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Resistance Report — 20 Jun 2024

Complex resistance ambush strikes Netzarim corridor, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the latest from the fierce resistance in defense of Rafah, the complex ambush in the Netzarim corridor and Hizballah’s continued escalation on the Lebanon front.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Abubaker Abed live from the Gaza Strip, and Aseel Mousa, a journalist from Gaza who is now in Egypt, on the day 257 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/qkJrRmM16qk

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Full transcript
um we also had uh significant fighting this week along the nitar rim Corridor so we could take a look at that map here again thanks Maxwell for this map uh we have the nabulsi roundabout shown there this is the site of this complex operation uh that was carried out uh this weekend as well um you can see the proximity um of the pier and where naboli roundabout is that is the same roundabout um where those Infamous massacres of the aid um the aid massacres like the flower Massacre back in February that killed hundreds of people um waiting to try to get Aid and the Israelis massacred them that's the same roundabout so this roundabout is being um used again so that this map shows narim Corridor you can see the this the space that narim Corridor takes up um and you see where the pier is um in relation to the corridor and um if we look at number nine here the uh the Americans pulled their Pier up again so the pier that was only in place for a few days and very suspiciously uh surrounding the massacre in narat which made people believe that the pier was being used um during that Massacre uh because the pier was reattached that day um and not even two weeks later they're removing the pier again um you can see on the right of this image the pier has been removed it's a temporary pier and it always was framed that way as a temporary Pier but now we really see how temporary it is um because we saw in the storm a few weeks ago um beached it onto the uh the beach in in uh Southern Israel and the American Army U Transportation uh Brigade that's in charge of the pier went to go and collect the pieces of the pier that had floated away and their their vessels themselves were beached uh on the beach and it gave uh images that the American Army that didn't make them look very good um and so this time they're now taking up the pier apparently as a preventative measure for a storm that is upcoming um so they have removed the pier again and there's talk today um from centcom that the operation might actually be shorter than they planned on this is just a $250 million um theater that's just a distraction from what should be happening is the opening of the land corridors that could easily alleviate um the famine situation in Gaza there's no need for a $250 million it was originally a $325 million operation they scaled it back they said it's only actually a $250 million operation now um but this was always just a s show um for to prevent um to distract from what is the solution to the situation ation which is the end of The Siege on Gaza and the allowance through the land corridors that already exists through the land crossings that already exist to get Aid in um this pier was promised if we remember previous reports uh I told you that sencom promised that there would be 150 trucks a day through this pier which again is still a fraction of a single land Crossing and there's half a dozen land Crossings but the sencom Central Command United States Central Command um promised that it was going to be 150 trucks a day um it never got to more than seven trucks in a day um and so just wanted to to show you that uh before I show you this which is number 10 um this is the uh naboli roundabout Ambush um and so cassam do does have video of this and they're showing us here this is a Sizzle reel um showing you um this operation I'll detail the operation when it goes but here you can say it's this is nabul roundabout Ambush um Kasam is telling us and here they're showing us um the footage um so you can see these soldiers these are on this is the where narim Corridor is you can see the burms the sand burms that they put up but you see that Kasam has eyes all along this uh Coastal Road and we've seen here we see them digging um and planting the explosives um into the sand um which is something that when the Israelis tear up the Road they actually make it easier for this kind of operation to take place um The Fighter here is pointing out that this is the naboli roundabout which is a well-known roundabout he's saying that there we've taken the audio out and we can see the fighter there with the mortars he's got 120 millimeter mortars that he's ready to fire and we can see the tanks moving along the corridor here you can see Kasam has has eyes all along this Corridor um um you can see there this the Minefield is detonated um there was at least one armored vehicle blown up in this there was two admitted two killed and two severely wounded we can see the fighters following up this complex operation by firing mortars on the scene um on the scene of the attack but not on the rescue again which we're going to see again these are the mortar rounds Landing um we're going to see again this is a smoke screen from the Israeli armored vehicles providing concealment for their forces but you can see that Kasam has eyes on all of these vehicles showing up the the Humvees showing up the tank showing up you can see the whole you can see the fighter uh the Israeli soldiers here well within range of an Al goul um they look like they're even possibly in range of a Yasin but they're definitely within sniper range here and they're not being targeted the mortars are not being fired at the evacuation of these uh of these injured um troops and you can see here um you can see stretchers here um you can see the full evacuation here we see the helicopter land throwing a flare to try to throw off the uh surface to a missiles The Man portable surfac to- a missiles that the Palestinians have um again those aren't being fired at these helicopters on the ground that helicopter is well within sniper range not being fired at um again we've been seeing this all throughout the war that it's clear um that the cassam brigades are not targeting um these medacs um on principle um and this is a quote from um from Abu abeda that says we will continue to strike painful blows against the enemy wherever they may be um and on the day of this attack abua gave a text message we can just Loop through that again tomorrow and let people um see that operation again again uh Abu oeda said on the day of the operation our complex and qualitative operation uh today is a new confirmation of the enemy's failure in the face of our resistance and painful blows to his army and we will have more um we will continue to strike painful blows against the enemy wherever they may be um and we've seen this U These Eyes on Kasam eyes on this Waterfront and on the coastal Road um multiple times because Al jazer has shown war crimes footage um of civilians being