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Resistance Report — 19 Feb 2024

West Bank resistance would be called an intifada any other time, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the battle in the West Bank.

As Israel escalates its attacks on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, Jon Elmer takes us through some of the latest developments on the ground and we talk about the prospects for a ceasefire and other political developments.

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
there's constant resistance in the West Bank that would be called in inapa at any other time there's arm struggle in eight different sites throughout the West Bank um Israel's carrying out massive raids um just brutal Roundup raids 7,000 arrests in the West Bank doubling the prison population more than collecting um collecting bargaining chips for this prisoner exchange um and just arresting um obviously innocent people all throughout the West Bank 7,000 arrests 4,000 people killed 400 people killed since the October 7th um attacks and Israel not reporting their casualties uh in the West Bank so we can maybe show number 10 here um tomorrow this is the the Palestinian resistance in Janine this is an Israeli Israeli jeep that we're watching um hit an IED planted in the ground at the entrance of the Janine Camp um and we're watching um the Jeep um on a patrol um blow up in a way that clearly would have casualties but no no casualties being reported by the Israelis um in this uh incident in the West Bank and we've seen a number of these um again everything just to reiterate to the audience everything that we're showing you here has happened in the last uh in the last week this is the resistance um this is the way we get news um of what's happening on the ground and we want to bring that part of it um to you we um bring the political and the humanitarian and we also want to bring the resistance component to it and so we show the fighters all the time 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