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Resistance Report — 11 Jun 2024

Palestinian groups prepare rockets together to fire at Israeli forces in Netzarim, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the latest news from the resistance across Gaza, including the combat footage from the final days of the battle in the Jabaliya refugee camp. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Helena Cobban on the day 243 of the livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/SqCbhhONu7Q

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Full transcript
let's move up to narim here and and follow the corridor the Americans uh their peer as I reported last week floated to shore in Israel um they're working to put together put it back together apparently and bring it back uh no word on its completion uh of putting it back together it shouldn't take that long um but yeah unless they change something about the way the pier is anchored it's just going to float away again it's possible that when it floats away again that the US Army won't try to rescue it with their ships and get all their ships beached as well which was an unfortunate uh look for the Army um but uh let's look at number five tomorrow because this is a an operation that Kasam pulled off uh with their Air Force Gaza City Squadron as I'm calling it um this is a drone operation over a group of Israeli soldiers Southwest of Gaza City so this is right down by the pier this is right in the area you can see um they got they put seven triangles there um I think if you count at different there's two shots of this and it looks like there's between eight and 10 at any given moment there you can see two Humvees beside and they drop a Kasam made M26 grenade this is a grenade that's manufactured as a essentially a clone of the popular American grenades um and they have um these the soldiers are all lying down here so this is one reason why you don't see them scramble in previous drone drop Munitions we've seen the soldiers run away um from these but if you look closely you can see they're all lying down here um and the grenade does it does look like it gets caught in the wind as it goes by the building and moves it a few meters away from where uh the intended target likely was um but just to give you a sense of these M26 grenades they send out according to American military testing they send out 700 50 slivered fragments to 10 m um they have a lethal radius of 15 M and are dangerous within 25 M so all within range of what we're seeing there and as I've told you a number of times on these programs the hand grenade program is the oldest weapons program of the cassan brigades um of the Palestinians they've made hundreds of thousands of them over the years they said they had made 200,000 by the uh latter years of the second and to five um and they started building these grenades um under Adan Al Gul and Yahya aash in the mid 1990s so it was the first weapon that they they built and they built it for the reason because it gets some it gets uh weapons in the hands of Fighters when they don't have guns they didn't have enough guns at that time um and so Hand Grenades got um uh weapons in the hands of Fighters so we'll just look here and see if if we think that this is within 10 meters if it's within 10 meters the guy on the outside of this um who are lying down would be hit with shrapnel so there was some talk on the interwebs about how it was a Miss um but I think that misunderstands uh the way shrapnel and fragmentation grenades work as they say close only counts in Horseshoes and Hand Grenades and this is a hand grenade so close counts um and this wasn't just kassam this was a kassam operation but along the corridor U all week there was a lot of operation carried out by all the different groups um so if we go to number six here tomorrow we can see the joint operations room this is the dflp um the the Communists working here with the uh Islamic Jihad Sarah Al kuds Fighters here they're wiring up a 107 meter millimeter rocket artillery um and putting these are them screwing on the fuses getting them all ready the two groups working together um a as they always do um so they're attaching the fuses and then this is a Gaza belt rocket this is a a homemade uh Gaza belt rocket you can see them attaching the fins uh fins the stabilizers and you can see the wiring in there that's what they're always checking with that multimeter they're checking the Fidelity of the wires to make sure that it works um as part of the preparation and and this is an S5 rocket this is the rocket that Hezbollah fired from their drone that I covered I think it was last last week it might have been two weeks ago but this is a this is an air to ground missile that is usually put on Rockets or a nonmissile put on a helicopter um and fired from helicopters U but the Palestinians have repurposed them and used them as and fired them from ground base Kasam did that um dating back to uh the castled operation was the first time we saw these Rockets be used so they're a 55mm rocket um that are usually fired from helicopter but that are fired from the ground here and you can see sarel K's uh Islamic Jihad working with um the national resistance brigades of the dflp um and these Fighters we've seen videos like this all through the war and like I've said I don't bring very many of these videos because um you just see them screwing in things and then often you just see the uh the rocket going off into the air and there's been so many videos that we don't um we don't show all these videos but the this is what we see all through the war these groups working together that's putting the fuse on that rocket as well so they're they're attaching the fuse um to make the the weapons uh potent from the storing stage and then we go to number seven uh you can see them fire these rockets and so these are being fired um this is the national resistance brigades uh Omar kasum brigades um firing at narim so they're firing at the there's three positions that I showed you last week on the base that's the sign that says what they're literally doing uh firing on narim and I showed you last week that there's uh three military positions along uh the narim corridor and you can see the fighters now in the field reports starting to talk about how they're hitting those spots that that they're not just firing at the corridor um they're firing at now the Israeli makeshift positions the bases that they're attempting um to put uh in the Corridor and if we just do number eight really really smoothly here we go to Kasam firing uh they 14 millimeter uh rajim missiles that we have also uh dug deep into uh there are multiple rocket launcher built by the cassam Bri Gades um of of their own it's their own uh it's not a clone of another Weapon It's they made they made the size um and the type of weapon themselves they're similar to the 7 mm rocket artillery that we've seen um but that is something that is built by the cassan brigades so that's in narim Corridor so there's fighting still going on a narim corridor of course the Israelis seem like they intend to stay in the corridor they created a corridor on the Philadelphia Corridor in Rafa they have a nsar rim Corridor they attempted in jabalia to push a corridor into jabalia and this looks like it's shaping up to be the way the is Israelis are going to fight the war com in in the months uh ahead uh should the war continue is to set up these corridors and then raid from the corridors um as they're doing and because they can travel up and down the corridor uh it makes it more difficult to see the moment that they're going to raid it makes it difficult um for people to know where they're coming from whereas when they come from across the border or from the buffer zones um it's easier to see them coming and so that's one of the reasons why they want the corridor and uh and raid strategy um which is actually a plan as I've said is a plan from Ariel Chiron going back to the 1960s and 1970s um the five finger plan which would cut the Gaza Strip in five fingers and create uh manageable zones inside each of those areas so you can control the population in a more confined area so like making mini Gaza out of the larger Gaza um making miniature ghettos like they did all over the West Bank um which essentially is a a COR a corridor and raid strategy that they use in the West Bank as well um using the roads um you know the the the apartheid roads the roads that only they can travel on only the Israelis can travel on um and using those roads to attack uh Palestinian positions so um so that's narim Corridor thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our you 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