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Resistance Report — 28 Apr 2024

Gaza resistance continues to launch rockets 200 days into Israel’s genocide, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer guides us through the latest videos from the resistance in Gaza.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Mohamed Abdou, a visiting professor at Columbia University, and Abubaker Abed, contributor and journalist in the Gaza Strip, on the day 201 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/live/nZpG2Phr0DY

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Full transcript
well they're still fighting 200 days on um no no signs of abating at all um the news report that Nora did at the beginning captured a lot of the things that I always want to say before breaking down these Resistance videos is that uh we're covering the ground Invasion uh day by day hour by hour um but the air war against the people of Gaza continues consistently um no matter how the ground operation is going they're killing a 100 people a day from the air um and it's brutal the the the scenes that uh were found at shifa hospital of the mass Graves um now we're seeing Mass Graves at Nasser hospital and it's important to remember that both of these operations were what the IDF said were the gold standard of urban Warfare they described the attack on nassa and chiffa hospitals as the example of the type of raids that they were going to carry out in this period from the buer Zone uh into Gaza so even though you've heard that ground troops have for the most part left Gaza the Israelis still intend to raid uh regularly uh into Gaza and uh shifa and Nasser hospitals are examples of that but also in banoon so let's look at video number one here tomorrow this is banoon where the Israelis went in uh last week on um a on a focused raid as they called it they attacked the uh internally displaced people's camp in a un school and arrested everybody over the age of 14 they operated on the ground for more than a week again we've uh edited out the key parts of these scenes but we're looking at we're looking through a sniper scope here um at Israeli forces uh that believe they're sheltered here um to the east of banoon we're seeing one of more than 40 Al goul sniper rifle attacks um we've edited the scenes here um so if YouTube's watching uh We've edited out all of the scenes people can use their imagination but this is a sniper hit that the Israelis um admitted uh severely wounded a shal do Special Forces officer um which is something again we've seen with these sniper attacks uh throughout the war that Kasam this is a Kasam attack Kasam is able to track these units and are picking not the regular grunt Soldier um but here during the invasion of banon they're able according to Israeli confirmation um to Target a sheld do Special Forces officer and this is a special forces Soldier whose uh Air Force reconnaissance and their uh FedEd within the military as being able to move Behind Enemy Lines um and here we see the kasan brigades are able to Target them um and not just any Soldier uh but to pick Pi these soldiers um and just just to to note during this operation in banoon the Israelis also released uh information where they bragged about uh that through the two months uh through the six months of this uh ground war that they have stolen $7.6 million from homes uh of people in Gaza and they they said the money was forfeited to the Bank of Israel so of all of the other things that we've covered on this show uh Israel wanted to add stealing money from people's homes to the tune of $7.6 million um have been taken throughout the course uh of of this battle so maybe we can go to number two here tomorrow this is so that was the first one in banoon this is now in the middle camps area we're seeing a D9 armored bulldozzer here with the red triangle over top of it uh being hit by a Yassin 105 strike that appears to be from a ton fed uh position but we can watch when this comes back around this video you can see the D9 armored bulldozer is bulldozing green houses so this is the operation that the Israelis needed to wrap up in the middle camps uh where they killed thousands of people during these operations and these are the last days of the operations and just before leaving they decided um that a place that uh is undergoing a deep famine that will take years to rec cover from uh if the war were to end today uh Israel's intended target here is to destroy green houses um and that was u a direct hit on the cockpit of a D9 armored bulldozer made by caterpillar in the United States uh for people working on boycott divestment and sanction stuff you can see this uh uh this vehicle operating uh in the field this was uh part of the operations in the middle camps where they uh Israelis have been uh moving to expand the buffer zone along narim uh Corridor which is what I've talked to about a number of times on this show that the Israelis are splitting the North and the South uh of the Gaza Strip with a massive buffer zone um to divide the territory um and while that operation is going on um they decided that these few green houses here on the edge of derbala uh needed to be uh destroyed so just just so people get a sense of the idea of what the Israeli Army is doing rather than dismantling uh uh Hamas or Kasam or militant infrastructure um they're out here demolishing green houses during a famine so let's go to number three tomorrow this is sel kuds um Islamic Jihad they're showing us a video here of their units uh putting together uh rocket artillery 7 mm uh rocket artillery these are the Palestinian resistance version of the tank shells um and the fighters are being shown here of s Al kuds uh putting together the Rockets now s kuds has a rocket program that has carried on Parallel to Cam's uh rocket program and I just I brought some numbers here so people could understand the uh the trajectory of the rocket program that began at the beginning of the second inata and Adan Al goul of the cassan brigade set about uh making a rocket program that could reach out from the territory that they were uh occupied in and reach Israel in 2001 there was four Rockets fired 2002 there was 35 2003 155 2004 281 so you can see the development of the rocket program happening 2005 the Israelis leave Gaza and the weapons industry in the Gaza Strip is able to really take hold 2006 they fire 950 Rockets So five times as many uh as the year before uh the Israelis left um by 2008 it's 2,000 rockets and then in 2014 during the 2014 War uh Palestinians were able to fire 4500 Rockets now October 7th operation began the morning of October 7th began by Kasam and s kuds firing 5,000 Rockets within minutes so you can see the development of this rocket program this is s kuds now showing us their Kasam Rockets they made their own uh Kasam Rockets parallel to the Kasam uh weapons program and this is Islamic Jihad Fighters showing us these Rockets being assembled um you can see that they're written on there it says beside the Palestinian flag they are made in Palestine on those stickers these are Palestinian made weapons that we're always showing here uh on this program because the development of the of the rocket program and the weapons industry uh there you