How Palestinians use the tunnel network to fight tanks in southern Gaza, with Jon Elmer

well we will start the resistance report this week uh in the South we'll just throw up a map here so people can get a sense of uh the area that we're looking at we're going to be covering Rafa first uh on the southern border there with Egypt um we have operations in conun in the middle camps there where it says Gaza is actually the middle camps um narim Corridor where the narat operation took place from um on the weekend you see Gaza City there was operations in Gaza City there was options along the narim corridor again it's been a um just like every other place that the Israelis are there's resistance wherever they go um and then we have a followup this week to the bee hananon Ambush that we covered a couple weeks ago because a Kasam Commander spoke to Al jazer and gave us some extended footage um of that operation so we will uh cover that so we are going literally from the Egyptian Border in the South to the very uh Northeast of the Gaza Strip on the resistance report today so we'll start with number one because uh Israel's been saying that they uh they have uh we've heard this before but last week they said they had operational control over the entire uh Philadelphia Corridor along the Egypt uh Gaza border and what we're seeing here is Sarah Al Good's Islamic jihad's military Wing uh on the on the uh Philadelphia Corridor clearly here you can see the wall um there and setting up more border teams to fire on uh Israeli positions in the Philadelphia Corridor Israel taking the Philadelphia Corridor as I said on previous programs is not um some significant military accomplishment it's a demilitarized zone and has been for the last decade um between uh Egypt and the Palestinians uh in Gaza it was a demilitarized zone after the Israelis uh withdrew from the Gaza Strip um but we see here Israel taking the entire corridor um it includes the Rafa Crossing so people haven't been able to leave Gaza for any kind of medical attention uh people leaving Gaza in any way uh Aid workers um haven't been able to enter Gaza so it's been a complete seal off of the South um the Kum Shalom Crossing has been uh more or less shut completely uh since the beginning of May um but Israel's claiming operational control over this area and you can see in the footage right there that's the Border um so sah auds Is On The Border showing you uh surveillance on the border and then showing us uh their mortar teams operating and so Israel's been saying that they they've been saying for the whole War for at least for the last six months that there's four battalions in Rafa that they're fighting that have to be fought uh before they can claim ultimate Victory uh in Gaza but we know that that is not a meaningful uh distinction the battalions are not all a fixed size they're not a fixed structure like a building that you demolish they're fluid um they can move they can change their formations they can reform um they have different skill sets in each battalions their special forces battalions and just infantry battalions so this idea that there's uh four battalions and as long as Israel touches each of the four uh battalions in Rafa that they can claim uh victory in Gaza is like all the other claims uh ridiculous but um Israel says that they will be wrapping up the op the operation in Rafa in the next few weeks uh according to Army Israeli Army Radio um so it doesn't look like they're operating in Rafa and the way they did in K Yunis that took more than six months um it does the Americans are of course tripping over themselves to say that this is not an invasion as Omar rightly pointed out it's absurd they've carried out multiple massacres in Rafa and forced more than a million almost a million and a half people out of Rafa uh into the middle camps area where they were then attacked in the middle camp so this is absolutely an invasion of Rafa um it's devastating to the civilians but the Americans and Israelis are playing this game uh where they're saying that this isn't the full invasion um of Rafa so uh that's the Philadelphia Corridor I think that this this footage is interesting to show you uh that operational control doesn't mean uh the most important parts uh of of having control of the border and also just what we see here and something that we'll be uh watching for in the coming weeks um is that this is a massive supply line for the Israelis to try to hold to hold the Philadelphia corridor from Kum Shalom uh in the Southeast corner all the way to the Mediterranean Coast um it's like double the size of anywhere else in Gaza the Israelis haven't had a supply line anything close to that anywhere else um the only example that you might have is conun which is um also almost as wide um as Rafa and we remember back then I showed you footage of the Israelis airdropping resupply to their soldiers in conun because their supply line got cut off and so this supply line in Rafa is much more significant than the supply line was to conun that required airdrops and was cut off um so this is something that I think we'll be watching for here on the border of course the Israelis are saying that they're finding tunnels On the Border here with uh Egypt which is uh something that they've known about since the uh at least the late 90s um and one