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Resistance Report — 10 Oct 2024

Resistance confronts Israel’s reinvasion of Jabaliya refugee camp, with Jon Elmer

Day 369: Jon Elmer provides an update on the Palestinian defense of the Jabaliya refugee camp as the Israeli military reinvades northern Gaza. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s day 369 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University, and one of the most significant public intellectuals today. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/QgeBd_DrGJs

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Full transcript
we're going to see here as we move to Northern Gaza um jabalia as Norah uh so well and and so devastatingly described in her news report what's happening uh in the north um as they haven't been the Israeli military hasn't been in jabalia in five months and as soon as they get to jabalia on the weekend they're hit immediately with 35 operations within the first 36 hours by all factions all arm groups First 48 Hours um 35 operations in 48 hours um when the 162nd Division that had been in Rafa redeployed uh to encircle jabalia and I'm just going to read to you because Army Radio um IDF Army Radio had an IDF person uh explain the reason that they were moving the 162nd Division because they had to explain why they were doing that because it seems like you're abandoning Rafa and it was a surprise nobody was expecting it so they explained to uh to Army Radio why it happened and and they said that they are conducting an offensive um an offensive operation in another area of the Gaza Strip and the 167 162nd needed to be moved because the IDF has not operated in jabalia since May for five whole months and then they explain to us to the world to Israelis why it is that they need to go back and uh and fight in jabalia where in November they said they had operational control in may they withdrew uh after months long of basically flattening the southern part of the camp why do they need to go back again the IDF explained it very uh specifically because people in jabal are living in shelters schools and hospitals so the IDF says shelters schools and hospitals where governmental activi is carried out has preserved hamas's rule in the area for example Gaza citizens come there to the hospitals schools and shelters he's saying Gaza citizens come there to receive coupons and humanitarian equipment the citizens come there to complain about thefts so that's the reason in Norah's report the brutality the killing of a hundred people in hours um the encirclement of jabalia the burning of their flower warehouse um that is their only uh food stocks and now jabali is completely encircled and in detail no other reason they don't have any other reason in their explanation for invading jabalia except that the schools hospitals and shelters um are for example Gaza citizens come there to receive coupons food coupons and humanitarian equipment um and the citizens come to complain about about thefts so that's the reason why the genocide H uh is being uh deepened in jabalia three hospitals being forced to evacuate within hours again scenes of pushing hospital beds down the road people fleeing in Terror from the hospital the hospital has to be emptied out um because in the school there's organization that is providing um there's Palestinian organization um providing care uh for the population during a genocide that is that is where Israel has gotten to about their explanations for why it's not because of uh militant operations uh it's because the Hamas government is functioning in uh in a way which is going to be what they say when they start attacking schools because the Hamas government is school teachers it's medical workers It's s sanitation workers uh it's the water Ministry um so this is just really I just want to say just really of all in this year of their disgusting explanations for why they're carrying out these massacres uh to say that they're doing it because uh because people are going to the shelters where else would they go this the only place left um that they go to get handouts and the and the Israeli uh the IDF military um official said the rate of action of the IDF should be faster than the rate of recovery of Hamas and this is currently not the case so they're counting School organizations within School shelters and hospitals functioning uh as the recovery of Hamas and that is what um necessitates this operation in jabalia nevertheless the moment they enter jabalia the resistance hits them the resistance from jabalia the territorial resistance in jabalia not the fighters from Rafa coming up from Rafa not the fighters from kanun coming up from conun the territorial military structure in jabalia begins to defend and on Sunday alone we had eight quot um we saw eight Close Quarters battles nine yassen strikes eight IEDs three sniper operations six rocket and mortar operations in one day and a half um the first day and a half that the Israelis uh are in jabalia and I'm sure we'll see on the show next week uh many operations uh on film from these uh attacks so let's look at number 13 here because this is part of the saluting to the Covenant this is uh the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades um acknowledging the assassinations of Abu Ali Mustafa brigade's uh internal security Chief abdal Al uh in Muhammad abdal Al in uh Lebanon the Israelis carried out assassinations in the cola neighborhood outside of the dahia against uh pflp leadership Imad OD is the other uh photo that you see there and of course