Khan Younis operation demonstrates ongoing resistance capacity, with Jon Elmer

we are going to start in the South again uh it seems like maybe this is the last week we're going to start in the South the 162nd Division has withdrawn from Rafa after five months of invasion and moved North it is now attacking jabalia jabalia being attacked for the third time since the war started in a major Invasion um the uh Gaza division has taken over the Philadelphia Corridor and the Israeli military has left Rafa destroyed but before it did that of course we've been covering this every week since May um the last few weeks on this show I've been showing you uh supply line attacks so the 162nd Division supply lines moving from the border into Rafa being attacked um and so you see that as a precursor to The Invasion uh of jabalia also because the 98th division which is the division that has roved round destroying uh Gaza uh for the last several months has been moved to Lebanon and the Israelis don't have enough troops to bring another division uh to continue to hold Rafa so they withdrew from Rafa they left the Gaza division in charge of the Philadelphia Corridor of course last month the Israeli commander of the 162nd Division admitted that they didn't find any active smuggling tunnels underneath uh the border with Rafa and of course the anyone following this war through our reporting uh for the last year has known that the indigenous weapons industry uh has played a far more important role than anything smuggled in um but uh it's of course the smuggling tunnels are deeper than the Israelis would intend to go just like the Strategic and Commander tunnels are deeper than the Israelis are willing to go into the tunnels uh so it's unclear if the smuggling tunnels remain on the border but the point point is uh the purpose of the Israeli operation and the intent to hold the Philadelphia Corridor is relied by uh once again by fax which is um something that Israel has come up against throughout this entire year-long process um so we have some operations from Rafa this week uh that we'll show you we'll just zoom in here on uh Rafa and conun because there was multiple operations in Rafa before uh 162nd Division pulled out on the weekend um and we'll show you those uh coming up first there was also a a significant Ambush uh east of conun uh about one kilometer from the buffer zone in the buffer zone uh that's a remarkable operation to be carried out uh a year into this war and uh so we will take you through these in a granular way the Israelis marked October 7th with 70 air strikes across Gaza um the Palestinian resistance marked October 7th one year since the War Began with 30 operations by all the major armed groups across Gaza and so on the one-year anniversary we're not going to spend a ton of time going back uh and looking at October 7th because the battle is ongoing uh and we're going to keep our focus on the ongoing battle as the resistance is doing um the pace of operations uh in the jabali operation that will get to uh later on in this program it is a more significant uh pace of operations than we have seen um in months so the resistance is alive and well and these videos will show you that very clearly let's start with number one um so we're watching here uh a tank crewman climbing out of his ner Troop Carrier and we're looking at this video as the intersection between uh Cam's uh media Ops and the Israeli desire to take selfies amid the genocide you could see him here posing he bends back so that he gets a good uh a good shot for his uh Tik Tok video or his dating profile because other Israelis are really proud of these operations uh unfortunately he was being uh spotted by Kasam and the camera goes a little Ary there because of the back blast we're going to see that we've seen that all through the War uh but that selfie was a costly selfie um but it really does show you the uh the two media themes coming together the Palestinian resistance showing us these operations um you can see him preining there for the camera he wants the picture of the background of the devastated terrain uh that the Israelis call devastated terrain Warfare um so he gets an elevated Yassin strike uh on while he's on top of this n Troop Carrier we edited out uh that part for you you can find as ever the full uh uncensored videos uh on my Twitter account we keep these uh videos very tight so um you'll have to check those out elsewhere but the point of the operation clearly remains um and you can hear in the audio on this track that we have taken we have taken out the audio track you can hear the spotter uh say he's coming out he's emerging from the tank so again int intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance on top of these guys no matter where they are in Rafa this is in the altanour neighborhood um and this is an area that they hadn't operated in in weeks and they immediately uh are hit with these qualitative uh operations um so yeah I don't sure if the Tik Tok video will make it out of that uh operation so number two is also in the alonur neighborhood this is east of Rafa fighter spotting through devastated terrain again this is what the Israelis called devastated terrain Warfare and they're planning to train their troops in this uh because they have difficulties fighting in this terrain because it's difficult to Mark positions with every with the genocide that has just uh erased entire neighborhoods um but also leaves up these pieces um pieces of walls in random places that could be used by the resistance uh for concealment and in some cases for cover um as they launch and you can see there that's a direct hit on a marava tank you don't see the uh trophy active protection system uh detonating there or uh deploying there to intercept that round so that's another clean hit uh on an Israeli armored vehicle and again this is on the supply line and so it's interesting that these operations came up right before they left um right before the 162nd Division left uh Rafa so number three is also uh the same neighborhood these are a string of operations we're going to see if you um you can see the D9 armored bulldozer there if you look