Jabaliya emerges as center of Palestinian resistance to invaders, with Jon Elmer

so let's go to jabalia now Tamara we're going to go up to the north this is uh fighting in the north so we've gone from the south Rafa uh to the middle area just north of the middle area in Gaza City and then now we're in the true north jabalia and jabalia has been a center of resistance for the Palestinian struggle for Generations this is where the the first inata began um when the kids on the street reacted to uh Israeli military vehicle running over uh pedestrians um and the uh children in the neighborhood attacked and then then the attacks didn't stop and they became the famous first inata which put Palestinians on the map put yaser Arafat on uh Time Magazine uh had you know heroic pictures of the women taking off their shoe taking off their high heels to participate in the stone throwing um but there's also a strong arm struggle component to this the arm struggle component that started in the mid 80s um was inspired uh in many ways in jabalia when Fighters broke out of prison um Islamic Jihad Fighters broke out of prison in 1986 they some of them went and hid in jabalia the others in Shaya Shaya and jabalia are the two places in Gaza that are known for their um for haunting the Israelis um and so um the IDF Chief of Staff hery alevi he he visited yesterday in jabalia and he said that the Ops in jabalia are designed to kill Hamas fighters to put pressure on them to give back the Israeli captives so they're fighting these Ground Wars um the so these Ground Wars are in jabalia and the jabalia refugee camp which is a a which is north of the city of jabalia but nothing there's no demarcation line that is perceptible to anybody unless you're from jabalia and even still they don't make they don't uh get too caught up in the differences between the camp and the city um I'll try to note because the fighters do identify which ones were jabalia and which ones were jabalia camp but really we're talking about a three kilometer area um that envelops both so let's look at 21 because um we've seen this throughout the War uh jabalia the jabalia Squadron of the cassam Bri Gades Air Force we saw one of these last week we're seeing another one here dropping a a munition um we'll watch this a couple times too but you can see it's an open he's pick there's a row of Tanks over there to the left um there's open top jeep you see it it's an open top jeep that he land he attempts to hit it looks like he misses a bit but it's a shrapnel device it's a hand grenade um so it still causes damage and it definitely causes psychological damage to think that you could have a drone fly over you at any moment and drop and jabalia did this in the first days of the war we remember they did it I showed it uh not too long ago I I put together a compilation of uh the way that Palestinians have used drones throughout the war so they used it on October 7th for the blinding uh operation that allowed um all that preceded knocking out all of Israel's Communications command and control um that's called the blinding operation which allowed the breaching operation to take place because the Israelis didn't have any idea what was going on they had lost all their command and control they' lost their automatic machine guns and then each time the Army comes into jabalia the jabalia air force comes up and drops these drone dropped Munitions we get a close uh look at this one if you watch um kassam seems to be indicating that the soldiers drop um it's not it's not totally clear that that's the case they might have got it a little closer um but over the course of time it does look like they got away um presuming they got away with the with the footage um is a good sign that they got away and they're dropping Kasam developed hand grenades I think I talked about this this last week when we showed these drone dropped Munitions that this is a program that was started by Adnan Al Gul as soon as he got back to Gaza uh in 1994 and he set about building the weapons industry there's five generations of kassam um of Kasam grenades that have gone from the first uh uh Muhammad Al and Adnan Al Gul had uh built one that you needed to light the fuse with a match so we've gone from that to essentially copies of the principal uh grenades that the American um and Israeli armies use um anti-personnel grenades um but in between theyve made plastic ones aluminum ones lead ones um pla another plastic and then metal and at now they had 250,000 grenades by the end of the second inata they set about making the grenades in the late 80s excuse me in the late 90s in the days before the um for the second inata by the end of the second inata Kasam claims they have 250,000 hand grenades so just an interesting way to see how the uh the weapons industry has developed and then how they use those weapons with uh different um applications um let's look at number 22 this is a a Kasam booby trap of a building um you can see the marava tank here um the target building you can see the soldiers you're looking from literally across the street at the soldiers again all of these intelligence U are