Gaza resistance backs Israel into corner as ceasefire looms, with Jon Elmer

so this is the resistance report for day 468 and I want to say as ever everything you're going to see uh on this week's show is from has been published in the week since you last saw me um and for this week it's the week ending January 16th and that is 4 days before the scheduled pause and fighting that is supposed to happen on Sunday um should it happen so um just to give people that understanding in we'll take a look at the maps as ever to get started thank you to Tamara for guiding me through this the whole time um you can see the two key corridors there the Philadelphia Corridor and the narim corridor in red the ceasefire agreement involves the withdrawal from both of those corridors um and to you can see on the Philadelphia Corridor actually let's put the next map up tomorrow with the zoom you can see here on the zoom the Philadelphia Corridor at the Rafa cross critically the Israelis are to give up the rafac crossing and allow that uh to be used for uh wounded people to leave for a surge of Aid to come in uh and ultimately The Prisoner exchange element will happen out through the Rafa Crossing so the Rafa Crossing has been sealed since May the 7th a devastating uh uh a devastating result from that of sealing gaza's only uh way to the outside world and having Israeli control over that um is a giving up control of that is a key part uh of the ceasefire agreement and something that um the Palestinians refused to concede um through this entire genocide on those principles we'll get into the ceasefire um after uh the resistance report but um and we'll get into it in detail what we know about it Norah covered a little bit in the opening um and we'll do more of that after but I just want to say in what we're looking at here uh con Yunis and Rafa there were operations this week in Rafa the Kasam brigades carry out an ambush of an Israeli position in uh Al shabura camp in central Rafa um so even though the Israelis had drawn down um from Rafa there's operations still going on in Rafa there was an operation there's multiple operations in Rafa carried out by multiple resistance factions um there's an operation in communistic cap drones um so even in the South there's no videos from the south this week but there were operations and as we know the videos only represent a small portion of the overall number of operations that take place but um there's significant ones this week that we'll take a look at starting in the north of Gaza if we go up there we have as nor reported a 100 days passed uh on the siege of the north the reinvasion of the north for the third time um focused on jabalia Camp and B lahia in particular and over the last week B hanon um more than 5,000 people were killed more than 10,000 wounded 2600 detained in a 100 days dismantling of all three of the main hospitals uh in the north happened um and Abu aeda the spokesperson for the cassan brigades had a statement on the 100th day where he said after more than a 100 days of comprehensive destruction and genocide carried out by the enemy Army in the northern Gaza Strip our Fighters are still inflicting heavy losses on it and dealing it harsh blows we confirm that the losses in the ranks of the failed occupation Army are much much higher than what it announces and the enemy will be defeated from the northern Gaza Strip dragging its taals of Shame without being able to break the back of the resistance and the only achievement it has made is destruction Devastation and massacres against innocent people that is a consistent statement from Abu abeda since day one of this war that we've watched it's a war against civilians the war on the cassam brigades on the military and militants in Gaza is a failure um and that has been shown since the first day and it will be shown right up to the last day up till the ceasefire should have come in place four days from now uh on Sunday if we look at number one you can see an operation here um the Kasam forces here the commander is going to describe this operation against a command center that is the target the uh red triangle shows that that's a command center for the Israeli forces in jabalia City jabalia AL balad um and this is uh this comes after The Fighter as the commander says after more than 10 days of field reconnaissance on the unit and you can see the Weaponry AR raay in front of him there um you could see the fighter here crossing the street with um his Weaponry you can see him this is a cam built thermobaric Warhead you can see uh all parts of it there the rocket booster um the the canister and the um primary charge at the front which is to punch a hole in the wall um this is a uniquely Cass Bri Gades uh weapon the second charge uh the precursor charge that punches a hole in the wall is only made by cassam and they do that by um filling the 105 cartridge with thermobaric um Fuel and you can see the fighter there um launching that and we see from a second camera from the side direct hit again we've seen this all throughout the war they're targeting specific you can see the over pressure of a clearly successful operation um and the fighter the spotter says uh it's lit which is a a line that they've been using all throughout the war um famously remember the Islamic Jihad fighter said it when he was skipping uh after hitting a tank earlier on in the war if we look at number two I just I brought the iso of this because some people have asked throughout the war why does the camera Shake um if we watch this one uh just in ISO you can see why the camera shakes the back blast um of the RPG is significant and the fact that the fighters are able to sit beside uh these these launches and get the camera work is um it's very it's very operationally intensive to do and they are actually very successful at it as you can see standing beside that um if your camera shakes a little bit you could be forgiven some people in the comments I know most people know the back blast on the RPG but some people in the comments always say why does the camera shake that gives you a pretty good shot of it on day 468 uh of this war so if you look at number three um we're going