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Journalist/researcher; militants/militaries; contributing editor @intifada ; weekly Gaza show Wednesday noon EDT; show segments: .

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Jon Elmer
29 days
Qassam vs IDF in Beit Hanoun. [Qassam Brigades 22/5]
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23 days
Al-Amoudi Brigade sniper vs IDF soldiers in Jabaliya Camp. [Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades 28/5]
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1 month
Qassam vs IDF in eastern Rafah: Complex tunnel ambush w/ multiple hand-delivered Shawaz EFPs, one to back door of Merkava; Yassin strike vs Namer troop carrier. Fighters escape through tunnel as detonation of the second EFP is heard amid armoured vehicles. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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20 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Yassin strike against a Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 31/5]
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Jon Elmer
26 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Yassin 105 strike staring down a Merkava tank barrel; Yassin strike with Tandem-85 warhead against the cockpit of a D9 armoured bulldozer southeast of Rafah camp. [Qassam Brigades 25/5]
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Jon Elmer
19 days
Qassam snipers vs IDF soldiers in Jabaliya Camp. [Qassam Brigades 1/6]
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Jon Elmer
30 days
Qassam vs IDF in Netzarim corridor: Al-Ghoul sniper op against IDF soldiers-in-a-window SW of Gaza City. [Qassam Brigades 21/5]
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Jon Elmer
30 days
Qassam vs IDF in east Rafah: Tunnel-borne, hand-delivered Shawaz EFP against the rear door of a Merkava tank. Fighter returns to his base safely via same tunnel. [Qassam Brigades 21/5]
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1 month
Qassam fighter in a tunnel: We say to the enemy threatening Rafah for months, led by the coward Netanyahu: The land kills those ignorant of it, and revives those knowledgeable of it... [p.1] [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Jon Elmer
23 days
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya camp: Elevated RPG strike against a Namer troop carrier with a 70mm anti-tank warhead. [Qassam Brigades 28/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam lures an IDF squad (minimum 6 + K9) into an ambush monitored with a repurposed car backup camera before detonating an anti-personnel IED on the eastern edge of Rafah. [Qassam Brigades 19/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: back-to-back Yassin strikes vs the same Merkava tank from directly above; fighters then debate who will hand-deliver the IED underneath the tank turret (it's mine!; I beg you, let me!). This is a joint op with Saraya al Quds. [Qassam Brigades 20/5]
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Jon Elmer
14 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Yassin 105 strike vs IDF Namer troop carrier; three Yassin strikes on three D9 armoured bulldozers, the one visible Yassin is using a Tandem-85 warhead. [Qassam Brigades 6/6]
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Jon Elmer
28 days
Qassam vs IDF in Brazil, SE Rafah. Five Yassin strikes targeting: a Merkava, staring straight down the tank barrel; a Namer troop carrier with an 85mm anti-armour warhead; a D9 armoured bulldozer in the cockpit; a 2nd D9; and Merkava tank with a Yassin 105. [Qassam Brigades 22/5]
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Jon Elmer
19 days
Qassam tunnel capture operation in Jabaliya Camp. [Qassam Brigades 1/6]
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Jon Elmer
17 days
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper op vs IDF tank crew riding outside their Merkava hatches in the Jabaliya refugee camp. [Qassam Brigades 3/6]
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Jon Elmer
20 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Ra'adiya anti-personnel IED wired then detonated against IDF soldiers who were monitored by a repurposed backup camera from a car.[Qassam Brigades 31/5]
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Jon Elmer
21 days
Qassam air force vs IDF in Netzarim corridor: Gaza City squadron drops a locally-made grenade on a group of IDF soldiers. [Qassam Brigades 30/5]
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Jon Elmer
6 months
This IDF special forces soldier-turned-Shin Bet interrogator in his 60s recalls his 1988 interrogations of "super-intelligent" Yahya Sinwar. He says he had to leave the room b/c Sinwar was tripping him up, prompting the interviewer to ask if he was scared... [Ha'aretz 15/12]
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Jon Elmer
20 days
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper ops vs IDF soldiers-in-a-window; and soldier(s) in an IDF sniper loophole in Rafah. Spotter says, got him. [Qassam Brigades 31/5]
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Jon Elmer
25 days
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper attack vs IDF soldier in Jabaliya Camp. [Qassam Brigades 26/5]
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Jon Elmer
11 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Two Yassin strikes against two IDF Merkava tanks in the streets of Yibna. [Qassam Brigades 9/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper ops mixtape. Text says, calm breaths, one shot, confirmed kill. We continue to pick off your criminal officers. [Qassam Brigades 11/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper operation vs IDF soldiers east of Jabaliya. [Qassam Brigades 17/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam remotely detonates a booby-trapped building vs IDF soldiers in Jabaliya camp. The fighter says, we swear, we will bring you terrible death. Now, advance, to gather your pieces, O cowards. [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Jon Elmer
