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Resistance Report — 5 Oct 2024

Yemeni, Iraqi drone and missile operations strike bases deep in Israel, with Jon Elmer

Day 362: Jon Elmer highlights recent Iraqi and Yemeni resistance operations against Israel. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHEvpbppx_4rb9lCZ9fRyQiTc5A7eS9FA&si=3LUnjClF4_hFjFnT

This is a segment from The Electronic Intifada’s day 362 livestream. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Jon Elmer and Asa Winstanley were joined by our contributor Abubaker Abed live from the Gaza Strip, and Roqayah Chamseddine, a Southern Lebanese researcher and reporter and co-host of the Delete Your Account podcast. You can watch the entire broadcast here: https://youtube.com/live/rB9CeW8nR04

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Full transcript
We're going to go to Iraq because I brought Iraq on the show last week for the first time, but Iraq is in the fight and they Islamic resistance in Iraq, it's an umbrella group of many fighting groups and they've been carrying out operations. If we look at number 30, they sent two Shahed 131 drones at the port of Eilat and they showed these drones being launched here and then a couple hours later we get footage from from the port itself, which is the port of Eilat is bankrupt, basically ghost town since the Houthi Ansar Allah Yemeni armed forces naval blockade in the Red Sea, the port at Eilat is basically non-functioning. It still does, however, host a naval dock and that is what was targeted by these drones. If we do 31, you can watch here. This is Israeli military footage of the drone strike landing. So, we're getting multiple confirmations of these attacks by the Islamic resistance in Iraq showing that they are successful. This is the at least the second time that they they have hit the port at Eilat. Also, Ansar Allah hit the port at Iraq that the Yemeni armed forces hit the port at Eilat as well. So, this was at warehouse at the naval docks. They showed footage of it, but then they took it down showing the the naval dock warehouse is where this was hit and they had to say that their Sa'ar 6 warship Corvette class warship shot down the other one. So, $2 billion warship shooting down $20,000 fiberglass drone. So, that is the nature of the fight in in the Iraqi front. And then if we look at 32, I stitched together a whole bunch of these just to show you what they've been doing this week. Four operations a week, every day. Um yeah, number 32. Um you can just see they're constantly interacting, doing the same thing that the fighters in all fronts do, saluting each other, saluting the other fronts, targeting Israeli military positions. These are military positions in the occupied Golan, military positions in Eilat where the port is, um and military positions in the Jordan Valley. And these attacks, they put together these videos and are being released regularly. Uh I stitched them together for um for for time and effort, but these were not uh all at once. These are long-range cruise missiles that are launched, the rocket-launched cruise missiles that we're seeing uh be launched here. These are uh Sumar class um long-range cruise missiles. Very These are an effective weapon as well. We've seen those launched a number of times. Those are the ones you see going up um that look like a missile. It's a cruise missile, a winged missile. Um and it's long-distance, long-distance explosive-laden one-way attack drone, a suicide drone, a kamikaze drone, uh kamikaze cruise missiles um aimed at Israeli bases. There was four of these operations each day of the week, so 28 operations since you last saw me um targeting those three sites. And these operations are also communicating the date on them. Uh many of those I've cut off the date on them because um uh we're trying to keep these videos online from various uh different threats that we face. Um so we've cut those, but the dates are on every video. They show a little card before each video. Um these are the um these are the LR cards again, the long-range cruise missiles. They're very spectacular launch. And this was Yeah, these are targeting the Golan Heights, these cruise missile attacks. And then we see um a bunch of drone attacks that were this week um as well. And these drone attacks are are effective. The drones are effective because they vex Israel's uh radar system um and their counter uh their uh their counter their aerial defense system doesn't do well with the fiberglass wooden propeller uh motor engine uh drones. They they're the because they're not they don't have a an intense heat signature because of the smaller engine and the fiberglass, the wooden um the rocket launch there, they're rocket-assisted. Um but once they fly, once they're in the air, they're very difficult for the Israelis to pick up. If the Israelis calibrate their radars such that they can catch these drones, their radars are then too sensitive. They're too hot and they'll bring in um you know, they'll start scrambling uh multi-billion dollar F-35 fighter jets for a flock of seagulls that fly in off the that fly in off the sea. Um and so flying low, flying slow, what we talked about with Hezbollah last week. Again, here you can see them saluting the resistance um following the assassination uh of Hassan Nasrallah. You're going to see in this next one, they salute Ibrahim Akil, who was the Radwan Forces Commander and became the overall commander of Hezbollah after Fuad Shuker uh was assassinated. Um and so these fighters all communicating with each other uh in these videos, but also sending out qualitative military operations. There's Ibrahim Akil um that they're saluting and they've got the uh Yemeni uh Palestinian and Iraqi flags uh for us there. Um and again, rocket-assisted drones um that are long-distance drones because you're covering a fair distance from Iraq. Here's the shout-out to Nasrallah that happened immediately after his death. Um and so they're able to report and connect and communicate. Their communications networks in Lebanon and in Gaza are very um res- responsive. They're they're not doing this 2 days later, 3 days later. Um and of course, the loss of Nasrallah is significant and devastating to all of these uh support front groups that are carrying out um these operations. So, um I think that's it for the Iraq front. And then there's just a little bit here from Yemen because Yemen Yemen didn't sit it out. They didn't sit out this week. Um they carried out attacks. If we look at 40 uh whoa That's what they did. They gave uh sirens to 2 million uh Israelis running to their shelters. 16 people tripped and fell uh during that. Um they launched a Palestine 2, which was the ballistic missile that I broke down for you a couple shows ago. And also the Yafa drone for the second time. The Yafa drone was the drone that the um the Ansar Allah and Yemeni armed forces uh flew 2,000 km out to sea and then came into Tel Aviv from sea uh and went through uh through the missile defense and hit directly in Tel Aviv aiming for the former US uh embassy that had been moved. Um so we have the the video coming up in the next slide um of this operation. Oh, this is actually the downing of the drone. So, they they also uh in this uh week, this crazy week of many many events, they also got another MQ-9 Reaper drone that you're looking at here. This is Ansar Allah, Yemeni armed forces missiles missile force downing another 30 plus million dollar MQ-9 Reaper drone. This will be the 11th This will be the 11th of the Battle of the Red Sea for at least 14th since Ansar Allah got those got those weapons in in in they they the item is the item 358 is what we believe are taking these down and that missile dates to 2017. Since that time, they've gotten uh 14 American flagship MQ-9 Reaper drones, the flagship of the American Air Force. So, and this one what we're looking at here it has 500 pound bomb still attached on it. You're going to see one of the Yemeni fighters step up on the five There's the 500 pound bomb there. He's going to step up on it after and it's also still equipped with two cruise Sorry, two Hellfire missiles. So, this was a still There's the Hellfire missiles. So, these are still armed drones. This is the second or third time we've seen still armed drones. And there's a fair bit of reverse engineering capacity that it's in that rubble in that wreckage that will be of use to the drone forces in in several countries including Iran. And then you get the the Lebanese man telling you how it is. You know exactly what he's saying. And he's right in what he's saying. So, that is the resistance report for this week multiple front battle under difficult conditions for the resistance um and and for all um uh people of justice anywhere in the world, Nasrallah was um a linchpin of anti-imperial struggle, and he will be impossible to replace even if the next leader uh is a world-historical leader as well. You can never replace Nasrallah, so that is the resistance report.