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Resistance Report — 10 May 2024

Resistance captures drone footage of Israeli war crimes, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer breaks down Israeli drone footage shared on Al Jazeera.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Abubaker Abed, our contributor in the Gaza Strip; Dr. Adel Eksharkawy, a Canadian physician based in Calgary, Alberta who worked at Gaza’s only functioning neonatal unit; Shahd al-Hadid, a student activist at the University of Sheffield in the UK participating in a mass encampment in solidarity with the Palestinian people; Sabiya Ahamed, a staff attorney at the civil rights organization Palestine Legal, on the day 215 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCaU3MnTjmE

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Full transcript
um so tomorrow can we go to number 15 because this is an interesting story here so this was released this is footage released on Al jazer this week um this is IDF Drone footage that was captured by the cassam Bri Gades we they don't say how they captured it um but we have shown on this program for a number of months now um that says sh Jaa and Gaza City uh Shaya is um east of Gaza City and we're seeing the Israeli military buildup through their drone and we're seeing a school because they use the schools as a military base um of course they write in their propaganda that that Kasam fired a rocket three from 350 meters away from a school um and in there uh 350 meters away from a school and here's the IDF inside the school we know they've destroyed the universities in Gaza the elementary schools the only schools that are still standing in Gaza are the ones that were used as bases and often when they use it as a base they'll destroy it after you can see all their armored vehicles so this gives us a sense this I mean this video we could talk about for a week because there's a lot going on in this video we're seeing uh Drone footage from the Israelis captured by the Palestinians and then deployed by the Palestinians as research they have their own drones to do this but you can see you can see how every single tank is parked in some ways this Drone footage is more valuable than if you actually had a mole who was driving the tank and parking it um because the overhead shot is worth more you can see the positions there and this is a graveyard so they're showing footage from the IDF drone of the graveyards that were destroyed um by the Israelis um these these uh captured Drone footage and other various surveill you can see the destroyed uh Cemetery there um the the destroyed cemeteries the using of schools this video had the use of a human shield um I'm not showing that footage and I haven't been showing that kind of footage throughout this war as uh U as a as a choice as a decision um to not show that the footage is brutal it shows Israeli sold blindfolding a man there's 10 soldiers around him and they take off his blindfold and tell him to go and walk and knock on the doors and tell the resistance fighters to come out he's being used as a human shield his identity is unknown still unknown this is more than a week after this video was shown um and his fate isn't known either um so I'm not bringing them that I'm not going to show you that footage it's um it's really terrible we have seen the Israelis use human Shields all throughout this war we've seen them use it throughout our entire lifetimes um they use them in Janine they use them in the West Bank um they tied uh children to the front of their armored vehicles before um so using human Shields is not new but the footage this footage is new um and this is the type of footage this is the reason why this week Al jazer was shut down they shut down Al jazer they took all their broadcasting gear they took all their computers and they took their phones because the Israelis are trying to figure out how this footage of theirs is being released how is the fighters getting this footage to Al jazer and showing it to the world because the human shield I'm I'm bringing you this part of the clip because this shows where their tank positions are um and it's interesting to see where all their tanks are parked but the human shield footage is is stuff that will go to the hag This is war crimes trial stuff shown in five what have 4K uh footage in clear as day uh war crimes and it's not the first one right like we saw if we remember um a couple months back we saw that Drone footage that was released from con Yunis that showed the drone strikes on those four innocent men who were walking back to conun to check on their houses and the Israelis killed them them one by one hunted them down people were Disturbed for weeks about that um we never have time to process any of these things and we move on to the next crimes because a few days later uh footage was released to Al jazer presumably from a cam sniper surveillance team along the beach um coming up to Gaza City where two men were walking along the beach with white flags um attempting to come up to the Israeli troops and ask them something the troops murdered them on camera uh they didn't know they were on camera um so because they didn't know they were on camera they murdered them they called over the bulldozzer driver and the bulldozer driver buried them in the sand um on the Gaza Beach um and that's that story came out because the resistance gave footage to Al jazer so it's of all the international humanitarian lawyers international law NOS um you know human rights groups the footage of this war the definitive footage of this war of Israel's war crimes is going to be given by the resistance the resistance is giving these videos um they're capturing drones they have constant surveillance um and this was just a clue that came in this week because last show you'll remember I showed uh two other examples of captured Drone footage so the Israelis believed that this was the beginning now the war had wound down there was time um for the fighters to disseminate this information and the Israelis C certainly believe that there's many more of these captured Israeli drones um that show their crimes and so the is Israeli government in their uh ultimate wisdom their security cabinet decided to B Al jazer and Sack their Jerusalem offices with black clad like Special Forces police officers um and as was said in Norah's report and I'll repeat it again they had their computers taken they had their cell phones taken which is something illegitimate in anywhere in the world these uh I mean these are dictatorship it the BBC had a really hard time with this because they wanted to say this isn't like is Israel um shutting down Al jazer because Al jazer shows videos from the resistance in Gaza but also critically they show Israeli footage captured by Israelis uh captured by Kasam of the Israeli Drone footage of their own crimes um and so that's the reason that um among others that uh that Israel shut down Al jazer this week I don't think it's a coincidence that these three drone videos happened in an 8-day window and on the ninth day uh the I the the Israelis attack and shut down alzer's um Jerusalem Bureau and just to point out for Al jazer there was been more than 50 attacks on Al jazer and their journalists wiping out entire families um killing the journalists themselves killing the journalists families while the journalists are at work so they show up uh doing their work they show up to the hospital or show up to the house and it's actually their family that have been killed um we've covered those stories throughout the war um and so not not it wasn't enough to just kill um and Exile their Jour the AL jazer journalists um they actually banned the N the network stole all of their broadcasting equipment stole their computers and stole their phones because of what we're looking at here which is uh is Capt Israeli Drone footage showing war crimes showing them using schools as military bases showing them overrunning and digging up gravestones for no military purpose this is not part of you can see the tank is just positioned there right inside the um right inside the cemetery and they drove over the gravestones that's what that crushed rock that you see in front of the tank is that's uh that's the crushed gravestone so there was some instances when the Israelis said that they were digging up cemeteries looking for their captives that had been killed um that's in so far as that happened it was ex it was very uh limited and isolated but they have destroyed something like 17 cemeteries in Gaza by doing just this driving their tanks over it taking their caterpillar D9 bulldozers and armored excavators that we showed you to dig up uh cemeteries um to destroy people's homes and then to build a bridge from the American pier uh along the nerim corridor so that's what the Israelis were up to this week and that's what the resistance responded with this week um and still once again just to say everything that I brought you this week is from the last seven days since you last saw me we still are reporting the the ground war the war day by day um nothing well I brought you an October 7th video that I stitched together but other than that everything is from these past seven days so that's the resistance report from 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 does make a difference you can also support our journalism by going to electronic in.net and clicking on donate now thank you