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Resistance Report — 8 Apr 2024

Resistance in Gaza publishes videos to demonstrate their military successes, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer reports on the battle in Khan Younis.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Abubaker Abed, live from the Gaza Strip, Dr. Yipeng Ge, a family physician based in Ottawa, Canada, who recently returned from Gaza, David Cronin, associate editor of The Electronic Intifada, on the day 180 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/live/9oKEFhy7Z6U

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Full transcript
tomorrow if we can go to number five this is also a this is I'm going to show you this uh operation in conun that happened at Naser hospital um so we're seeing here uh an Israeli position um right beside the hospital the footage just showed us uh the the the on the wall it says Nasser Hospital medical complex right beside um and we're seeing the uh Israeli position with their curtains drawn um being hit by a thermobaric warhead a tgb a tbg um the Kasam built uh weapon and if we could just skip maybe to the next one tomorrow and then we'll come back to this one again uh I want to show you this weapon the thermobaric grenade they and this is also a Palestinian in Innovation because their uh thermobaric Warhead has two um is a tandem charge as well like the uh the other yasim warheads and you can see the fighter there putting it on his um his yasine um and so if we look at that we can see that there's two charges there's two uh bulges on that weapon the top charge is an anti- fortification that will that will as we're seeing here blow a hole in the wall and the second charge is a fuel um the thermobaric is a fuel charge which is a devastating weapon um when used and now if we go back to the previous one tomorrow we can see that this is the weapon being used a Kasam built weapon being used against the force there we see it's a Nasser hospital um and we see a special force this is the Commando Brigade um this is the egos unit this is actually this unit the Israelis um this is their Guerilla Warfare irregular warfare unit um and we see them being hit and the pressure of the thermobaric blast blows the windows out completely out of these um out of this position and the Israelis had to admit casualties in this this was a mass casualty incident two uh Special Forces soldiers were killed 16 were wounded six seriously wounded um and on this operation outside of um Nasser Hospital in con yunes where the Israelis are setting up a base um to occupy the hospital and to shut it down just as they did with Al AAL hospital just down the road from what we're looking at here where the Israelis dismantled the hospital and then bulldozed burms around the hospital so that nobody could access uh the hospital anymore and this operation in conun um two days before um what we're watching right here the thermobaric attack on the Israeli Special Forces uh the chief of staff halevi bragged about the insertion operation in communist so they're bragging about an insertion operation uh for their forces 5 months into this war in conun because the Israelis invaded conun in early December and still have to uh an insertion operation implies that they had to bring the forces in that there wasn't a direct route uh into this operation at first and so they they they inserted troops um separate from their ground operation which they have now four full months of fighting in conun and they still have to carry out an insur operation um but halevi actually bragged about this the chief of staff he called this and he put three varies very very very high level of combat um and then the next day the day 36 hours later um his gorilla Force his Special Operations Force his ago unit uh Special Forces here are we have 16 casualties in one single event which uh for a gorilla Warfare unit is not fighting like gorillas to have 16 soldiers in a single place um but interestingly this is a hit on their uh Special Forces Unit so this is how the battles for these hospitals are going the Israelis are paying a significant price um for these operations and we know that they're not C uh uh telling us all about their casualties and I just have one more video here to show you to prove to you that they're not counting their their casualties if we go to number six here tomorrow this is a Hezbollah operation um in the North in Lebanon across the Lebanese border here um and we're going to see footage um of this we're seeing footage from a thermal camera and the circle here that we're looking at we're looking at the border fence on the western side of the Lebanon Israel border um Hezbollah has circled here and you can see in the thermal imaging the soldiers choosing which building to go to they're running back and forth between which building um as the missile strike comes in and they chose the wrong building and are clearly hit there uh by Hezbollah fire and no casualties no casualty reports um from the north on this operation um this is one of 1300 Hezbollah operations since October 8th um when the war started this is one of 40 on a command position so if we again look here you can see in the thermal imaging the soldiers moving from one building to the next uh here it looks like at least half a dozen of them and then halfway through they change their mind and go back to the previous building you could see them running back across to the previous building once again changing their mind and going back to the original building uh moments before it's struck directly um by what is presumably anti-tank fire although they Hezbollah didn't say um and it's not possible to confirm that um but it is possible to confirm that the Israelis had no casualties reported from that operation and it's worth noting that uh hasbalah indicates that there have been 2,000 casualties um between wounded and killed in the northern front alone uh according to their numbers the Israeli numbers um still no clear Israeli numbers now uh six months uh into this war so um those are the that is the what we've seen and again just to to point out all the videos that we just showed are all from the since you last saw me um and if we were to bring together the videos of the shifa operation which we'll do reorganize these videos um after the war and show um them in a different way at this point we're still reporting day byday um On The Ground Battle um and and so we know that last week's show I showed you a dozen videos from the fight around shiffa Hospital a few more today um that shows um able courageous resistance continuing uh in these areas that the Israelis have long ago said that they had operational control and clearly have nothing of the sort so that is the resistance report for today incredible thank you so much as always for uh