Gaza sniper takes aim with captured Israeli bullets, with Jon Elmer

So, here we are in Khan Yunis and as Dunia said, uh the raid on Khan Yunis began with um with a notice to leave large sections of Khan Yunis. And something like 50,000 people left in minutes, creating just brutal images of um images that Palestinians have been experiencing for 76 years, uh packing up their belongings, whatever they could carry because there there's not vehicles at this point. Uh the roads are too destroyed to really be driving in vehicles. Um of course, Gaza's mostly children, so it's always focused on children um these these exoduses. Um and as soon as the operation ended yesterday, uh Palestinians immediately went back into Khan Yunis. The civilians are always uh the first to go back in and start cleaning up uh after these operations. There was a number of remarkable operations in Khan Yunis. Um So, Khan Yunis was the site of a 6-month operation, we'll remember, that started in December um and and carried on through Ramadan, more than 128 days of ground war that the Israelis achieved nothing. They said Sinwar was there. They said Muhammad Deif was there. Um they weren't. They said their captives were there. They found none of their captives. Um no achievements. The commanders that were leaving uh Khan Yunis said that they didn't achieve their mission uh during that 6-month operation. Um and nobody's expecting the Israelis to go back into Khan Yunis. The fighters um wouldn't be necessarily expected to go. Khan Yunis was ruined, just destroyed. It looked like the Israelis had pulled out of Khan Yunis um and were finished with their destruction there. Um but they come back, the 98th Division, which has been roving around, the division that attacked uh Shifa Hospital, the division that attacked uh the Jabalia camp, and then attacked Shuja'iyya a couple weeks ago. Now this week, this past week, attacks um in Khan Yunis. Uh and if we look at uh number five here, Tamara, we could see as soon as they come in, fighters are advancing on predictable routes here. We're going to watch just the total ruin. The ruins are unbelievable. The fighters are able to move through this area because of the ruins, um because there's no distinct buildings. They can cover with camouflage here. And here they're climbing up on the berm that the Israeli military uh created to protect their tanks. And we have Palestinian fighters from the Qassam Brigades here using that berm as concealment in order to hit the tank that the berm is intended to protect. Um so, remarkable operation here. The fighter says, you can see the vehicle being towed away, being dragged away by a tank. Um this was a combat engineering vehicle. And we'll watch it one more time, loop it one more time around, Tamara. This fighter's saying, uh we're on our way to humiliate them. We're we're He says, "We're advancing towards their vehicles to humiliate them." And you can see because of the rubblization, because of the destruction, um a fighter carrying a blanket like that is able to hide his uh his moving between buildings in a way that if the buildings were intact, would be much more difficult to do. So, we're seeing the ruins be used on both sides of these operations, um both in the preparation um and in the execution, the ruins are being used as an asset by the Palestinians, um and something that the Israelis have a hard time with. They described it in their uh peer-to-peer uh military uh commentary that it's difficult for them to call out locations because there's nothing to distinguish the destroyed landscape, um which allows the fighters to move around uh more freely. So, we see that vehicle being towed there again, uh another defeated vehicle there. Let's do number six cuz these are uh Shawaz, uh explosively formed penetrators. We see five fighters here, three of them carrying Shawaz devices, uh a Yassin archer, two gunmen, and a photographer uh moving into position. Again, Khan Yunis, the operation was over, 6 months, they destroyed it. Um there was no uh plan for the Israelis to return back to Khan Yunis. They returned back and the first day they're in Khan Yunis, they're being hit by these operations. You can see here the fighters are using the ruins to hide the weapon that's going to be detonated against tanks. So, they're planting two Shawaz devices here. And because of the rubble, they're able to cover it up. You see the Merkava tank enter the screen here. Um um and the second he passes that the EFP, it's detonated at the precise distance, about a meter and a half, so that the explosive um so the explosive shape charge can form. So, uh the fighter's putting it exactly where it is, aiming it at the rear door ammo storage, which is what we're looking at there is the burn-off um of that vehicle hitting the ammo storage um storage base in the back of the tank. So, planning these operations within the first minutes. Yeah, let's watch it one more time cuz we don't usually get to see this these long shots from Qassam. and just the the destruction is just appalling. Um it serves no military purpose. You can see in this video that it's actually an asset for the fighters, um that the genocide um destruction by Israel has no military purpose. Look at the fighters here are using an open building, a building that's blown out um to spot, and they're monitoring from that um from that spot, and picking the spots uh where to put the device based on where they predict that the army vehicles will go. So, you can see the tank pass. Those back elements of the tank are the ammo storage. And it's detonated directly against the rear door, which is the most vulnerable part of the tank, or the ammo storage, which is not separated from the infantry that are in the back of that tank. So, again, another successful operation. No indication of Israeli casualties uh in their reports on any of these videos. They uh they acknowledged um four dead in this last week, and they said two of them were uh friend friendly fire gas inhalation um uh from one of their operations trying to destroy tunnels. Unclear if that's the case or if we uh what they're talking about is the Rafah booby traps that we just watched. Um so, let's do number seven, Tamara. This is another Shawaz because they set up two. We watched them