Rafah fighters destroy Israeli tanks, with Jon Elmer

all right as usual we are going to start in the South and I just want to say again as I do every week we're still covering operations that took place in the window of time since you last saw me you have not seen multiple videos I have not reshon any videos in the nine months that we've been covering this war so and that will continue this week perhaps after the war after a ceasefire um we can take some time and reorganize videos into um uh various different ways to show the way the tactics and uh strategies have been used by the Palestinian resistance but for now we're still just going day byday blowby blow of the operations which have consistently been carried out um and were were so this week um we're going to start in the South and we've talked uh on a number of the last episodes about the Philadelphia Corridor we've actually added it to our map here thanks to Maxwell for this map and uh adding the corridor was something that I humed and hod on for a while because I wasn't sure how the resistance was going to handle this and how the Israelis were going to handle this there was a lot of talk um I mean if we go back it was May 6th um May 6th and 7th is the day that the Israelis uh invaded Rafa and came along the Philadelphia Corridor closed the Rafa Crossing to pedestrian traffic so nobody with injuries uh is able to leave the Gaza Strip the Gaza Strip is sealed um and the caram Shalom Crossing from Israel is just further down to the south of the Rafa Crossing on that map that you see there and last week I showed you how Aid through this Corridor has basically stopped entirely the population has been pushed uh into alasi which you can see up there on the coast uh in front of K Yunis the former Israeli settlements and as Norah said on Monday an operation began uh in conun from the 98th division of the Israeli military which is this uh unit this division that's been roving they're the unit that was fighting in uh in the jabalia camp uh a few weeks ago couple months ago now I guess when the soldier was captured that nobody in Israel has uh acknowledged was captured but we clearly saw him being dragged through the tunnels of the jabalia camp that was the 98th Division and then uh in the recent uh invasion of telawa which is downtown Gaza City uh that was the 98th division as well they pulled out of telaa last week and are uh invading communist this week and they killed 70 people within the first few hours um the number is well over a hundred now um since this operation began more than 50 air strikes uh on the conun area uh specifically and of course as Norah pointed out the air strikes and artillery shall still happens all throughout the Gaza Strip regardless of the battle space um in question but the battle space at this point right now is predominantly in Rafa um you can see Rafa there Rafa is a single refugee camp uh according to the United Nations um a single refugee camp and the city uh but the people of Rafa divide up uh Rafa into their own blocks and you could see Tes sutan is one of the major areas that fight in has been um in the last few weeks U but this is again a three month coming up on three months of this operation in Rafa That was supposed to according to the Israelis uh route the final four battalions uh of the cassan brigades which I've pointed out numerous times on this show as a meaningless distinction um it doesn't encapsulate how many fighters are in each Battalion it doesn't encapsulate the ability for the battalions to merge uh it doesn't include Special Forces battalions so uh these four battalions in Rafa were said to be by the IDF U the easiest of uh the fights that they have had and they said Netanyahu said at the beginning and the defense Ministry at the beginning said it was only going to be a few weeks in Rafa and here we are coming up on three months um and we have a packed show with for you this week with Resistance videos from Rafa so um let's get started on those number one tomorrow is a Sarah Al's Islamic Jihad sniper here you see him with his 50 cal sead uh sniper rifle which is uh similar to the AL ghoul that the cassam Bri Gades use um and as usual s kuds gives us a little bit longer view so we can watch him set up here you can see him calibrate his scope you can see his positioning H we're watching Four Israeli soldiers Scurry across the street here and they're getting yellow uh red triangles of course for the listening audience um and we see the sniper set up here he's got a GoPro on his head and you can see on the right there you can see the round for this rifle it's a it's a huge round for the 50 cal rifle um and we're watching him loaded up here and again we're going to edit out um the successful hit to keep these videos uh PG so we dropped that second screen uh from the video but you could see all the things that the uh professional Palestinian soldiers do that the Israeli soldiers do not do you can see this Fighter um we can just leave it here for a second you can see this fighter uh inside fully inside the building um he's got his muzzle flash will go off inside the building he's not sticking his Barrel flagging it out the window like we see the Israelis doing constantly giving up uh their positions you can see how quickly this Fighter um gets into position sometimes the snipers are in position for a long time if they have a safe spot um and they're waiting and sometimes they're acting tactically to respond to what they're seeing on the ground and here we see the last Soldier get identified as the target um we see see you could see to the right there the round he's going to put it in the gun here the single load bold action um and then set up this sniper operation so these operations are um skilled and they're continuous and they hits and these hits are not showing up in the Israeli C casualty reports as usual um that's standard procedure uh for the Israelis of late let's do number two now tomorrow here we're GNA see Kasam fighter pop out of a uh out of an offensive tunnel immediately pick up a tank so