the intelligence and surveillance is what makes these operations possible the proximity to the fighters to the enemy are just unbelievable um the Israelis believe they're walking in this building safely and they're being watched from multiple locations because that's a different angle um of that same corner and you can see that building is blown up very very very significantly blown up the fighter says uh after this explosion the fighter says we swear we will bring you terrible death now advance to pick up your pieces oh cowards we will bring you terrible death now Advance go forward go and gather your pieces oh cowards um and this is the uh IDF saying they're fighting in the heart of jabalia for the first time ever the fighter in this video is saying what I just said right now he's saying we will bring you terrible death now go ahead and collect your body parts of your cowardly comrades is what uh the shorthand of what that fighter says you can just see it one more time with the proximity you're watching there's watching from a second location and we're going to see here a third location is going to be watched from so they have positions all around this building and there's many ways that they could attack this building they could set up sniper positions and snipe the soldiers um but they believe they have such um Intelligence on this building that they can actually wire up a device that uh that that does all of it at once instead of um picking them off by soldiers you can just see the scale of that explosion basically vaporizes that car and he gets away and Fighters return to their bases safely even though they're right across the street from the Israelis so we'll after this let's hop to 23 tomorrow because this is a a yasen it's a great it's a great quote from that sold from that fighter so you see him pop out into the street here you see the back of a tank so he's firing on the back of the tank the weakest position where the the ammo is the way that hits looks like possibly an ammo hit um it's definitely a direct hit on the vehicle you could see parts of the vehicle flying off and some people have said we've talked about how um only uh I talked last week about how they don't blow up the tanks don't blow up like a movie you don't need to see the entire tank blow up to find a kill you know a lot of people talk on social media and in the comments trying to trying to say how effective are of these um so I was reading haritz the other day and they had some testimonies and these testimonies you're going to hear for years to come these are the first ones that I have found um that seem like meaningful testimonies but well we watched this a couple times um I'll I'll uh I'll just read you this um this is from a soldier he's a he's an officer in a tank in the armored Core he's in a tank um and he talks about three days later he's talk he lists a bunch of other times where their tanks were hit by RPGs and damage multiple people injured inside but this story he tells is pretty uh it's pretty straightforward three days later we were traveling in a convoy laughing at the tank communicating with neighboring tanks suddenly out of nowhere I feel a blast on the side of the tank I can't even finish my question what happened and crazy fires flare up inside we'd shut the hatches to avoid snipers and I can't breathe I feel like I'm swallowing a knife I can't open my eyes I feel like a sausage on a grill I realize that I'm burning and I can't get out I need to press both fuses at the same time to open the hatch I know the chance that the left opening will work at this moment isn't high and that if I have to open the hatch with a manual device we're all going to die I try the fuses with my eyes closed trying trying and I can't get it to work I force my eyes open I see the fuses there press harder and it opens just as I just as I get half of my body outside an ammunition case explodes inside the tank the whole tank is burning so I think everyone is dead I'm in the middle of conun there are terrorists everywhere the thought that I'd rather be shot or abducted than burn in the tank goes through my mind I jump out to the ground and the tank suddenly starts moving in my direction turns over the driver it turns out the driver hadn't lost Consciousness he also thought everyone else was dead he stuck his head out of the top of the opening to hit the gas in order to beat it out of there I'm lying on the ground I gather under the tank and the tank drives over me I roll over so that I'm in between the Treads um my fingers are burnt and my flesh is exposed I'm I'm a guy who faints at a blood test and now that doesn't affect me I use my fingers to help me stand up everything is hurting I start to run in the direction of the Battalion I run I run I run afterward I was told that the commander who was in the Namer APC behind me saw me running reported seeing a terrorist and requested permission um and requested permission to fire at me uh the commander denied permission because he said there were more forces and he was afraid of friendly fire so they didn't hannable him because they didn't want to Hannibal the other forces