Footage cropped and reversed in part to make it seem hospital was in path of Hamas rockets – but they were fired away from it
Yet another attempt by the Israeli government to claim that the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza was hit by a Hamas rocket, and not by an Israeli airstrike, has fallen apart under examination.
The Israelis had posted video appearing to show the hospital in the path of rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel, supposedly supporting the Israeli account. The tweet of the image was accompanied by a boast that ‘we have the receipts’.
But analysis of still images and the original video, by the Turkish Directorate of Communications (TDC), showed that part of the image had been cropped and flipped to make the hospital appear to be in the rockets’ flight path when in fact, the hospital was on the side away from Israeli territory and the missiles were travelling directly away from it:
Israel has also attempted to portray a ‘recording’ of two supposed Hamas operatives discussing the misfired rocket hitting the hospital – but several experts who analysed the discussion for Channel 4 News dismissed it as an obvious fake, as the programme’s chief correspondent Alex Thomson tweeted:
Several experts confirm Hamas’ view to Channel 4 News that the audio tape of “Hamas” operatives talking about the missile malfunction is a fake . They say the tone, syntax, accent and idiom are absurd.
Further analysis by Al Jazeera also proved the strike was not from a Hamas rocket, tracking each launch before the Al Ahli strike and showing each Hamas rocket had been destroyed by the Israeli ‘Iron Dome’ defence system and none was fired close enough to the time of the hospital blast:
And the nail in the coffin of the Israeli narrative is the boast by Netanyahu’s ‘digital warfare’ operative Hananya Naftali about Israeli warplanes hitting the hospital and killing ‘terrorists’, a tweet he rapidly deleted and replaced with one blaming Hamas.
Despite this, pro-Israel apologists continue to try to portray the murder of more than five hundred women, children and elderly people as a Palestinian misfire.
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