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The Israeli military held a screening for journalists on Monday of raw footage recovered from Hamas body cameras, in an effort to remind the world of the brutality of the attack on Israel two weeks ago.

The bodycam footage, cut together with clips from CCTV, dashboard cameras and the mobile phones of both Hamas gunmen and victims, showed in stark detail the sheer horror visited on a music festival and family neighbourhoods in southern Israel.

The Israeli military also released documents which they said were recovered from dead Hamas members, containing detailed operational planning and instructions for attacking the neighbourhoods and taking hostages.

The 43 minutes of footage screened in Tel Aviv on Monday was distilled from hundreds of hours of footage collected since the attack, the Israeli military said. It contained clips of Hamas gunmen cheering with apparent joy as they shot civilians on the road, and later stalking the pathways of kibbutzim and killing parents and children in their homes.

      • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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        I know you’re citing the United Nations as an authority, and providing a link is definitely welcome, but the site you’re linking literally says

        The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there

        thereby acknowledging that even the UN is merely repeating the numbers that Hamas is giving them.

        Could we maybe agree that blindly accepting whatever Hamas is saying as truth is not the best policy?

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          If the number is good enough for the U.N., it’s good enough for me. I’m in no position to “Um, aCKtUaLly…” the United Nations. ;)

          If they felt it was wrong or biased they wouldn’t cite it.

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            They themselves imply the number is likely to be biased (the defacto authority is hardly going to be impartial), but I agree, it isn’t your job to second guess the numbers being used by the UN.

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              No, I mean you were wrong 😊 let me know when you need more reading comprehension help

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                  No, because the numbers were always right, because the UN and Gazan medical health centers and hospitals are reliable and have always been.

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                    11 months ago

                    The numbers were reported by Hamas. The UN merely used those numbers.

                    Tell me why we should put blind faith into anything published by Hamas?

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        The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there

        By de facto authorities they mean Hamas.

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      What about them? Would any of them occur, if the 7th October attack never happened? Doubt.

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            I don’t deny that the attack occurred. But I don’t have the right to judge how an ethnic group decides to resist their oppressors. Was it warranted? Ask a Palestinian.

            I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites. -Nelson Mandela