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Resistance Report — 4 May 2024

Palestinian resistance weapons continue to evolve during genocide, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer offers analysis of the military situation, including the latest videos from the resistance.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Donya Abu Sitta, contributor and journalist in the Gaza Strip, on the day 208 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/JA4oIKugdAM

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Full transcript
we're going to start in the northeast of Gaza in banoon um the Israelis reinvaded banon um two weeks ago for a few days and as soon as they did that there was Resistance videos uh from banoon and as Abu abeda said the spokesperson for Kasam the other day uh everywhere they go everywhere the Israelis go we're there and that's proof in Bay at hanoon if we could go to just uh zero here uh tomorrow also it's worth pointing out that this uh that when the Israelis said that they had taken control of betan noon 90% of the Jewish Israeli population thought they were winning the war and today less than 60% um believe they're winning the war despite not uh really getting any of the news from on the ground uh in Gaza it's clear to the Israeli public that they're not winning the war uh either so we're seeing here uh a cassam BRI Gades uh yassen 105 uh strike against a D9 armored bulldozzer built by caterpillar in the United States as we point out every time um and this is in banoon this was uh a video that was released just uh the day before yesterday but it's dated the 22nd uh of April the Israelis are gone from banon now as they are from all areas of Gaza except for the corridor which which we will uh talk about coming up so this is one of the more than 1,000 Yasin strikes against Israeli armored vehicles that we're seeing presumably Fighters able to access this area through tunnels uh still able to move around um throughout the Gaza Strip as they have been throughout this war now seven months uh on and the resistance is still able to carry on these attacks at any place that the Israelis um reinvade the Israeli plan right now is to stay in these buffer zones and to carry out these raids uh periodically um that's their intention um the resistance is making that uh a difficult proposition for the Israelis as we have seen for the past six months let's check out number one here tomorrow this is an Al gou sniper attack this is a uh an sniper attack also in banoon also uh by the kassan brigades we're looking at um footage through the cameraman this is something that we consistently see uh from the Palestinians constant surveillance uh of the Israelis when they're uh when they're moving around and this is a another aloul sniper attack this is one of 50 alul uh sniper attacks that we have that the resistance has reported and many of them uh that we've seen on video and many of them we have shown here this is again edited these uh I I'll say that these videos are all from the last week again I'm still reporting um things that happened uh in the last week since you uh since you last saw us here on the show um and so this uh this Al goul attack was one of 50 as I said one of 50 um sniper attacks and we have edited the video um you don't see the soldier falling uh and then you also don't see all of his comrades running away uh and leaving him which is something that we have seen also through many of these uh sniper attacks um and the Israelis didn't claim casualties on this uh we have been following their casualty reports and we try to match them up we know that they've been lying about their casualties their casualty statistics uh don't add up even in their own numbers the IDF said at the beginning um at the new year that they were going to have a new transparency to their reporting um and that lasted for about two weeks till January 14th uh and they haven't updated any of their numbers uh since then so uh We've edited out this hit uh and the Israelis edited out uh this from their statistics as well but these videos of course always show us uh the reality that otherwise we wouldn't see if these units didn't have media embedded in their units uh we wouldn't be seeing this and we would just be getting the Israeli side of the story as we uh heard from Ali before that has just been full of lies since October 7th uh and is a core part of their uh information operations uh clearly that we've seen um so this sniper attack uh we edited out the the hit let's go to number five tomorrow because this week the CU somber Gades released two videos extended footage videos that we haven't seen before um this one to Al jazer Arabic showing them rigging up a tunnel Ambush which um you can see them here this is the first time we've seen them inside tunnels uh preparing the tunnel ambushes that we've seen we've seen reports of more than 50 of them um as the Israelis um attempt to they haven't even there I was going to say they attempt to root out the tunnels in Gaza but they haven't even really been doing that we remember early on in the war they were counting every tunnel shaft um they've stopped doing that the pretense that they're actually going to defeat the resistance uh in Gaza has been has fallen away we know that their military operation is basically revenge and destruction there's nothing like a systematic attack on the resistance they're just destroying the Gaza Strip um and and these tunnel ambushes are one of the reasons why they stopped uh going down in