over to the left you can see a second D9 armored bulldozer working and you've got another elevated Yassin strike firing from an upper floor window again the back blast pushes the camera away that's what you that's why you see that camera doing that is because the back blast on the RPG in the closed enclosed space of the house um knocks the camera out of the guy's hands no matter how many times they film it it's uh it's impossible to hold so uh Direct Hit you can watch it again direct hit on the uh front cockpit of the americanmade supplied D9 caterpillar bulldozer that have been hit uh throughout this war dozens if not hundreds of times um and uh as the operations in Rafa as the troops leave let's do number four as the uh as the troops leave in Rafa the operations change so uh when they left this weekend here's another uh Yen strike against uh marava tank we're still seeing five plus months into the invasion of Rafa we're seeing appropriate weapons they're using Yassin 105s their primary anti-tank weapon they're not using the tandem 85s uh on the tanks they're not using RPG SS with single charge Warheads that are not effective so you don't see even after all this time even after these months in Rafa even after this year-long battle we're still seeing the fighters using weapons that are the same weapons that they chose on the first day they're not going into their supplies and using whatever they have they're still using these weapons whether they're continuing to produce them which is very likely uh throughout this battle we have no confirmation of that but in any case they have been prepared for this long Battle of attrition and that's what we're seeing 5 months of operations in r and the fighters are still using uh all the weapons that you would expect uh for them to use and so as they leave Rafa these operations shift they left on the weekend and the operations in Rafa shift to mortar and Rocket attacks on is Israeli positions that are behind the Border uh on their bases or along the Philadelphia Corridor on their bases so when the resistance wherever the Israeli military is the resistance meets them and they meet them in their territorial defenses they're not moving from place to place that's the Rafa Brigade continuing to defend Rafa and as we see here in this example this is conun and we're seeing the conun Brigade defending itself here and this is a complex Ambush that we're seeing tactical deployment of drones again for intelligence surveillance uh and as NATO would say Target acquisition because this is clearly Target acquisition you can see the triangles pointing to the numerous tanks uh deep n bulldozers and ner troop carriers that are going to be hit in this operation this is the renewal of the Covenant and Allegiance Ambush and it begins I edited out this part because it's just a commander uh in a blurred screen you can't really make him out but he says today from this blessed and pure place we avenge our righteous Martyrs so the world knows that Gaza and its heroic Fighters do not forget those who stood by them foremost among them the Martyr the leader SED Hassan nasala today we will avenge alongside our brothers in Lebanon we will take revenge for the blood of s Hassan nasala and the blood of all the martyrs in Lebanon and Palestine we are we are the brothers in blood we are brothers in Blood and arms and he says onward Abu albara so he's talking Abu albara is Marwan Issa the operations chief for the Kasam brigades uh so he's saluting the operations chief that the Israelis claimed many many months ago without any proof that they had killed um and we can see the difference between the intelligence that the Israelis have in Lebanon versus what they have in Gaza because they're unable to confirm uh any of their stories no matter how many months pass um they can can't confirm any of their uh claimed assassinations and there's no indication that maruan Isa has been assassinated uh there's no evidence for it other than the Israelis saying it um and here you have a fighter saying onward to him not saluting him as a mar um so I have chopped up this Ambush this is a a very detailed Ambush and I chopped it up so that we could understand it but again if you want to watch the full video you can watch it on my Twitter feed it's a six minute long video uh of this complex uh complex Ambush so let's look at number six here this is stage one this field report comes from September 30th and says there on the screen stage one of the Ambush it appears this is a tunnel Ambush um The Fighter emerging with a tandem 85 because he uses in this case not a yesin 105 but a tandem 85 because he's targeting a bulldozer you can see the D9 armored bulldozer there so again appropriate weapons we see when they're using the uh yesin 105s against tanks and and this is a second angle second camera of that shot so they obviously have this uh Ambush site staked out and we're going to see that throughout the course of it so you can see the fighter on the ground there Kasam never tells us it's a tunnel uh a tunnel operation because the tunnel are so integral to the operations um that they don't they don't uh indicate it was a tunnel operation because um the tunnels are uh Inseparable from the other operations so they don't indicate to us that that's what's happening although you can see the way they emerge and you'll see in the other videos the way they emerge from the ground that it quite clearly is uh a tunnel operation again this was uh the original field report for this operation was on September 30th if we look at number seven this is an interesting part of the Ambush um because this is an engineering unit that's working in the buffer zone and you can see that engineering unit that's a um a device a mining device that lays shafts looking for tunnels so they run this machine along the border areas uh looking for offensive tunnels you can see the Yassin 105 round flying across the screen there from the upper right to the left if you look at it this is the first time uh that we have ever seen this device be hit this is the closest as the fighters have gotten to this but this is what the Israelis do to try to find the tunnels