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Resistance Report — 25 Oct 2024

Fierce resistance defines battle for Jabaliya, with Jon Elmer

Day 383: Jon Elmer provides the latest news from the battle in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s day 383 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by writer and analyst Justin Podur. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/cor7VqVAtxE

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Full transcript
we're going to move to jabalia now um could we throw up the map see yes perfect so narim Corridor talked about this for the whole War as well it's still under the same fire every single day that it has been for the last 300 days all the other resistance factions are firing every day mortars artillery Rockets firing on the narim corridor where the Israelis uh have cut the Gaza Strip in half so those operations can continue and I try to mention them every week but in this show I brought you other factions carrying out the battle we're going to wa we're going to see all the factions participating in this battle in jabalia this is the third invasion of jabalia um of the jabalia camp which is south of jabalia there on the map and it's the third week as Norah pointed out of the besiegement of jabalia um and these Fighters I told you on the first week that there was 35 operations this week there was 50 qualitative operations the operational tempo of the resistance in the third Invasion which is looking exactly what genocide looks like um and Norah's report covered it um as well as anyone in the media can cover it um has covered it um it's just comprehensive they're targeting Schools they're targeting the hospitals they're targeting the Aid distribution C centers they cleared out a school today and then burned it um they burned the school last week they they cleared out the Aid distribution center and they burned the flower in the Aid distribution center 80 people killed a day is what's happening uh to what we're watching and amid this Kasam is carrying out 50 qualitative operations 35 operations targeting tanks troop carriers and D9 bulldozers eight operations targeting troops with IEDs uh gazam made weapons all of this is happening with gazam weapons the Philadelphia Corridor is not as Netanyahu said the oxygen of the resistance the oxygen of the resistance is unexploded Israeli weapons and Indigenous weapons manufacturing uh to create these weapons that we see and are going to see uh be used here in the next uh series of videos so let's look at number 10 first this is a cam built thermobaric Warhead which is what they use against troops from from distance if they're up close they'll use an IED like a Radia we'll see that later but you can see the the red triangles there they're going to the building and then look at this Fighter the fighters hiding behind the window it's the opposite of soldier in a window that the Israelis do and we see this throughout the war the Palestinian soldiers just routinely are better soldiers better trained better executors than the Israeli soldiers and now you see the tanks show up to save the people you can see the urgency of the tanks because they hit the right building they hit it with a thermobaric warhead which is a fuel air explosion uh and it's a nasty weapon you don't want to be involved uh in being hit by a thermobaric warhead we're going to see one fired at Israeli troops in the north later on in the program uh but the vehicles come to uh to look at him in the window there that's the opposite of soldier in a window he keeps his position hidden um he sets up to fire out behind the window you can see in that shot his full body is inside the building he's not sticking the nose of his um weapon out the window to be flagged um and so then you see the the troops show up again so a successful thermobaric Warhead strike um and these operations are going in order uh of the days when they happen so these were at the beginning of last week and number 11 tomorrow always on it thank you um so here and this is the thing after the sinir like are the are these have we had other videos where one of those hands were senoirs is he writing these command uh operations it's it's just seeing what we saw in the killing of senoir just opens up so many questions um about the way he had led during this battle so what we're seeing here is a mark 82 bomb this is a Israeli American bomb it's a 500 pound bomb and I've told you before the uh the 500 pounds is the total weight of the bomb um but the explosive material is about half just less than half about 45% um so if you have a 500 pound bomb you got 200 pounds of high explosives and that's what they're doing here they're creating a barrel bomb out of it they're wiring it we saw them poking holes through the wall and this spider explains why they poked holes through the wall we don't care we're here six or seven meters from the enemy um we don't care we want to ignite them not to let them ignite it he says like we want to trip the detonation we don't want to create a a trip wire where the Israelis trip over it we want to detonate this so it's more dangerous and they run the cable longer but here are monitoring from the Alleyways um the commander says uh in audio you can't hear he says you'll be monitoring from the safe alleys between the house and here we see a backup camera being used to detonate um the first of two IEDs in this operation um so this is a Return to Sender operation there's a number of them this week um and then this is the guys who are in the alleys they're now going to come up on the rescue Force and predict as they do in many of these operations correctly