Palestinian resistance operations in Gaza and West Bank, with Jon Elmer

we're going to start in the Gaza Strip even though you might think we would start in Lebanon we're just going to go in the same order that uh that we normally do and uh in the discussion we'll dig into some of the theories about what's going on uh in Lebanon but we're going to start in Gaza and Southern Gaza um in the uh there's your full map of the Gaza Strip again you see the two key corridors the nitar rim Corridor and in the South the Philadelphia Corridor um and if we get the zoom in map of Rafa you can see um where multiple operations have taken place just in the last 36 hours I don't have the video in time for you on the show today we'll have to dig into that next week but the reports came in late last night um that uh four Israeli soldiers were killed and four others seriously wounded including two officers and the commander was one of the ones killed from the uh shaked Battalion which the IDF calls the elite uh uh Battalion of the body Brigade who are um currently with the 162nd Division fighting in Rafa they said that the uh the cassam brigades have been destroyed in Rafa the same claim we've heard all over Gaza and then uh as soon as the Israelis reinvade areas we see that those uh that the the brigades are not dismantled they're not destroyed and this is the same case with Rafa in the last few days the commander of the 162nd Division said we've destroyed uh We've destroyed Kasam in Rafa he said that we have done dealt with the tunnels he said he dealt with 203 tunnels um along the Philadelphia Corridor but interestingly he admitted that of there was only nine crossb tunnels that they found and all nine of those tunnels had been previously sealed by Egypt by Kasam they were collapsed and so this whole story that I've been reporting on for weeks from netan about scuttling the uh ceasefire and prisoner exchange talks because of staying in the Philadelphia Corridor as if it's the oxygen for the cassam Bri Gades um again just another Israeli claim that doesn't match the evidence um even their own evidence uh that they provided and there was another attack this morning um in teles suan where uh we saw a D9 bulldozer get hit by Yasin the Israeli military said one was seriously wounded and then just before we came on air cassam dropped a video uh showing them hitting the D9 uh yesterday and then burning it today 24 hours later it was still abandoned so kassam captured the D9 bulldozzer and then burned it today and like I said I will bring you those uh on the show next week the main things from this past week to say is that the field reports have been down on both sides um the Israeli field reports are almost exclusively as Norah pointed out attacking hospitals um sorry attacking shelters School shelters hospitals was the previous stage they're now attacking the shelters the schools um in a systematic way more than 75 times since the beginning of July and they're open about it in their field reports they treat it like as if it was a heroic military mission that they uh bombed from a distance uh shelters in the 10% of the Gaza Strip That Remains for uh the civilian population um and so Israel has been uh bragging about that and as Norah said the report came out from the um Gaza Ministry of Health um listing the names and ages um of everybody that they have um recorded that's been killed since October 7th um and just a note they recorded 710 babies under the age of one so zero years old more babies have been killed by Israel than the most generous um definition of civilians inside Israel on October 7th um what we'll find out once we get through these numbers of October 7th is that it's going to end up being more than double the number more than double the number of babies than civilians killed uh in in Israel during the raid on October 7th so the uh the obvious the genocide is not a battle of proportionality but those statistics about the children are disgusting and something that we should never ever forget so um let's look at number one here this is Sarah Al Goods we have here again the fighters right up close to uh this Israeli tank and we have these Fighters moving through the streets saying here come the sons of Sarah uh and we have two units here with two RPG sevens with 885mm Warheads these are not tandem charge Warheads so we're going to watch these Fighters here fire two in the same spot um to try to make this weapon more effective than um than it is uh against the up armor uh of the Israeli armored vehicles that have surpassed the penetration levels of this weapon so you can see again Point Blank it's not the best spot to shoot from right at the front you can see the Tank's shape at the front is uh is built for protection at the front um when we see the fighters with the Yassin they're often going for the back Corners um or the sides or the turret gaps so that head on shot but then you can see the fighter say launch the second one so this is like the uh the rpg7 version of a double tap and it's interesting to see them use it in a onew punch like this to make a weapon that wouldn't otherwise be effective from that position uh gives it a chance to be a little bit more effective um and and as I said there was was uh one soldier wounded in a tank it's possible that it was this tank we don't have uh all the videos from this week um they may come out a little bit later this s K's video that gives you the long version of them uh running down through the alley and getting away uh is um is from a couple of days ago it took a couple days for S kuds to put out uh that video but again you can just see the proximity these Fighters have after they've been told that they don't exist anymore these guys got told they don't exist and then over the last um what it's like less than 72 hours since the commander uh the Israeli Commander said they don't exist anymore that they're out here blowing up their special forces units um and uh that has that's what we've seen all along and the question isn't how many operations are the cassan brigades carrying out and S CS carrying out in uh at this point in this week uh we understand it's they're settling into a battle of attrition um a little later on I'll mention a letter from Yahya sinir that addresses that directly that this is a battle of attrition and if once they saw the stage go into this battle of attrition there's no need to chase the Israeli Army uh along the Philadelphia Corridor endlessly if they