With the usual caveat “The IDF says:”. Same care is needed to anything “The Hamas says:”. Both sides have their agenda, and it is not necessary involving facts and truths.
totally agree on that but even our german state news station is reporting that there were foreign journalists with the soldiers on the spot to witness the storage of weapons and other military equipment, so it seems this has at least other sources besides the IDF
and to give perspective on our state news, they usually label any news shared by only one source or side as not independently verified and are financed by law by the german citizens and not some big company with an agenda. So they are by all means not perfect but usually a pretty safe source.
While adding ARD or ZDF journalists adds credibility way over Fox “News”, the rooms shown could easily have been staged for the show.
While adding ARD or ZDF journalists adds credibility way over Fox “News”, the rooms shown could easily have been staged for the show.
Yes it could but this is also highly speculative and from footage we have seen it is not unusually to see hamas forces around those buildings.
What I’m saying is that whatever information comes from that part of the world is usually completely unverified and unverifyable. It’s either “The IDF said” or “Hamas said”. Neither is trustworthy, even if they “show evidence”. Regardless if the IDF shows a room with some weapons and random items they could have picked up from the street, or someone else holding up a dead baby and telling it was shot by the Israelis.
Nobody down there is there to tell the truth. Everybody is there to convey a set message.
Agreed but if the news pops up from different sources, maybe there is more behind it.
They have footage
Wow this morning it was a hostage holding room now it’s a command center, remarkable
Lemmy’s Hamas groupies out in full force today. Can’t wait for every hamas member to die underground, screaming about their imaginary space man
Ikr, Lemmy is full of pro hamas
Until a reliable, independent news agency verifies it, any claim from either side should be viewed as misleading. It’s also worth noting that it’s not just Hamas denying this, it’s also the facility itself. Here’s part of a report from one of the BBC correspondents in Gaza:
"Israel has accused Hamas of having a command and control centre underneath Shifa - which the group denies.
I have been to the hospital hundreds of time - I was born there, my son was born there, in the last two months of my mum’s life, she was inside the kidney dialysis centre and I used to visit her every day.
It is very hard to verify what is underneath. With my eyes, I haven’t seen any military capability inside the hospital buildings."
Lastly, consider the fact that this hospital is in one of the places the IDF instructed Palestinians to flee to . Are we now saying that the IDF were purposefully trying to place Palestinians in danger by telling them to go to a location where they knew Hamas operated from?EDIT: I was referring to the wrong hospital - see my comment below for details.
did idf really say that? :o
The BBC quote Dr Ebrahem Matar, a heart specialist in the intensive care unit at the Aqsa Martyrs’ hospital - the only medical centre in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.
"Dr Matar said there was only one operating room and limited number of staff.
"'It is catastrophic and it is difficult. We see patients deteriorate due to the continuous pain and the continuous resistant infections.
“The hospital is in one of the areas the Israeli army has told Palestinians to flee to.'”
EDIT: It looks like this is a different hospital Dr Matar was talking about. I’ll update my other comment too.
but did idf really say that? X3
Tell Palestinians to flee to certain areas? Yeah. NPR reported it, BBC reported it, CBS reported it, Al-Jazeera reported it, CNN reported it.
were that hospital oe of those areas tho? :oc
Yeah, just look at the areas the IDF told people to flee to and you’ll see Marat’s hospital is there.
Don’t waste your time … I just called him out and he created another account posing as an anime fan kid.
He will spot any news criticizing Israel then ask for sources / links / evidence and leave when links provided. Rinse and repeat.
can you link that? X3
Isn’t this the video where they used things like a calendar with regular dates and claimed it was a list of Hamas members?
The entire area they showed looked like the power area of the hospital’s basement, with various things on the walls and such that indicate hospital and nothing else.
Their only “evidence” in the videos was the pile of guns they showed, which…isn’t really evidence of anything, especially since we have no way to tell if those were planted or not.
Reminds me of Russia’s failed attempt to demonstrate that Nazis were in Ukraine by releasing photos of a ‘bust’ that was obviously staged and includes gems like multiple copies of The Sims video game which were supposed to be sim cards.
I mean, there are definitely Nazis fighting for Ukraine. As there were Nazis fighting for Wagner, it’s not exactly a secret and they have the symbols right on their uniforms.
Another video distributed by Russian state news agency RIA showed an inscription in an unidentified book supposedly recovered in the arrest — signed in Russian with the words “signature illegible.”
This whole article is just bonkers.
It’s so surreal it kind of makes me wonder if it’s really a false flag, because they can’t be that incompetent… Right?
It’s not about being good. It’s about generating headlines.
Something about generating doubt, uncertainty and cynicism.
Or they’re just that incompetent. I could see that too
Lol, yeah. I just had to explain how that kind of manipulation works.
Propaganda is a powerful force when it’s used to reinforce an existing bias. Facts are irrelevant because you saw what you wanted to see.