to see a yassen strike here against a tank again you can see just the tank the back of the tank um you can see it's going to give you a red triangle here in a second um so we're looking at the back of the marava here um sticking out of the rubble we've got an elevated Yassin shot and you can see immediately on this one multiple colors of smoke which indicates an immediate Cookoff of the Weaponry so we're seeing a direct hit from an elevated firing position you can see the smoke the black smoke there and then it's going to uh the spotter is going to show after that it's continuing to burn you can see that it's a different color smoke so we're seeing the Cookoff of the targeting of the ammo storage in the back of of the marava tank um so you can see it again there the absolute destruction and Rubble is what the fighters are using to their advantage the Israelis think that they have destroyed this area and Fighters are still accessing it through their tunnel Network and still hitting their tank s causing casualties the Israelis took as many casualties this week as uh as any week in the war they took more than 15 casualties that they admitted like abua said their casualties never match um the field reporting um and we know there was dozens injured um and again the Israelis don't count their injured properly don't um don't announce they're injured properly um so that's another successful shot if we look at number four here I can show you this this is again the the uh from War Thunder but it gives you from the video game which I don't play but uh they have good um good graphics here and you can see the orange canisters at the back the containers there are ammo storage they're actually a lot larger on the actual tank and you can see the space in there that's where the Infantry cabin is so there there's open space in this video game they had shells in there but that's not how the Israelis use it the Israelis use it as benches for an infantry Squad so you can have six to eight fighters in the cabin of the merova and you can have four uh that's in addition to the four crew that you see the two the the loader um the driver that you can see up front there and the commander so the cassam Bri Gades are targeting the rear of these tanks and you're going to see that um again in number five here where Sarah Al kuds is going to use uh multiple uh efps this is Kasam calls them the Sha um s kuds calls them theik which is a the piercer so they're explosively formed penetrators and the fighters mous holing still we've seen this all throughout the war able to move between buildings without going out into the streets and this is what has vexed the Israelis all through and I'll read you some testimonies after after these videos about the israeli's reaction to these operations continuing despite the fact that they've been laying Siege to Northern Gaza for more than a 100 days and this is the third major operation in the north we remember back in the early days of the resistance report when I was telling you that the Israelis claimed operational control over uh bade hanoon and I said that that that wasn't true it was clear from the fighters that it wasn't true and now we are a year plus later and you can see Fighters still laying down um the graphics on the screen showing you the tank entering the Ambush Zone where the twin efp so one efp is a devastating weapon twins uh is particularly significant um and you can tell by where the targeting of this vehicle is that again they're targeting the rear of the vehicle rather than the front which has loaded plates this fighter says we have received news from field reconnaissance of a convoy of enemy forces advancing towards us and we ask God for guidance and success in this operation and here it comes here you'll see you got you've got the merkova facing you you've got a ner Troop Carrier um that has a population of 12 in it driving in behind it that's part of the Convoy that the fighter said that they identified again the intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance has been impeccable all through this war so there that's the rear of the marava you can see that because you can see the chains um those chains are protecting the turret Gap at the back which is the largest and you can see the double um Detonator there and the and the fighters can set these as trip wires um but the fighters don't they want to press the button they want to be involved in pressing the button in many cases um in jabalia Camp where this operation is um the fighters have been waiting for this battle um in between the battles they've been waiting for it to happen and they want to be participating they don't want to set trip wires they set them in buildings um but you see them consistently wanting to participate in the and you can see the fighters sometimes talking to each other about whether to set a trip wire or press the button the guys always say no we're going to press the button um number six is a sniper operation this is by the AL AXA martyr brigades I'm going to bring you Resistance videos from all factions fighting in Gaza this week um and this is the uh the nidal AL amoodi Battalion of the uh alaxa martyr brigades um and you can see the sniper picks up an Israeli soldier there in the distance and again I've edited this out to match Community guidelines that YouTube has um so you're not going to see the shot but it is a successful shot with the AL goul rifle which is um a copy of the seyad 50 cal or the Austrian stair um and you can see these Fighters here again working in teams a spotter and a shooter and there's the ambulance taking away the soldier that dropped in that successful operation by the Alam moodi uh Battalion so alaxa Mar brigades getting involved this is another SEL kuds operation this is a sniper operation east of Gaza City um that takes place um Sarah Al Goods is uh using an Al goul sniper rifle here we're at 6B um and again you see the fighters with their setups inside the building nothing sticking out nothing shiny anything shiny is covered over and you see them identifying here this is fighter this is Israeli soldiers in the buffer zone so the reach of this weapon into the buffer