Afrasianet - Hadi Hoteit - Tube packs were known in Jenin in particular, since the second intifada.
The occupation says that this technology was introduced to the city, by experts from the Irish Liberation Army, so that it was famous for its use by some factions in Ireland, during its long struggle with the British army.
The qualitative response to the occupation forces’ storming of the Jenin camp in occupied Palestine, Monday morning, constituted a crisis at the level of the Israeli “army”, which was evident through the confusion that marred the work of the attacking force, which was subjected to heavy attacks with explosive devices and bullets, and was forced to withdraw in front of the size of the resistance. .
The explosive device, by means of which the resistance fighters in Jenin targeted an armored military vehicle, wounding the 7 soldiers in it, was the main element in the qualitative transformation, which is represented by the resistance resistance today.
The device received a lot of analysis in the occupation media, whether in terms of obtaining it, manufacturing it, or using it successfully, leading to a study of the potential impact of introducing these devices on the nature of the movement of the occupation army in the occupied Palestinian territories, in the West Bank and the interior.
The return of bombings to the occupied Palestinian interior Since 2005, and 5 years after the second intifada, the occupied territories witnessed more than 150 bombings, carried out by the Palestinian resistance factions against the occupation, which resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries among the Israelis, and heavy economic losses, as well as major psychological losses for the settlers of the occupation.
And the years of the Intifada and after it.
After 2005, there were sporadic and numerous operations in which explosives were used, the most prominent of which were the two bombings of the Rosh Haier restaurant in Tel Aviv, the explosions of Kedumim, Eilat, Dimona, and the Kerem Shalom crossing, and the bombing of the passenger bus in occupied Jerusalem in 2016, which left about 30 injured. .
However, a few months ago, there was strong talk about the possibility of the resistance returning to the use of explosions in its operations against the occupation, after years of dominating the pattern of individual operations, which focused on shooting, stabbing and running over.
It can be estimated that two simultaneous devices linked to a common explosive device were used, which is termed as "harnessing" the devices, and it is a detonation tactic used by the resistance in Lebanon effectively against the Israeli occupation before liberation and during the 2006 war.
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The explosives penetrated an armored vehicle last year Last November, a booby-trapped electric bike exploded at the Ramot Bus Station, in occupied Jerusalem, killing a settler and wounding several others.
The bombing of the Megiddo bomb, last March, which was initially kept strictly confidential, led to an Israeli assessment indicating the high risk of sensitive bombing operations in the next phase inside the occupied territories.
In recent weeks, the use of explosives and bombs in operations against the occupation has escalated significantly, as several clips have spread on social media, some of them official, published by Palestinian factions, regarding the use of explosives by resistance fighters, whether in Jenin or its surroundings, by booby-trapping and firing explosives at occupation points and checkpoints.
Or by executing an ambush while his forces were advancing.
Thus, the use of explosives and bombs by the resistance fighters in Jenin, in confronting the occupation, was not surprising in fact, but it constituted a continuation of an upward path that began during the last period, and gradually paved the way for the return of bombing operations to float to the surface of the confrontation with the occupation, after the latter tried to bury it completely during the decade. the past.
Jenin qualitative ambush: observations from the bombing video By looking at the video clip of the bombing of the Israeli armored military enclave, it can be estimated that two simultaneous explosive devices linked to a common explosive device were used, which is termed as “harnessing” the explosives, and it is a bombing tactic that was previously used by the resistance in Lebanon effectively against the Israeli occupation.
Before liberation and during the 2006 war. It can be confirmed that the first explosion occurred completely under the Israeli armored vehicle in the middle part of its rear half, while the second explosion sounded 10-15 meters away from the first explosion.
Although the Israeli mechanisms were moving slowly, in a way that contributed to achieving a precise hit, planting the device and detonating it with such accuracy required high craftsmanship in controlling the "kill point", as well as effectively engineering the remote detonation device.
The explosion under the armored personnel carrier caused significant damage to the vehicle, as the explosion's storm penetrated the floor of the armored personnel carrier.
The scenes showed the exit of the storm from the windows and the windshield, which means that everyone inside was subjected to the pressure of the explosion, in addition to shrapnel, which undoubtedly penetrated the vehicle's lower armor, throwing it towards the top.
The explosion under the armored personnel carrier caused severe damage to the vehicle, as the explosion storm penetrated the ground of the armored personnel carrier, and the scenes showed the storm coming out of the windows and windshields, which means that everyone inside was exposed to the pressure of the explosion..
Through the color of the smoke rising from the explosion, which according to the video is white to yellow, and the speed of its spread and ascension in the air, it can be estimated that the explosive materials in the package were not “highly explosive” materials, and that a homemade explosive or fast-burning mixture was used. Homemade materials often include high amounts of sulfur and agricultural chemical fertilizers, the detonation of which leaves quantities of water vapor, which causes the white color.
