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Resistance Report — 20 Feb 2024

Israeli soldiers shoot at a berm, and evacuate an injured officer, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer reports on the battle in Gaza City.

As Israel escalates its attacks on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, Jon Elmer takes us through some of the latest developments on the ground and we talk about the prospects for a ceasefire and other political developments.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Professor David Miller, who was recently cleared of “anti-Semitism accusations by two thorough investigations ordered by his employer, Bristol University; Farrah Koutteineh, a leading Palestinian voice in Ireland pressing Sinn Féin and other politicians to stay away from the White House next month; Electronic Intifada associate editor David Cronin, on the day 131 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/Aw-y3CdR3Uw

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Full transcript
So maybe we can go to um, number uh, five. Sorry, to my number five. Um, this is Qassam um, fighting in in Gaza City. We're seeing again elevated firing positions. Um, and now we're starting to see multiple shots um, taken from um, taken at the same target from the same place. So here we're seeing him pick up a Yasin um, with a tandem 85 warhead, which is what they're using against bulldozers. It's smaller than the 105 um, of the Yasin because there's slat armor um, on the bulldozers. So this is a more effective weapon. And now for the second shot, we're seeing them use a fragmentation warhead. So also so on top of designing the weapon um, and making an exact replica uh, of the weapon, they've also made the warheads um, various warheads that are used in different circumstances. Here see we're here uh, we're seeing it here be used against bulldozers. Um, and you can see there's a tank on the left of the shot there. This is the Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing. Um, and you can see he's aiming at the bulldozer, not at the tank. So earlier in the war, we saw them aiming at the tank and not the bulldozer. Um, so we'll have to find out more about that, but Israel is they keep everything secret, but they keep the number of uh, armored bulldozers that they have a secret. It's not even in the uh, the military balance, which is the main uh, order of battle uh, journal um, that keeps these kind of numbers. They don't have They have numbers for everything else, at least estimates. They don't even have estimates for the number of D9 bulldozers that um, that we've seen um, the Qassam Brigades say they've they've targeted 85 of them so far in the war. Um, and so it's not clear how many of those are taken out of battle completely. We've definitely seen a number that are taken out of battle. Um but again, this is in um this is fighting in uh Tel al-Hawa. So, this is downtown Gaza City. This is from last week when Israeli forces were still in um Gaza City. Um and so, this is the Qassam Brigades operating in the north where Israel said that they were eliminated. Um so, Israel didn't eliminate the Qassam Brigades as a fighting force. They didn't eliminate Hamas as a governing force. Um they haven't eliminated the municipal services because the first thing that happened when the Israelis withdrew from Gaza City was uh municipal civil servant workers um and health care workers going back and restoring uh Shifa Hospital immediately. The police um are back and Israel bragged about targeting the police. Um they said last week that they destroyed every police station uh in the north of Gaza. So, destroying the capacity for civilian life to carry on normally after um not um saying that they're targeting Hamas, saying that they're targeting the police force. And they've been targeting these police forces, of course, in the south as well. We've seen it with their aid shipments. Um they've targeted the forces that are are are carrying those aid shipments. Um targeting the escort right after. So, Israel allows the aid across the border and then targets the people who pick up the other side of the border. We've seen um really terrible things happening, of course, throughout this war. Um so, just sort of sadistic things that that have no military purpose um and are just killing and destruction. so, maybe we could do number six now tomorrow because um this is a shot here that we're seeing of the Qassam Brigades showing um an IDF tank towing another tank that's been destroyed by a Yasin. Um and you can see they're putting the little uh triangle there on the rope that's holding that's pulling the one vehicle uh behind the other vehicle cuz it's been disabled. And again, just look at that shot that footage. That's downtown Gaza City. That's where the heart of the universities um that's where the the the downtown core of Gaza City is just completely um completely destroyed. And maybe we could do the next one um A with the Israelis um uh Tamara 0 A showing the Israelis Oh, actually, hold on. This is uh Yeah, okay, perfect. So, here we see have the Israelis shooting at a at a at a berm. Um but then we're watching here and what the Israelis said uh about this video is they said, "During the advancement of soldiers in the northern area of the Gaza Strip, an officer in the battalion was severely injured after an anti-tank missile hit a tank. The quick arrival of the evacuation company allowed the battalion's doctors to provide him with life-saving first aid and field coordinated in the field and coordinated his aerial evacuation in cooperation with the Israeli Air Force control unit to a hospital." So, there's Israel showing casualties from a Yasin um from a Yasin strike and describing it um and showing it to us the um the effort that goes into um to these eva- uh medevacs that we know that there's been um thousand literally thousands of these medevacs. And if you just see this, you can see where he's shooting. He's shooting into that berm where there's nobody there. You can see it just You can see where the bullets hit. So, they're just they just have these propaganda videos where they just spray bullets. I mean, we've talked about it lots before and I think you've seen it on social media. Um but there they are attacking a sand burn. Well, the sand burn is Hamas. Uh okay, so can we um yeah, can we do number uh s- Sorry, uh yeah, 8A or 0A, sorry, tomorrow. The Saraya al-Quds battling cuz here we see a Namer troop carrier. This is Islamic Jihad. A Namer troop carrier with a population of 12 soldiers in it flying an Israeli flag. I don't know, is that so that the Israelis don't friendly fire each other? So that they know that that's their troop carrier and not Hamas's troop carrier? Unclear, but there's the troop carrier with the flag burning. Um so the Namer is burning. So there's there's the various different um types of uh outcomes that a lot of people have asked about the outcomes with what's happening after these Yassins are hitting. Um and then this is um some footage of Saraya al-Quds um after when firing on the um extraction of that vehicle. And we can see this 60-mm mortar is something that's a useful tool in the urban environment because um it fires in a like a parabolic like an upside-down U. and and so you can fire from one block safely over the buildings to the next block where the soldiers are um are gathered. Thanks for watching this video. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel, hit like, leave a comment. 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