Governments play the propaganda war hard. I am not picking sides over it: It is what it is.
Edit: Confirmation bias. That is the phrase I was referring to.
No, they didn’t.
They claimed it looks like a shift calendar where each terrorist signed in for his shift in guarding the hostages.
The infowar continues, and Bidens choices have brought in neo-progressives to help the Israelis.
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Ummm…
You mean the hostage room full of hostages Israel wants back?
Ya. My money is on full planted disinformation aimed at justifying slaughter of innocents.
Yes lol. Apparently a terrorist militia command center is less well armed than a random house in Arizona. If you watch this video and are convinced by it, I have a bridge to sell you.
Especially with this coming on the heels of that almost pristine copy of Mein Kampf they were pushing as belonging to a Hamas member in a children’s room the IDF partially blew up.
There’s also that video of a “nurse” in perfectly clean scurbs with an Israeli accent that none of the real staff had ever seen before crying that Hamas had taken over the hospital.
Wow this whole thread is Hamas supporters! /s
It’s hilariously bad, but you know brown people bad, Israel good apparently.
„Watch IDF Spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari walk through one of Hamas’ subterranean terrorist tunnels—only to exit in Gaza’s Rantisi hospital on the other side. “
The footage does not show what the tweet suggests. Hagari does not enter the Hospital through a Hamas tunnel. At least not in the version they have uploaded.
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It was actually funny looking through it lol. Does my guy just use social media to solely talk about Israel and Palestine XD
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you’re a bit nutty if you think we’re all the same person :v
Fortieth time’s the charm.
I started to see a lot of Israel propaganda lately.
Every post on my feed from this world news community is just “IDF: Hamas using baby organs to make bombs”.
Probably going to block it
And all posts are posted by like 3 accounts.
there a lotta propganda everywhere!!
Yeah, like 2 hours old accounts spreading propaganda in all Israel related news lol.
can you get back to me in a day?
Hamas using hospitals as human shields is horrific. Israel ignoring the human shields is horrific.
IDF are just clarifying they are awful, as much as Hamas are.
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… According to Hamas which has demonstrated with evidence that they lie in almost every instance to get ahead of the narrative. So far there has been no evidence that any Israeli organizational narrative has been false.
So UNICEF has already stated that the Gaza ministry of health numbers are accurate and can be taken as is. I can link the article.
So far there has been no evidence that any Israeli organizational narrative has been false.
The video they’re using for evidence literally claims that a random calendar is a Hamas guard shift list.
Yes, war in an urban environment is bad. This is why it took a literal terrorist attack to prompt Israel to do it. There’s nothing that could be done to simultaneously win the war and prevent civilian casualties of this magnitude. I am a literal military strategist and there is no way possible considering the tunnel systems.
Ah yes, “it wasn’t them. And if it was, it was unavoidable. And if it was avoidable, they deserved it”
“Hamas bombed their own hospital” - Israel Bombed it, according to independently-verified Channel 4 sources. Followed by openly bombing of multiple other hospitals. “Leaked Audio” of hamas taking blame was doctored and spliced from multiple sources.
“Hamas beheaded 40babies” - Backtracked to one baby, who wasn’t decapitated at all, but in an area where Israeli helicopter gunners admit to blindly firing into civilian neighbourhoods for hours.
“Hamas killed 1400 civilians” - Backtracked to 1200 recently, including a vast majority being military personnel. Many of the civilians were likely killed by Israeli crossfire or intentionally via “Hannibal doctrine”.
“Hamas uses tunnels under Al-Shifa” - Literally only a shitty blender video as “proof”. Other attempts such as the above use what Israelis claim is a “guard shift pattern” on a wall, which is actually just translated into a calendar with no names on it all.
Not going to bother with people like you who wake up giddy with excitement to write off the lives of millions of people because they think there’s some kind of elaborate military apperatus being deployed in hospitals when the reality is that almost every IDF accusation is a confession of the kind of behaviour their own brutes have been orchestrating for decades.
At this point, you’re willingly choosing Israel’s narrative out of malice, not stupidity.
whoa those are a lot of claims X3
ehehe~ i’m really curious bout this lil’ one tho, just this one:
“Hamas killed 1400 civilians” - Backtracked to 1200 recently, including a vast majority being military personnel. Many of the civilians were likely killed by Israeli crossfire or intentionally via “Hannibal doctrine”
i watched all available videos during october 7th and didn’t see no helicopter or idf shooting civvies :o
I’m glad you’ve confirmed your biases based on a few minutes of Israeli-published footage of battles that were hours in length.
PS: get that UwU speak the fuck out of here, prick, you’re trying to justify the deaths of thousands of kids while larping as a fucking vtuber. Eat shit.
ehehe, silly~ hamas uploaded the footage online themselves, haha!
so binary~ pointing out an inconsistency isn’t automatically making out with israel. but it don’t change the fact no helicopter was shooting civilians or the idf was shooting their own civlians X3
