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The Israel Defense Forces releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center.

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[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago (57 children)

Again people lose sight of the fact that regardless of hamas actions, that doesn't justify the killing of thousands of kids and families that are taking shelter in the hospital.

If anything, the medical staff and families are also hostages and they shouldn't be killed either.

People kept arguing about the tunnel and the hospital ignoring the genocidal killing of Palestinians.

Tunnels or Hamas using the biggest and maybe only hospital Doesn't justify the bombing of the hospital while people still getting treated from other bombing..

[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let’s be accurate here. Thousands have died in Gaza as a result of this conflict, but Israel clearly did not kill thousands at Shifa Hospital.

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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we yet dispense with the fiction that hamas is fighting some just war?

Hiding behind civilians and intentionally using their deaths as propaganda is terrible.

Also, free palestine, fuck hamas, fuck likud, fuck Iran, and fuck Russia.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (19 children)

I don't think anyone is saying the war is just but rather relatable. If someone occupied my country, killed my family and took my family land I can't say I'd react any different.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You'd sneak into their villages and go door to door killing thousands of innocent people in their homes? And do the same to young people at a music festival?

I think we can all relate to resistance, but this is something else.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The protagonists in the Old Testament do exactly that more than once with less provocation, and millions of people still consider them the good guys. Israel's PM in particular has specifically cited one of them as a model to emulate. Look up his comment about Amalek.

So yes, a lot of people would do that, and the people in charge of this massacre in particular would definitely do that given a chance. Or, you know, you can look at the fact that they basically are doing that right now, just with bombs rather than small arms.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (32 children)

So a whopping 2 hostages on the day of the attack, of which one was critically injured, which was more than a month ago.

Definitely Hamas HQ confirmed. Was worth all that civilian collateral to capture.

At least they finally got some footage so we don't have to rely on some crappy IDF PS1 graphics renders.

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[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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[–] Dalraz@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] palal@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's really not. MBFC is run by a single guy. It's methodology is basically worthless. It's basically one dude's opinion on what news sources he likes to read.

What do we know about that guy? Not much. He happens to share the same name as a very prominent lawyer/professor, which makes finding details about him very challenging.

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[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

If they're releasing surveillance footage, expect more to come out. They have already announced that Noa Marciano was executed inside the hospital - most likely on camera.

Also note that they are sharing much more with the US and EU than they are making public. It will likely include surveillance footage tagged with facial recognition of every senior Hamas member who walked through the hospital.

[–] Hatsune_Miku@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

well this community suddenly became very quiet.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 20 points 1 year ago (173 children)

Israel's right wing is a bunch of genocidal monsters who are just as evil as Hamas but much better funded.

Happy now?

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It really hasn't, it's generic un geolocated video yet again and Israel is known to fake video. At the same time it's not at all proof of their nonsense claims.

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[–] palal@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] DolphinMath@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago (26 children)

To be fair, Al Jazeera is blatantly anti-Israel, so I wouldn’t trust their analysis without other corroborating sources. Regardless, the evidence the IDF presented for that particular video was far from conclusive, so it’s certainly possible that particular entrance wasn’t to the Hamas tunnel network.

I also don’t doubt that nurse video is fake, but the source of the video is far from definitive. Many parties in this conflict benefit from muddling the waters with fake videos.

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[–] snek@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The dumbest part is that it says one hostage was brought to the hospital to be killed.

Bro just kill her in whatever tunnel you're in... Why drag her to the hospital?

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