18 days
Qassam shows captured IDF gear from a 16/11 ambush north of Beit Lahiya. Field report of the ambush said they struck convoy of five (lighter) armoured vehicles and hit the MDT David & Wolf troop carriers with Yassin 105s; captured gear includes IDF dog tags. [Qassam Brigades 2/6]
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Jon Elmer
26 days
Saraya al Quds sniper vs IDF in Netzarim corridor south of Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City. [Islamic Jihad 25/5]
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Jon Elmer
19 days
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: Yassin strike with a thermobaric warhead against an IDF soldier in a building. Fighter says, fresh target. [Qassam Brigades 1/6]
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Jon Elmer
11 days
Hezbollah Almas anti-tank guided missile vs IDF Namer troop carrier across the border from Markaba, Lebanon in late May. [Hezbollah 25/5]
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Jon Elmer
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Hezbollah vs IDF base on Lebanon border: Almas top-attack anti-tank guided missile strike against IDF soldiers at a western sector border post in mid-May. [Hezbollah 4/6]
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Jon Elmer
28 days
Qassam vs IDF in Beit Hanoun: ambush of dismounted infantry squad (w tank, D9); IED detonated vs soldiers; Shawaz EFP detonated vs armoured reinforcements arriving; 6hrs later Ghoul sniper vs 3 IDF w 2 shots. Text: Gaza will remain a graveyard for invaders. [Qassam Brigades 23/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in eastern Rafah: Yassin strike vs Namer troop carrier with two soldiers riding on top, outside the hatch. [Qassam Brigades 19/5]
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Jon Elmer
19 days
Hezbollah downs another IDF Elbit Hermes 900 drone over Lebanon in their 2000th operation vs IDF since 8 Oct. IDF confirms it is the fourth Hermes dropped (two 450s and two 900s). [Hezbollah 1/6]
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Jon Elmer
11 days
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Two Yassin 105 strikes against two Merkava tanks side by side (with a third Yassin Tandem-85 ready) in the Yibna block of Rafah refugee camp. [Qassam Brigades 9/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya: Yassin strike against Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 16/5]
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Jon Elmer
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Qassam vs IDF in Deir al-Balah: Two Yassin 105 strikes against two IDF Merkava tanks. [Qassam Brigades 7/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam sniper vs IDF soldier in Jabaliya Camp. [Qassam Brigades 20/5]
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Jon Elmer
17 days
Qassam IED vs IDF Merkava tank in Jabaliya Camp. [Qassam Brigades 3/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper operation vs IDF soldiers in Netzarim Corridor. The dialogue is the hunter/spotter communicating with the killer/shooter. [Qassam Brigades 19/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Saraya al Quds vs IDF in Jabaliya camp: Yassin strike with 85mm anti-tank warhead against a D9 armoured bulldozer. [Islamic Jihad 16/5]
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Jon Elmer
3 months
Qassam vs IDF during the battle of Shifa: Yassin strikes against two IDF Merkava tanks; fragmentation warhead strike on a troop position. [Qassam Brigades 25/3]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Rafah: Tunnel-borne Yassin strike vs Namer troop carrier. [Qassam Brigades 13/5]
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Jon Elmer
6 months
... later in the interview the Shin Bet interrogator says he shudders to think if he was in the Gaza Envelope on 7 October he would be in a tunnel now, just like Sinwar warned him three decades ago. [Ha'aretz 15/12]
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Jon Elmer
13 days
Qassam vs IDF in Deir al-Balah: Three Yassin 105 strikes vs three IDF Merkava tanks amid the olive groves in the middle camps area. The fighter says, I blew it up, as the squad disappears down the tunnel. [Qassam Brigades 7/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Saraya al Quds vs IDF in Zeitoun: Fighters prepare anti-armour EFPs, anti-personnel IEDs and set minefield vs IDF Merkava tank. Ambush includes unexploded IDF 1000 or 2000lbs aerial bomb whose weight is ~50% explosives. Writing on bomb says, return to sender. [Islamic Jihad 18/5]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
When you read "...returned to their bases safely" in the field reports. [Qassam Brigades 1/5]
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Jon Elmer
14 days
Hezbollah Almas anti-tank guided missile strike vs IDF Iron Dome air defence platform at a border base (with Namer troop carriers) in Ramon Naftali, Upper Galilee. Almas is a top-attack ATGM reverse-engineered from an IDF Spike Hezbollah captured during 2006 war. [Hezbollah 6/6]
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Jon Elmer
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Qassam vs IDF eastern Jabaliya: Yassin strike against a Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Abu Obeida on day 200 says [the IDF] is trapped in the sands of Gaza with no goal, no horizon, no image of victory, no freed captives - only random, indiscriminate destruction. Every challenge [the IDF] faces it cries out to its masters to come help them... [Qassam Brigades 23/4]
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Jon Elmer
12 days
Saraya al Quds with eyes (and mortars) on the IDF operating in the Philadelphi corridor along the border with Egypt west of Rafah. [Islamic Jihad 8/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya camp: Elevated Yassin strike vs Merkava tank; Yassin strike from the street vs Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Jon Elmer
6 months