that were there too so a single Hannibal seemed like it was on the table but once there was many Hannibal he didn't want to have uh Crossfire um during the Hannibal um I keep running to see the Golani unit they're aiming their rifles at me and I'm signaling that I'm a soldier they finally realize that I am thanks to my helmet they start to patch me up I tell them my crew burned the next thing I remember a 20-year-old female paramedic is calmly tending to me and my evaluation with someone lying in my tank from my tank lying beside me um I'll I'll cut this short because it's a it's a bit gross but um he's very burnt um I know he's one of the three but I can't figure out who he is he's totally black even the whites of his eyes are black one of the crew members is still in intensive care he was his lungs were burned so badly another Buddy's in rehab both he and the third buddy currently undergoing a succession of plastic surgery procedures because they were in the fire for a few minutes where I managed to get out in seconds so you can talk to any soldier that fought in the American Army no and they'll they'll speak to you openly and honestly about these being death coffins and the scariest way to die is inside these tanks and from American uh infantry point of view they like to come out outside the tanks in part because the death inside the tanks is so horrible um so that was just one story of what happens when you get hit by a yasine um when you're otherwise having a good time hanging out with your friends in a tank uh committing genocide in Gaza let's do 24 this is a Sarah Al Good's sniper operation um using a sty 50 cal an Iranian copy of it which uh in its component parts is called an Al goul when Kasam uses it you can see they have surveillance of every single one of these operations involves surveillance reconnaissance um I mean less reconnaissance because they don't they don't move out of the area um so it's surveillance and intelligence uh less so than reconnaissance but you can see the Israeli Barrel see that sticking out the window sticking out that hole um you'll note when they go to the Sarah sniper the Palestinian fighter is not out the window you see how clearly he is not out the window he is clearly not out the window you look at the Israeli he's clearly out the window um these are giveaways just like hanging curtains are giveaways just like all of the giveaways that we've been watching of these soldiers in a window now eight months on more than 200 days of ground war and the dudes are still sitting in their Windows getting picked off 10 a week there's 10 this week 10 sniper kills this week in a week that the IDF did didn't claim any so um you can see his Barrel here so you can see his Barrel sticking out the window you can't see anything else but from many many angles you can see that Barrel sticking out so compare that um to this snipers that we're going to see in the next few uh videos here so he gets him he the shot is at least On Target in this one let's go to 24 we'll let him shoot here serious weapon and you can see it hit in the hole so even just hitting in that hole I showed you on a previous episode that that it explodes those walls that just the cinder block wall is is is just for cover it's it's concealed only it's not a defensive position let's go 24b yeah because then they put out this sick uh this slick poster um of their sniper team they show the Israeli in the window uh with the triangle and then they show their fighter he's wearing a ghillie suit uh which is a suit they wear um for camouflage where they put the natural um landscape basically hang it all off of it and you can see um you can see his s coulds headb band there I previously misidentified this on my Twitter as a Kasam sniper um but I corrected that that is a s could sniper team and he is using his stair 50 cal um Iranian weapon probably probably with the similar mil parts that what Kasam does um because the weapons don't come all intact they come in pieces um let's do 25 because here's a Kasam sniper attack um same jabalia versus soldiers in a window they'll show up in the window invariably you can see they've got curtains on the other windows um which are more obvious than not having curtains obviously and then um we see this Al goul sniper get his range we're going to see the soldier enter the room here in this building that is a position the Israelis have the whole building as a position um you can see again the curtains and then again go to my Twitter feed if you want to watch the full of these videos but these are not misses these are hits and the survivability rate of a 50 caliber antimaterial bullet being fired from less than a kilometer and hitting you uh your odds are low to zero very low and there's one more 26 um this is a pretty remarkable one oh yeah yeah this is a remarkable one so he's got them on the roof Cam's tracking these guys on the roof it looks like they're setting up their signals um for their base to use this as this jabalia position as a base this is east of jabalia City so shout out to this uh jabalia City Battalion um rather than the camp Battalion in this case