of the reasons why the Israelis left the Gaza Strip in uh in 2005 was because of a series of attacks right along this route that you're looking at on camera right here uh where underground tunnels uh were dug under Israeli military positions and blown up using the tunnel blew up Israeli positions blew up Israeli armored vehicles all along this Corridor this Corridor was a fierce Corridor of fighting all through the second and Tata um as I've said on the show uh a number of times we can go to number two here this is fighting in south of Rafa so they're just moving up from the corridor and fighting you see uh the famous Yassin 105 tandem charge uh Warhead on the Yasin uh RPG built in Gaza hitting their AER Troop Carrier and uh just to just say it again uh we've said it before but this is a cam says that the entire program to build their own Yasin 105 uh anti-tank uh Warheads um the total R&D uh development putting them into service building them uh comes out to 500 bucks per unit and you see them here blasting away at a $4 million uh Troop Carrier with 12 soldiers inside and again we're seeing uh in Rafa look at that it's just a perfectly painted apparently brand new uh Yassin 105 this there's been more than 14400 of these attacks and we're still seeing them use uh weapons that are the proper weapon what they call appropriate weapons for the situation this is an up armored armored vehicle it's they used the Yasin 105 against the heaviest armed vehicles um and in Rafa they're using these supplies and we'll watch all through this show um that that they use them all throughout we can go to the next one uh that they use them all throughout Gaza we're seeing the same thing and so here you see a tandem 85 this is called a tandem 85 Warhead and what it was is um Kasam added a tandem charge onto the original single charge 85 mm so this is a a pure Kasam creation this weapon doesn't exist anywhere else in the world except for Gaza um and we see them using it here on uh caterpillar D9 armored bulldozers because the armor isn't as thick as it is on the tanks and so you can see there that's the tandem 85 um and so they're using again appropriate weapons hitting these bulldozers um with uh a weapon that is appropriate for their level of armor you can see the slat armor there in that uh shot of kassam puts up there the slat armor attempts to uh break up the Warhead as it comes in so that the shape charge doesn't form but the armor is nowhere near as significant as it is um on the armored vehicle so we're seeing them use that and again we're looking here using the destruction the military vandalism as cover you can see the fighters are literally they're literally in the building beside these uh bulldozers these tanks we'll see it all through the program we've seen it for the last eight months um the fighters are able to move through the city and get in position to hit um to hit these vehicles uh from the closest possible place um and so that has been going on throughout this war as well we'll just look at one more time so he's in a building he's in the closest building here to the D9 bulldozer and the D9 bulldozers are shaping the landscape for the tanks so where where the bulldozers are the tanks aren't far behind they're shaping the landscape to protect the tanks um and I think we're going to see that in this next one here if we go to number four tomorrow okay yeah it's good people saw that one so uh you can see here this tank is in the middle of uh a destroyed area where the bulldozers have piled up an attempt to protect the tank which we can see there on film clearly didn't work um and this this is now a second Yassin shooter that's still the dust from the first yassine um that's so they're use they're using side bys side Shooters in a building beside two tanks that are side by side and you can see there the Yassin 105 on the left he fires first and the guy in the bottom there has the tandem 85 so they use the Yassin 105 um against the tank the first hit but the second hit you can use the tandem 85 because the armor has already been weakened by the first shot so we see two Yasin here versus two tanks and then we see the tandem 85 if you look at the bottom of the screen there you can see the tandem 85 he actually doesn't fire um but when we see that being used in conjunction with the 105 um it's again it's appropriate weapons because the armor is weakened by the original shot by the 105 and then they use the 85 so even in these instances where they're using the tandem 85 against a tank it's still appropriate weapons and this shot is interesting you see the debris uh go up from this tank here clearly being hit that's not an interception by the uh trophy a active protection system it can't the radar can't pick you up when you're popping out a rubble like this um so that's the dust from the original hit so they're hitting two tanks with three aines which is uh was something we have seen before but is uh interesting to see in this intimate way here uh in southern Central uh Rafa this is actually in the uh jimna block of Rafa we go to the next one um the way that Rafa is organized so Rafa is all one refugee camp according to the United Nations um but in Rafa they divide up all the neighborhoods by the camps uh names from The Villages that they left like gibna is a village that was ethnically