zone again I edited that because we don't uh we can't have the soldier drop but he drops and it's a successful sniper operation by S kuds so uh alax orar brigades and S kuds both with successful operations there you can see the wall so part of the ceasefire agreement is Israel will withdraw into the buffer zone and that buffer Zone will be 700 M from the border until Phase 2 and you can see they're well within range of that weapon so number seven uh is an as another uh Return to Sender operation and this is what you're going to see is the next generation of fighters in Gaza are going to be armed with Israeli uh unexploded ordinance or captured weapons these are anti-tank mines that the Israelis use to blow up houses they use it for house demolitions as a cost of effective way to carry out their genocide cheaper than um air strikes um you can see they have eyes on this position here um the fighters said that they've had eyes on this position for two weeks which is again something the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance um and Target acquisition as the uh NATO militaries call it that's certainly Target acquisition because you're going to see the arm of a soldier inside this troop position uh and the Israelis uh claimed three dead in this operation and nine injured um five critically wounded and in presumably in this operation it matches the day and the location this is in jabalia Camp so reusing these weapons that have been used to devastate the Gaza Strip uh and applying it on the forces that are besieging them so another U Return to Sender operation by S coulds um number eight we have now we're in B lahia again they're able to fight in all of these areas that the Israelis are operating um you can see what looks like a newly manufactured uh tandem 85 Warhead which is sel K's primary anti-tank weapon you can see staring down the barrel of the merkova tank here uh in b lahia um and the Israelis said the Israeli Army this is from miv newspaper that says the Israeli Army this is from interviews with Soldiers the Israeli Army is struggling to deal with the large number of explosive devices in B lahia and banon the nah Brigade and the 41st armored Brigade operating in banon for the past three weeks are paying a heavy price with more than 40 injured and 15 killed the army estimates that Fighters have been preparing for a long time for the forces Advance into banoon and planting devices so that's significant because I've been talking about this throughout the war that these Fighters are not running around all over Gaza attacking where the Israelis are the fighters are fighting in territorial divisions um so the banon Battalion the B lahia Battalion there's two battalions in um the jabalia camp and two more in the city of jabalia um and they stay in those positions so for a 100 days or for 95 of the 100 days of the siege of the north banon wasn't involved in the fight the Israelis weren't pressing into B hanon for 95 days they were focused on jabalia Camp and B the day they moved into banoon they were immediately hit within hours they had seven casualties um from a significant operation they are not running around and moving from place to place so banoon uh exacting a significant price and last week on the show I showed you uh captured drones new drones that were um that we hadn't seen before that were put in place by um an Israeli flotilla 133 Special Forces Unit that um that was um that was supplying um troops with um with drones that made it appear as though they had run out of drones um I think we might have lost tomorrow briefly here let me just double check um oh there we are so this is again so now we're seeing back to back we seeing this drone this Mara they're calling it a Mara probe but it's actually a it's a a drone that's put together um piece by piece you can see the velcro on it um and on that screen it noted that this was a multi-mission capable drone um that has Communications and GPS scrambling capabilities that it uh is capable of intercepting enemy drones and it was carrying a th000 grams you can see in those lung looking things uh are 500 gr each of uh high explosive of C4 they're the lungs on the right hand side there and you can see those are the same drones I showed you last week and that was the first sighting of them last week that we saw them we saw them in Rafa and there was a whole table full of them uh there and now we're seeing them here uh this is presumably in conun and and the fighter says the commander says that through a precise and complex Security operation um we managed to wart a hostile attempt against a displaced person's camp with this drone the aircraft was found to be carrying explosive pods each weighing 500 gram of C4 material the explosives have been uh they captured the uh they commandeered the Drone in the air um and took the explosives and sah says the explosives have been transferred to the specialized units of s cods to be utilized in the field so Return to Sender so these drones that we've only seen for a week in battle are already being captured at significant rates that seem to demonstrate and I said last week on the show because it's hard to know what the advantages of these drones are over the DGI the G Chinese drones that the Israelis have been using possibly we're seeing it here that it can carry a kilogram uh of explosives but we saw those drones carry a kilogram we've seen those drone the G drones carrying the Sharpshooter um weapon to to use them as and they've seen them of course nor is reported on um those drones carrying speakers so it's not clear what uh what the need is for these new racing drones that you can see see the battery pack on the back is is Velcro on so this is done by a veterans organization that is seemingly giving these drones into the soldiers because they need them um and I speculated last week because it wasn't clear what advantage these drones have over the other drones in fact they they have disadvantages that it suggests that maybe the Israelis are running low on their supplies and people had asked me all through the war are the Palestinians running low on supplies and this this these drones seem to suggest that the Israelis