Fierce Rafah fighting puts lie to Israeli claims of the Brigade’s defeat, with Jon Elmer

we never miss the resistance report no matter what the context of the show is so I'm glad everybody is allowing me to do this even though it doesn't Norah and I feel an obligation to continue to always report this the U the resistance ability to continue to struggle makes it impossible for me to want to take a week off of reporting and as every week I want to just restate again that everything we're going to watch today has been published in the last seven days since you last saw me these videos are always all new if there's ever an exception to that as it was a couple weeks ago when I put all three of the um operation avenging senoir operations together because that's how Kasam intended them to be seen um I I tell you but otherwise everything is from the week in since you saw me last and that is the case again this week just a couple things uh off the Top If i' is tomorrow are you ready tomorrow we kind of threw this to you really quickly okay great tomorrow's my uh my key teammate here um we updated the maps a little bit thanks to Maxwell uh this was a really devastating uh task it was a simple question that Maxwell asked if we wanted the maps updated and I felt like in this world of terrible things that we're witnessing every day being asked to update the map Ms like literally redraw the maps Hit me hard um but I think it's an important thing to do and I appreciate Maxwell doing that for us um I want to just say about the civilians Nora um reported on that absolutely appalling study that 96% of kids believe that death is imminent that's the goal of this war the goal of the war is that people feel that way that it's a punitive operation um to punish uh the people of Gaza for supporting the resistance that dismantled uh the Gaza Division and Southern command um on October the 7th and Israel's way of um put reaffirming to their people this institution that had been dismantled um is to create this genocide um that is happening every hour of every day now for 43 39 days 90% of the population I mentioned this last week the World Health Organization has come up with a number 90% of the population of Gaza is living in tents so there's some other percentage of the population that are living in shelters although Israel is systematically destroying those shelters the Gaza strips live civilian population has been literally decimated 90% living in tents and the US this has been a US joint us Israeli operation where the US has given $23 billion just in this first 14 months to the Israeli military to carry out this operation in Weaponry Alone um that doesn't include their loan guarantees that they're going to get for their flagging economy um or future um weapons deals that were put through that will come to fruition in the years to come $23 billion is just for the fighting in this one year it's an absolutely dis disgusting statistic um this whole War has been shocking to watch um but the resistance has continued um through all of this there was some talk last week I brought some uh new information about the ceasefire agreements as Ali said um some water was thrown on that uh earlier today um the water that's thrown on it is Netanyahu not wanting a ceasefire uh agreement if there's a ceasefire agreement he has not destroyed the resistance he has not brought back his captives um he has not made Gaza not a threat to Israel all of the war aims that Netanyahu laid out they have not been achieved what has been achieved is the decimation of the civilian population of Gaza the dismantling of their Health Care System the dismantling of their education system creating an environment where 96% of children think death is imminent um that has been achieved and absolute destruction um of the physical um of the physical landscape of the Gaza Strip um so I just wanted to start uh with that we can zoom in here on Rafa because we're going to start in Rafa again um the Israelis declared in August uh late August early September they started in mid August saying that they had dismantled the Rafa Brigade um that's the philadelphie corridor that you're looking at one of the reasons why along the co along the border with Egypt there um one of the reasons why people said um and Hamas was one of those people who said that there was some optimism for a ceasefire agreement was because Israel um had indicated that they were willing to pull out of the Philadelphia Corridor something that Netanyahu had been saying would not happen and that was preventing the ceasefire agreement because the Palestinians cannot accept a ceasefire agreement that involves having military um positions inside of their tin already tiny besieged territory no legitimate um leadership of the Palestinian people can accept that um and so these ceasefire talks what happens is they have a basic framework for them and then right at the last minute Netanyahu adds some kind of condition that the Palestinians can't accept to the uh deal that has already been made and that's what's H that's why you have Biden um over the course of the summer speaking into his uh ice cream cone microphone saying that he believed that um a deal was imminent and that is because they did have a deal in place and Netanyahu um broke that deal by adding conditions that um that forced the Palestinians to accept um The Border there the Philadelphia Corridor being a military Israeli military Corridor and that is to go back to the questions that were asked earlier in the show if the Israelis control that border crossing there's no way for for Palestinians to leave Gaza um Everybody um I think that watches this show is aware that that has been the case for many years that um that's the only exit for Palestinians to leave and it's difficult enough they pay bribes um Egypt is not uh a facilitator of them leaving the country um Israel has a veto over who leaves the country riat knows that very well as his scholarships and book tours were cancelled um by Fiat uh by the whims of the Israelis so to have that military presence in that Philadelphia Corridor is devastating