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Resistance Report — 28 Jun 2024

Palestinian joint operations target key Israeli bases with artillery, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers all the latest news and videos from the resistance, focusing on the ongoing defense of Rafah.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Fault Lines executive producer Laila Al-Arian, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and author on the day 264 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/KmIaZhYhOJg

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but also as we have been following every week for many months now there's fighting on the nsar rim Corridor and if we look at map C here tomorrow uh we can see the narim corridor thanks again to Maxwell for throwing these Maps together it's very handy for everybody to see what we're talking about you can see um where the US Army Pier is um in the nsar room Corridor last week on the show um I told you that the pier was gone um this week the Pier's back um in my notes that I made from a from a couple days ago I said the pier is back and then I crossed it out said the pier is gone again because they dismantled it for a day to fix it uh now it's back again um by the time you watch this segment may be gone again uh unclear it's all just cynical theater open The Crossings end The Siege the pier is ridiculous um it's not a military asset for the Americans or the Israelis um it it's a it's a piece of humanitarian theater uh happening during a famine and a genocide um and it's a cynical uh use of American resources um bothers me sorry uh so we're going to focus on the narim corridor resistance here because the narim corridor is um as I've showed on previous shows um they have fixed military positions along the Israeli military has fixed fixed positions along the this Corridor that are just constantly Under Fire incidentally the pier is not one of them um Palestinians are not interfering with Aid coming uh in through the pier despite the fact that um the pier um and Aid trucks were used um at least Aid trucks that looked like trucks that were used on the pier um were used for the massacre in nerat um they also used in the massacre in narat they used uh a vehicle packed with belonging that they said were coming from from Rafa for people fleeing um so just the perfidy of the uh Israeli military um but in any case we're going to focus on the narim corridor because um this first operation here tomorrow number 15 this is a Kasam brigades uh mortar operation we see the kassam fighters with eyes here on the idf's 99th division command post um you can see the vehicles going back and forth there Kasam is going to set up two mortar teams here and fire on the command position with 60 and 120 mm heavy mortars um and then we're going to watch here well you can see them set up the shot but um after here you're going to watch uh ambulances and Medevac helicopters again show up because the Israeli military in this case did admit uh casualties uh five casualties in this operation two at least two killed um at least three severely wounded um so these more operations which I don't show all that often on the show but there's uh seven videos a week like this um literally and in the earlier War there was even more um they're not just firing and closing their ears these are and we're going to see that in the coming um in the coming footage but you can see this is the metac not being fired on you can see that that's the the metac ambulance not being fired on we just saw that kassam has mortar um that they've calibrated their mortars to hit these spots and there goes uh sakori heavy helicopter um they have flares but when they're coming up off the ground like that you could hit them with one of those sa8 iglas that saral kuds just showed us in the previous video you could fire that on them and they don't you could fire sniper rifles you could use the AL ghoul sniper rifle um you know that has an effective range of two kilometers um and has an incendiary round armor piercing incendiary round if you put one of those rounds into the helicopter um the helicopter explodes so it's very clear they're not firing on the metac and that's uh the final scene there says the mortar fragments are waiting for you um from kassam um and this was along the corridor and again five casualties two killed uh three severely wounded according to the Israelis um from that Kasam operation we look at number 16 here's kassam with um 114 millimeter these are Cam's uh artillery rocket artillery uh um built by kassam um you can see them here setting it up and um it looks like they're just firing it off dirt um and they're not they're uh we'll see in the coming videos how they calibrate this I just wanted to bring in this one quote from Gil Malco he's the Secretary of kbut Barry and he says part of the reasons which is right across the border from uh the nsim corridor part of the reason we are not returning is the crisis of trust between the Army and our residents and we need to restore it I would say that that trust in the state should also be restored but that will be more difficult so that's the uh secretary the like the settlement leader the mayor essentially um of kibutz berry saying that they're not going back to the envelope uh until the Army um reins Stills trust in their institution that was dismantled by kassam on October 7th and we've been watching for eight months as its only achievements are massacring civilians but this is the kind of Rocket fire you see right here which is part of the reason why um the Israelis are not going back to the envelope the Gaza envelope anytime soon um and that's why the country of Israel is smaller it's smaller than it was on October 6th because of the envelope um it's smaller because of the north um where Hezbollah has made effectively a closed military zone that's 10 or 15 kilometers deep um so I just wanted to bring you that actually um the Magan David the is uh Israeli Red Cross they did announce on this one that uh this was a this was being fired on um ashalon just where everybody in Gaza is from ascalon now called ashalon um it was fired on them there and uh the Magan David um Ambulance Service said two people tripped and fell uh on their way to the shelter which is something that for people who have tracked this war for the last 20 years will remember remember the Israelis used to count their used to count their casualties so comprehensively that they would report trip and Falls after rocket attacks they would say you know 16 trip and Falls after that rocket attack on Tel Aviv um you know that was 10 years ago that they used to do that we used to mock them for that um and now 10 years later they get hit so hard so regularly that they have to lie about their casualties the opposite of acknowledging trip and falls they lie about their casualties because there's no faith in their institutions there's no faith in the IDF they have a um uh a conscription Army that they need have people to have um faith in to go and fight and uh to be forced to go and fight um these wars that everybody I think uh will be pretty unanimously saying that the Israelis