Skip to content

Resistance Report — 9 Sep 2024

Resistance snipers, ambushes hit Israeli troops in Netzarim corridor, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer covers the latest resistance operations in the Netzarim corridor.

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s day 334 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by contributor Abubaker Abed from the Gaza Strip, and Hatem Abudayyeh, the national chair of the US Palestinian Community Network. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/TlfuA4_DffU

Your gift supports The Electronic Intifada’s independent journalism on Palestine:
• Donate by credit card or PayPal via Network for Good: https://bit.ly/GivetoEI
• Donate by credit card, ApplePay or US bank account via Kindful: https://bit.ly/EIKindful

Gifts are welcome from anywhere and are tax-deductible for US taxpayers as allowed by law.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚

Visit our website for more reporting: http://electronicintifada.net

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/electronicintifada
Twitter: https://twitter.com/intifada
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/electronicintifada/
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/intifada
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7g2IMlNS5SFPmj86cfXg4V
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-electronic-intifada-podcast/id972399937

#TheElectronicIntifada #TheElectronicIntifadaPodcast

Full transcript
this is a sniper operation in zetune the Israelis are attempting to widen the narim corridor slightly into zetune here um and you can see that Israeli soldier there pumping punching out that hole there and the Palestinian spotter says oh they're making a hole in the wall here's the soldier and here's the soldier visited visible in the window and he goes oh come on man and you can see we've blocked we've blurred out the soldier who's about to get one um and he did not survive from that shot um doing some basic calculations about the time and speed uh of the bullet gives you something around 1,200 meters for the distance of that sniper operation so pretty successful from a long distance and that's why the corridors are being expanded and that's why Israel creates buffer zones um because these weapons can reach out and touch them um and have been let's look at um let's look at number 11 because right after this one tomorrow they sent out a uh another message so many messages sent out by video this week by gassam this one with a nice touch with the Hebrew um on the wall it says the AL ghou sniper is aimed at the terrorist occupiers that's what's written on the wall your Flack jacket will not help you your helmet will not help you you have no hope our land is forbidden to you you will leave it it is certain those were the communications and just Loop it back around tomorrow because I want to give you the um the edits we had to edit out the the uh you know what we always edit out of the videos uh we had to do that this time but this video is excellent you should go check it out because after we cut here they actually show 11 Al goul sniper hits and they do it in the order that they said through the helmet through the chest plate so we saw the officer that was killed from the The shifer Raid uh that led the shiffer raade who was killed in t how we remember back uh early in the year um he gets a through the FL jacket plate tesalan uh operation where a soldier gets it through the helmet clearly visible um they show the two for one kills when one bullet killed two soldiers in B hanon people remember back that we've covered all of these operations um the one in Shaya where the tank commander poking his head out of the hatch um that was also in the helmet another one from Rafa with a soldier in a window narim Corridor in telawa and then the second shot from the banon Ambush so that it three kills with two Alou bullets um and one more in uh Tel Howa so and they came just one after another in the edit so it's an excellent edit and the point here is the AL ghoul is going to get you no matter where you are and number 12 here is a Sarah Al coulds Ambush this is in telawa in the operations that the Israelis are doing to expand the corridor we're going to see three Fighters here run up on an Israeli military position and re and take it right to the living room of their operation so you're seeing the targeted building and here the fighters there's three Fighters advancing two with small arms one with an RPG with a thermobaric warhead and he's got a second Warhead um he's carrying in his bag there that's what you see sticking out of his bag um the Israeli military is in the building that they're going to here they're about to jump out and surprise them um and the fighters on their way over uh said today we are in full Readiness until the liberation of Palestine we are here um and the fighters were talking about their ammunition and they were uh loading up their 30 round uh AK-47 mags um magazines and saying you know we get 60 bullets for each Soldier don't be stingy um a magazine for each Soldier 30 for each Soldier and as the fighters are moving into position the cameramen said these soldiers are heading it right into their room to wipe them out so watch them they're going to come around this corner here they're going to give us green arrows to show us the good guys uh according to sah versus the Red Arrows or the bad guys according to sah um the red triangles of course we've