CNN analysis: Video suggests IDF might have rearranged weaponry at Al-Shifa prior to international news crew visits

[Donkees]

From CNN’s Katie Polglase and Gianluca Mezzofiore

An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) video on November 15 showing a tour of Hamas weaponry found at Al-Shifa hospital shows less weaponry at the scene than in later footage filmed by international news crews, indicating the weaponry may have been moved or placed there prior to news crews arriving.

CNN compared footage published by the IDF online with footage taken by Fox News which was granted access to the site in the hours afterwards. IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus leads the tour in the IDF video and a watch on his arm shows the time to be 13:18.

Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst later visits the scene when it is dark. He says in his report it is “the middle of the night.” Yingst is shown a bag located behind an MRI machine inside the hospital with two AK-47 guns visible on top of it. However, the IDF video filmed earlier shows only one AK-47 gun. It is unclear where the second AK-47 gun came from and why it is not visible in the earlier IDF clip.

In the intervening hours, the IDF also posted online a photo of the weaponry purportedly found at Al-Shifa hospital. The WhatsApp file name for this photo indicates it was taken at 17:35; this places it after the IDF tour of the MRI compound but almost certainly before the Fox News crew arrive.

It is possible the weaponry was removed from the scene and replaced prior to the news crews arriving. However this does not explain why more guns are visible when the press arrive than in the original IDF video. The BBC was also granted access to the hospital the following day, November 16, and two AK-47 guns are still visible on top of the bag inside the MRI room.

CNN has reached out to the IDF for clarification on the apparent discrepancy but has not received a response.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-18-23/index.html

[Beastly Boy]

1. Unbelievable! As search of the hospital was ongoing, new weapons were found

Who would have thought this was possible?

More weapons as time went on is totally predictable. I would only question if there were fewer weapons on display as time went on.

[Think. Again.]

2. It seems the IDF...

...is going out of their way to provide media visuals during a very harrowing time.

Was the IDF really more concerned about the media getting pictures of the guns than they were about leaving those guns lying around in a working hospital struggling under chaotic and severe conditions?

[David__77]

3. Of course. Just surprised news orgs are talking about it.

[malaise]

4. Oh My

The PM of Israel is a criminal defendant.
Go figure.

I never bought that bullshit.

[mymomwasright]

5. Well, the IDF is engaged in heavy fighting around the hospitals, likely with the patients!

Because that is their primary goal!

[PSPS]

6. This is beginning to smell like ...

[Donkees]

7. IDF Intelligence-based 3D Diagram Video:

[GuppyGal]

8. The IDF BETTER be right about this.

[obamanut2012]

10. Good lord

Zero proof of any of this. Not directed at you, D.

[PSPS]

18. The "Bin Laden fortress" thing was also purportedly "intelligence-based"

Plus, it's worth noting that Bibi is "Israel's trump." So there's that, too. Right-wing crooks aren't exactly the most reliable or trustworthy people.

[Autumn]

9. Perhaps Fox new provided the extra weapons for the interview.

Sort of. Fox news.

[NickB79]

12. The conspiracy theorists never sleep, I see

Simple answer: they found, and are still finding, more weapons as they search a massive building complex. Most likely, they're STILL searching it.

Let me guess: the bodies of the two dead hostages they found at Al Shifa were also planted?

[LexVegas]

13. Some people get salty as fuck when Hamas gets bad press. nt

[RainWalker]

14. Holy Toledo

Yingst is shown a bag located behind an MRI machine inside the hospital with two AK-47 guns visible on top of it. However, the IDF video filmed earlier shows only one AK-47 gun. It is unclear where the second AK-47 gun came from and why it is not visible in the earlier IDF clip.

Wow.

[Walleye]

15. Really, why were there any AK-47s inside hospital? For God sake

[sarisataka]

16. That question never gets answered

Since the appropriate number of AK 47s in a hospital is zero.

Much like how could the staff not know Hamas has taken over the MRI unit?

[RainWalker]

19. Absolutely

But it's also a bit questionable why were they placed directly in the field of a gigantic magnet; an MRI machine.

It's a bit strange. There's horror stories about guns and MRI machines. IIRC there was a right winger who took his AR-15 into one and was disemboweled. But then again my memory isn't the best.

There is this example however, one of several https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lawyer-dies-hidden-gun-goes-182941782.html]

[Mossfern]

17. Release all the hostages

alive, and dead for proper burial.
Hamas is to blame here.

Hamas can end this.
Some people here are either being side tracked, or have an agenda.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Hamas did move hostages through this hospital

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