Yellow smoke results from the combustion of sulfur, while highly explosive, high-quality, and complex materials produce gray-black smoke, and its propagation speed is much higher than the speed recorded in the video.
These locally manufactured materials do not explode harmfully and effectively if they are detonated alone, but must be compressed in a vessel in order to ensure complete combustion, producing gases that penetrate the pressure vessel at once, to compensate for the slow speed of combustion.
tube packaging - In more than one previous incident, and in more than one area, it was monitored that the Palestinian resistance fighters used explosive tube devices, which are a means of compressing flammable materials in order to double their effect when they explode.
Tube bombs were used in Jenin in particular, since the second intifada, so that it was reported among the occupation circles at the time that this technology was introduced to the city, by experts from the Irish Liberation Army, so that some factions became famous in Ireland, during their long struggle with the British army, which they consider an occupier. Using tube packaging extensively and professionally.
previous uses During the past years, the occupation army announced the discovery of a number of tube bombs in several incidents in the occupied territories, some of which were prepared to explode. Some scenes on social media showed that the resistance fighters used similar explosives in response to an Israeli incursion into the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin, last January.
In the same month, Al-Quds Brigades, Jenin Battalion, published scenes of detonating an explosive device in the truck carrying the special occupation forces, which tried to infiltrate the camp to carry out a security operation.
It appears to be of the same type, but smaller in size. The importance of this type of operation Explosives are among the most important materials whose sources and trajectories can be traced by specialized investigation and monitoring agencies in the armies of the world.
The Israeli Occupation Army is considered to have considerable experience in this regard, because it has received wide support from various global intelligence means, which help it trace the sources of explosive materials used in any security action.
Also, the sources of "highly explosive" explosives are limited, and their international routes are known and monitored, to a large extent.
The Israeli government imposes an international ban on any export of explosive materials to any party that could send them back to the Palestinian resistance.
Of course, the resistance in Gaza has greatly developed its capabilities in the world of explosives during the past years, but it is difficult to carry out such an action in the West Bank and within the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948, on a large and effective scale, due to the prohibition, restrictions and strict control of the occupation on all These materials, and the proliferation of barriers equipped with sensors for nitrogen particles and the effects of explosive materials.
Manufacturing is a necessity.. and an achievement Even with the possibility of smuggling highly explosive explosive devices, the need for large quantities of them, and the need to develop them locally to suit the modus operandi in the occupied territories, require that the devices be manufactured inside the occupied territories, especially since tracking the smuggling networks can expose the cells of the resistance and their secret locations. and its capabilities. Hence, the manufacture of the local Palestinian resistance in the West Bank and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 is an achievement in itself, as well as the ability to arm, camouflage, and use it effectively, and increase its ability to be able to penetrate the bottom armor of the Israeli armored vehicles, and use the “participation of the bombs” tactic to increase its effectiveness.
The materials required for the manufacture of these packages are available, and they are traded in fertilizer stores, chemical medicines, pharmacies, and others.
Some of their materials can also be manufactured from food products and cleaning materials, which makes them difficult to track and easy to manufacture in terms of securing materials and resisting the siege and control of the occupation, despite The manufacturing process itself in closed and hidden places is a very complex process, and requires high craftsmanship.
The need for large quantities of them, and the need to develop them locally to suit the method of work inside the occupied territories, requires that the explosives be manufactured inside the occupied territories New equations..
The "Lebanese model" has become in Jenin In the face of these explosive devices, which today resulted in the injury of 7 Israeli soldiers and the damage of an armored vehicle, the occupation forces confirmed today that “the issue of explosive devices, which are very advanced and dangerous, will accompany the forces in every entry into Nablus and Jenin from now on.”
This means that a number of measures are taken. Approved in the movement and movement protocols intrusions and raids is no longer valid for use.
Shielding and quality of mechanisms The weak shielding of the Israeli vehicle, which relied on shielding the side and upper sides, showed that the Palestinian territory is no longer safe for the occupation vehicles, and that the explosives are able to penetrate the weak point of these vehicles, which may prompt the occupation forces to adopt new levels of shielding and protection.
Likewise, the quality of the mechanisms needs to be modified, as the vehicles that are not armored and armored against bullets and stones may turn into graves for the soldiers inside them, in the event that an explosive device like the one that exploded today exploded in them.
Movement and patrol protocols It will also be necessary for the occupation forces to adjust their movement method in the areas in which they bear the danger of Palestinian bombs, so that slow movement is no longer possible in light of what this constitutes of facilitating the movement of the resistance fighters and their plans to hunt them down accurately, as happened today.
It seems that the tactics adopted by the occupying forces 30 years ago in southern Lebanon, by sending sweeping forces in front of every patrol and convoy, adopting complex preventive tactics, and canceling any unnecessary movement, will become the norm.
This is what the occupation media and its military commentators expressed, in a brief and ample manner today, when they talked about, "The pictures of what happened in Jenin are completely reminiscent of the security belt and the painful days in southern Lebanon."