lost this war um you know just the same way about the Americans in Iraq or or Afghanistan the Canadians for that matter so yeah let's look at number 17 here tomorrow because this is where we can see this is the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades of pflp here you see here you see what they do Kasam doesn't show this but you can see the angle finder there um he's setting the angle finders calibrating it he's got a compass he's got a map um he's got a map uh with a like a grid map so that he can calculate um where uh yesterday's shots land landed they have a spotter that calculates where the shot uh where the rocket artillery landed um and reports back and they calibrate and they shift based on the compass based on the map um uh on the um the mathematics this is the mathematics of artillery the mathematics of mortar fire um it's more complicated than I understand how they're doing it exactly and even the mortar units uh tend to debate all of the different ways of uh calculating the math of U of how to execute an accurate mortar strike but we saw two videos ago that they are accurate with these strikes and these are fragmentation weapons which means they explode into small pieces that fly all around um so they're dangerous they're harassing um and this is the thing that nine months into the war um these fighting groups are able to do and this is um the pflp the Marxist fighting here with s kuds the islamists which is not unusual or surprising even though it might sound that way to uninitiated audiences that the leftists and the islamists would fight together but that's happened for decades um and there's leftists and Islamic Jihad um as well often Fighters will join a group an organization based on their military capacity or based on their relationships uh in in the camps that they grew up in or uh based on their role in the groups um so the armed groups aren't NE aren't an effective way of strictly categorizing uh people's political beliefs because there's many fighters from the pflp that would join uh the cassam Bri Gades at in the 2005 2006 um when Kasam is starting to build up a national Army um you'd have leftists that would join um the camre gates um you know in the same way that you have leftist in the West Bank join is Islamic Jihad in the second inata because Islamic Jihad had the resistance capability to carry out operations um so it's not just a simple way of categorizing people and these joint operations aren't aren't just for the cameras to show Unity this is actually what's happening and these are being fired on the narim corridor all these videos are being fired on the narim corridor um and you can see them calibrating their position um their firing positions because they're moving their firing positions every day whereas most mortar units um are in a fixed place and in normal armies in other armies that have access to uh to resources your mortar units would be stacked with um with ammunition and you would continually use that ammunition from a fixed position um that you're firing from but it's inverted in Gaza in Gaza they're firing small number of ammunition from multiple different spots but they're firing at the same Target so what you're seeing with the compass and the calibration and the angle finder um is their setting from multiple days of information to re-calibrate the new position of the of the rocket and they're putting the angle finder on the rocket um so that the rocket launches on the right angle for the right trajectory to land where it's supposed to land um and that one um that operation was uh the Israeli military admitted that that operation this is a video from the 16th of June um that was only released a week later um by the pflp um and the Israeli military admitted that oh it's this one sorry is this 17 tomorrow yeah is this 17 yeah in any case one of these two 17 or 18 uh yes there's tomorrow thank you tomarrow um so this is this actually hit uh an Israeli Howitzer and the howitzers are the guns the big guns that fire the5 shells that Lila was talking about raining down on Hind um uh they fire these this is what people are talking about when they talk about artillery they're talking about a Howitzer gun that's on the border um in relative safety um firing into a camp full of in you know people who have nothing to do with the battle who are just trying to survive in a tent camp and they're getting 155 shells rain down on them made by the Americans GPS guided so they're Landing exactly where they intend to land right in the middle of a tent camp um and so this pflp operation um with sah they hit one of those howitzers and the Israeli military admitted that they lost those hoz that one howitzer um and those howitzers have fired hundreds of thousands of those shells since this War Began they had claimed that they had fired a 100,000 155 shells like at at like in the first months going back to late November early December um the war only began as a ground war um you know October 27th something uh around there so you're you're talking about using um thousands of these a day so they were able to hit them um is this number 18 these are these three videos essentially tell you the same thing and it's interesting to see all three of those yeah so you see here there um he's got um the compass on um the more Mort map uh mortar math MAP you can see it there it's uh magnetic so it sticks to the and they get the angle they get the distance they calibrate the distance and then they attach the fuse see and then the fighters here with their with both their bandanas Abu Ali Mustafa brigades and sods putting their bandanas there uh um over the uh the weapons is a very again chivalrous thing to do for each other and they're um saying that text there saying they're firing on the narim corridor they're constantly going to fire on the narim corridor the narim corridor is uh is open season and the longer the Israeli military stays in the narim corridor um the more these operations are going to take place and um eventually well I won't predict the future but the longer they're there the more spectacular largescale operations that can take place if you give time um you know to dig your tunnels um which which we just saw actually just before I came on air Kasam released a video of them literally digging the tunnel right now um I have a deadline for Kasam of Tuesday night uh for the show though so we're gonna have to show that one next week because it just came out but um you can see there the netsim corridor Under Fire um constantly there so thanks thanks for that tomorrow I got a little mixed up which one was which because there was three of them that were pretty similar but they all have the same point that those mortars are being being shot um with significant um foresight calibration mathematics geometry um a bunch of things that terrify me uh to try to explain to people I hope I did an okay job for any of you mortar uh or artillery units out there listening but that's the mortar and artillery operations on the narim corridor um and that wraps up the resistance report for Gaza 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 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