they're getting surveillance from above ground telling the fighters below ground where the position where the armored vehicles are um and he's popping up here uh in the middle of the uh tunnel in the middle of the combat Zone and hitting the tank so talking communication secure Line This is a tank being pulled um but they're communicating with a secure line they're able to uh communicate with the spotters above ground to the fighters in the tunnels and navigate their tunnel Network in order to come out here um within a 50 meter shot here of a marava tank that we're going to watch be dragged away here by a D9 armored bulldozer and there's multiple different typ types of kills for a tank so this is a Mobility kill depending on where the uh Yasin round penetrated um this vehicle needs to be fixed and the scale the time scale for these vehicles to be fixed is often six months to a year or more um these aren't just as I said last show something that you throw in and and swap out a new part um it's a significant fix to fix these vehicles and it's part of what leads to uh the shortage of tanks that Israel admitted to uh in their Supreme Court and we talked about on the show last week um that's starting to build up and hasbalah mocked the Israelis this week by releasing a video that said uh if you invade Lebanon you'll not only be short of Tanks but you won't have any tanks left um and so Rafa has been doing its part in disabling tanks dozens literally dozens of Tanks have been disabled in this period of time and on this show alone we're going to see uh three or four I believe get uh towed away so tow away and again not targeting the tollways that'll be something we have to ask the fighters after the war pretty much at the top of the list we understand they're not targeting the metac you could see a principal um uh operating in that position of not attacking uh medical facilities um but we're not sure why they're not targeting the uh the dragging out of their vehicles and here's a fighter using a tunnel and using Rubble um and a tandem 85 which is an appropriate weapon to use they don't need to use the SC 105 they can use their tandem 85s you see it there you can see the Warhead poking up there through the rubble um against a bulldozzer cockpit it's less than 50 meters from there and the bulldozers have an iron fist active protection system sometimes but lots of them don't um and that looks like a hit directly on uh that armored vehicle uh armored bulldozzer um in that's in central Rafa if we look at number four here we can see command and control still being demonstrated here we have a commander again on the closed line that I just described talking to fighters in in tunnels or in other positions now you can see the two different combat nodes that are in play you see soldiers in Windows in both of them still 10 months into the war standing in Windows um and the commander is is telling his troops if there's multiple individuals because you can see each node is is reporting back that they're seeing one or more um soldiers in this POS particular position so the commander says to them in the video we've taken out the auto he says if you want to go to that one if there's more than one hit it with a thermobaric warhead an anti-personnel shell if there's only one soldier sniping um using your weapons accordingly um and and uh controlling the operation from a command and control position the exact thing that the Israelis say um have been since December since November that don't exist and here's the after action report a battle damaged assessment that the um Palestinian Commander is doing and you can see the building there that's the room that those Israeli soldiers were in uh are burning and the commander comments after the strike um that uh he says whenever they are present they will find Fierce resistance so you can see again using closed circuit um observation but also community ating on a Clos line with his spotters that are out in these multiple positions around the around Rafa around all the places that the fighting happens and then the commander is taking that data um and and issuing um techniques tactics and procedures um to to to carry out the correct operation in this case he says if there's one just snipe them if there's multiple use the thermobaric Warhead which is designed um as an anti-personnel weapon to hit soldiers in uh in building positions behind fortification behind cover um and they do they use the thermobaric Warhead and the thermobaric Warhead is a fuel air explosion and you can see that happen inside the building um in this after in this battle damage assessment here that the uh Commander is pointing out so another successful operation um in Rafa uh against Israeli Personnel in buildings using buildings using people's homes this is where you get the pictures of them dressed up in uh in women's clothes and and you know basically just doing the most dehumanizing and idiotic things they can do and taking uh Tik Tok videos of it it's inside these positions inside people's houses um that they're doing that let's do number five tomorrow this is another thermobaric Warhead strike you can see this is a sah Al Good's operation and again they give us the chance to walk through with them and look at what they move through the rubble ization is just remarkable it's just even there was a report from rusi which is the U the Royal United Services Institute it's a military think tank in the UK that did a um a Gaza tactical lessons from the IDF in Gaza and here you see the sniper position they're identifying the two sniper loopholes and the cameraman on this position but look at the rubble everywhere the fighter here is able to move outside of the sight line of the sniper you can see the sniper loophole and watch both the cameraman and the shooter are outside um the outside of the the sight line of the sniper position and hitting it with a thermobaric warhead and this is something that the um we can Loop this one again when it's done tomorrow this is something that the um the rusi report which is based