as I say your meticulous curation of um of what uh what what people usually are not seeing um during during this genocide um thank you so much John did uh Ali or ASA did you have any questions um about any of the videos I saw some of our um commenters asking what the thing was that was being blown out or like sucked out of the window during that last around uh yeah so the way the thermobaric Warhead is that it's it's a fuel explosion so it sucks the air out of the room and then sends a pressure blast out and so that pressure blast is blowing the windows out but it's also very uh costly for anyone in the vicinity because that pressure blast um can kill you a number of ways collapsing your your uh organs your internal organs and also once the explosion happens it's a fuel explosion so it's a brutal fire um and so th 16 casualties in that incident and you could say that that is the Israelis getting lucky in that circumstance to only have those casualties it's a it's a devastating weapon that the Palestinians have created on their own in the Gaza Strip um all the weapons that I showed you today are created in the Gaza Strip they're clones of other weapons but created by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip yeah it it is just extraordinary to see them still fighting and you have to think that all those Fighters they have families or had families who they probably haven't seen since before this genocide started and yet they are still fighting with morale against you know what the whole world can see as a absolutely barbaric enemy that has no red lines none whatsoever not hospitals not Aid workers not children not the elderly nothing not doctors not journalists and uh they are really the um the only defense people in Gaza have because we can see that uh uh very few governments are doing anything substantial to to help the resistance which is a fully legitimate uh struggle against an invading occupying genocidal Army yeah I've got one one question for John is an issue that we've addressed before um but it's perhaps worth reiterating uh your the sources for all these videos that we put out joh yeah these videos are these videos are released by the resistance they're released on telegram channels they're made public the resistance wants these videos to be seen the fact that they're not seen in the western media um is is the only reason they may seem like they're Secret videos to people um in in English language media but um you know for example Al jazer shows these videos um in a massive studio with Florida ceiling um um video projection of them and so the resistance wants these videos to be seen we see the care that they take in the videos um blurring certain areas um so they clearly and they blur all their Fighters even after um even if their Fighters are killed they still are blurring um all of their uh Fighters um and Kasam has not been announcing their casualties because of the way that the Israelis are just targeting their families um so they haven't been announcing their casualties but in terms of these videos the resistance wants these videos to be seen they publicly publish them they embed within their units these cameramen in order for us to see these videos and in order for us to break down these videos and show you what's actually happening in the battle that's what the resistance is publishing these videos for um and none of my information comes from anything other than open-source publicly available information um I lot of what I do is put pieces together take what the Israelis are saying I track the Israeli field reports and the Palestinian field reports and try to overlap them to put the pieces together um and general understanding of military strategy and tactics um to articulate what's happening but these videos are intended they the resistance put these videos out to be seen um they're expected to be seen widely if if possible so yeah and and we know the Israelis don't watch them because otherwise they would be staying away from Windows yeah I mean we do I mean jokes aside we do know that they do watch them um we we've seen the Israelis match um videos like for example when they announced the mass casualty event in conun um they're looking for videos to match that mass casualty event and the resistance in conun was able to publish that video before because the Israel there was chatter whenever there's these mass casualty events there's chatter on the Israeli networks that something extraordinary has happened and in these moments the resistance is able to put out a video showing that they clearly have command and control they still have their media Ops in full uh effect and they're able to put out the information ahead of the Israelis um and they show that the Israelis um have shown previously um that we know that um tank crew that have been blown up inside their tanks and injured have found the videos that those events happened in and said this was the video of the event that happened to me um whether they're learning on the ground their soldiers are learning on the ground to for example stay out of Windows or not put curtains up or um to carry out these basic training things that would be taught to soldiers um in basic training these are not Advanced um I mean I think even just generally people are aware that standing in a window is a bad idea um so it's not clear how much lesson learned they're getting from uh the videos themselves but the Israelis are of course watching these videos they're um probably that's their only window into what's happening because they don't have any Intelligence on the ground and these um I guess we're going to talk about the world Central Kitchen just proof that they don't have any uh eyes and ears on the ground at all within the Palestinian population and that's something that the cassam Bri Gades that's 20 years uh I mean it's 30 years if you go back to the beginning of Counter Intelligence operations that the cassam Bri Gades have run in fact the Cambra Gades first military formation was a Counter Intelligence operation was to root out collaborators in the first inata that was their first tact uh first tactic first strategy uh of the resistance was to eliminate that uh collaborator class that was so devastating and murderous to Palestinians and now 203 years on um there you see the fruits of that in their military um tactics because the Israelis don't have any way of confirming anything that's happening on the ground um they're not even able to say I mean they're bragging at this point about the assassination of Marwan Issa top commander of the cassam brigades but they don't have any intelligence to prove that um is the case there's nobody on the ground to do even basic uh observations and if they had any evidence of that they would show it they would show all that's the point Ally they would if they had actual