predict the route that the resupply um or the reinforcements in this case resupply sometimes reinforcements in this case will come and here they're setting up an anti-personnel Radia that's a Radia device built in Gaza one of the handful of uh IEDs that they build themselves um and the fighter detonates it uh also himself and that was the point of that operation was the fighter saying we don't care that your bullets are over our head your drones are buzzing in the audio track you can get it on my Twitter in the audio track of this you can hear the drones and the gunshots and the fighter says we don't care we want to ignite this we want to detonate this bomb we don't want a trip wire which is one way to uh set up the bomb is a trip wire and a trip wire was used successfully in an anti-personnel IED this week that killed um the commander of the 41st armored Brigade um the uh highest level operational officer killed in the war was killed in jabalia Camp by a trip wire that was set up in an observation post so these guys here are punching out the wall so that they can be the ones to physically press the Detonator button they could just put a trip wire across the road um the tank can hit the trip wire and set it off itself but they're running this operation um and this is where they say they don't care and they want they want to be the ones to ignite them they want to be as you can imagine these fighters who have lost their families who have watched this genocide they want to be the ones handson to press the button the exact opposite of the soldiers who find anyone that's moving in Rafa and kill them with tank shells and then when you go to see if they're still there and someone throws a grenade at you wounded with one arm you still run away and call in tank shells um using a backup camera to do the detonation we've seen this throughout the war as well so when we're looking at capabilities and this is the jabalia camp fighting the third fullon war of their camp and they're using all different appropriate weapons we're not seeing uh still not seeing um you know see the there's there's a yasen 105 it's not a tandem 85 he's using the weapon that you use against a tank and Kasam the national Army is doing that and this is a Radia against troops and they're setting it up and this guy's showing this to this uh other fighter in a way that we don't usually see so we might be seeing in this video trainers um because we know that Kasam has a massive new recruits from this so so that another just um remarkable operation complex Ambush so number 12 um and this is saral kuds Islamic Jihad um they they always do this they give us a little more um a little more run on their on their film um so you can see these Fighters move through the camp uh move through the Alleyways dip into the Alleyways they know the place they the jabalia um the the jabalia Brigade is fighting in the place that they live they've got eyes here their spotter on two tanks um they have two spotters um and you're going to see s coulds use uh anti-tank RPGs not tandems here but they're um but their spotters are in both places in good spots and you can see how the spotter is used the spotter doesn't um after we see this we'll see um they're going to strike both of these tanks there's the fighters moving through the alleys and moving through the destroyed buildings using the destroyed military vandalism as cover um and firing on that tank there that you see um this the spotter is the cameraman in that case um whereas this one looks like it's a helmet C or they don't have helmets forehead camera body camera GoPro um and he he hits uh with this strike and you're going to see those are Israeli soldiers there running away from their tank and you can see the tank in Flames there you can see the smoke so the soldiers run away from that and you you want you you want that if as a photo if he's a National Geographic photojournalist you'd want him to climb through there um and show us the burning tank and then uh but that's not what you do when you're a military spotter you don't give up your position you don't risk that spotting position so that we can get a little extra footage of what it looks like so that people on Twitter can say yeah but does that actually do anything to the tanks even though every day including this day Israel claimed three dead from anti-tank fire in jabalia Camp um so we know what these weapons do to the tanks I've read to you on previous programs what it's been like to be a soldier within um these op within a tank when it's hit by uh these can burn in the inside of the tank easily these these tanks are the most armored tanks in the world um and Palestinian uh homemade weapons they're copies of effective Soviet weapons but they're made by the Palestinians um and and we've seen that all through the war gives them the ability to fight so the building up of the weapons of the movement is key the security and operational security that they operate under is key and those are things that were part of um of sino's leadership there was a chance in 2021 another one in 2022 and another one in 2023 early in 2023 where there could have been Wars um and senoir said no let's wait let's wait until we have the capacity to fight fully let's do 13 thanks Tomar so uh again Return to Sender the our our fighter here uh the fighter is saying writing in hand writing your goods have been returned to you this is part of this genre of operations The Return to Sender operations that we've been seeing happening all throughout the war and because of the 60,000 air strikes on Gaza um there's literally thousands of these unexploded bombs and gassam gets them into their hands um and