on 44 interviews with um with IDF Personnel um and they're talking about Lessons Learned for the British Army and look at this scene here look at the destruction and one of the things that rusi report says that the Israelis have trouble with is because they've destroyed so much they have a difficult time identifying and describing in words to their positions uh where Fighters are where they should be moving because there's no visible landmarks we heard Palestinians saying that early on in the war saying they didn't even recognize their own neighborhoods because the houses are flattened the landmarks are gone and you don't know where you are when you're just in piles of Rebel like this and this has been something that has vexed the Israelis and the Israelis have in their as they do have come up with a new term for their training they're going to train in devastated terrain Warfare um so this is basically to translate that they're tra they're they're going to train in uh post genocide Warfare when you're carrying out a genocide and you're destroying everything School hospitals homes everybody's homes and there's nothing but Rubble everywhere um you need to train in that in a different way than you train for urban conflict where you might be able to move around and use buildings we've heard American soldiers talking about this all throughout the war um we don't see dismounted uh Israeli military infantry um and you the American soldiers were will comment as any Soldier Will about how difficult it is to move through that terrain and why you need so many of these bulldozers that we watch repeatedly get blasted is is because of the way that Israel has left this terrain something we've talked about on this program for months and months um the rization has left them in a worse position um militarily um and so again just further emphasizing that there is no military objective to what we're watching here we're watching a total annihilation of the Gaza Strip as the goal the military goal the military goal were trying to be achieved they would carry it out in a different way they would fight in tunnels they would hold areas they would keep buildings up that they that buildings could be then cleared I'm not going to tell the Israelis how to fight a war but you can clearly tell that they're not taking any military um objectives out of these they can't count the dead they can't count if a fighter was killed they say they killed Muhammad Al da um they have no evidence for that because they can't do battle damage assessments they said they killed Maran Isa the commander of the cassam brigades uh a couple months ago but no no after action report no battle damage assessment and no ability to confirm and no Intelligence on the ground um they don't know they they say they kill these commanders um it goes in their newspapers but they don't have any way to prove it because they don't actually even have signals intelligence meaningful enough in Gaza um to be hearing Kasam Fighters communicating with each other about which Commander might have been killed or not um and so everything you hear about the Israelis killing the leaders ship of kassam we haven't been reporting on it because there's no proof of it and the senior level commanders that were killed uh by the Israelis the Kasam commanders uh Iman nol is the middle Camp's uh commander and Ahmed gandur who is the northern Brigade Commander the kasan brigades acknowledged those two deaths um and they haven't acknowledged um these other ones that the Israelis are putting x's on their list to make it seem to their population like um like they're achieving something militarily when really they're just going and smashing and let's look at number six tomorrow because we got a TR ner Troop Carrier here moving you can see the soldier riding outside likely the commander riding outside the hatch there you're going to see an elevated Yassin 105 strike in the middle of the cabin where the Infantry crew is the Infantry uh soldiers are separate from the crew in the middle there in the middle cabin um and so we're likely seeing a commander on top that's not getting back into the hatch in time um and a hit on the middle part of the uh cabin yeah let's watch it one more time here again we've got a video camera recording separate from the shooter but you can see that they're on the same floor two floors up because you can see the back Blast from that RPG knocking the camera as it does that's what's that's why you see the camera jiggle there it's the back Blast from the um from the yasine RPG built in Gaza um we'll talk more about that in these coming videos look at number seven this is a really interesting one we haven't seen this throughout the whole War we're looking at a marava 45 tank here their most uh recent tank on the right hand side you can see its trophy active protection system um we will we're going to watch this one a few times because there's a lot going on in this one um but what we're seeing here is the is the trophy active protection system deploying that's what the red flame is um it's deploying but it has missed the round you can clearly see that it missed the Yen round we have burnoff um on the top turret of the tank there um it's not always clear to know what that is or if that's connected to what's happening inside for the crew inside um but you can see now if you look on the far right side of this video you can see those two upright uh sticks on the top of the turret that's the active protection system that's going to come flying here in to The View on the right hand side so this is the first time we've seen the aps actually blown off the vehicle um when we watch it one more time you'll also see that the commander likely the commander is riding outside of the hatch um on this one you clearly see burnoff that's not it doesn't appear to be enough burnoff for a Cookoff but you see here watch his head move in the middle there right there you can see the commander likely the commander out the Commander's hatch um when that shot is fired and we're just this is remarkable