West Bank resists deadly Israeli incursion, with Jon Elmer

Let's let's take a look at those operations in the West Bank tomorrow. This is number four here. This is the Saraya al-Quds um Tulkarm Brigade. This is a mixtape that they put out a couple weeks ago showing some of their operations. Um the development of the media arm of the resistance in the West Bank is something that we've been watching week after week improve. Um previously the the resistance in in the West Bank didn't have this kind of video production showing us everything in detail like this, but they're really starting to um to add that Gaza dimension to the to to their um uh to their video work to their resistance program in the West Bank as well. So, um Nora talked about the invasion of Nour Shams camp. It's one of 75 Brigade level invasions that the Israelis have carried out since October 7th. It's a 54-hour operation. Tamara wrote a great piece on Electronic Intifada that Nora cited that people should check out about the Nour Shams uh invasion. But just to reiterate some of the things that Tamara pointed out. 14 killed, three of them were children, 25 injured. The IDF did what they always do, take homes, civilian homes, and use them as bases and sniper positions. They sealed off the camp. They didn't allow medics into the camp. Um they raided the hospital and arrested medical workers. They destroyed power, telecommunications, the water, the sewage. Um all of this was to hunt for Muhammad Jaber Abu Shuja, who is the uh Tulkarm Brigade uh commander who's based in uh Nour Shams uh refugee camp. Maybe we can go to number five tomorrow cuz this is the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Um they released this video uh during the operation. Um it says that uh the Al-Aqsa they say through this radio that we're looking at. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades youth and revenge and youth and revenge and liberation wing. Our magazines are still full. Our rifles are well. Whoever wants to walk the path of thorns will walk under the shower of bullets. And they were uh the resistance was fierce in Nour Shams. Um we're watching video from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades here. Um nine The IDF admitted to nine uh casualties in this operation. Uh including a special forces soldier from their Lotar unit and a deputy commander in the uh border police unit. Um and as Tamara reported, 14 at least 14 people were killed in this operation which takes the number of killed in the West Bank to almost 500 since October 7th. Um and as we've said numerous times at any other time, uh what was happening in the West Bank would be considered would be called an Intifada um because it surely is. So, this operation was again to try to capture Abu Shuja. If we look at this next image here, um the there was some word that he was assassinated. Um but he showed up after the general strike. The West Bank had a general um in honor of the fight in Nour Shams. And there was some talk for the two days of the invasion that they had killed the commander um and that their operation was successful. And here he is showing up at the martyrs' funeral uh the next day uh alive and well. Um and so again, more lies about the success of these operations and more ability for the Palestinian resistance um to show the truth of these operations through their uh through their video work. So, that was a an important story in the West Bank that I wanted to bring you. We haven't seen as much video uh out of the operation. The telecommunications were dropped in the camp and it can take sometimes a little more time for the videos to be produced uh from the West Bank operations. But there he is um the target of that raid um that destroyed again. It's the Dahiya doctrine as Tamara pointed out. Instead of attacking the resistance, you attack uh the the civil society. You attack their water, power, sewage. Um and you fail to to uh achieve your military goals uh while doing so. So, we also got an operation from Qalqilya which Abu Obaida mentioned as well. Number six here tomorrow. You can see um in Qalqilya this operation hearkens back to the preparation video that we saw from the Khan Yunis operation. This um this is the TLP, the troop leading procedures uh before the operation. Uh planning out uh an ambush um and with a booby-trapped vehicle. Um and they're going to they're showing us here the fighters preparing that. Fighters wearing gloves in this case uh is interesting. I think it's uh pointing to the fact that um the resistance in the West Bank needs to have more forensic care because of the presence of the Israelis on the ground in a way that's not in Gaza. We're looking at three cameras here. One camera positioned outside of the booby-trapped car, one positioned inside the booby-trapped car, and then the bottom you see the fighter uh opening fire beginning the ambush. Um and begins the ambush um by firing on uh Israeli military position, military bus entering the settlement. Um and you can see the bus stopping there and the troops um So, part of the the detail of this operation is to plan the escape for the fighter, for the shooter, um and to escape in a way that lures the Israeli forces. So, here we see the first first squad showing up. Um and walking by the booby-trapped car. The second force uh showing up there. You see there's the third one uh showing up um and moving towards the booby-trapped car. Um to chase uh to chase the fighter. Um You see the soldiers there notice that the car uh is ambushed and now we're seeing it detonated from three cameras uh remotely. So, we're seeing complex resistance operations. The IDF admitted two uh wounded in this operation. They keep saying everybody's severely wounded. That sniper shot that we saw at the beginning, they said he was severely wounded. Um which uh I I then they later uh count them as dead. Uh but again, Israel's been hiding their casualties this whole time uh in order to build up the morale or to protect the morale of their forces. Um something that uh Nasrallah points out all the time that uh that Hezbollah is proud of their fighters and they release their names uh all the time. The Israelis um are covering up their casualties. Um so, detailed operation in Qalqilya. Um they this operation led to um a 60- hour raid in Jayyous looking for uh the fighters. The Israelis dropped leaflets demanding that people turn over the fighter or that they would sack uh the camp. Um and so we see these types of operations really developing in the West Bank. So, this is effectively an ambush with a car bomb operation. Um and you see the four different IDF squads joining in um into this chase and they were unsuccessful in finding uh through their 60-hour raid uh the operators who carried out uh that Um So, let's go to number seven tomorrow. This is um this this is the people are calling this the second flag ambush. This is an Israeli soldier who's in a settlement uh in the West Bank. He drives by in his car with apparently with his wife. He sees a Palestinian flag flying in a field randomly. Uh and he decides to tell us he decides to pull over his car because he can't countenance having a Palestinian flag. Israeli uh soldiers can't see a Palestinian flag. Um they have to attack it. So, he uh decides to get out of his car and you watch on this video. We're watching him march with purpose through a field. Uh he's acting real strong with his arms out to his side, chest puffed up, and he's going to kick over this Palestinian flag. And when he kicks it, the flag explodes. We've uh if YouTube is watching, we have uh blurred with great care uh blurred out uh the the scene, but he kick kicks the flag and uh triggers the booby trap. Now, the reason people are calling this the flag ambush number two um is cuz uh there was a famous flag ambush um that happened in 2008. We'll watch him do this one more time. The the way he walks with purpose up to this is just a a remarkable part of this uh this video. Um and he kicks it instead of picks it up and puts it down. He kicks it and detonates um the explosive on himself. He's uh again severely wounded according to the Israelis. He's an IDF soldier uh who's just on on leave in his uh West Bank settlement. So, let's go to the next one here tomorrow cuz we can see the original flag ambush here on the left. This was from 2018. This was just before the March of Return. This is on the border fence with Gaza. Um the Palestinians hung up on the border fence a Palestinian flag and the Israeli army sent their bomb squad. Here you can see there's four soldiers from the bomb squad who could not allow there to be a Palestinian flag flying on the inner edge of the of the ghetto of Gaza. And so Israel sent their bomb squad to take down that flag. That was in February of 2018. And the flagpole is a breaching charge. So that flagpole there that he's holding is an explosive charge. He believes that the they believe that the ambush was going to be removing the flag. But it wasn't. So they carry the flag over. He brings it right back to his group. They all look at the flag and the flag explodes. And interestingly, that briefing the breaching charge that's used in that flagpole was the breaching charge built in Gaza that was used on October 7th to to to breach the fence on October 7th and and to begin the operation on October 7th. So those are called the flag flag ambushes in Palestine. And that was a remarkable event that I wanted to bring to you from the West Bank. 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