are um we'll have to keep watching for it but again this Commander uh the head of military intelligence commander in the military intelligence um is describing on scene what I said that they commandeered the aircraft they took the explosives um um and the aircraft was on its way to attack a displ displaced person's Camp so um the Cowardly Israeli Army putting explosives on a homemade drone to drop it on people's tents uh 460 days into their genocide that they have gotten $23 billion just in this year alone for weapons to drop on Gaza but that's not enough they want to make these makeshift drones and again you can see those are the two lungs that carry the explosives so interesting detail um the it's if if the war is ending I'm not sure we're going to get a satisfactory explanation for what we're seeing here um but those are clearly makeshift drones racing drones um that don't have the same capabilities um as uh the drones that they were using previously if we look at the next slide tomorrow number 10 um you can see the again another Hall and those are the mavic those are G drones um again and you can see the size difference they're they're the the blue one is the racing drone that the flotilla 13 Special Forces gave him you can see another one captured there that one looks like it was shot out of the air you can see the blades are broken but the one in the previous video was landed and the one in the one in the videos that I showed you last week of those drones they were all in pristine condition the Palestinians uh GPS spoof um and then land the drones but here you can see that one was shot out of the air um you can see it's got no rotors on it um but yeah this is very interesting development so we saw it in Rafa and here we're seeing it in jabalia these are captured from jabalia and on the drones here uh the drones show the soldiers and they all smiled I edited it out but if the hind RAB Foundation uh wants their full faces um they should get them because these soldiers were joking around and they're all around their weapons and they're going into Gaza to drop bombs uh off these homemade uh drones so um this is part of the digital footprint that these soldiers have created that has made it difficult already for them to travel we're already seeing reports uh in countries uh of Israeli soldiers fleeing um fleeing arrest warrants in those countries and um if there's a modicum of justice that will be happening for years to come because of the crimes they've committed in Gaza so just a note on banon there wasn't actually any videos out of banoon this week they may come uh in the next week but the banoon Battalion was so ready um the commander of the Battalion is Abu Hamza fad he's still he survived the war and carried out um his duties uh in the North in the banoon Battalion for this whole time Channel 12 Israeli television had a military INB bed because they thought that they had this area under control so they were sending military ineds I reported on that last week in jabalia Camp where they sent harr's uh newspaper in so channel 12's correspondent goes in and he starts to talk to soldiers let me read you what he says testimonies from soldiers in Northern Gaza he says the soldiers say we are fighting in an environment monitored by cameras by the militants they have planted devices explosive devices in every alley and are activating them from inside the tunnel their underground network is fully operational we cannot see them with the naked eye for a week and a half there's been no direct identification of the militants they have been completely they have completely planted banoon with huge amounts of explosives and remnant of our Air Force bombs um every alley every intersection is filled with state-of-the-art cameras 360° thermal cameras they choose their targets carefully they monitor the movements of our Force through the cameras um if there is a drone they do not activate the bombs but they wait for the military force to activate them so the soldiers that went into B hanon and they took 15 admitted to 15 casualties just this week alone and U multiple uh high-profile ones that they couldn't hide um and it was the Gaza division that initially went into banoon thinking that it was going to be an easy operation they immediately got smoked and the 62nd division had to come in and replace them and they got hit just as hard the searet nahal the spearhead company of the nahal brigades they lost 13 of 17 soldiers in their company including the company commander and his Deputy who would have taken over both of them were killed and the nah brigades overall commander their Brigadier General the overall Brigade Commander uh was narrow Miss in uh an attack on the command Jeep and it was a Jeep in a con and that's why you get these testimonies from these soldiers because there was a convoy of jeeps but they the Palestinian Fighters Kasam hit the command Jeep not any of the other jeeps and so their intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance is just all over these guys and because they're not running around Gaza they're in banon in the place where they live where they grew up where they know every area um they could be patient and because they can be patient they can wait 5 days 6 days and watch the Israelis get comfortable in these areas and then they get hit so the like I said the Sarat nahal spearhead company lost 13 of 17 soldiers dead and wounded that's dead and wounded um there was multiple days with dozens of casualties reported one day there was 30 casualties reported 13 critically um and like I said at least 15 killed uh in this week so and we know Israel lies about their uh casualty report so just remarkable fighting and here's a report from a Yeo aut in bed that says Fighters and officers report that the operation in the north of the Gaza Strip is not being managed properly the size of the forces was less than required and they were not sufficiently equipped with heavy machinery the nah Brigade they acknowledge is an issue that has not been sufficiently addressed the fighters are exhausted they've been fighting continuously since October 7th and the results are evident the war is not being managed