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Resistance Report — 20 Feb 2024

Palestinian bravery in the face of Israeli quadcopters

Jon Elmer covers the bravery of Palestinian medical workers under fire in Gaza.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Professor David Miller, who was recently cleared of “anti-Semitism accusations by two thorough investigations ordered by his employer, Bristol University; Farrah Koutteineh, a leading Palestinian voice in Ireland pressing Sinn Féin and other politicians to stay away from the White House next month; Electronic Intifada associate editor David Cronin, on the day 131 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/Aw-y3CdR3Uw

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Full transcript
this this this um do we have her name Ally I'm I didn't thought yeah drulii this is February quad copper snipers outside of Nasser hospital that are shooting people that come in and out of the hospital um and the the man is shot um uh and and he's right across the door from the emergency room and people are saying don't don't go don't go and the doctor she takes her jacket um and legendarily passes her jacket just says forget it hold my coat and she just runs through the fire uh in order to pick up this innocent person shot by a quadcopter outside of the hospital so I I wanted to show that and Nora it got into your uh report uh at the beginning so I I took it out but um I you didn't fit it in so I wanted to show this here because um you know we say it all the time but the resistance comes in all different forms um and the Palestinians have been courageously carrying out without cameras um these kind of operations uh these kind of um ju just incredible bravery um and and and the BR and you know they they run towards you know the Israelis run away from a fight they run away from fire they run away from Warriors these Palestinians this doctor runs towards it and the the Palestinian red Cresent Society workers who went to try to rescue hind after her family had been murdered the six-year-old girl whose family was murdered by Israel and then they were murdered along with hind they did not uh hesitate to run into danger hard to imagine this kind of Courage um and just compare it with as you've pointed out time and again John the sheer cowardice of what the Israelis do they attack civilians from great distance and great height with powerful weapons uh and just this this amount of willingness to sacrifice for your own people to it's just it's you could only stand in awe in front of it and this this kind this this is such cowardice to shoot people in the entrance and of a hospital um there's footage from this I mean I I think like we would get taken off the air for showing it because it's just Carnage um they're sniping people and they and they do these quadcopters these quadcopters which are fitted with guns and they use them I'll tell you a story about the quadcopters which I will which I don't know if I've mentioned it before but uh our dear friend riffard who was murdered on who was murdered on December 6th at a certain point and this would have been um in I'd have to go back and look at his messages but in late October early November uh reported to me he said there are quadcopters and this was when he was near he he was staying at a home near the rantisi hospital in Gaza and this was at the point where the rantisi hospital and the there's a whole medical complex there of several hospitals were under attack and this was before they um they went in and they you you remember the famous incident where Daniel hagari said this this is a list and it was of of this is a t list and it was a wall calendar but uh you know before that before before that uh and rat uh was reporting on this at the time he said the quadcopter was just there in the vicinity of the hospital just randomly shooting people yeah and he actually sent me videos of the quadcopter uh shooting and it and that particular video was shot down uh and you could see it fall out of the sky it was shot down by Small Arms fire and rifat wisely I think did not want to post the video publicly because um he was afraid it could reveal his location it showed clearly the buildings he he shot it out of a window uh from the apartment that that he would have been staying in and he didn't want to reveal his location and I think he was even so concerned that uh he actually deleted the videos because he was afraid that that um you know Israelis could somehow uh get access to his phone or whatever it was but uh and I I I regret I didn't save them but th those those videos he sent were evidence of war crimes of using the quadopter to terrorize people in and around a a hospital to force them out of the hospital and that's exactly what we're seeing now with the NASA Hospital the same tactics so the reason I'm making that connection is is just to show really that that the evidence is this is systematic it's strategy yeah hospitals are the target but it's it's not just it's not just Rogue soldiers or you know the quad copter this is their strategy they use these flying robots to murder and terrorize people in and around hospitals yeah we're watching this footage in the footage outside of these hospitals there's bodies on the ground outside of the door of the hospital and people can't get them into the ER can't get the bodies um because they're being shot at they're being told to evacuate the hospital and then they shoot them as they evacuate they don't let anyone come into the hospital um it's just it's just pure Terror there's no military purpose um to this uh any any proper military if you were to say that the hospital was a Target um there's ways of clearing the hospital that don't involve Mass Ming innocent people who have nothing to do with what's going on um and then ultimately not even going to the hospital they they they've one by one systematically destroyed and dismantled all of these hospitals um and it's the first Target that they do in and they're doing it U again now with Rafa talking about how they have to evacuate the hospitals in Rafa um this has been a systemic uh campaign and and to show that video of the courage that it takes um for everyday Palestinians to um and they're doing it constantly because you'll never see a video of a bombing in Palestine that doesn't have dozens of locals running to the scene um digging with their hand with their bare hands trying to get people out um those are just the civilians and then of course you have the civil defense people who are just total Heroes going around trying to get people out under the most dangerous circumstances Ally you talked about the paramedics I went around with the paramedics in previous Wars um and they're just the most incredible people the the courage um and the just the dedication that they have to their job um is something that I I wish we could do a whole show on the red crescent paramedics because they're just the the best the best of us um are these people and and that's who Israel targets um from the from the safety of their uh6 million doll uh armored vehicles it's just it's depraved it's depraved 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