killed along this road um it is Kasam surveillance footage Kasam giving up military positions to show war crimes by the Israelis um that will be what are shown and what are be used at the hag is the actual intelligence uh surveillance and reconnaissance of the resistance Fighters videotaping the massacre um recording the massacre of civilians we saw just a week and a half or so ago uh footage that was released that was clearly from Kasam um that Al jazer played of civilians walking along the coastal road trying to get back to their homes in the north and being shot by the Israelis and then being buried by bulldozers uh that is the area that we're looking at here so the resistance has eyes all along this area that the Israelis believe um is is part of the part of the narim corridor that they believe um they are safe in um and this operation shows that that is not the case um along the nsim corridor there's been uh of course dozens of operations um across this Corridor since the Israelis I mean hundreds of operations since the Israelis started to claim this Corridor in November and December we could see um again that narim Corridor is a logical place for the Israelis to take this goes back to uh Ariel chiron's FiveFinger plan which was to cut the Gaza Strip into fingers using the settle ments at the time um to make more manageable areas for the military to control so narim Corridor is always one of those uh corridors so the fact that the Israelis took the corridor um in this war is not surprising um there's a long history in narim Corridor and we call it narim Corridor because it is an Israeli military position so we use the Israeli name for it um this is along Street number 10 for uh the Palestinians called Street number 10 and naboli ground about um is an a critical juncture Junction uh in for people in Gaza everybody knows uh the area it's um the and this is what uh the Israelis have used this Corridor as a way of attacking into the center of the Gaza Strip Into the Heart of the of Gaza City uh to the north and into the middle camps in the South as we saw them do with the narat massacre um a couple of weeks ago where it allows their fighters to rather than for their soldiers to um to use the corridor to invade the center of Gaza and not have to move in from the outside um but we can see here in this video this pretty spectacular Ambush that uh the narim corridor is not safe uh for the Israelis and this will continue to happen as long as the Israelis uh are in this Corridor so uh that's the nabulsi roundabout um Ambush um a qualita operation that happened this weekend as well so serious losses for the Israelis this week um losses that they had to admit to because they were so uh well known both the number in Rafa that were lost and the fact that there's this video uh clearly showing the entire operation in the the buly roundabout so um but there's more operations in the nerim corridor this week let's take a look at number 11 this is sel kuds Islamic jihad's armed Wing this is targeting the 99th divis Vision um of the IDF in the narim corridor um again we see the AL Gul uh Kasam calls it the AL Gul um it's a s Iranian 50 cal sniper rifle anti-material rifle and we see again the soldiers um walking uh through this area believing that they're uh in the clear um they're actually running through the area so they're at least more aware now than they had previous L been um that they're Targets in this Corridor because I've been showing on this program every single week operations in the narim corridor these are not unique operations we've been watching sniper operations constantly um through along this Corridor um here so if we go number 12 here because there's also uh rocket artillery fire this is the cassam brigades in the narim corridor this is their rajim 114 millimeter rocket artillery this is a cam built weapon there is no other uh rajim 114 millimeter rocket artillery in the world many of Cam's weapons um are copies are clones of of already existing weapons um but this 114 mimer round is um is a Kasam invention and this is the weapons we're seeing them here use uh improvised launchers um we saw them use the actual launchers on October 7th which is one of the ways um that they were able to uh launch as many rockets on um the morning um of October 7th as they did was because of this system here that we're seeing um and we can see the the fighter using an angle finder they're not just putting that on a on a the side of the Hill they're um they're measuring they're using an angle finder to get the proper trajectory uh of the weapon you can see them using the Rocks here and behind to stabilize um so it looks slap Dash maybe what you're looking at here but it's actually not and these improvised launchers um actually Vex the counter battery fire um that might come um after the launch which is something that um the Israelis talked about in the 2006 War as well because hasbalah used improvised launchers um in that war too so we see the fighter here and in this video there's audio in this video that you can see on my Twitter as well uh the fighter is giving uh salutes to um to to his people and we can see there this is the um this is their rocket um their rocket launcher controller their controller where they set the time um and set the launch time um for each individual rocket um and so the this is this is these rockets that we're seeing here um the Israelis say this is among the 14,000 rockets and mortars fired on Israel since October 7th and just to give you a sense Palestinian fighters from 200 01 when the rocket program um first got off the ground uh pardon the pun uh when it first begun in 2001 uh from 2001 to October 7th 2023 there was 8,000 Rockets fired from Gaza in this war alone there's 14,000 rockets and there's 5,000 more from Lebanon so 19,000 rockets on the Israelis um during this operation and so um we can see just the qualitative increase and quantitative increase we saw the qualitative operations and we see here with the rocket systems still nine months into this War uh quantitatively um able to still uh continue the fight um in ways that don't appear to show um degrading these these weapons look like they have been well stored the fuses are attached um on site here um and so again even though we're we're looking for signs um all the time there doesn't appear to be any sign um of the degrading of the rocket capability which is again something that Israel is constantly saying um that they're fighting in in Gaza to stop the rocket fire because the Israeli civilians that live in the Gaza envelope have been very clear that they're not moving back to the Gaza envelope um until this rocket fire um is suppressed and there is no indication that that is be that these um rocket launches are being suppressed and we show it every week on the show but um that's just one more example of it here on narim Corridor um so that is in the narim corridor so that's the Gaza resistance report we've gone from Rafa to the narim corridor thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm with them 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 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