can reuse them so this one's planed Ed in the ground it has writing on it um and this tank happens to stop at just the right spot for the operation um and this fighter says that this is from the jabalia camp we give this operation as a gift to you our fighting shik Abu Ibrahim sinir who was martyred while advancing it's already within a day of this his death they're already calling him the fighting Shake who who was martyred while advancing and that says uh Return to Sender so another quality operation um targeting the uh 41st armored Brigade who earlier in the war Kasam when they were fighting in the South um Kasam uh put out a video that uh about making basically saying how how many have been killed from the 401st uh armored Brigade um and they said that they uh the marks of Kasam Soldier shoes are still visible on your face because they were part of the October 7th uh capture as well so um four I IDF soldiers were killed and one wounded in explosions uh one seriously wounded in explosions another was wounded in a sniper operation so here he's dedicating it to senoir and you're going to see this for the rest of the war you'll probably see this for decades to come because the impact on morale to see your commander fighting in the way that he fought um right to his last moments and um with just the the dignity with which he fought is remarkable number 14 is a five-part Ambush we'll try to do it in one swoop um this is a five-part Ambush that's going to begin here identifying intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance topnotch Always by Kasam they find the building that the troops are in they hit it with a thermobaric warhead also built in Gaza an rpg7 thermobaric single they build uh tandem um thermobaric Warheads but that was just a single and then these Fighters two Yasin see look at those Yasin those look like those don't look like the normal Yasin those look like they had just been made um and they're colored in a different way the paint from the previous ones probably doesn't exist anymore but these are probably being built in battle which is a question that we've all had uh throughout this war are they Regen generating um their capacity and sure all signs point to yes um then you get a hit right there on the Nar Troop Carrier that went to bail out the thermobaric Warhead hit so again they predict the route um here comes a tank we have the second Archer it's going to meet this tank again the spotters inside the building within spitting distance of this just remarkable we see this all the time and You' never get used to it how close uh they are to that tank Here Comes The Fighter um moving from an elevated position after the spotter spots the tank um they move upstairs and then watch this strike there's no uh trophy on that strike that is a direct hit to that to that tank um and you'll see Flames here they're going to show you uh a freeze frame with flames of the tank Burning uh on the inside and later that tank you can see it there later that tank is going to be towed away um and um Under Fire so that's the uh fourth yene archer in this video here comes the fifth and he's got an even better look at it this is a cameraman underneath if you look up at the top on the right you can see the yesen Archer above him and you can see that it's a camera because of the way it looks down like that as he's turning so they have two fighters basically stacked on top of each other there something we've seen before too and then this isn't something we see all that often we see it with Hezbollah but this is them attacking Kasam attacking with uh PK machine guns the um the the the recovery operation of the tank they're firing on the Tank's recovery operation and you're going to see in a moment here the tank being um yeah there it is in in Flames being dragged away uh and being targeted uh by Machine Gun fire at the uh troops that are around for that extraction so that was a detailed Ambush pretty remarkable operation this one uh is an alaxa martyr brigades this is the Nadal Al amudi Brigade of the alaxa Martyr brigades and this is a this is a rare video um and it shows that the fighting factions in jabalia are um capable of fighting uh Beyond just SEL kuds and the cassam brigades the two main factions and the the cassam brigades are the National Army um and they have the builtup stocks of these kind of weapons but here um the alax MERS brigades are getting into the we've shown a few of these videos the Alam moodi Brigade um ha has access to a uh what appears to be an Al gou sniper rifle um a 50 cal Sayad um Rani and um Al Gul and so we've seen a couple of their sniper videos before but here they are detonating against the tank crew there um and then they're going to come with the second stage of this Ambush um well there's their second spotter showing the burning vehicle uh in the street and then we're going to see the spotter here identify the rescue operation and they're going to fire on that with a a PSL a Romanian PSL sniper rifle that looks a bit like a dragon off but is not um and so they're firing uh there so they're in the battle here in jabalia as well it's this is a fierce fight in jabalia the the crime of genocide is happening but this is a fierce fight number 16 is a sniper operation that has to be edited you have to go to my Twitter again to find the uncensored version of this but this is a family program so uh it freezes right there he gets it in the back um and a rabbi um this this story he's uh been variously described as clinically Dead uh um but definitely in need of prayers according to his Rabbi so he's not in good shape um after this sniper attack and this is in Northwest Gaza City so this