Qassam shows us a behind-the-scenes view of how their videos are made. On the phone he says, "after they pass, we'll signal 'they've gotten close'. Send the spotter, then the shooter, his helper and the camera man.." [Qassam Brigades 27/12]
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18 days
Saraya al Quds vs IDF during the battle of Jabaliya Camp: 21 RPG ops; 6 sniper ops; 13 close quarters gun battles; 9 rocket barrages; 35 mortar ops; 10 IEDs vs armour and soldiers; and, one downed quadcopter. [Islamic Jihad 2/6]
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Jon Elmer
13 days
Qassam vs IDF in Deir al-Balah: Tunnel-borne Yassin strike vs IDF D9 armoured bulldozer with a 85mm anti-tank warhead. Fighter returns to his base via tunnel. [Qassam Brigades 7/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam al-Ghoul sniper vs IDF sniper in eastern Rafah. [Qassam Brigades 17/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam captures an IDF bomb disposal robot in a tunnel in Rafah. The fighter says, what would happen if they sent their soldiers? [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Saraya al Quds vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: Fighting in the alleys of the camp with RPGs, IEDs, small arms and what appears to be a rifle grenade (2nd last scene). [Islamic Jihad 18/5]
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Jon Elmer
11 days
Qassam Yassin 105 vs IDF Merkava tank during the battle in the Jabaliya camp from 25/5. [Qassam Brigades 9/6]
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Qassam vs IDF in Zeitoun: Yassin strike with an 85mm F-7 fragmentation warhead against a group of dismounted IDF soldiers in Gaza City. [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Jon Elmer
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Hezbollah mixtape: 2000 operations vs IDF since 8 Oct. VO is Abu Hadi saying, and still we aren't satisfied. [Hezbollah 2/6]
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1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya: Double Yassin strikes from an elevated firing position vs a Merkava tank and a Namer troop carrier. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Qassam vs IDF in Deir al-Balah: Tunnel-borne Yassin strike against an IDF troop position in a building. Fighter returns to base via tunnel in the middle camps area. [Qassam Brigades 7/6]
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1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya camp: Two tunnel ops: first, a Yassin strike vs Merkava; second, a complex ambush with PK machine gun fire vs dismounted IDF squad. Fighter says to detonate the offensive/escape tunnel in three minutes as they return to their base. [Qassam Brigades 17/5]
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Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: Yassin strike against an IDF D9 armoured bulldozer using a 70mm anti-tank warhead. [Qassam Brigades 3/6]
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Jon Elmer
6 months
Qassam fighter hand-delivers a Shawaz EFP to an IDF tank in Gaza City. [Qassam Brigades 25/12]
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Hezbollah vs IDF near Kiryat Shmona: Almas top-attack anti-tank guided missile strike against an IDF Humvee. The Almas is reverse-engineered from an Israeli Spike ATGM captured by Hezbollah during the July War in 2006. [Hezbollah 2/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya: Two Yassin strikes vs IDF soldiers-in-a-window(s). Caption says it's a thermobaric warhead (but appears to be a standard Yassin 105); the second shooter has an anti-personnel 85mm F-7 fragmentation warhead. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Qassam's six months mixtape: You may be able to enter the streets of Gaza, but you will burn in its alleyways every time. [Qassam Brigades 7/4]
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1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya camp. Yassin with a tandem-85 warhead strikes IDF Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Jon Elmer
19 days
I was glad to be on with @RaniaKhalek and @EugenePuryear on Thursday's @BTnewsroom to talk about the Palestinian resistance. Catch the whole show here:
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Qassam mortar teams (six) vs IDF excavators and troop positions establishing the Netzarim corridor. The corridor divides the Strip and connects to the US Army pier project south of Gaza City. [Qassam Brigades 1/5]
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Jon Elmer
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Qassam vs IDF Apache helicopter over Jabaliya. These SA-7 man-portable air-defence systems were reanimated by Qassam engineers with a retrofitted battery system that you see the fighter attach to the top of the launcher. [Qassam Brigades 17/5]
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Jon Elmer
4 months
Qassam Brigades sniper with an al-Ghoul rifle targeting dismounted IDF soldiers in Gaza City. [Ibrahim Abusitta 2024]
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Qassam vs IDF in eastern Rafah: Yassin strike vs D9 armoured bulldozer. IDF acknowledged a combat engineering unit soldier in a D9 was 'seriously wounded' in an RPG hit in Rafah. [Qassam Brigades 19/5]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in eastern Rafah: Tunnel-borne Yassin strike against a Namer troop carrier; and a Yassin strike against a D9 armoured bulldozer. [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Jon Elmer
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Qassam vs IDF in Deir al-Balah: Yassin 105 strike against an IDF Merkava tank as a squad of fighters move through the olive groves in the middle camps. [Qassam Brigades 7/6]
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Jon Elmer
1 month
Qassam vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: A Yassin 105 strike against a Merkava tank; and, a Yassin strike on what also appears to be a tank with a Tandem-85 warhead.
