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Resistance Report — 2 Jun 2024

US-Israeli pier floats into shore as resistance intensifies around, with Jon Elmer

Jon Elmer takes a look at the latest news from the resistance across Gaza, with a focus on Rafah and Jabaliya refugee camp. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by Dr. Tarek Loubani an emergency room physician based in Ontario, on the day 236 livestream. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://www.youtube.com/live/wlfFtT0WdnE

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I want to just do a little quick Point here on the middle section the nsar rim Corridor something that we've been covering um since it was obvious the Israelis were uh reinstituting it um Corridor which was uh a very central part of the second inata and the way in which Israel controlled this territory was through this narim Corridor narim Corridor is where the second inata began uh really I mean it began um at the alaxa mosque but the next day there was a demonstration at narim Corridor a point of contact with the Israelis um where a father and a son were shot on International camera Muhammad Alura is the boy's name um and he became sort of a symbol of uh of the second and Tata and he his death and the day of fighting at narim Corridor on that first day the fighting was in the mosque on the first day but on the second day they were out in the streets in narim Corridor and it was a sign that this was an inata that this wasn't just a couple of days of protests um that this was the real thing and it turned out to be true it was four-year inata that resulted in the Israelis leaving the Gaza Strip uh in defeat pulling up all their settlements um but we've seen that they in their reinvasion of Gaza that they have been holding this narim Corridor and the Washington Post did a story the other day Evan Hill one of the only decent uh reporters in the western media at this point covering this at all uh it's been really disappointing even for the most cynical media readers like myself uh just how bad uh the the mainstream media has been on this but yeah let's flip these just back and forth a little bit tomorrow and just see like that's the before that's the after just scorched Earth before and after um and you can see their Highway they call highway I think it's 749 something ridiculous um but yeah this is the plan starting to come into focus of what the Israelis are doing they're going to cut the strip in half and use this as a way to attack Gaza City um to the north attack um the middle camps to the South block people from getting back home um and if we go to the next one you can see that well you can see in these pictures that they're clearing not just the road but they're clearing 500 meters on either side of the road because they need to protect themselves from sniper fire um and from RPG fire which we'll see uh later on in this segment doesn't work so yeah let's take a look at this so the The Washington Post put this together and you can see al- isra University that was the University that they blowed up they blow up blow that was blown up on Tik Tok videos and they blew the entire place up and that that University they used as a base that was their first base they used that University as a base and then they left and blew it up and said it was a Hamas base even though their forces had used it for uh like six weeks before that yeah and if you just roll down you can see they're creating sand burms on either side to protect um their vehicles you can see the Turkish friendly uh the Turkish Palestinian friendship hospital that's the cancer hospital that they were talking about they took um they destroyed you can see on the left they destroyed half the hospital already and then they made a base out of the other half of the hospital so that's a military base and you could see destroyed buildings you can see Alazar University just completely wiped out as if you took an eraser to it critical University in Gaza all the universities in Gaza are critical they're all full um they're a w a wildly disproportionately educated population the Palestinians are and destroying their schools is something the zionists know they know it doesn't work but they do it almost out of U out of spite for the fact that the Palestinians maintain this level of educ um world class level of Education despite the brutality that Israel imposes on them so if you just go Um a little bit so we can see the Saladin Outpost there so these outposts they're they're putting bases there those are military vehicles in there and they're looking to put a multiple according to their plan there's going to be three bases along this route between the sea and um and Israel and so they're setting up these bases um and you can see just this is I I just wanted to bring you this because the Washington Post is you know like six full months behind when we reported this story but they're they've got some good maps here and um and Evan Hill's story was good on this so we'll bring it to you the Washington Post has been uh as bad as as any of the western media in covering this story so yeah let's look at these that Al rashed Outpost you can see what we're looking at from the air you can see the temporary buildings some of these are probably going to become a checkpoint the narim corridor Al rashed road that is in the top that's the coastal road so that's the road people will walk home to go to the north and you can see them they're going to come into what H what turns out these long Halls um are are for are for holding areas and for they're B basically they're going to make an international checkpoint um as any Palestinian is aware of how they've done that all over um they're now going to do it in narim if they're able to if the resistance um I I assume the resistance will Target these sites concentrated and they have done so there was 30 field reports from the last seven days in Rafa there was a dozen field reports of multiple rocket launches and mortar ranches on this um on this site on this base um so if we flip to the next one you can see what it looks like um from the ground gives you a sense of what they're building the actual architecture and infrastructure they're building they do those