and it must be removed um so we're going to focus on the resistance tesalan in the top there uh is where Yahya sinir the fighting um Commander leader of Hamas and the cassam brigades was fighting in tes meeting with commanders from the Rafa Brigade who was not dismantled and then the Israelis in the last beginning at the end of November started to move in militarily into the Eastern section of Rafa again and immediately they got operations so let's take a look at number one here um this is part of we saw last week a series of operations that were called operation avenging senoir here we see a fighter an Archer putting together his Yassin 105 and just gives you a good opportunity to see just how simple the weapon is um and how usable it is the fighter was adding the Boost uh booster charge to the end um and that that U is what launches the weapon um and that's that's it the weapon is ready to fire he's got an elevated firing position here against a D9 armored bulldozzer um again these bulldozers are destroying the infrastructure in Rafa um and targeting targeting them has been a priority for the resistance of late interestingly because early in the war they were actually passing on the bulldozers in order to hit the tanks um and the troop carriers that had more people in them I pointed that out early in the war that they were saying no it's a you could hear the spotter saying no don't it's a it's a bulldozzer and the bulldozer would pass and then the APC would come and they would hit the APC well later in the war they have adjusted that and they've been now hitting these d9s really hard and that something that's created a shortage in Israel there was a story in yo erot their um leading newspaper in Israel they leading tabloid daily um that talked about the delay in the arrival of shipments from Poria Illinois of caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers and the need for these bulldozers to commit the genocide in Gaza um has created a shortage so you see the fighters um the Practical uh implications of the fighters targeting the D9 is seen in the Israeli media these operations are in the alanina camp area in eastern Rafa this operation that you're seeing today he says go ahead hero um to the fighter the the cameraman comes in and as the Fighter's loading he says go ahead hero something we've heard them say to each other throughout the war um during the battle sets up in this window elevated firing position right on the cockpit of the D9 and the D9 does not have rolled homogeneous armor it has slat armor and it's these are devastating hits you'll see later in the show I'll show you a video of a destroyed one number two is from December 6 so this is from uh it's taking them a few days to get these operations out of Rafa um uh which is interesting in the north they're getting them out immediately there's a tank-mounted machine gun fire in this track again if people want to see the uncensored videos you can see them on my Twitter but these Fighters are fighting in the middle of a battle space these tanks are shooting um and that's why he's co he takes cover there because he's fired on um so he Mouse holes up takes a different route till he gets this elevated firing position on the same tank um and fires it and just to keep in mind this is day 427 of the battle um and the battle in Rafa began in May and has been carrying on uh with a small break um has been carrying on since then um so more than half of the number three is also from the same operation um and this is an iconic one this is going to be one of the shots that remains an iconic shot from the war um you can see the archers there just point blank in front of the tank which is what these weapons are most effective for is they're small and light relative to other anti-tank weapons and allows you to get in close and shoot from there um just the camera angle of seeing the yene you can see it in the next clip um uh yeah let's watch it one more time just the Yassin that's a $500 system Kasam said that that system is $500 from development all through R&D through testing and through deploying on the battlefield at a cost of $500 per unit and that's a $3 million to $4 million tank that's being hit from Point Blank Range it's an armor-piercing uh shaped charge that will penetrate if hit right um let's look at number four tomorrow cuz I got a still yeah you can see the still there um I think that that we've seen a number I've tried to point out a number of the iconic operations this one is just uh remarkable the distance to the tank um and in the second and Tata there was such uh famous pictures of children throwing stones at tanks and getting right up close to the tanks um and now this generation is doing it with the yassen 105 which makes the weapon a very effective weapon because it's too close for the active protection system you can see the active protection system on the upper right of the tank there it does not deploy in that shot so um you get a lot of comments but I don't know if they're Bots or what but saying uh oh the aps deployed on every single video you post or I don't know if they get paid to do that but it's clear the aps does not deploy on almost all of these um and when they do deploy I pointed out for you um let's look at number five again these are the same operations in the aljan neighborhood aljan camp in Rafa these are two Yasin strikes against two tanks um the reason there's fighting in this neighborhood is because the tanks have pushed into this neighborhood when they were when they were based along the Philadelphia Corridor um they weren't fighting um because they were not in the city as soon as they entered the urban builtup area the Eastern Battalion of the Rafa Brigade not only is the Rafa Brigade not dismantled but the Eastern Battalion is the Battalion that handles this uh section of the fight so we're seeing um uh we're seeing the capability of this group to carry on long-term uh Battle of attrition that's something that Abu abeda pointed out on the one-year anniversary of the war back in October that they are prepared for a long War Yahya sinir said