cleansed in 1948 from that's just south of yafa um and the people from there walked to the Gaza Strip and set up in the refugee camp here but in the neighborhood they call the neighborhood the Y a camp but it's all Rafa camp and we can see uh yasen 105 strike again moving through the Alleyways to get into basically the closest place you could get to hitting that tank that's across the street way too close for the active protection system to kick in um it's difficult to know what the explosions are the explosions can be several things um so it's tough to say I don't want to pinpoint exactly what it is but I've read on previous programs what uh Israeli tank crew uh experience when these direct hits happen again you can see that one there the front of the tank is actually heavily armored of course the tank is built uh to be heavily armored on the front and the marava tank is uh unique for tanks because it has the engine block in the front as well so a hit like that might not hurt the crew um but it hits the engine because the engine is in the front of this vehicle to protect the the the thinking is that it protects the crew um even fur further to have the the metal uh uh engine in the way but when you hit like this then you get engine kills and when we talk about the narat raid there was engine kills in the narat raid which were one of the reasons why the Israelis uh extended their massacre in uh in nerat because they were pinned down by the resistance um we can go to the next one here so this is a uh SEL K's um Kasam joint operation you can see the Israeli soldier there see him sticking his gun out the window flagging his gun out the window soldiers in a window nine months on still doing it and Kasam if that Soldier has his weapon where Kasam have their weapons uh inside the building then he doesn't expose his position there but he sees him dangling dangling his rifle barrel out the window there and he's about to get hit by a thermobaric warhead for doing it um you can see it come in just about in a minute here and that's a fuel air explosion that is also a unique uh kassam weapon because theirs is a tandem charge as well so there's a component of it that can knock the wall out before the fuel air charge uh hits so that's a devastating weapon that's being used um there was field reports from the other day that said that um that there was a booby trap in a building in Rafa that killed um the Israelis admitted to 11 casualties four killed at least seven wounded when the building uh was blown up and the IDF said that they that's not this one that's a different event but I just wanted to throw it in here while we're watching this one um the IDF said that they threw um an explosive device into the building um and it didn't explode and so they expected that the building was safe um and entered and cassam booby trapped the building and exploded it over their entire unit that had entered which is just interesting because they threw the Israelis threw the explosive device in order to set off the booby trap and when the booby trap didn't go off um they thought they were safe and so it's just a little uh example of how the luring part of the ambushes is so critical because the Israelis are going into each of these buildings expecting that there's booby traps and expecting that they're going to be ambushed and so how you can disguise the Ambush is critical to the mission's success and uh on Monday there was 11 casualties uh in Rafa um carrying out an operation like that and that's a thermobaric warhead through the window we can't see the window but you can see the edge of the building there so they're firing in the soldier exposes himself with the rifle from one position and then is hit through a window on the other let's go to number six here this is uh moving uh to con yunas because K yunas has been out of the fight uh Israel pulled out after that spectacular Ambush on the Knight of power during Ramadan um and that chased the Israelis out of conun but here we see s kuds and Fighters um loading up 107 mm uh rocket artillery here and we see them again using their iron pacemaker uh play on the Iron Dome peace enforcer maybe uh we'll call it that's the the firing uh the control device for firing these Rockets you could see that cassam has their own built uh with labels on it and they they call that version three so it's the third V third uh version of the iron Pac maker and this fighter as he's loading um the fuses that's putting the fuse on the end of that weapon so the weapon is not it's safe until you put the fuse on so they're using uh proper techniques here uh this fighter says our message to Israel we have sworn to be the generation of Liberation we will have nothing for you but swords and fire and the sword of Al Goods remains un sheathed you will you will not return to the envelope you will not return to the envelope he says and this is something that captives that have been released had said that their Fighters said to that their guards said to them too in their you know they had positive relationships and uh the fighters the guards said to them you know like when we let you go don't move back to the envelope move to Tel Aviv don't move back to the envelope uh and we see Kasam fighters in the field saying that now to the IDF and just one more thing on this um on the envelope is that