tunnels into the same way that they had intended to at the beginning we're watching here Kasam Fighters burying uh one of the many different types of anti-personnel Mines uh that the Palestinians have created and all of these weapons are built in Gaza and the uh what we're seeing here is in this Al jazer video is four different types of explosive devices built in Gaza we can see the way that they have set up these devices in the tunnels um the key to these tunnel ambushes is of course um intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance um which the Palestinians have significant uh in the Gaza Strip of course o their own neighborhoods they know the area um and they have are able to move through their tunnels uh corresponding to above the ground we're watching here this is the first footage that we've seen uh of their jumping IED this is an IED that cassam brigades invented um that shoots up one meter from the ground uh and then explodes into shrapnel you can see the shrapnel um radius of um you know what they call the Kill Zone of these devices now we're looking at what they call a gorilla action device this is the maybe the most famous of their uh IEDs because these are that we have seen the fighters uh literally attaching these uh devices to Israeli armored vehicles um the it's attached with a magnet and then it has a clip uh once the pin is pulled there's four seconds that the fighter has to get out of the way we're showing here research and development by the cassam brigades and this has been an important part of the Armed struggle that we've seen for the last seven months is that the Palestinians are still able to fight after all this time because they have built their own indigenous uh weapons industry um and you can see here in this footage from Al jazer that they are uh they're showing us research and development of these weapons and just to give you a sense in 2005 uh the the shaaz IED um explosively formed penetrator it was in their eighth edition by 2005 so the research and development is constant and this is a program that was started by Adnan Al Gul uh and the idea basically was because the Palestinians are living under siege constantly the idea of importing their weapons wasn't practical uh they had to build the weapons themselves with the raw materials uh that they had in Gaza in some cases that's unexploded ordinance some cases it's other uh weapons that are repurposed um and so they have built this industry for themselves and that's the reason why they're able to carry on fighting um after all this time they built their own hand grenades they built their own rockets and mortars they built their own uh anti-tank weapons that we've seen of course the Yasin 105 um and they built their own uh improvised explosive devices so we're seeing all four different types of their explosive devices here being used in this video let's go to number six here tomorrow because this is a a cornet strike that we saw this is extended footage uh of an anti-tank missile strike that uh the Palestinians carried out in December this is a cornate anti-tank missile strike against a convoy and they released this to Al Arabi uh television um showing us the surveillance of this operation and the extended footage of this operation this is something that's going to happen I think increasingly as this War uh or as the time passes after the war we're going to see extended footage of these operations you can see the tank Convoy here you can just see the destruction total Destruction all over this is in December and it's still destroyed uh or it was destroyed as of December and it's only been worse in the months since then um so you can see them tracking this Convoy of armored vehicles here their tanks and Aton uh fighting vehicles and now we're seeing Drone footage this is Drone footage captured by the uh by the camb brigades from the Israelis and I showed you this in previous episodes where um the Palestinians have commandeered Israeli drones and landed them safely without any scratches on the vehicle on the drones at all and that's what we're seeing here is Kasam matching this Drone footage that they captured of the aftermath of this cornet uh anti-tank missile strike and you can see the Burning uh armored vehicle there the burning Jeep this was an attack on a Jeep um and you can see this uh from the Israeli Drone footage from the scene um and they so the kassam Bri Gades released this this week to Al Arabia television uh and that's what the you can see now we're seeing the Drone actually literally be landed by the Israeli troops um and so this is the kind of footage that I think we're going to see a lot more of this uh in the coming months because the edits of the kassam videos are are very tight edits um but we know that they're recording before and after that footage so um I think we're going to see more of this this is one of very few cornet anti-tank missile strikes this is a weapon that Hezbollah has used U to great effect uh in Lebanon and the Palestinians have these weapons but they haven't been we haven't seen them very often this is an imported weapon um and we've seen it in in um and B lahia this is B lahia which is in the Northwest uh of Gaza um they seem to have the Cornet but the Palestinians made the crucial decision of building their own anti-tank weapon the yine 105 tandem charge uh they built that weapon instead of building their resistance strategy around the Cornet anti-tank missile which would be um imported and subject to the siege that uh the Gaza Strip is under um and