likely it's not always easy to tell which is which because they overlap so much and then the operations if they're pointing in various directions to say if it was jabalia or the jabalia camp is it's it's not uh a it's a distinction without a difference is that how you say it it's the same it's the same place and they drop and then there's a third one 27 just skip right to it this one is the one that's pretty remarkable you watch a soldier here with his binoculars so he's the scout he's going to tell everybody in his unit where everybody is so he's out here scouting he's the scouter and uh Kasam also has a scouter oh and there he is putting him in the crosshairs scouting um and then they make him red with a triangle and then and then you have to use your imagination after that because uh we we strictly adhere to you YouTu Community guidelines um and we will continue to do that so that these videos stay up uh for their educational purposes um we do vet these videos just to say editorially vet them I go through them to confirm what we're seeing is what we're seeing um we go through them and I do an initial edit of them tomorrow comes back over with a double check ated it to make sure that we don't have dropping soldiers um and so it's a real team project to make sure that we're editing these videos um by journalistic standards and these videos should be allowed to be played by journalistic standards um the way that they're we're using them for commentary and Reporting um is perfectly legitimate so there's another sniper operation this is uh 28 this is saral kuds using a dragonov an SVD it's a smaller um it's a smaller round fired from it again look at is dangling out the window with his gun um and you'll watch the opposite happening from the S KS fighter so you wouldn't see him except for that gun dangling out the window and this this fighter says here he says to the IDF we will pick you off one by one until you escape from here running see he's back from the window he's shielded his gun is not sticking out the window and he gets the heck out of there after firing and not clear the result as clear the result of this one but that's a pretty small space and he gets it into that space as you can see um so that's an SVD that's a dragon off rifle that soral KS uses um we'll skip to number 30 here because this is an ambush that's really interesting that the SEL kuds has set up here um we see a battalion of Tanks um parked side by side um we see the rpg7 with the anti- armor Warhead and now we're seeing a small arms fire from an AK-47 and there was some talk that if you spray these tanks um active Protection Systems with gunfire that you could trigger it prematurely um and so we've seen Fighters do that a few times with the less um less uh less capable anti- Armour rocket the single that's you could see it's not a tandem charge rocket so it only penetrates about 250 mm whereas the yasine um can be up to can be up to 600 millimeters in a lot of circumstances and the shaad efp that we saw can push 700 uh millimeters of damage so you can see the way they use those uh together we'll go to 31 here because um Kasam is using the yasine in the streets um they're really showing this part of jabalia off if you're going to actually fight in jabalia you're fighting in the you're fighting guys who know what they're doing know where they live know where to get the the the choke points um the destruction in the neighborhood forces tanks in certain directions that are predictable and this fighter comes out of an alley and is facing straight on with a Nar Troop Carrier and again with that distance below 50 m you have a 100% uh accuracy rate from that so we can watch him here this is something that's uh Kasam doesn't do as much we always point out how the S KS videos take you on a bit of a longer walk U this is Kasam showing us the longer walk in part I think showing the way the alleys are used in this battle um that makes it impossible for the Israelis um to move you can see even just how difficult it is for that tank to move through that space um they destroy their tracks if they go up on that rebar and concrete they don't just plow over that you see the plowing over cars they drive over and flatten cars um that's easier to do but that broken uh Stone cinder block and rebar um destroys the track on the tank and then then if the tank track is destroyed then the tank is just sitting there like a Sitting Duck and the resistance can move in uh around it we'll let we'll let this play out one last time for you because you could see the way he uses the rubble to fire around the rubble so even if you're watching from that tank you won't see him and more importantly for him the active protection system can't can't the radar can't find you out of that Rubble so that an interesting one let's go to 32 here because there's two operations here where saral CS are just owning the jabalia camp watch them operate here uh this is their neighborhood they sending their Fighters he's giving signals signals to their tro to each other they have clear hand signals um that we've seen them use throughout the war um we're seeing the unit