this week the commander of IDF Gaza division uh Brigadier General ABI Rosenfeld announced that he is resigning from the military over his involvement in the failures that led to hamas's October 7 Onslaught in a letter to the head of the Southern command and the IDF Chief of Staff Rosenfeld writes that on October 7th I failed in my life's mission to protect the Gaza envelope um so they uh IDF taking um taking the fall there for uh the devastating military uh defeat that they suffered on October 7th and in that video from conun we have the fighter telling the IDF uh and telling the Israelis that they're not going back to the envelope that they're going to keep up uh the attacks to prevent them from going back to the envelope so that's uh interesting note that I wanted to throw in there so we're going to move to the middle camps now that was Rafa K Yunis now we're moving up to the middle camps this is Dar albala um in the middle camps and the Israelis uh invaded uh this is number seven tomorrow the Israelis invaded uh earlier in the early on Wednesday of last week just as we were doing our show last week they invaded and they said after the nerat invasion um raid that this that what we're watching here this invasion of darala is um was a diversionary operation to pull fighters from narat up further north um down into the lower middle camps here uh to fight and so if that's what they did watch these next series of videos because they came out and got immediately hammered um you can see that that's a tank they going up um you can see the fighters using the olive Groves here uh very Palestine using the olive Groves too watch this guy get when he gets his helmet cam down uh you're gonna see the tanks just right in front of him um and they're moving through tunnels all of these videos are all the underpinning of these videos is that that um these are tunnel operations the fighter goes back down in the tunnel and you can hear him in the audio if you go to my Twitter you can hear the full audio uh but he goes down in the tunnel and he says I blew it up to the squad you saw the fighter there with bare feet I think they use bare feet when they're coming out of the tunnels because the tunnels are so Sandy um we've seen that a number of times um I think that that's what that's for we saw them Barefoot um when they raided uh in Gaza City when they ran up the side of that Sandy burn that the Israelis had built um and all the fighters had no shoes on in that situation so I think that's what we're seeing is them using it in the tunnels as a better grip um to get out of the to climb out of the tunnels so um that's just uh something we'll have to ask them after but I put a little question mark after that in my notes because it seems like that's what we're watching um but again it's just incredible guy with no shoes blasting a $6 million marava tank with 10 guys inside cowering um they're cowering in the fight but they're firing tank shells at civilians who have moved from Rafa up to Dar Al Bala to uh escape this as soon as they got up there they're hit uh as soon as they moved and there's a million plus people that move from Rafa to the middle camps to darala to what we're looking at right here these attacks these tanks uh are the tank shells that carry out the massacres that have a death toll even on a normal day is a hundred people are killed by these operations and how you have kassam Fighters moving through tunnels moving through Olive Groves blasting with homemade Gaza weapons that are clearly effective uh getting within uh within the 50 meters that they're trying to get in um the trees also get in the way of the radar of the active protection system so that's something that um fighting in these um and this is just more uh this is one of the rare spots in Gaza where there are uh these kind of brush to fight in because the Israelis of course uh blow up bulldo all the green houses all the Orchards um that's the standard part of their uh protocol um so yeah this a uh operation in uh Dar Al Bala and we can see them using the tunnels uh again let's go to number eight tomorrow um you can see how close these Fighters get here um it's a great shot of him moving through you can see the tank there and the fighters going to move through the screen here because the cameraman's behind him and I just want to just to note something while we watch this too um that the uh house armed services committee yesterday uh released a section of an forthcoming proposed legislation that would quote require military exercises in US Central Command area of responsibility to conduct an annual counter tunneling exercise with Israel it would authorize an additional 30 million for research and Technology into the ongoing United States Israel anti- tunnel cooperation project that is on top of the 325 million Congress has provided since 2016 when this anti- tunnel effort cooperation uh started according to the Congressional research uh service and so This Is Us funding for technology initiatives developed by the little known Pentagon irregular warfare technical support directorate um and the uh us claims that they have enabled the IDF to discover over, 1500 new tunnel shafts um including 300 350 to 450 miles of tunnels since the War uh began on October 7th so we have pure in meshing of uh these tunnel operations that we're