Israel accused of staging surrender video

[Donkees]

Israel has been accused of staging a video purporting to show the surrender of Hamas soldiers.

The footage shows dozens of men stripped to their underwear with Israeli media saying these are Hamas fighters arrested in the Jabalia refugee camp.

One man is seen walking towards a soldier and handing over a rifle and a handgun. The man holds a rifle with his left hand.

However, Al Jazeera’s verification unit Sanad has identified a second take of the same video with the man now holding the rifle with his right hand.

Israel is being accused of staging a video - purporting to show the surrender of Hamas soldiers.

The footage on social media, shows several dozen men stripped to their underwear.
Israeli media say these are Hamas fighters arrested at the Jabalia refugee camp.

Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher is in the Occupied East Jerusalem for more about this.

[Donkees]

1. Added:

The moment the Palestinian arrives at the place where the weapon was dropped, the first video, from Channel 12, shows the Palestinian putting his weapon on the ground without looking left or right and returning to the place of detention.

In the second video, published by Yedioth Ahronoth, the Palestinian arrives at the same place where the weapons were handed over and he looks where the soldiers are and talks to them.

[Think. Again.]

2. hmmm....

The IDF has been extremely active in producing and releasing media to support the narrative of self-defense.

It's almost as though they don't believe the justification for the scope of their offensive themselves...

[Donkees]

3. They should have picked the hairy guy in zebra briefs instead of muffin-top belly guy

[Think. Again.]

4. Ha!...

...I didn't really look at it that closely!

[mymomwasright]

5. Correspondent claims Hamas "fighters" POWs

No, they are Terrorists!

[EX500rider]

6. BBC disagrees

There's been speculation about the authenticity of footage filmed by Israeli troops in northern Gaza, after two separate clips emerged in which the same man is seen surrendering a gun - but in each video, he holds it in a different hand. We earlier reported suggestions that separate "takes" of the same incident had been produced.

But analysis by BBC Verify - of both videos and additional still images of the same scene - suggests these are sequential events, not separate takes, and the same man is going to and fro bringing different guns to the pavement with their detached magazines (ammunition).

One video - which we know was shot first because of the position of the sun - shows the man placing a gun from his right hand on top of another on the pavement. In the next video, with the sun lower, the man places a different gun on top of those from his left hand. Still images corroborate and bookend this sequence, with one showing the very first gun being placed, and another showing the resulting three guns and magazines on the pavement

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67672759

[NickB79]

7. Al Jazeera carrying water for Hamas? The hell you say!

It's pretty clear who AJ works for after two months of their reporting.

[Sympthsical]

8. People are making weird choices in all this

When a terrorist organization shows up and asks Westerners to carry their water for them, the customary reply probably shouldn't be, "How much?! Because I brought my own buckets!"

Yet, here we are.

[LexVegas]

9. Al Jazeera is a Hamas propaganda arm. nt

[Sal_NV]

10. Al Jazeera?

I'll trust the BBC over Al HAMAS any day of the week.