you saw the nasala photo uh so this is the Abu Ali Mustafa brigades firing on the narim corridor uh immediately after the assassinations of their people and they say in this video we and the martyrs of Abu Ali Mustafa Brigade salute our brothers in Yemen Lebanon and Iraq we are on the Covenant of conrades so the Covenant was Kasam Ambush was called The Covenant here W Ali Mustafa pflp the leftist popular front for the liberation of Palestine uh saying that we are on the Covenant of comrades and shouting out their uh leaders that were assassinated in during Israel's drunken assassination Rampage U that they're going through in Lebanon pflp outside of the dahia outside of the rocket and Rocket attacks on uh Northern Israel uh and carrying out these assassinations Israel also carried out the assassination of the cassan brigades leader uh in Lebanon and he was killed with his family in badawi Camp um near Tripoli in the far north uh of Lebanon so just uh continual continual crimes uh being carried out by Israel let's look at number 14 tomorrow because this is a sniper operation this was Sunday the first day the Israelis uh are in jabalia the first day of the 162nd Division driving up from Rafa uh and entering you can see the uh um the flags that you see flying there are flying off their armored vehicle Soldier climbs up on top of his armored Troop Carrier s coulds spots him coming out of the hatch again we've edited this and blurred it um but uh this is a sniper operation the fighter says today is October 6 the time is 2:10 p.m. and there's the positioning of the vehicle so the fighters themselves know they're noting the time of day 210 the minute the Israelis arrive in jabalia they're being hit by these operations and the Israelis have claimed uh on that day that they lost two fighter Two Soldiers on that day um in the armored Brigade in their uh 129th Battalion of their armored Brigade um and separately in a separate operation um was uh another Soldier was wounded in an IED attack that we will see uh coming up here um if you can see the flags on the on the vehicles there uh and that's a soldier popping his head up there uh blurred out so that our audience is uh spared from the graphic uh in information uh being shared but let's look at number 15 tomorrow um this is the the uh an IED operation using a unexploded Israeli bomb in jabalia again the jabalia unit fighting in jabalia but this is the first time we've seen them do it this way um they're burying it in a house again devastated terrain operations they put the Yasin Warhead and wire it up to detonate the unexploded Israeli bomb that was dropped on uh civilians in jabalia at the beginning of well presumably at the beginning of the operation you can see the soldiers there dismounted and going to the house um you could see the way in which the fighters have concealed the IED that they've uh ingeniously rigged up up um before detonating and before detonating the fighter uh the fighter says we come to you with flames of death jabalia camp is forbidden to you and then uh you can see this devastating hit presumably that's uh where the two soldiers that were uh said seriously wounded seriously wounded uh were in and this video ends with a Return to Sender another operation using uh Israeli weaponry and you can see the way that they can seal it in this terrain um in this absolutely destroyed house um they make the explosive be hidden in the otherwise pile of uh destruction in some family's home that's trapped now in the middle camps presumably um has probably been there since the beginning um beginning of the war now 11 months stranded um living in multiple places moving all over uh Gaza most families have moved minimum half a dozen times throughout these uh operations and these buildings are being used as a battle space look at that building um there's no military purpose to destroying a building that way and this fighter is holding uh a a light switch that he's using as the Detonator and no reason no military reason for that building to to to be left in that uh this is just military vandalism that has been pointed Out and because of that those soldiers lost their lives the Israelis are sacrificing their soldiers to uh carry out further genocide in a place that they've already attacked three times and claimed Victory uh in and number 17 This was um just to to note on October 7th that Kasam was able to fire a barrage of M90 Rockets named after Ibrahim al- madma who was one of the founding members of the cassam Bri Gades these M90 Rockets reach Tel AV these were fired from conun uh and they landed in tabib they landed in halone which is just outside of the Met that's in the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv it's one of 13,000 rockets that uh Kasam has fought has fired um since this war started actually all the factions together I believe that number is it's mostly Kasam um and and of course the October 7th operation itself began with an with a rocket barrage of 4,000 rockets and that's what uh shape the battlefield for The Invasion uh of the military bases along the border so I just wanted to bring you uh that to show you that on October 7th they uh Kasam showed that they still have the ability to strike Tel Aviv and they did there was sirens all over Tel Aviv 2 million people's in this Shel two million people running to the shelter um as they've said before didn't get the trip and fall report um from these from these operations there was a number of attacks on Tel Aviv the uh yenis the Iraq Roes and the lebanes all fired on uh Tel Aviv uh this week [Music]