watching The Fighter take part in and the Israelis get hit by um they're deeply entwined with the Americans uh on this project and the the Israelis have been working for a decade uh to try to combat these tunnels and the first time they enter darl Bala uh the the olive Groves and the tunnels um are destroying their vehicles is that number eight tomorrow because I I think this is number nine again we're still in the olive GR Groves these were all on one video so the Israelis invaded on Wednesday of last week and on Thursday 36 hours after the invasion began we get this video that has seven armored vehicles I believe they're all tanks there might be one bulldozer at the end uh getting blasted here from close proximity by tandem charged Warheads that penetrate uh 650 millimet of folded armor and this is shot is interesting because you see the rest of the squad there can we roll that one again tomorrow you can see the rest of the squad operating in this one um which is interesting we don't get to see that uh very much with uh Kason videos you see a little more with Sarah V uh videos but um using the Orchards here on the out to get right in front of the Tank tank Barrel facing the fighter uh coming up from a tunnel that the Americans have spent $350 million plus uh the additional 50 million that they're going to give them uh to do to continue to do that uh and these Fighters run off safely to their base uh and down through a tunnel and if you want to see the tunnel here number 10 shows you the tunnel as this fighter is g to come right out of the ground he just comes right out of the sand pops up in this greenhouse and what's that bulldozzer this is a bulldozer what's he doing probably demolishing the green houses which we've seen many times before in this War uh that Israel prioritizes that destroying the green houses um not to destroy the tunnels because if they bulldozed over this tunnel you see The Fighter coming out all it does is loosen the top soil and allows it to be easier to dig out of the tunnel and come up and use again appropriate weapons uh that he's using here he's using an 85 millimeter anti-tank Warhead um a single charge but against the slat armor it's effective and then he slides back down uh safely into the tunnel so um that's something that we've seen uh multiple times throughout the War uh Israel destroying green houses and it um I think there there'll be a number of studies that come out um in the months to come about the destruction of agricultural land in Gaza and how devastating that is because Gaza was roughly self-sufficient in uh grown vegetables and fruits um because they had to be living under a blockade um and they actually did that they put a lot of resources um into that into that self-sufficiency um cleaning up the groundwater and getting irrigation um and pushing the Israelis off the buffer zone which um Hamas and Kasam Fighters did over the course of the uh 15-year um Siege on Gaza let's do number 10 or sorry number 11 so these are the same guys they pop up in a tunnel in the same Orchard in the same Olive Orchard Olive Grove and they're going to come out here and they're going to pop up and see a house here with this Telltale Israeli curtains on the window are the only house that they use as a base um and that that looks to me like a thermobaric warhead it uh it's not painted the black um that the tandem charge anti-tank is we'll watch it again um you can see them go down into the tunnel after it's a little bit more green but it it hits like a thermobaric which would make sense it's what they would use on that building um but normally the thermobaric are painted an obvious beige color if people remember we've seen them be used many times before and you can usually identify it um but the way that it hits this building looks to me like a thermobaric weapon cassan doesn't always say uh the weapon and the uh conveying the message from the field uh to the person who's writing the field reports doesn't always get the exact details correct so we can't always uh rely on that let's do it one more time tomorrow can we because the way he comes out of this tunnel uh he comes up and he he's gonna fix his helmet here there he goes he fixes the GoPro for us which is a nice touch um and then he sets himself up here and watch him just move through the trees um to get into a position fire and return immediately to his base safely it's not a martyrdom mission um it's effectively executed mission where they know know underground the fighters are underground and they know where to come up to hit the building that the Israeli force is in and that's the advantage that Kasam has had for this entire war and we've seen it in many different ways manifest itself uh in this case here um because they are mapped because it's mapped out uh underground where they are they're able to pop up based on where the Israelis put themselves that day so surveillance above the ground is communicating with Fighters under the ground and they're navigating their way through uh and are able to come up and hit so that is the middle Camp's Fierce resistance and the isra's pulled out yesterday so it does seem like it was a diversionary operation to allow the narat massacre um to take place 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 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