properly to desired outcomes they're losing the war they don't want to fight it their military can't stand can't keep up with the tempo of the resistance with the preparation of the resistance in this besieged tiny besieged territory with no resupply lines building their own weapons are making soldiers have testimonies like that where its enemy the Israelis have supply lines all over the world as sheer pointed out um are sourcing weapons from all over the world are getting $23 billion just this year alone from the Americans um and so this just a really remarkable story so that's Northern Gaza and I just have a few from the nsim corridor which is also part of the withdrawal here if we look at map number 15 um we were lamenting the expansion of the narim corridor under the ceasefire agreement um that is the ceasefire agreement of Yahya sinir um the narim corridor will be uh abandoned by the Israelis people will be allowed to return to the north without inspections which was the criteria of senoir um and that has happened in part because the netsim corridor has been under Fire by the Palestinian resistance every single day since it was established and even before that because the uh juhar Al dick uh axis was one of the first access to get resistance and that where the Israelis came across the border to try to hold the netsim corridor was the source of the first operations of this war so number 16 is uh and again I'm going to get everybody in here every every faction's going to get in here this is the popular resistance committees and the pflp um the Nasser Saladin brigades and the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades um and there's a trophy 60 mm Israeli uh mortar here that they're going to fire the signs says we do not surrender we win or we die um and the second sign uh notes the date of the operation and their Flags again popular resistance committees and the popular front for the liberation of Palestine uh both groups participating together in Mortar operations that look small um but these are uh fragmentation essentially fragmentation grenades bombs that are being sent um that um that are deadly and the Israelis have to set up INF uh installations to protect against that so you can see them both there and then number 17 we have um so those you can see there just before we switch those are Israeli mortars um so number 17 um again this is the popular resistance committees um and the popular front for the liberation of Palestine also the Democratic front for the liberation of Palestine martyr Omar Alum forces participated in Striking the narim corridor this week in an operation with SAR Al could sod's multiple operations against the nsim corridor um as well in there these are 107 millimeter rocket artillery again they've seen these being fired all throughout the war they'll be fired right till the last day um when the Israelis moved into banon all of these launches were from banon right under the Israelis nose so 17b is the AL AXA martyr brigades um so the AL AXA martyr brigades are involved in this with the popular resistance committees as well um and they put the netsim corridor under pressure for this entire War um and the Israelis want no part of keeping it um in this ceasefire they they intended to keep it in the ceasefire agreement there's more you can see there more captured Israeli mortars so these Fighters are capturing the mortars and returning them to Sender still um and again the fighters acknowledging that uh it's it's victory or martyrdom they're fighting to the end they do not surrender they will not surrender um and that has been going on throughout this battle and then he lers as mortars and you can see in in other videos where they set up their mortars they're not just random they're doing it they're using artillery geometry artillery math to set up their uh firing positions and because the positions of the Israelis are fixed um the fighters can move their positions um and still have the coordinates for hitting the Israelis and number 17c just two more here we got uh this is the alaxa Martyr brigades uh nidal Al amudi Battalion and you can see here how they set up the um the coordinates um using this the string line and the geometry from their uh artillery math uh and then they set it up so gives us a good shot of all three parts of the operation that we usually see and this is an operation dedicated to Nadal Alami who was assassinated by the Israelis along with senior sod's commanders in a targeted assassination in the Shati Camp um on 14 January 2008 exactly 17 years ago to the date and you can see the sign there U that they've put up to commemorate this the sign says Abu Hassen you've planted uh it says within your memory is a promise we will stay on your path you planted men who are Protectors of the nation and your memory in US is our resistance so they set this up for this is the Alam moodi uh Battalion firing and you can see the landing there they have a spotter a lot of the mortar teams don't have their spotter um they don't want to give up their spotter position which is why we don't see the other side of the mortars um and just one more 17d this is sel kuds and the Jihad jabriel brigades this is the popular front for the liberation of Palestine General command pfl PGC um so we haven't had the Jihad jbril uh brigades in for a while but this last uh series of operations we've brought in every uh resistance faction that's in the joint operations room and uh maybe during the ceasefire I'll show you some videos of The Joint operations room training before the war um this these guys did not just wake up at Ro out of bed and learn how to fire rocket artillery um and use their uh geometry uh to get on target they trained and all the factions trained together under the lead of the cassam brigades um and we've focused on the cassam brigades throughout this war because they are effectively the national Army um and these other brigades um are in support and work Under the Umbrella of the cassan brigades so that is the resistance report for day 4 68 4 days before the ceasefire goes into effect on Sunday as is scheduled hopefully 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