we see you see the um reactive armor that was placed beside behind the crew Shield that's supposed to protect the commander who's coming out of his hatch but you can see let's watch it one more time you can watch that brick that flies off that's the brick that you see on the top there to protect the commander it's a reactive armor um that didn't do its job it actually just got blown off completely uh so remarkable there's damage clearly damage to this tank no question um about that and just very interesting shot because everything is happening and we can see that the this time the aps did deploy lots of times we've seen it not deploy this time it did deploy but it missed the incoming round probably because the rounds fired from too close it's obscured in the urban battle field um so that's an interesting one to take note of um there that is in Central Rafa um and we're still in central Rafa with number eight here tomorrow um this is cassam also cassam versus another Mark for marava tank you can see it's got an anti-drone canopy on it um and it's hit and you can watch on this hit you can watch the rubble the debris fly into the camera there you can see the chunks of it so significant blast on this vehicle um and here you can see it being towed away again being towed Away by a D9 caterpillar bulldozzer you can see the anti-drone canopy on the top uh has come loose after that strike um and you can see also that they're not driving on the roads they're right beside the road they're not driving on the road they're afraid to drive on the roads for IEDs improvised explosive devices buried in the roads um so they drive through people's Farmers fields and destroy the agricultural land and um the roads are also full of rubble because they've been militarily vandalizing all of these uh homes and so what we're seeing here is probably a a Mobility kill it's called rather than a catastrophic kill a catastrophic kill um we've seen a couple of them that end up in total Flames um and the vehicle is virtually completely destroyed but these engine kills or Mobility kills they're significant because these are the ones that have to go to the shop that spend multiple years uh on resources they're very resource intensive like a severely wounded soldier um it's a costly proposition um to have a severely wounded soldier be taken care of and it's the same with these vehicles it's a lot of um administrative work for their uh mechanics Brigade um to fix these tanks and they they don't just have spare parts that they slap onto these tanks depending on where the mobility kill if it's an engine kill um it's difficult to repair the multi-layer the folded armor on these vehicles um and so when we were talking last week on the show about 500 tanks being under service and out of the battle um we've just watched four in this video alone add to that number just in the week since we talked about the 500 vehicles and you can see the D9 caterpillar bulldozer from Poria Illinois on the boycott divestment sanctions list pulling um the Cava tank there um and now let's do number nine tomorrow because this is a this another good one this is a door pop this is the a classic move that that Rafa's been using quite a bit pop the door immediately step out we see a Yassin 105 still stalks of Yassin 105s which is a much heavier weapon than is necessary for that bulldozer and hits the bulldozer in the cockpit it's possible that's an uh unmanned uh bulldozer if it's a Mann bulldozer they're lying about their casualties uh if it's an unmanned bulldozzer um it's a Mobility kill as well for that bulldozer and there's a limited number of bulldozers there's not unlimited numbers of all these so when they talk about going to Lebanon and and threaten that they're going on to Lebanon um after this they're going with uh a very degraded military um that's been worn down by $500 remember these weapons are uh weapons that include all of the research and development the training and putting into um and putting into service $500 total let's look at number 10 tomorrow because we got an elevated Yasin strike here from the kitchen sink again military vandalism just blowing out half the wall of somebody's kitchen um and but they give it as it becomes a fighting position and a fighting position to effectively hit um to effectively hit a Cava tank and a D9 bulldozer that are side by side in this one um you can't see exactly who it hits because the fighter is peeling off and returning to his base safely but if you look where that red the red is on the tank but you're going to see a bulldozer drive up right beside it too um so there's two Targets there and um we've seen them hit from that range many times that's well within the 100 meter range um that's well within the 100 meter range of the weapon Kasam Fighters try to get within 50 meters um but that's a good uh a good operation that we see there through the ma uh military vand excuse me through the military vandalism with absolutely no uh no military benefit and here's a staredown using the alleys in ALS shabura this is a joint operation between Sarah Al kuds and Kasam so that usually means it's a Sarah fighter and watch maybe we can pause it here tomorrow right here if we can pause it now people give people that's perfect nicely done um you can see the barrel of the marava pointing directly down the alleyway and you can see the marav or you can see the uh Yassin 105 pointing down it's a barrel star down um in the Alleyways of Rafa um you know the historic legendary Alleyways of the Palestinian camps um and the fighter doesn't peel away here he wins the stown you can play it he wins the stown fires on uh fires on the vehicle and returns to his base safely um which is just a pretty remarkable operation again a lot of Courage that goes into that but that's a military skill to be able to hit that V that vehicle in that place and the radar on the active protection system is not going to effectively pick up that round traveling through a skinny Alleyway uh in the camp hi 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