move into the city they get hit um the previous show last week I was saying that they had moved into the corridor and they weren't into the city um and as we can see from the these videos they did come into the city this week um a couple of times and they're hit and it's the same thing all throughout Gaza they're not defeated they're not dismantled they're able to re uh reform uh with with whatever losses that they do have and there's absolutely no question that fighting this war is costly for the resistance they lose Fighters uh it's costly for the civilians we know that obviously it's costly for the Israelis we know that too so um we're not trying to um downplay the casualties but the Israelis are lying and carrying out psychological operations and they need to be finished in Gaza they need to claim Gaza as we remember Rafa was the last stand it was the last place that Israel had to go to be able to claim victory in Gaza um and so they have to tell us they have to say to us to Their audience to their domestic audience that we achieved this goal um and so these are just statements that um that don't reflect the reality of the fighting capacity of the groups um because Kasam could see that this battle of attrition was shaping up for months now and we've seen them uh adapt their strategy um accordingly so if we go to number two tomorrow we have I brought this to you last week and talked about the helicopter crash um the metac helicopter crash uh in Rafa last week uh on the day of our show September uh 11th the uh there was some question whether the resistance had shot down um the first metac helicopter which we know they have not been doing throughout this War uh well over the course of the week I just wanted to update you on the story that um that the and we can look at the next one too tomorrow that just that was a a a graphic uh version of it this is the Drone footage of it but what we're seeing here is the medac helicopter crashing on the burm that we've also been covering throughout this war the way the D9 armored bulldozers create those burms around um the Israeli positions to protect from Yassin fire to protect from sniper fire um and they've redone the landscape anywhere they are they set up these massive BMS um so this the resistance didn't shoot down this helicopter but the resistance operations is the reason why the helicopter crashed it crashed on the BM Two Soldiers uh two Air Force soldiers were killed um eight were wounded including uh including the soldier that they were going to uh rescue and the soldier they were going to rescue was hit by RPG Fire by the people um that their Commander said didn't exist in Rafa anymore so uh again we get proof of these um operations so there's the helicopter operation the resistance didn't shoot it down but the resistance is the reason it crashed um so let's look at number four here because s KS uh captured Israeli mortars uh these are Israeli mortars um and they're showing them off here um in another Return to Sender a genre that I try to bring to you uh every week because it's an important part of this war this fighter is saying a message to the Cowardly enemy leadership these are your goods after your soldiers fled from the fight from the might of our Fighters shells and our artillery uh we and saral could Central Battalion we're looking out for you and then here he's loading um mortars that were supposed to be fired at Palestinian civilians um he's loading them up and sending them back to fire them uh at the nerim corridor the shot is uh at the nerim corridor um but like I said only a handful of operations this week uh in Gaza um so we'll we'll keep our eyes uh on that going forward to see how the Battle of attrition uh shapes up because if Israel's going to withdraw into the corridors into defensive positions behind the BMS um I think you're going to see a low uh number of operations but you may end up seeing more qualitative operations in that time um Israel doesn't look in any position especially when we look at what happened in Lebanon today doesn't look to be in any position to be negotiating um for uh the only way to end this war Hezbollah said the only way the war in the North is going to end is with a ceasefire in Gaza um andorah said the only way their attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are going to end is if the blockade of Gaza ends and these groups have been clear about this from the beginning and the resistance is ready to fight that battle of attrition and they have been saying that for a long time Abu oeda said it months ago um as far back as May that he understood that this was a long battle and I've brought you quotes from the Israelis um since the new year that have said that the Israelis plan on staying in Gaza for multiple years because they haven't achieved their objectives they haven't destroyed the Hamas government they haven't destroyed the Hamas fight ERS they haven't dismantled uh for all their efforts haven't dismantled the hospital system it's still the uh Gaza government uh in charge of the hospitals it's still uh Hamas government in charge of civil defense it's still Hamas security it's still the kassan brigades and it's still the 10 other fighting forces in Gaza that are still carrying on none of Israel's objectives have been achieved um they're not getting their people back um and so if they're not willing to negotiate then it's going to be a war of attrition and that's what we're seeing um and let's just take one quick look here at the West Bank because the video was released from the uh horror of the camps battle this is in Janine um this is a wolf armored vehicle that carries 8 to 12 soldiers in the back getting hit by a pretty serious roadside bomb there IEDs that they um that's the reason what you're seeing there is why they say they go in and dig up all of the roads uh in Janine and tolkar um and there's fighting in Janine today this is from the Battle of the horror of the camps from 10 days or so ago but there's fighting in Janine today there's fighting in balata in the camp outside nablas there's fighting in nablas City there's fighting in taram and norsham and on the road between tarm and Nur Shams um so the West Bank is still um is still experiencing the escalating operation by the Israelis that wasn't over 10 days ago when they pulled out a Janine they said they were going to come back back so just wanted to bring you that video from the uh uh the battle the horror of the camps battle [Music]