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Jon Elmer
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Saraya al Quds & Qassam joint op: Yassin strike with a thermobaric warhead vs IDF troop position in a building in Yibna, Rafah. [Qassam Brigades 9/6]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Palestinian flags vs IDF: Left is Khan Yunis flag ambush operation in 2018; Right is the flag ambush from two days ago vs IDF soldier in the hills around Ramallah. IDF said soldier was 'on vacation' in his West Bank settlement. [Popular Resistance Committees 22/4]
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Jon Elmer
7 months
"We grow up with this pride because we are from Shuja’iyya." Our friend, Refaat Alareer.
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Hezbollah vs IDF spy blimp at Ilaniya: Footage of drone surveillance of IDF site from day before (14th) & day after (16th) the strike. The IDF airship is part of a US/IL air defence system designed to detect the types of drones Hezbollah just used to destroy it. [Hezbollah 19/5]
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Qassam al-Ghoul sniper op vs IDF soldier-in-a-window east of Jabaliya. [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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Saraya al Quds RPG-7 strike vs IDF armoured unit in Zeitoun, Gaza City [Islamic Jihad 15/5
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Qassam vs IDF southeast of Sabra, Gaza City: Yassin 105 strike against an IDF D9 armoured bulldozer. [Qassam Brigades 9/5]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Saraya al Quds vs IDF during the battle of Shifa hospital: RPG strike against Merkava tank. VO addresses the IDF chief saying the fighters are here on the battlefield, not inside. [Islamic Jihad 8/4]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
Ansarallah downs US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Saada, Yemen. Pentagon source confirms it's the third ~$30m Reaper downed since November. [Yemeni Armed Forces 27/4]
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1 month
Saraya al Quds sniper vs IDF east of Gaza City. Fighter says, we will hunt you every day you're in our land. You will leave humiliated. [Islamic Jihad 14/5]
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1 month
Qassam mortar teams (seven) vs IDF around Rafah Crossing: Fighter says, from under bullets, planes, cannons we send two messages: one, a threat to Netanyahu; two, a message of steadfastness to our people displaced. We sacrifice together, for the homeland. [Qassam Brigades 13/5]
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Saraya al Quds sniper vs IDF sniper east of Jabaliya camp. Fighter says to IDF, we will pick you off until you escape from here running.” [Islamic Jihad 17/5]
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Jon Elmer
2 months
I did video breakdowns of a Qassam al-Ghoul sniper operation; a Qassam tunnel-borne Yassin strike vs IDF armoured bulldozer destroying greenhouses; and, a Saraya al Quds rocket video where I traced the trajectory of Gaza's rocket programme from 2001.
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Saraya al Quds ambush vs IDF in Jabaliya Camp: Yassin with 85mm warhead and small arms fire against Merkava tank. [Islamic Jihad 15/5]
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Hezbollah air force eastern squadron carries out an air raid on IDF base in Metula, launching 55mm S5 air-to-ground rockets from an Ababil (Qasef) one-way attack drone. [Hezbollah 16/5]
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Qassam commandeers and lands without a scratch another IDF quadcopter over Jabaliya camp. The sign says it was the Emad Akel unit; Akel was a founding Qassam commander and top operative from the First Intifada. [Qassam Brigades 16/5]
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Qassam vs IDF in eastern Rafah. Four Yassin strikes against: a tank from elevated firing position; vs 2nd tank from a tunnel-borne op as fighters ascend from below ground to upper floor for elevated strike; vs a D9 bulldozer; and, vs another Merkava tank. [Qassam Brigades 14/5]
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Saraya al Quds vs IDF D9 armoured bulldozer in Zeitoun, Gaza City. [Islamic Jihad 16/5]
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"...After our fighters struck a D9 bulldozer w/ a Yassin 105 [yesterday], the enemy was unable after 24hrs to evacuate its dead from the battlefield despite intense bombardment. To the enemy: Rafah is not a walk in the park, it's a graveyard for you." [Qassam Brigades 15/5]
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