uh this is what what the Israelis would call combined arms um because they're using uh various different weapons the Israelis call it combined arms when they use tanks with helicopters with fighter jets for soral kuds it's combined arm operation when they use RPGs IEDs um Small Arms rifle grenades and so you can see the the D9 bulldozer the the bulldozer presumably had to come in to clear the way for the tank for the reason that I just said um they can't drive over the rebar and concrete so these these D D9 bulldozers have to come in and actually clear the way for the tanks to move through the town um through the refugee camp um so just wanting destruction there there's absolutely no reason to destroy that uh cell phone shop that we're looking at right there but that that that D9 got it that D9 got it pretty good in that operation as you can see and then we'll go to 32b from here because you can watch them uh do the same this is this is interesting because this is a this is what the uh American Military calls a stack so this is a seral could stack operating here uh along that wall there and they're again combined arms here's an rpg7 uh with this guy with a hat um and he's going to come around the corner with his rpg7 um but basically we're seeing sah Fighters stalking the camp now we see three of them moving down the alley uh we see gunmen uh moving down the alley they're finding their place this is them popping um um either a mouse hole or a loophole to fire through um a mouse hole to walk through a loophole to fire through these guys are wiring you can see that's an explosively formed penetrator aimed at the road um this guy's firing that guy there is firing um um he's firing a rifle grenade so he puts a Grenade on the top of his rifle and fires it that's the first I think we've seen of that in this war although Kasam and sah have made those rifle grenades since the 90s um but yeah just fighting in the alleys I think this just footage that's great to show of them um sort of old school fighting in the alleys anyone um anyone fighting in these camps um becomes terrified of these camps and that's why they continually go back when they go back if you saw the footage of Janine yesterday with the column the amount of armored vehicles they sent into Janine into the Janine camp it's because they're afraid of fighting in the camps and they need to outnumber the the fighters by hundreds to one uh let's do number 33 tomorrow we have um a yasine strike here against an armored engineering vehicle and this vehicle is an older vehicle and this shooter is going to Target it right in the middle right in the middle where the crew cabin is so that's where the crew cabin of that and we're seeing the tank there uh burning let's go to 34 this is a tunnel Ambush this is a uh again these are all happened in the last week guys and I cut a lot of them and I'm not showing you any mortars or Rockets so there's many other operations that are happening too so these Fighters are planning a complex Ambush here out the tunnel first fighter lying on his back two fighters uh one with a yene the other with a yene one guy has a PK machine gun and he sees what looks like a marava from behind so he's gonna fire from behind again the weak spot um the first guy is gonna fire on that tank um the next guy is gonna come up in the tunnel um and bring machine guns and he's going to bring machine guns and carry out uh we had to take the audio out of them but uh this guy's going to spray his machine gun uh again like we're now uh 20 or 30 seconds after the tank was hit so if they're coming out to save to to to rescue their guys they're now so you can see that those are cartridges from the machine gun spraying all over so he's spraying against those troops who have come out to see they're out to protect um to help that disabled um engineering Troop Carrier um and then they go back down into the tunnel and they're talking to each other they say wait three minutes the fighter says detonate the offensive Escape tunnel in three minutes as they return to their base so as they're jumping down this tunnel he says wait three minutes before setting off the I um and then he sets off the IED um and the IED explodes and waiting for three minutes is devastating because they believe the Israelis believe that they've gone down in the tunnel for three to five minutes the fighter says wait three to 5 minutes and then that's when the Israelis would feel safe they come uh they come out they come out from behind their tanks they start their uh rescue operation and then they're hit by the IED um so that's another detailed uh and interesting operation I'm going to show you 35 and 36 here back to back just show them once each tomorrow this is a an Apache helicopter seen in the sky and we're going to see the s7s um the surface to a missiles the man they're they're called man pads uh Man portable air defense systems um shoulder fired Rockets you can watch him put it together here he's putting the battery that battery is what retrofitted um these old weapons that were uh looted from Gaddafi's stocks when NATO overthrew Gaddafi um these Gaddafi had a whole