they don't fight their way into the tunnels they drop these shafts to try to find the tunnels and then they dig with bulldozers to prevent them going into the tunnels to actually fight so that's the first time that we've seen one of these tunnel engineering units be hit and Kasam identified this as one kilometer from the border and if we look at number eight here this is again still same Ambush this is a shawah presumably a shawah and a barrel bomb attack the barrel bombb could be filled with explosives um from unexploded Israeli bombs and you can get massive you can make the barrel bomb as big and heavy as you could move it or fill it um and the explosives uh left behind in a single unexploded uh Israeli bomb uh is enough to carry out an operation like that you can see um this from multiple angles and this was identified in the video as against a marava tank we don't see uh the tank in that but you clearly see the outcome of that operation um and you can see the two stages so it appears it's a shaad at first which would make sense and then the barrel bomb uh follows up after that so all the same Ambush still stage one and the next one is number nine this is stage two um the beginning of stage two of the Ambush you can see the engineering troops still working on the border you can see them dismounted there uh walking around and you can see the fighters here moving through the olive Groves Abu abeda in his speech yesterday said that Palestine produces resistance Fighters like it produces olives here's the fighters fighting in the olive Groves and amid the uh the uh the cactuses too and classic Kasam just moving up to get as close as possible to a 70 ton tank that's waiting to shoot you looks like an interception on this one that that flare of of uh fire that way that is what the trophy active protection system looks like it was a clean shot from a distance so and then this Fighter's running back and he's saying to the other fighter he's saying the bulldozer and the tank are approaching us instead of turning around because the tank and the bulldozer approaching cassam fighter carries on forth he gets a little bit of concealment here and he's going to fire on the D9 uh armored bulldozer and all through this scene there's gunfire um in the background that you can hear um and the fighter says hurry hurry record this this is crazy and he did the he did the classic it uh you did not throw it but it was God that threw um and then here they are inside the uh building you can see a Namer two bulldozers they're going to fire on him on the bulldozer here and then he's going to re uh rearm his Yasin so they're got multiple shells uh multiple Warheads um in position that's another Direct Hit you could see U on the um you can see him loading up his uh yene Warhead there um this is a long shot this is more like a sarel K's video cuz Kasam doesn't usually give us these long shots of the way that the Ambush unfold so it was interesting to see this and I I didn't cut out any details of this one because it's uh just the commander talking that is acknowledging the burning vehicles um after that hit um so just remarkable um again use of the terrain and then this next video um we left the audio into this video and I'll just let you listen to it because it's remarkable what happens the fighter takes incoming fire from the tank mounted machine gun and doesn't Flinch so let's look at number 10 that's incoming rounds you can see them hitting the ground there they're missing him but he doesn't Flinch he doesn't put up his iron sights he just fires and you can see uh there that he hit that tank it's presumably the tank firing on him the um D9 armored bulldozers also have uh some of them have mounted machine guns not all of them um but you can just see those rounds flying in behind like by his head um he doesn't Flinch he doesn't peel away he stays in his position he's got a little bit of concealment there by the prickly par Cactus um but turns around and returns to his base safely it's a remarkable operation that uh one year on these Fighters are continuing to do this despite the most brutal conditions and the most devastating genocide the resistance hasn't flinched in this entire 12-month period so and if we look at number 11 we have a Minefield here um this is the they're identifying that they're monitoring the Convoy moving in through the Minefield the Minefield set off at night so we don't get the best um visual view of it but um The Fighter as he's about to detonate it he says we are waiting now for the signal from our brothers in the monitoring surveillance unit God willing uh may God give you strength Abu Ibrahim Yahya Sinar so shout out to Yahya Sinar as he carries out the operation and presses the button um now we have the yine strike against another bulldozer again coming up from the ground another tunnel operation um within the same area so we're we're moving we're seeing them move into the buffer zone effectively with this operation you can see the distance there uh another D9 bulldozer there's half a dozen of them uh involved in this Ambush um that's dedicated to Hassan nasala uh carried out by the Kasam brigades um on this one so you could see that this they marked this as stage uh three of the Ambush and they have multiple cameras uh on this one as well so if we look at number 12 uh you'll see the classic medac so the Israelis claimed one killed and one seriously wounded in this uh operation ation and then you see called they had to call the tow truck we got two uh D9 armored bulldozers like literally dragging a disabled uh marava tank and this is something that uh the Israelis do something they did in the 2006 war in Lebanon as well uh dragged their disabled tanks home and in Lebanon you can see from the hilltops uh the ruts in the ground uh where the Israelis drank uh dragged their tanks home we'll cover that more when we cover Lebanon but uh pretty remarkable Ambush that Ambush um seven stages to it uh all types of vehicles numerous Fighters and those Fighters are fighting in their territorial uh in their territorial Brigade that's not Rafa Fighters running up to conun conun Fighters running down to Rafa [Music]