massive protective BMS so that they can't hit get hit by Yin which um we've seen them do on this show for months and months consecutively um you can see the corridor the entry of the vehicles um the temporary buildings um you could see masks for operations U for signals intelligence um and so we're starting to see some of this this is the way that Israel plans to stay in Gaza this is their plan to make uh to cut strips into Gaza and to stay in fight for the next year or so is what they're talking about um and these outposts will surely become a source of resistance that we'll have to follow um because anywhere the Israelis are there's resistance and we know that so let's just quickly um I want to do Nora mentioned the pier really quickly and her and I debated who who would put the pier falling to pieces in their section and I won so I get to show you the pier uh falling apart uh and their ships up on the shore this is on the beach in Israel these are the American soldiers they got the first windy day first windy day in Gaza and the whole thing came apart it's like a Lego I explained it as a Lego to show you how they would build it and I when I reported this three months ago told you that it was like Legos um and so the I said it was not a permanent Pier that the pier was not properly anchored to the shore the pier is anchored to the ground into sand and the the the surf and the storm pulled up the anchors and everything floated away and then in their Infinite Wisdom this Transportation unit of the US Army sent in their recovery ships to rescue them and the recovery ships got Beed as well um there you go there's two of them that came to help so one guy's Stern Stern to the beach which is never a good sign um and so and the other guys yeah yeah so that that guy's beached um but at least he looks like he has a prospect for getting out of there those other guys are in rough shape and the Pentagon gave a press statement today I I have that I wrote it up I feel ridiculous reading press statements um it's just such a joke especially the way the Pentagon and Kirby and those press conferences are just so brutal but he they they say due to high high sea States and a North African weather system earlier today uh blah blah blah $320 million uh you know puppet show to distract from actually getting Aid into Gaza that needs it um is dismantled and destroyed and is all up now in Israel and it needs to be reassembled and brought back to the beach and what the next time they have a storm they'll do the same thing this is not a once in a generation storm you're looking at so it's pretty idiotic this whole thing it's and it's grotesque because all the United States had to do is put pressure on the Israelis to open the Border there's seven border crossings they could open them and staff them and get the 3,000 trucks that are stuck all over trying to get in they could send instead of having a pier they could send the stuff to ashdod and truck it into the to the border and get it up to 700 800 a th000 trucks a day um which is what is needed to hold back um the famine that is gripping Gaza the mil the uh medical system supplies that people need to carry out these basic surgeries that TK talked about all that stuff comes from the border um and this pier project is just a Biden uh an idiotic Biden plan so that a minor little uh addendum to the resistance report this week um but uh let's go to number 18 tomorrow because the netsim cord is also part of the resistance so this is a uh an IDF soldier in a window him and his buddy we see the AL goul rifle um his buddy he's they're going to hang a curtain here it's in their Infinite Wisdom they're going to hang up a little curtain here it'll make them safe they're pretty sure uh they're pretty sure that if there's a curtain on a building and nothing else that no one will notice they're there and uh fire on them or assault the building like you can snipe this but if you see that they're hanging curtain you're giving up your position itself and so you could have a ground force raid that building and kill everybody um you don't have to just do pot shots so the stupidity of the Israeli soldiers in these windows the lack of military training to be standing in these windows it's more than just getting sniped it's um you can send in a ground force to assault the building and wipe all of them out but again we see uh doing the same things and Tamara has a very elegant edit on this video unfortunately um to keep us online but you can go to John Elmer's Twitter account and you can see the full videos uh without the edits these edits are excellent you can see the guns being shot but we're not showing you the soldier drop but I will say we only show you sniper videos where the soldier very clearly drops and this one uh south of tahaa um which is right near the beach um is a clear kill and I'm not sure if the curtain got hung up we'll have to follow that maybe and see if the other guy got the curtain hung up so number 19 here tomorrow this is a s could sniper in the same area um south of tahaa so this is this is tanks now moving into these positions that I just showed you um this is a soldier you can see him he's up there on the top of his tank standing on the top of his tank which is again uh not uh in the field manual for training a soldier you're not supposed to be I mean I think that the general rule is three you need to have three of your limbs touching the tank and this guy's basically stretching on top of the tank and S K's using their um armor piercing round um from 600 another military uh guy calculated the the time and distance for this and he approximated that it was 650 M away um and that guy gets sniped off the top of his marava tank in the narim corridor so bring you a little news about what's happening on nerim Corridor I threw in the pier into that part but there's resistance in the narim corridor there's been more than a dozen rocket attacks on the narim corridor just since you last saw me and two clear sniper kills no no way that that's a severely injured even though Israel says everybody is L injured um thanks for watching this video please subscribe to our YouTube channel hit like leave a comment these engagements 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