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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (33 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They showed much more than that, including equipment, clothes and a motorcycle that are suspected to have been used in the 7/10 atrocities.

They do say that they are still investigating and going over the evidence, but show and make it clear that they did find weapons and a command post inside the hospital.

Regarding the planted comment - well, if that's what you believe then it doesn't really matter what they show, doesn't it? You've already made up your mind and it doesn't matter what the evidence show..

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, but showing pictures of guns, clothes and a motorcycle is not evidence. I don't care what the news is about or where it's from. True or not, this kind of thing needs independent reporting and third-party verification. Period.

When you see stories like this from any source, question everything. Showing pictures that confirm an existing bias is a powerful tool of manipulation, so please remember that.

Early in the Ukraine war, Russia was pushing the Nazi misinformation extremely hard. By the time fake news stories were debunked, it was too late. Russians were fully convinced that Ukraine was about to invade and old news getting debunked didn't matter.

This story is an example: https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-agents-the-sims-video-game-sting-operation-2022-4

Lets just say there are quite a few layers to the story I linked, so take it with a grain of salt. _It is just an example.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of course, 100%.

Copying what I replied to another comment - I’d rather wait for an official report from the UN or an investigative story from an unbiased news outlet like Reuters (to decide whether this is authentic or propaganda).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

You posted this to a World News community, but would have rather waited for it to be verified? Why post it in the first place if you're unsure of the credibility?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then why did they lie about a calendar? What was the purpose of that exactly?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm unfamiliar with that, can you share more info? What was the lie and how it was disproven?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At 5:35 in the video in OP's link. People who can read Arabic called them out for what was literally a calendar with days listed. The IDF officer in the video claims it's a list of signed names from each Hamas member for their shift of guarding the room. But there's no names on it, it's just a calendar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

it's just a calendar

I'm very skeptical of this claim right here.

I didn't notice anything specific in the calendar itself, but when I used Google translate, the top of the calendar read:

"For the Battle of Toukan Al-Akher 10/23/7"

I'm assuming the date is October 7, 2023 and it's the result of Google mistranslating from Arabic, but that doesn't sound like a typical calendar.

I feel like people are trying to pretend the hostages were held nowhere.

EDIT: I zoomed in and translated again. I think Toukan was Toufan and this meant "Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood", obviously in reference to the Al Aqsa mosque and using the terminology that Palestinians use to describe October 7th.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The top line says "Battle of Al-Aqsa flood 10/7/23" but if you translate the rest of what's on that page its just the day of the week and date in each square. The IDF propagandist explicitly claims in the video that it is a guard shift list with people's names on it which is a blatant lie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, I agree. I noticed the days and saw no names. He seems to be wrong about what it says, but people in this thread seem to be wrong about it just being some random calendar.

I don't like to replace wrong information with wrong information.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're right, good catch.

It's a very strange mistake to make on their part, I assume the IDF has many Arabic speakers.

It'll be very interesting to see how everything else in the video will unfold.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It’s a very strange mistake to make on their part

No its not, its purposeful disinformation from a group trying to justify war crimes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Occam's razor applies here, and so we look for the simplest, most likely explanation (going by past example). And that explanation is Israeli misinformation. They've done it before.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Disproven? It wasn’t proven in the first place.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Disproved in the context of the claims.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I understand what you meant. What I’m saying is that those claims would have to be proven before they can be disproven. 

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I don't think you've even watched the video you linked

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