Half a year on, Palestinian resistance continues to fire rockets into Israel, with Jon Elmer

Maybe we go to number three here, Tamara. This is um another interesting development, another Gaza-made development. This is the buried rocket launchers that the Palestinians have waxed the Israelis with throughout this 6 months cuz the Israelis can't find where these rocket launchers are even though they're moving their troops over this land. They're literally moving their armored vehicles over top of tunnel-fed rocket launchers that the Palestinian resistance has fired more than 12,000 rockets. That that's the last number that we got from the Israelis was 12,000 and that was in the middle of January. Admittedly, rocket fire is down since then. Um but that number 12,000 going into the war, Israeli intelligence told us uh publicly that there was 10,000 rockets in Gaza. So, they were clearly wrong about that because the Palestinians still have the ability to fire rockets and uh Islamic Jihad here is showing us one of the ways that they do that, which is the rocket launchers are buried and the the rocket unit comes out where he literally, for people listening, we're watching him take a hoe and dig out the topsoil um and access this multiple rocket launcher that's launching Islamic Jihad-built Grad rockets. Um and so, Islamic Jihad is showing us this interestingly uh 6 months into the war and here the fighters loading the fuse on the top showing that these rockets are active. Um and on this video, they also tell us the time that they're going to launch the rockets um and then they do launch them. And for the Israelis, um there's the time he's saying when they're going to launch it and you can see him uh at his command post there. And now we're seeing the rockets launched at the time uh that they said they would be launched launched at uh Southern Israel. So, this is one of more than 12,000 rocket launches uh against uh Israel. Maybe we can go to 3B here to Marif cuz this is Qassam showing us that they also have rockets. This is from a couple weeks back, but I wanted to just show this because uh this is the Qassam Brigades showing M-75 rockets rockets that can reach Tel Aviv. Um and they're showing them uh armed and ready uh to fire. Um and they're showing them how these rockets are used. This is a buried underground tunnel-fed tunnel-born uh rocket launching system. And coming into the war in the first days of the war, the outgoing um Gaza um the the deputy of the Gaza command uh of the Gaza division of the Southern Command said that there was more than 1,000 tunnel-fed rocket launching sites. Um and so, we're looking at one of those now. Qassam still has the uh capacity uh throughout this war to show us these on video um that can be used at any time. And we haven't seen as many Qassam rockets fired lately. Um my guess is that that's because they're holding back their um their stocks at this point because this interim period. Um but, they're showing us here that they still have this capacity. Um and I'm sure we're going to see uh at the end of the war along with the the the parade of fighters that they're going to be able to rock launch rockets on the last day of the war in the same way that they did on the first day. And we'll remember that this operation began uh with 4,000 rockets launched on October 7th, which matches the number uh virtually matches the number of the entire 2006 war Um and also uh a similar number to the 2014 war in Gaza the 2006 war with Hezbollah. So these facilities these rocket facilities still exist. They're underground. The Israelis haven't been able to reach them and if Israel was actually fighting to dismantle the Qassam Brigades, they would be underground fighting and reaching these spots after 6 months, but there's no there's no indication that the Israelis had any intention on fighting in the tunnels and and they haven't done that though we watch every day to see to see because we know and we said it on October 9th on this show that there's no way to to dismantle the Qassam Brigades without a fight in the tunnels which history has never seen before in a military context to see a full-scale battle in the apparently 500 miles of tunnels that Qassam Brigades and Saraya al-Quds have underneath the Gaza Strip. So this is these were both these videos were from the north. 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.