Since the announcement of the strike which hit Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening, numerous videos have been circulating on social networks. Old video from the Israeli embassy, Facebook post pretending to be the Israeli army… 20 minutes sort the true from the false in the article below.
Did the Israeli government delete a video purporting to show the rocket fire?
On Twitter/X, several accounts accuse the Israeli government of having retracted after posting a video which would support Israel’s version, namely that the rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip.
We can actually find on the first versionn of one of the posts from the official Israeli state account, posted on the social network Tuesday evening at 9:42 p.m. and updated at 10:04 p.m. The post states in particular: “According to the analysis of IDF operational systems, a barrage of enemy rockets was carried out in the direction of Israel, which passed close to the hospital when it was hit. According to information available to us from several sources, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the botched shooting at the hospital. »
The difference between the two publications is the removal of a video which initially accompanied the text. The video is divided into three panels, the upper part of which shows what appears to be rocket fire, with a caption indicating the location: “Gaza city”. A digital clock shows the video was shot at 7:59 p.m. Problem: the first reactions to the explosion in the hospital are before the time indicated on the video.
What time did the attack take place?
Other elements seem to confirm that the explosion took place around 7 p.m. this Tuesday evening. A live video from the Arab news channel Al Jazeera shows what appears to be the explosion at the al-Ahli Arab hospital. Other elements seem to confirm that the explosion took place around 7 p.m. this Tuesday evening. A live video from the Arab news channel Al Jazeera shows what appears to be the explosion at the al-Ahli hospital Arab.s in a response to the Al Jazeera channel which attributed the explosion to an attack by ‘Israel:
“18:59 – A rocket targeting Israel misfired and exploded.
18:59 – A hospital was hit in Gaza. » (translated from English).
On Facebook, several publications reporting the explosion that occurred in the hospital posted to 7:25 p.m. Or 7:26 p.m. (taking into account the time difference of one hour) also agree with the fact that the explosion would have taken place shortly after 7 p.m.
Did the Israeli embassy in France publish a video dating from 2022?
As French Internet users have noticed, the Israeli embassy in France has also edited one of his posts about the hospital explosion. The original post, posted Tuesday at 10:41 p.m., contains a video that shows what appears to be several rockets fired from a single location, one of which falls precipitously toward the ground. The text of the publication states in part: “One of the missiles misfired and hit al-Alhi hospital in Gaza, […] This is a sad observation which has been deplored on several occasions during the last periods of conflict, where the failed missile launches of the PIJ [djihad islamique] posed an extreme danger to civilians in Gaza. »
The video also contains text that appears for a few seconds at the bottom right of the image, where we can read: “Operation ”Breaking Dawn”. The Islamic Jihad Terrorist Organization’s Rocket Misfire in Jabaliya. 07/082022 » [Opération Aube naissante. La roquette de l’organisation terroriste jihad islamique a un raté à Jabaliya.] As can be seen on the official account of the Israeli army, the video in question was actually published on August 7, 2022, with the comment “look at this failed rocket fire that killed children in Gaza. »
No, the Israeli army did not admit to being behind the strike in a Facebook post
A screenshot of a Facebook page falsely attributed to the Israeli army is circulating. It was notably taken up on a Telegram account of a Palestinian media outlet, Quds news network. It reads that “due to the lack of equipment and medical personnel, it was decided to bomb the Baptist hospital in Gaza and euthanize them.”
This page is wrongly presented as being that of the Israeli army in Arabic. However, the Israeli army does not have a page with such a name. His Arabic Facebook posts can be found on the Army Spokesperson’s page, Avichay Adraee. This page has the verification badge, which means that the identity of its administrators has been verified. The fake message does not include this badge.
Did Israel admit to bombing the hospital?
In a post on Twitter/X posted at 8:23 p.m. Tuesday evening, Hananya Naftali’s account claimed that “Israeli Air Force strikes Hamas terrorist base inside hospital in Gaza.” Followed by more than 363,000 people on the social network, Naftali describes himself on its website as an “Israeli speaker” having worked for five years in the digital team of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The post was subsequently deleted, and interpreted as an admission by the Israeli army. However, no official statement from the Israeli government or army including 20 minutes has not been made aware of any corroboration of this assertion.
A few hours after deleting his post, Hananya Naftali claimed to have “shared this information in error”, justifying that he was referring to “the usual use of hospitals by Hamas to store weapons caches and carry out terrorist activities. »