is more over towards the shotti camp which gives you just an idea of how spread out the sieges um of the north here's a fighter with a shaah this is an efp he's going to run out and set it and then he realizes halfway that he forgot to put the cover on it so he stops we're gonna show this a couple times because it's good so he he and then he runs back the danger and then he's he's detonating this he's presumably in one of those houses and that's a spotter in the back there's two two people in this operation he's presumably in one of those houses um and that's why they cut the film they didn't want to show you where he ran to but we'll Loop it around one more time and and and watch how he that's a ner Troop Carrier watch the upper floors of the building beside it that's straight ahead watch that building straight ahead so you can see how vicious that weapon is explodes shrapnel hits the upper and overlast over pressure hits the Upper Floor so here he is he's got his he's got it set he runs and then he's running to safety and then he goes up and he stops and he turns back they gave him a freeze frame there to show his detonation cord but he goes back and puts this um bed sheet over it just enough to to make it look if he didn't go back the mission would have failed the tank would have seen that plastic metal um and would they would have detonated it before but as you can see the the mission was successful he increased his likelihood of Dying manyfold by pausing and turning around and running back under aerial surveillance constant aerial surveillance but to execute the mission properly that's what needed to happen and so he did that um so operational success and I'm sure he got props from the guys when he got back for that because that was dangerous to do and to execute and if you just looked at that footage in the area this yeah let's watch it one more time just look at the Wasteland that Israel has done to Gaza City which was a a metropolis and it just looks like there's barely buildings um you can see his cord there you could see how that would have been spotted but if you throw a bed sheet over like it doesn't seem like it does much but it it just looks like a piece of people's lives that the Israelis have blown all over Gaza so they normalize it they they think that's just part of some kids bedroom that they destroyed um in every one of these houses that they've destroyed it's just cover the military aspect of this but what's going on in jabal value right now is disgusting and it's impossible to digest and um the courage of the people in the North and the refusal to leave is uh is is every bit as heroic as the resistance so 17b here is a joint operation between um the pfp Abu Ali Mustafa brigades and the popular resistance committees Naser sadin brigades and those are Israeli mortars so these are return to cender operation to those are Israeli mortars um and the pflp and popular resistance committee say in loyalty to the blood of our great leader Yahya senoir and to all the martyrs of freedom and Liberation um they fire captured Israeli mortars at an Israeli position uh in the netsim corridor so I just wanted to bring that one because he both salutes we don't do a lot of martyr uh we don't do a lot of mortar videos but the Martyr element of this one and the joint operation the firing of Israeli mortars that they captured is remarkable so that's a great and then number 17 this one's a pretty extraordinary one that happened yesterday and tomarrow and I got it in uh after the deadline because it was just uh too significant in operation so this tank moving in trying to clear out these same tanks emptying hospitals emptying shelters and then burning them um the reason they burn is because they forced everyone uh out of the shelters so that's the uh and they burned their beds because their their beds were left behind um and that's the uh secondary explosion in in that um operation this is the second camera angle of this tank operation and presumably what we're looking at here is unexploded ordinance um it's uh taken from Israeli bombs put into barrels um maybe it's the bomb themselves as we've seen um so that's remarkable operation too and there's a couple quick ones here from the West Bank I wanted to bring we'll just tack them on the end um because the resistance in the West Bank is continuing here this is four IED operations versus um IDF armored vehicles in the in Nur Shams Camp which they call Little Gaza because of how it's been destroyed by the Israelis they've killed all of their senior uh leadership of the of the S hoods in um in Shams and then they put out a video that just shows operations from the last 10 days um of spectacular operations this is the Northern West Bank armed struggle the inata this is the triangle of terror that the British called it going back to the British mandate Janine nablas taram tubas um and so they're still fighting in the West Bank and at any other time we would be calling that West Bank battle at least in the north as Abdul jaad points out it's maybe wouldn't say it all over the West Bank there's definitely uh stuff happening all over the West Bank but particularly in the north um it's a uh it's an inata it's an armed struggle uh in the North and then number 19 um after this is in tubas tubas is still fighting uh as well the vehicle's going to enter the seen here and be hit so tuos is fighting as well and I'm going to do just a quick run through of Lebanon there's so much to cover in the resistance report these days especially when yashia sinir is killed but uh bear with us here we're going to continue on that is the West Bank Gaza uh Palestinian front uh resistance report [Music]