evidence of any of this stuff Not only would they show it they would show it immediately they would make a really big deal out of it instead all we see is is footage from drones of pixelated people um that are we're told are Hamas for example in the conun um video that where the uh drone killed the four uh civilians clear civilians um with clear footage of them being killed uh in conun the Israelis released video of the day that that ha on the day the original Day in February when those five uh civilians were killed the Israelis put out a video that was grainy uh thermal imaging from a higher up drone and they said this is four or five Kasam Fighters Hamas Fighters that are killed um so there's no intelligence and there's no military strategy to this destruction they're just destroying the place as a terror tactic to try to get the population um to never resist again this is not a dismantling of the Fighting Force um in any meaningful way John I see a question from Dr E ibraim and he's asking about um the report about possible spies infiltrating the eight uh the aid trucks and I think this is a reference to the statement put out by the resistance a few days ago that they had captured I think it was about 10 members of the Palestinian Authority security forces or or people sent by the Palestinian Authority Security Forces uh we're talking about the Israeli aligned Israeli backed us-backed Palestinian Authority in rala and this was reportedly you know there's very little solid information about this but it is reported to be uh an operation organized by Majid faraj who is the head of the intelligence service for the Mahmud Abbas traitor regime as I call them uh and that this was based on coordination uh between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in an Arab Capital which has not been named and um according to the resistance the interior Ministry in Gaza captured these men and has taken them for investigation or questioning um and they've said that would treat these kinds of attempts as you know they would treat people involved in these kinds of attemp attempts the same as they treat the occupation forces now you know there's a lot that is it's impossible to confirm about this at this point but I don't have any reason to doubt that they infiltrated that that they captured these infiltrators even if we don't know all the details but I I just want to comment on that that this speaks to the Earth point about the resistance continuing to have command and control in Gaza that the interior Ministry is still functioning the government uh information office is still functioning Israel has continued to attack of course the Civil police to prevent Aid distribution and so on but there does still seem to be uh you know a functioning um Counter Intelligence or or or security system in Gaza yeah I mean I think I I don't want to comment on on the specificity of that but I think that that would be that the messaging from Hamas is to indicate that they have that still on the ground and that these kind of operations um the attempt even if there was in the future attempts to put some sort of collaborator regime on the ground that the cassan brigades and the internal security have the capacity to out this we know that they've um there's been reports of them battling um with the with some of the clan um the the large family uh criminal families that the Israelis have used for decades to sew Discord in the Gaza Strip that the cassam brigades uh rooted out um as part of their um 15 years uh of being in government that the Israelis had used these forces and and you've said you said it like Majid faraj he's the intelligence minister of the PA he was the one who was responsible for the uh coup attempt against Hamas in 2006 after the elections um and under the offices of the US General Keith Dayton um farage was part of that project to dismantle Hamas in the West Bank um after their attempt was to begin to dismantle Hamas after the election but um as soon as the first shots were fired uh Kasam overran the collaborator regime um and took over control of the Gaza Strip in um 20 7 um and so I think that these are signs without commenting on that specific case because it's I'm not sure that would be for the PA that would be such a bold move to attempt to put foreign foreigners from outside Gaza on the ground um as some kind of Trojan horse is just an indication that they don't have those people on the ground to effectively do that kind of collaborator work it shows that the Palestinian security forces are still intact and the point of it is if Israel didn't Massacre them those forces on the ground could facilitate Aid shipments into the Gaza Strip um but Israel killed those people has killed them and made it impossible um for that to happen and so um that's part of Israel's um you know claim to say that there's nobody on the ground um but that they've been dismantled on the ground right but you know the the also we've seen and this has been true over the last six months but there have been renewed reports uh in the media just over the last few days for example there was a story I think it was in The Times of Israel about using the delivery of humanitarian Aid as the vehicle to bring in so-called Arab peacekeeping forces without specifying the countries people have speculated and again we've talked about this before but including the Palestinian Authority and we know that the we know that the United States States if not Israel is very keen to get the Palestinian Authority back into Gaza and um you know the so in any case that's uh that's about that but I I suppose that is a transition to yeah the the thank you Tamar because that's the implication is that that has to happen for Israel to carry out this next phase that they're dreaming of they have to have some kind of collaborator regime on the ground that is going to accept this project um and all of these uh dreams of the Israelis and you know selling uh beachfront Properties or having foreign governments coming in and foreign capitals to negotiate uh who's going to be the aid delivery people all presume that Israel has total control and that the fighting forces um have been eliminated in other words you have to win the war for this to happen and there's no indication that that's the case so we we have all this speculation who's going to be the one to do it because it presumes um unless Israel is the one doing it um that it presumes that there will be have to be some kind of other force that Israel allows um and that won't get massacred because anyone else trying to secure Aid um gets massacred and that's what we've seen just a transition to the world Central Kitchen that we seen friend what Israelis are calling Friendly Fire against their own Aid organization um it shows that they're 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