go out and set up two. Um and so we see uh the second one. And look at the the proximity that the fighters have because they know the direction with which the um Shawaz was placed. So, the fighters know that they can just be uh a few dozen meters away to record that because the directional uh the unidirectional nature of the Shawaz EFP allows the fighters to position themselves to get that camera. That's not a camera sitting on a ledge. That's a fighter uh with with the camera in his hand. It's a spotter. The the cameraman is also a spotter. Um so, yeah, you can see this um this vehicle uh also getting it. And interesting note, uh a British paratrooper, a 16-year infantry officer from the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, a senior lecturer um who said he fought with the Green Berets in Iraq, and he's on a paid junket to Rafah, and he's talking to he's bragging about talking to commanders. They embedded him and took him into the Philadelphia Corridor um along the Rafah border, and he was talking to the commanders there, and he said one of the tank commanders told him that 2,831 vehicles in one division, there's five divisions that have fought in Gaza, um have been damaged by enemy fire is what his quote um needed some level of repair due to enemy damage. And he's bragging about that as what the Israelis told him. That number sounds ludicrous, but that's what the Israelis are telling him, uh and he's bragging about um the fact that uh the Israelis were able to fix that many vehicles, um passing over the fact that 2,831 vehicles in one division um is absolutely absurd. Um and if even a fraction of that number were true, um that the Israeli army we clearly see why there's a shortage uh of tanks. Uh let's look at number eight here. We got another Shawaz. And again, this is against uh uh Namer troop carrier engineering vehicle. And so, these fighters are talking right now. And the first one's saying, "We want to detonate on the second vehicle." And the commander says, "Yeah, the second vehicle. Make sure uh not the first one. Make sure it's the second one." And he says, "Let it approach a little more. Here it comes. Let it approach a little more." You can see it's a recovery vehicle. You can see the crane on top of it. Um the Namer advances a little bit further, uh and they strike it. So, the fighters are choosing which vehicle to strike, not the tank. They're choosing the vehicle that tows the tanks. That's full of eight combat engineers, at least, infantry in the cabin of that uh vehicle, five more than would be in the Merkava. Um so, picking the targets uh again, we've seen that all throughout the war. We're still seeing it consistently, um making decisions on these armed convoys of which vehicle uh they're going to target. And then this one, number nine. We're going to watch this one a couple times. This is remarkable. Um so, you see these uh these rounds here. This fighter uh the commander is saying, "This bullet is left behind, was captured by these by by our fighters uh as the Israelis fled." You can see it says IMI, Israel Military Industries. That X, the crosshairs, is the NATO uh uh sign that it's compatible with NATO weapons. This is an Israeli bullet that has been captured by Qassam that is about to be used on an Israeli soldier. We're also seeing tactical deployment of drones here. The fighters are using the drones to pick the positions here in Khan Yunis again. This fighter is on his way to walking and when he's saying we're going to go visit their vehicles for fun. There's no fear. And then you can see we've cut out the sniper operation where he used an Israeli bullet to shoot an Israeli soldier and it looks you can check it out on my Twitter account if you want. There's a double it looks to be two soldiers are hit by one bullet which is something we've seen actually multiple times throughout this war that the Al Ghoul sniper rifle round that you just saw him holding in his hand. Let's loop it again to mark you can see the size of the round like look at the size of the bullet they've made it in a triangle there. You can see the size of the round in his hand in his left hand there. Again showing IMI Israel Military Industries they've been bought by Elbit. So this is an Elbit Systems bullet. IMI Systems. And he's giving this he says do you want to take this bullet you take it for its due price and the price Abu Ahmed is the soldier's head. Again tactical use of drone the drones here that they're using and using the data from it immediately to carry out these attacks cuz this is an engineering operation that's taking place on the outskirts of Khan Yunis and see we hear the sniper here. This is interesting shot of the sniper because he's not in a building in that shot. He's out in the open. Which is something we haven't seen before. It's dangerous. It's obviously effective but it's something that happened because of the rubblization. There's so much rubble that you can you can hide in a position which would normally be saved for the bush. In in the city because because the rubble makes there be hiding places. So that's a remarkable operation using an Israeli bullet to kill an Israeli soldier. No soldier has been claimed by the Israelis on that one. So Khan Yunis after 6 months of war the Israelis returned 2 months later to Khan Yunis and are hit with those remarkable operations. All of them showing command and control organization still functioning clearly functioning with military command. We're seeing the commanders and we're seeing the operations be planned. They're not guerrilla operations that someone's snapping their fingers and carrying out a harassing operation. The Shawaz that we saw be planted there were pre-positioned based on the prediction of what route the Israelis were going to take and they were right about that. So the capacity of the resistance even after these 6-month invasions focus only on one territory Khan Yunis and the Khan Yunis Brigade can still meet the challenge 10 months on. Thanks for watching this video. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hit like, leave a comment. These engagements help us with the YouTube algorithm 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 electronicintifada.net and clicking on donate now. Thank you.