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Resistance Report — 20 Jul 2024

Palestinian fighters use captured Israeli anti-tank mines against armored bulldozers, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer provides an update on the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.

Elmer starts from the southernmost region, demonstrating how the Israeli army has been trying to take over the Philadelphi Corridor that separates Egypt from the Gaza Strip.

Elmer presents an operation by Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in which fighters hand-deliver a weapon to disable a tank, among others.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Abdaljawad Omar live from the occupied West Bank, on the day 285 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/_2o8aRZoveE

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Full transcript
[Applause] um let's move to telawa now telawa is basically downtown Gaza City it's the downtown core of the Gaza Strip if we look at map number nine here um you can see it it's beside raal it attaches to raal uh which is the commercial um downtown Hub of the Gaza Strip um and it's been basically erased U but you can see tahaa AB buts the narim corridor and so it was the 99th division that raided tahaa this operation began on July the 8th and wrapped up on this weekend and you can see we've updated this map because the pier is gone and the pier is not coming back so that farce uh has ended $300 million farce um that uh it's not just about the money though it's about the the way that it was used to to buttress uh the ceiling of the other border crossings which could bring in Aid uh in Far higher amounts than the pier ever could um in any case we'll move on from the pier but tahaa was given um an evacuation notice again a massacre then an evacuation notice the evacuation notice was on July 8th and the War Began uh in this area right away again the resistance is able to meet the Israelis at any place they arrive so this is telah Howa um let's look at number 10 tomorrow um so this is them again with eyes on uh this appears to be Drone footage with eyes on the Israelis you can see them moving through the corridor there that's from the narim corridor up and then we're going to see the use here we see a we see a marava tank and a D9 armored bulldozer now we see Kasam Fighters wiring up Israeli anti-tank mines American Israeli anti-tank mines that the Israelis use for house demolitions um the Palestinian resistance is rewiring repurposing it here and about to hit two D9 armored bulldozers which are less armored than any of the other armored vehicles and has got to be the worst assignment um for the Israeli military uh the Short Straw definitely uh is the bulldozer drivers um you can see the two there are hit um with anti-tank mines and the fighter says we tell you oh Netanyahu by God we will prepare for you various forms of death which will make you curse yourselves forever thinking of entering Gaza advance advance we have more in store for you the fighter says on the audio that we have uh removed so that's significant operation and again repurposing of Israeli Munitions and this is something that I'll dig into more on the next uh on next week's show but we've been talking about it the whole time through this war um there's significant unexploded ordinance throughout Gaza which is deadly to civilians but is um is a boon to the uh military-industrial complex in Gaza which repurposes these weapons and here you can see a stack of anti-tank mines uh being used against these two uh armored bulldozers so American mines anti-tank mines being used against American bulldozers from Poria Illinois caterpillar bulldozers and Israeli mines that are American mines uh being used against the Israeli up armoring of the caterpillar bulldozer so let's look at number 11 here tomorrow because this is an interesting one uh this is a Kasam sniper video you see the AL ghoul sniper rifle and just you can see the Israeli forces there moving you can see the round he's holding in his hand there just to give you an idea of what these Al goul rounds uh look like in the hand of a of a sturdy Fighter um and he says he this fighter says I've been looking for netanyahu's son y for a while now to put a bullet in him I search in vain he won't send his own son into this hell instead he sent these idiots to their deaths and again we edited this out but uh that was not a Miss by this Al goul sniper and then we see the medac of the soldier who was whose death or injury was not claimed by the Israelis on their official uh count list so uh that's an interesting operation looking for y Netanyahu who was of course in the news in Israel in the last week so again again the fighters are interacting with uh updated news stories um they're they're constantly communicating with their propaganda they're constantly communicating with their population they're communicating with their uh their leadership and historic leadership something that we've seen uh all throughout the war um continuing still no sign of no end in sight for any of that um so number 12 here um again I all over the movement there's a soldier carrying a matador uh anti-tank weapon uh that they use that's the weapon that the israelies use against houses uh here and this is a television strike um an IED a Kasam built IED that's placed um there to hit that dismounted crew and then again soldier in a window exposing his position and he's going to get hit here you can see again commanders briefing their Fighters planning the objective talking about what weapons to use and again deploying the two correct weapons uh for this situation this is an F7 fragmentation Warhead again it has the distance to hit and when it hits it explodes in tiny shards it's a devastating weapon again you can see perfectly accurate again no casualties from the Israelis so uh I'll let you I'll let the listeners and viewers decide what's going on with that because we've been tracking it all throughout the war and none of the numbers add up um so that's number 12 number 13 again another Commander controlled Ambush here detailed Ambush that on the wall says cassam the cassam Bri Gades are hell on Invaders you can see them wiring up here the fighters are wiring up Kasam built uh anti-personnel IEDs so that's different than the shaad that's used against the tank these are troop uh anti- troop weapons and you can see they're placed in two positions one on the Upper Floor and then one on the low lower floor that predicts the uh exit route from the first blast so the fighters are planning the commanders are planning this operation we're going to watch here the tank uh pull cover onto the street here and the vi the the cassan brigades are just watching it on TV the commander is watching this whole operation on TV they're watching they're communicating with closed lines they're going to give you a 10 10 red triangles here to show you each of the troops that are moving um across the street here walking right into the blast and then the second part of this operation is to predict where the reinforcements um will go from this initial blast so a blast on the Upper Floor that's aimed down the television um they call it a television bomb uh it's an anti-personnel bomb that would be aimed down and blast into straight ahead rather than a circular uh blast um and you can see them there with the stretchers uh evacuating the wounded um but this operation is multi-pronged it's a command and control operation uh pre-planned Ambush preset Ambush um and there it is they predict exactly where the soldiers are going to run to um and so they run right into Aradia which is also a Kasam built weapon um and you can see them again Kasam has eyes on multiple spots so tahaa um didn't know there was going to be an invasion of lawa and the second they move in um they get hit by these pre-planned operations something that we saw in shua as well um just really well-planned uh operation and the um the the the selection you can see that they they predict exactly where uh the forces will flee to which is something we've seen in many operations and it's a key part of the way that Kasam plans these ambushes is to predict the route of uh the exit route or the entrance route of the reinforcements as we saw in the banon Ambush um or in the conun Knight of power Ambush where they predicted five roots in that Ambush and got all of them right and all of those uh Israeli soldiers walked into uh ambushes as part of the original uh Ambush and so we're seeing that again in tahaa we're seeing that um on the days that the operation begins it doesn't take a two-month operation before this is cooked up they have this operation ready to go the moment they uh Israelis invade and this is in an area that has been completely devastated raal and tahaa have just been erased the downtown commercial core um the Telecommunications the aid uh the international companies the universities all down town all wiped out completely um by the Israelis uh throughout the uh course of this operations and we remember back in October 8th 7th 8th 9th they went right at tahaa and Al Ral the main downtown commercial areas that was the first place that they hit uh after the October 7th uh operation that dismantled the Gaza division so that's Tel Howa 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 electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you