see made in Palestine um uh the development of the weapons program is the reason why Israel has been unable to defeat uh one of the reasons why uh Israel has been unable to defeat uh the Palestinian resistance or the Palestinian people in general in this seven months uh of genocide um so we're watching the Rockets being put together here by Sarai by SEL KS um the various different types of rockets they're using now we're seeing their 116 mm which is similar to the 107 that they just showed before um but they have a whole variety of rockets and here we see the fighters installing uh buried launchers digging them out we're watching them physically dig out uh the Launchers from the ground this is uh what we're watching is a joint operation here with the dflp the national resistance brigades of the democratic front for for the liberation of Palestine um so we're seeing again groups working together um and these buried launchers that you see he the fighter is now we're watching him insert the the rocket into the launcher these buried launchers um exist above ground where they could be dug out like we're watching here and now we're going to watch the Rockets be fired um but they also have uh rocket positions that are uh connected to tunnels um and that could be resupplied uh through the tunnel apparatus and as we know uh Israel has been unable to stop this rocket fire throughout U even when there's ground uh invasions even when there's troops on the ground in the areas uh in the particular regions those regions are still able to fire rockets and of course the minute the Israelis leave as they did in con Yunis a couple weeks ago after a devastating Kasam raid uh Rockets were fired by resistance groups immediately and so what we're seeing here is could still able uh there they still have this capacity even the smaller groups um still have this weapons capacity the other uh factions have been producing videos like this as well um of their rocket fire and so when Israel is telling you that they're dismantling these uh these particular battalions throughout Gaza and that they have to go into Rafa to dismantle the last of the battalions um it has no uh bearing in reality as Abu obeda said the other day it's just gaslighting you to believe that uh an invasion of Rafa will somehow change this situation because we're watching uh Islamic Jihad here in Gaza City um which has been invaded multiple times required uh uh four divisions just to enter the city the first time and then multiple raids on these cities and they're still unable to stop uh the rocket fire it's interesting here that we're seeing them set up makeshift rocket launchers the these weapons these 105 mm shells are normally fired out of tube launchers um the Chinese type 63 tube launchers uh multiple rocket launcher you can see it in that photo in the back there U behind the Islamic Jihad fighter that's his his armband that says Islamic Jihad you can see there they're showing you what that's what the multiple launcher looks like um but the resistance factions have been able to make makeshift launchers uh to launch these devices which is allows them uh to not be tracked um and is one of the reasons why the rocket program has been successful uh after um still seven months on of carrying out rocket strikes more than 10,000 Rockets uh have been fired on Israel which is more than double the amount that happened in either the 2006 war or the 2014 War um so these groups are able to still carry out these operations and um Abu abeda gave a speech yesterday on the anniversary of the uh on the 200 day anniversary he uh 200 day marking anniversary is probably not the right word um but he made some interesting points that I just want to bring to people he reminded people that the uh that this operation began on October 7th um with um the cassam brigades dismantling the Gaza division destroying the Gaza division he says in under an hour I actually think that that's uh a a long estimate of how long it took them they uh cassan brigades actually had over run the Gaza division within 25 minutes of the 6:30 a.m. operation um but he says the images that Nora described um so well in the uh in the introduction news report of the show um Abu Eda says that these are not images of Victory these are images of a barbaric nature uh of an occupation on display he said that the IDF is trapped in the Sands of Gaza with no goal no Horizon no image of Vicor Y no freedom of their captives only wanting destruction random indiscriminate destruction which he acknowledge something that we've acknowledged on this show many times it's a tactic that just doesn't work there's now more fighters in Gaza there's more children who have witnessed this brutality who will grow up um to want to get revenge um and to want to liberate their territory abua pointed out that every time uh Israel gets into a strategic bind they cry out for help help to their Western Masters which he said just proves that they're um an imposition on the region um that they're part of western designs um and he pointed out correctly that all of this is to protect uh netanyahu's office because Netanyahu is trying to extend this war um to remain in office he talked about Abu BEDA uh the spokesperson for the cassam Bri Gades he talked about the killing of international Aid workers um and the the killing of local volunteers um as well which we've seen he said these are the actions of a defeated army with an inferiority complex um he said these massacres are something anyone can any coward can achieve these massacres um they're they're not military uh they're not military objectives in any way um and any coward could carry out these massacres he also reiterated the uh position of the cassam Bri Gades um on the ceasefire um and prisoner exchange proposals and he reiterated their position that has been consistent since the beginning which is a comprehensive ceasefire uh the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza uh the return of people to their the displaced people to their homes um as we know most of which are destroyed at this point U by Israel's want and destruction and he wants uh Kasam is clear um that the Reconstruction begins immediately The Siege ends um and as you see in this screenshot here he also saluted the heroes in the West Bank and he lists um the the cities in the West Bank and the cities and their refugee camps he lists the cities but we know taram it's nur's refugee camp and tarum refugee camp are both fighting um in Janine he mentions Janine and Janine the refugee camp is also fighting um in nablas we know there's fighting in balat refugee camp in nablas there's fighting in tubas um resistance uh in the camps around tubas rala cilia Jericho Bethlehem deesa camp in Bethlehem is fighting um and he mentions halil Hebron um in the south of the West Bank he also saluted the jordanians who are on the streets protesting every day um and he pointed out to the he pointed out the Iranian uh missile attack on Israel had set new rules uh of the game for the Middle East um which I think is is an accurate uh point so he listed those uh heroic he called them the heroic fighters of the West Bank thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube 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