so that's not a good that's not a practical resistance strategy the resistant strategy that Adan Al goul U uh founded um was to build their own whip their own weapons with their own raw materials uh inside the Gaza Strip and to put these weapons in the hands of all of their Fighters rather than having a few specialized uh units that can carry out these weapons rather than having to rely on outside sources uh for the importation of the weapons um that the uh the pal Ians built their own weapons in the Gaza Strip so we're seeing here footage of the Drone that has been commandeered and landed by the Palestinians um shows their own attack from the Israeli perspective um which is just a very interesting uh video that uh this is the first time Kasam has released a video of this sort um and they released it to Al Arabi television um earlier this week so if we could go to maybe number eight here tomorrow this is a sar Al kuds operation the resistance has been targeting uh the corridor where the Israelis um the narim corridor I'll talk about that more in a moment but this is a this is uh rocket artillery um all the Palestinian factions have these um these rocket artillery which is essentially the uh resistance equivalent of tank shells and this is a fighter the fighters telling us uh in this footage he says he he salutes to his leaders the leaders of Islamic Jihad zad nakala um and arram ajuri who is the head of the SEL kuds the milit the military wing of Islamic Jihad and the fighters are saying to their leaders in Exile we're here we're in the field all is well uh and then they carry out this attack and five factions have claimed uh resistance attacks mortar attacks along this Corridor um which we'll see in the coming weeks um and I'll talk about in a moment here on the show about uh the pier um and the way that the uh this Corridor nsar Corridor connects to that Pier um so these are artillery operations I like to bring these videos where they talk about their Fighters and they salute their Fighters they salute their leaders um it's something that we've seen them do throughout this war the Palestinian resistance uh both locally uh and to their leadership in in Exile um and so I like to bring you these these videos of these mortar attacks these rocket artillery attacks they're constant um these videos are released all the time but the last few months there's so many videos to show we haven't showed these but these are these attacks are carried out constantly um and there's been more than 10,000 of these uh rocket attacks um according to the Israelis that they also stopped counting those um 10,000 was a number that was also from early January so these numbers are consistently going up and to put that in perspective as I've said a number of times the 2014 War there was 4,000 Rockets fired the 2006 war with Lebanon uh with Hezbollah um there was about the same four or 5,000 Rockets so we're talking double um those those levels of those um famous rocket Wars um and this has just become something that's normal because the Palestinians have been able to build this industry um and been able to fight because of building uh that industry look at number nine here tomorrow this is sorry this is the pflp Abu Ali Mustafa brigades um and they're they're holding up a sign here this is an operation from Friday and it says for the soul of our comrade W Dhaka and W Daka was the pflp operative who was in Israeli prison the longest serving uh Palestinian prisoner he died in uh in captivity he died in captivity uh a couple weeks ago and Israel is refusing to turn over his body keeping him uh as they have done for many uh keeping the bodies not even returning the bodies not even allowing Freedom uh in death and so this is the pflp saluting uh welli Daka again communication between the West Bank uh and Gaza uh understanding of the history of the struggle um saluting their Fighters um and and leaving these messages that are dated the same day that we're seeing the attack showing that these uh videos are uh put out uh immediately and this is still the case seven months on it's still the case for these smaller groups like the pflp um that they're still fighting so this idea that Israel is destroying Hamas uh as a national Army is not happening but it's also not happening to these smaller Guerilla groups um and that is clear by these videos uh that we see constantly and putting these sort of handwritten notes uh and communicating in this way uh is a further proof to uh to the Israelis to the Palestinians to anyone in the world watching that the resistance is still uh it's still not only there uh but it's still functioning in a way that makes it impossible for Israel to carry out its long-term plan um and that's why we see the Israelis pulling out and carrying out uh attacks from the air which is something that we always want to point out that these uh just because the ground War uh isn't going on every day the aerial attacks are still going on um the Israelis are still killing scores of people every single day uh in their homes and that's going on we people cite the statistic of 34,000 33,000 that number hasn't really changed uh in the last few months um because of the ability because of Israel wiping out the hospital system the Health Care System um destroying civil uh defense Crews equipment that that could dig people out of the rubble um there's a lot of people uh the the number of 34,000 is sadly is a an undercount um of what's going on uh in Gaza constantly 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