that too before he passed um that they have been built to to um to withstand a long War they have lost um they have lost Fighters the the war has been costly for the Kason brigades it's been costly for the Palestinian population it's been costly for the Israeli military and it's been costly for Israeli civilians the war is devastating there's no um there's no understating that um but there the ability of the group to fight is not in question at all and I'm following this every day as you know um the indications uh of their ability to continue fighting are all through this package that I have U today and every week um they're they're seeing the Eastern Battalion operate we're not just seeing who's left in Rafa fighting that's the actual U Eastern Battalion would be who met them immediately so that's the resistance report from Rafa we'll take a look at narim here and take a look at the corridor um that we've updated the the width of the corridor and through Dar Al Bala on there where our good friend uh our key reporter reports from uh and the nerat camp which is one of the areas that has been targeted um with air strikes um recently and the nerim corridor is expanded it's difficult to say exactly uh how wide the corridor will ultimately be because the destruction is so total on the south and north sides of the Corridor that it's difficult to see what is what Israel will hold and what is just destruction but though the destruction is total in that area of the map it spans more than 7 kilometers wide right now there's more than a dozen Israeli military outposts which are basic rudimentary uh buildings uh ba built out of cinder blocks and corrugated metal they're they're not building um you know like a shopping mall it's it's very rudimentary Outpost military Outpost uh type positions along the border but the goal is for Israel to cut the territory in half so that it when people move back to the north that they will go through an Israeli checkpoint uh in the narim corridor the narim corridor that has been cut off here I I remember on October 9th telling this show that the narim corridor would probably be cut off because it is an area that historically was and that since the 1970s five finger plan the nerim corridor was a spot um where there wasn't much buildup of uh Palestinian I mean they demolished more than 2,000 homes to make this Corridor but this Corridor matches to an Israeli settlement that existed in Gaza before 2005 when the Israelis left and so it's logical that they would take this Corridor and they have um and this coridor is also a famous juncture uh Junction um that Palestinians had to cross because you can see the line running up right through the middle of the C of the narim corridor there that's the Salah Haden Road that's the interior Highway that connects the Gaza Strip and so when the nerim settlement existed there there would be conflict there that would be a point of of friction between the Israelis and the Palestinian Society so the second and in many ways began at the narim corridor um after the after it began at alaxa mosque when Ariel Chiron marched on alax aamos but the Palestinians in Gaza the uprising started in the narim corridor when Muhammad aldura was famously shot in the arms of his father by the Israelis that was at nerim Corridor a constant flash point for many uh generations of Palestinians so um that has been updated if we look at number seven this is something that we talked oh sorry yeah this is um this is jabalia actually this is a photo from jabal yeah let's go back to that when we get to jabalia um so this is this is uh the sniper class uh this says sniper graduate class of 2024 this is Sarah Al Goods um you can see the soldiers again we have to edit this video if you want to watch the full thing you uh see it on my Twitter um but this is interesting because it's SEL CS showing us that um these are the new recruits um that they are training the new recruits we've seen a number of these operations I pointed them out to you and it's obvious that these groups are recruiting people want to join the fight they've watched them heroically defend their territory for 14 months now they want to join the groups and so Netanyahu claims he made the claim the other last late last week that they had killed 20,000 you know they call them terrorists that but he that's an there's no proof at all for that number at all um mostly Netanyahu wants to keep the number they try to keep the number to be one toone civilian to uh combatant because that's how they believe they're getting out of war crimes trials by having that be the case so we're seeing in this video new recruits training um and the fight and the spotter who's training him says Ready Hunter fire and they fire and they hit him and that's one of dozens of operations in the netsim corridor so those soldiers that you see there are running through the narim corridor they're always going to be targets if Israel intends to stay in the narim corridor they will be constantly targeted and constantly killed and if we look at number eight this is what is going on every single day joint operations this is a joint operation between the uh Cal kods and the pflp uh firing 120 millimeter mortars that they have gotten very good at aiming after these four 14 months um because they can calibrate their fire um from various positions and you can see they're hitting their positions those are clearly the Israeli positions those are the um the Cherry Pickers that they've got the cranes that they've got up there with their cameras on it and they're clearly hitting these positions they are killing soldiers in the corridor with uh artillery fire and these are a daily occurrence this is a s cods and pflp Joint operations that's how they calibrate um with the these are 107 millimeter rocket artillery so that these are the main things they use mortars um and mortar bombs and then they use these Rock 107 millimeter rocket artillery and there's many of them and they can build those during the battle um so they'll never run out of those um so that is the netsim corridor consistently Under Fire [Music]