia was turned back Tuesday by Yemeni rebels, one of seven vessels that have been reversed course, and as of reporting this today on Thursday, there's now up to 11 ships that have been turned back according to an analysis by maritime firm Lloyd's List. And Lloyd's List is an underwriter, their insurance company that track this closely because this sends insurance rates for the ships so prohibitively high that the route around Africa becomes the normalized. And again, the World Bank indicated a global recession will come out of this if this continues. They said this is the largest This is the largest oil shock ever recorded in the history of oil, and the blockade of the Red Sea shuts down the Yanbu port that Saudi has a pipeline that goes to Yanbu in the Red Sea and offloads some several million barrels of oil, some say up to seven. Seems like around four is more the realistic flow rate. So, another 4 million barrels off the market off the market because of this blockade of the Bab el-Mandeb. Let's take a look at the next slides cuz you can see here, just wanted to show you what it looks like from space cuz you can see the Bab el-Mandeb is easy for the Yemeni armed forces to secure. It's just like it pretty It shares many of the same characteristics of the Strait of Hormuz. It's tiny. It's right along Yemeni waters. It's on a coast Yemen has coastal areas that have high ground firing positions all up the coast of the Red Sea throughout that southern Red Sea area and so it's very difficult for ships to make it through and this is a photo also these photos are taken by digital SLR so these are not trick photos these are actually just cameras being snapped by astronauts and gives you a really great view beyond the maps of of what this closing this choke point looks like let's take a look at the last one here you can see how the straight looks from Djibouti looking um looking east that is Yemen under the cloud there that you're seeing and that is the Bab al-Mandab Strait that's right in front of that cloud it's a tiny waterway that is easy to close and the Yemeni said that the first principle was the Yemeni armed forces announced a maritime ban on the Saudi enemy based on the principle of siege for siege which will take effect from the moment the statement is announced and indeed that is what happened and just before we go I want to just touch on Gaza and Palestine in general Hamas elected Khalil al-Hayya this week he was elected in through the structure of the Hamas movement to the chief of the politburo of their political bureau and the election took place in four places as always under the Hamas structure it took place in the Gaza Strip the West Bank in prison and in exile those are the four main tent tent poles for the movement and so Khalil al-Hayya is not a surprise to anybody close following this he was close with Sinwar he was sent abroad in 2022 to do the diplomatic work to do the um to as effectively become uh the lead diplomat for uh Hamas and he was the lead negotiator. Israel tried to kill him in Qatar. They killed his son. That made it four sons of his that have been killed uh by the Israelis and many other family members in massacres trying to kill him since he began in Hamas in the beginning. He's uh one of the founding members of Hamas. He's also a graduate of the Islamic University of Gaza, first Intifada. Um he has that whole trajectory uh of the building of the Hamas movement into what it was what it is today. Um it is under a lot of pressure, but the movement is able to hold elections in those four key constituencies, Gaza, the West Bank, prison, and exile and come up with a new leadership. And Khalil al-Hayya said that he first thing he said uh what upon elected in his speech, he saluted the countries that of course um that supported Palestine like the resistance always does. Um he saluted the distinguished position of supporting, backing, and defending Palestinian rights and we specifically mentioned the brothers in Yemen, in Lebanon, in Iraq, and Iran who participated with and supported us with their blood and with their weapons. We are confident that the path of our people's resistance, which we are honored to belong to, is guaranteed victory no matter how long or short the time. We are proceeding on that pledge, keeping before our eyes the service of our great people and the preservation of its rights and and sacrifices. The storms of injustice will not defeat us and we will bar we will not bargain over the soil of our blessed Palestine. So, that is the statement from Khalil al-Hayya uh signaling a continuity within the Hamas political movement um and And course his close ties to Sinwar gives him uh a strong base within the Qassam Brigades as well, which is the true center of gravity of the Hamas movement. So, this has been the resistance report on day 1,021 of Israel's genocide.