seen all the war um but they open fire on them here you can hear it quietly happening uh a Close Quarters gunfight and a thermobaric warhead fighting right inside the position that the uh Israeli military is in they took the fight right to them with a Clos quarters battle on the ground floor and they all returned to their base safely as you see here you can see the red and and green triangles to helpfully show us um you see a fighter there up on the an Israeli soldier there up on the upper floors getting fired on um by the fighters on the ground with the green arrows the green triangles there's two more green triangles uh in position there um we cut out the audio of the solders screaming you can hear the soldier screaming and then you're going to see here uh an attack an Apache attack helicopter come in for support which is something that if people follow the military Communications by the igf they're constantly saying that when they reach when any when they meet contact when they actually have to fight they call in air strikes every single time um and they they announce those as if they're successful as if that's a successful operation to have to constantly bail your soldiers out with Clos air support um when you have uh a massive uh military uh Hardware advantage over your uh over your opponent they always call these cowardly air strikes in and they've been doing it for uh for as long as they've had air power um let's do number 13 another s cods operation I think that these are operations from um it takes Sarai a little bit longer to publish these and so these I don't think are from exactly from this week they were published this week though and the same every video we're seeing is from the last since you last saw me so um and you can see there's their efp that's their version of the shuah they call it the Thunder um device and you can see them situating it here planting it um and obscuring it because there's so much destroyed land you can hide it um the fighter on his way over says this is a Minefield like this is a Minefield like emphasis on this like this is a Minefield and there's two explosions um against Jeeps you could see the Jeeps there those Jeeps get hit um the second explosion on the Jeeps uh is coming and then there's um the a military ambulance that you're going to see when this Jeep gets hit behind the um building here as you see he gets the red triangle too and so there he's hit so two two uh Vehicles two Jeeps that don't do well against uh an explosively formed penetrator and efp um these are roadside bombs that are were made famous in Iraq um in particular for their devastating effect on tanks we've seen them be used all over Gaza on tanks there's the military ambulance um coming in to take off the wounded uh over to their military helicopter which is again well within reach of that 1500 meter aloul shot that I just showed you a couple frames ago so again uh maybe it's psychological that they're not touching them this one's a little bit further uh a little bit further away but but not by much um and definitely within range of many weapons that the resistance has but uh no targeting of the Medics so yeah that is s CS so two s KS operations and then this one number 14 this is uh P pflp operation Abu Ali Mustafa brigades you're going to see them here setting up uh their rocket artillery uh their 107 millimeter rocket artillery and they're noting the fighter saying here we we we can't we don't have the volume on him but he's saying um that uh he's saying that this is where is he saying it here on the anniversary of the martyrdom of our teacher and and inspirer Abu Ali Mustafa we renew the pledge and Covenant to blood of the martyrs that watered the Homeland and taram nors tubas Janine nablas we swear a thousand times we will not untie the Rope uh that hangs the enemy your blood will remain a beacon of light on the road to Liberation so pflp shout out to their leader assassinated um Abu Ali mustapa was assassinated in 2001 by a helicopter gunship in um in his Palestinian legislative Council Office sitting behind his desk and Apache fired two missiles into his office and killed him um and in response to that the pflp uh Cadre carried out one of the most legendary operations in the history of Palestinian resistance when they assassinated uh raham zi who was a uh Min a far-right minister in aial sheron's government who advocated for the transfer of Palestinians the fact he was a Homeland party had only one platform advocating for the transfer of Palestinians and the pflp fighters uh penetrated from the West Bank through the checkpoints through security uh into Jerusalem into Israeli West Jerusalem and uh and killed him in his hotel where he was working um and they escaped all them escaped all four of them escaped um and Israel couldn't find those uh assassins for uh a long time they actually never found them um the pa uh found them and exchanged them in a dirty deal that we don't have t of time to talk about but where they exchanged the freedom of the four assassins the heroic assassins um to lift The Siege on arafat's mukata in 2002 and they were imprisoned in Jericho um Ahmed Sadat as well and your faithful correspondent met Ahmed Sadat in prison in Jericho we spent a day together with him and the Assassins Hamdi Kuran um and it was one of the most formative events of my life for sure and um those Fighters are Heroes all over the West Bank of course um so that uh that rocket attack for the West Bank ends our Gaza segment [Music]