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Resistance Report — 23 Mar 2024

Resistance in the West Bank blows up Israeli armored vehicles, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer reports on the West Bank.

Along with the latest news from the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank, Jon Elmer takes a look at the US military operation to build a pier in Gaza City and how that plan lines up with Israel’s ongoing construction of a highway south of Gaza City that will divide the Strip between north and south.

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Ilan Pappé, Israeli historian, and Dr. Ben Thomson, who recently returned from the Gaza Strip, on the day 166 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saM09yo0crU

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Full transcript
want to just do a quick um tour through the West Bank here because um there was a significant operation that took place from the Janine brigades um the most formidable fighting force uh in the resistance in the West Bank um this operation here we can take a look at tomorrow number nine um this is the Janine brigades carrying out an operation here and we're looking at a camera on the barrel of uh this Fighter's gun and we've again taken out the audio um but you can see the gun is going off this is an ambush um that the Palestinian resistance um has set up against an Israeli raid um into a community nearby um and we see the Palestinian Fighters firing on the Israeli um the Israeli Force um and luring them into an ambush um here this is just south of Janine in the area between Janine and nablas in one of the villages and now we're seeing here footage with some triangles uh the Israeli soldiers coming to the Ambush area um to get the fighters and we see um this is obviously a camera that skips um frames um but we're seeing the resistance videotaping the detonation of an improvised explosive device on the Israeli troops um that arrive at the area um so we're seeing a complex Ambush um here but we're also seeing video record reping of that Ambush that was published the next day so we're seeing now in the West Bank the resistance turning around Resistance videos like in Gaza within 24 hours of a significant operation um taking place so we're starting to see qualitative increases in the resistance in the West Bank um and of course the the brutality in the West Bank um while not on the scale of the Gaza Strip has been brutal since October 7th 450 people killed um you know 5,000 injured um during this period of time 75% of the casualties uh took place during Israeli night raids U maybe we can go to the news report um after this clip finishes tomorrow because um the Israelis admitted to casualties in this um Janine brigades operation that took place uh Seven Soldiers wounded in the West Bank yo Aon note uh reported attackers open before detonating explosive device near West Bank settlement so this operation took place amid um the settlements and outposts in the West Bank and that's something that this Yeo Aeron note article um identifies is that this operation took place surrounded by Israeli military positions Israeli military checkpoints illegal settlement outposts um and the resistance was able to penetrate this area carry out this operation and escape from the operation later in this Yeo aeronaut story um and they followed it up that they haven't been able to um capture the fighters that took uh that executed this operation um and this is just one of um over just just since you last saw me on this show uh there's been 138 operations over the past week by the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank 32 shooting attacks 13 IEDs which damaged seven vehicles and if we go to this next tomorrow we can see one of the vehicles damaged here this is in Janine um and we see a vehicle an Israeli armored Convoy passing over an improvised explosive device that over the course of the last several months we've seen are getting larger and larger and closer and closer to impacting um the Israeli forces and when this video loops around you'll see the do literally blown off this armored vehicle um H that is now calling for support with his um with his light on top and he will another uh Israeli armored vehicle will come into the situation here um in Janine um so these IEDs that is one of 13 IED attacks against israil you can watch here the door blow off um as it rolls over this improvised explosive device now improvised explosive devices has have existed in the Palestinian resistance going back to the 1990s um but we we haven't seen um the qualitative use of them like we're seeing in the last few months the resistance in the West Bank as I've said um every time we talk about this if this was in isolation in the West Bank we would be calling this the third inapa um incidentally inas are are uh the first and second inapa that were in the late 80s and early 2000s were probably more like the fifth and sixth anatas of the Palestinian um resistance to Israeli colonization but I just wanted to show some West Bank attacks um and uh just as I wrap up here um just wanted to also show that hasbalah showed a video just a short video of all of their uh a collection of their attacks um from Lebanon here we can see them um targeting Israeli surveillance equipment with precise shots now we're seeing uh their surveillance Towers being knocked over uh with rocket fire there's been more than 1200 Hezbollah operations um since October 7th we're seeing multiple rocket launchers here now we're seeing anti-tank weapons that we've seen throughout um we're seeing them here launch an almass top attack anti-tank missile that I've described on this show a number of times here we're watching them uh we're going to watch them down a drone here they down a Hermes 450 Israeli uh uh armed drone um was downed and this is a video of Burke can Rockets their largest um payload Rockets being fired with Precision here onto Israeli targets um and this is in a video uh where nasrala says at the end of this video um if you escalate we escalate so monitoring the situation along the northern border uh as well so that is the resistance report from the Gaza Strip from the south of the Gaza Strip from the middle camps of the Gaza strip um from the north of the Gaza Strip from the West Bank from Lebanon um and there's no time to talk about the resistance of Anar Allah uh but that is carrying on also qualitative increases so lots to report sorry the shows so long but we had two excellent guests that was uh wonderful to listen to so um it's good to see everybody here thanks so much for that John 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 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