stock of these um but the batteries didn't work and so essentially as I've described before on this show they were effectively only as good as a club um to someone over the head with but with Kasam reanimating the batteries they made them able to fire on helicopters now let's be honest about these uh these Advanced Attack Helicopters have flares 160 on some of them um and the flares um throw off the flares note the optical uh release so the the helicopter notes that someone put an optical site on their um on their helicopter and they'll releasee flares and the flares will throw these old devices off um and they won't hit them so Kasam is not going to down a Apache helicopter with one of these s7s but what it is it's an it's interesting to note because that weapon could be used against the medical evacuation helicopters that fly low that are big and that they don't have flares in the same way as the attack helicopters do um and just from a statistical point of view Attack Helicopters carry out about 15% of Israel's aerial War are you carried out by uh attack helicopters so they play a significant role I mean I think that there's if you want to get in the Weeds on the on the man pads um you could take many man pads like dozens and fire them all at once at one target and that might work it might overpower the flares system but really that weapon is is not going to be very effective that's an old weapon uh without serious upgrades that weapon isn't going to be effective against an Apachi but it proves that Kasam is not and and none of the fighters are targeting because s Al KS has some too the T they're not targeting um the metac and we've been saying that all war number 37 here tomorrow is another two Yen strikes versus armored vehicles um from a few feet away way too close for the active protection system to work hitting the front of the tank there where the engine block is so um maybe disabling the engine block on that one um tough to see what that one was I I I could only be confident enough to call it an armored vehicle it looked like it might have been a D9 uh but it's tough to tell through that tiny door but the reason why it's tough to tell is also the reason why it can't be defended against the radar can't pick up that shot we could just watch it that one time because 38 um these are the ne the next two are going to get looped a few times so um we're going to spend a little bit of time on these because these last two operations from the last couple days uh in jabalia are remarkable operations for their courage and for their efficacy um so let's go to 38 here tomorrow so these Fighters This is a s kuds and uh Kasam joint operation so we saw the beginning the Yasin 105 be fired out from over top look at the tank is right there they're right over top of the tank uh this is a Yassin 105 fired down on the turret where the tank commander um where the Weaponry is and then the Sarah fighter comes with the rpg7 which is not doesn't have as uh damaging uh as depth doesn't go as deep into the armor but if you hit the same tank in the similar spot you've already weakened the armor which is what the implication of what this operation is here and the fighters get away but we just watch it one more time just to see how close these guys are and also the military vandalism look at the the the unnecessary vandalism of these people's houses to just have a hole in the front wall like this um but our Fighters are skillfully moving into that spot and firing and then the second fighter he comes in with the Lesser weapon and fires so they're picking the weapons that are appropriate for the combination and firing on that tank and if we go to 39 um this this is from the same video it makes it seem like it's downstairs but I don't think it is um but These Guys these two guys um are going to argue about who gets to run out and place the gorilla action device on the tank so the it's been said that the dialogue sounds like when you're uh who get who gets to pay for the Shawarma uh with your Palestinian buddies and they're saying no it's mine no let me do it let me take it um so that's a devastating operation so the one guy's carrying it here right he's carrying it look at he he he he guards it the other guy comes up to him and says no you got to give it to me and he says Habibi no it's mine for God's sakes let me do it I beg you let me keep it and then this guy takes it and watch when he comes out the door and looks left watch when he looks left tank tank column he runs he doesn't care he sticks it in the most vulnerable part of the tank pulls out the pin runs back and gets his helmet cam blown off here that's what we're seeing here uh his helmet cam gets blown off but he returns to his base safely let's watch this one more time it's legendary these two are legendary they're arguing over who gets to run up across a tank that's staring at you and attach by hand a de a device uh a gorilla action device as it's called so you can see it magnetic sticks pulls the pin out and then watch this bang um those devices are devastating there's a lot of uh testimonials 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