Palestine: Specialist debunk IDF video alleged Hamas headquarters
Experts deny IDF video claiming that Hamas has its operations center at Shifa hospital in Gaza. Several specialists have denied the video released by the IDF showing an alleged attack on the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, where Hamas' operations center is claimed to be located. After analyzing the video, experts have found evidence that it is a montage using manipulated and fake images. teleSUR
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00:00 On Monday, November 13, spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces Daniel Hagari published
00:04 a video on his ex-account supposedly showing evidence of Hamas action inside the Al-Ratizi
00:10 Hospital in Gaza. Nevertheless, specialists on the subject have denounced the falsehood
00:14 of many of the claims made in the video. Let us review the material in detail.
00:18 Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari published on Monday a video allegedly showing
00:26 evidence of Hamas actions in the Al-Ratizi Hospital in Gaza. However, many voices were
00:31 quick to accuse him of falsifying the information to justify to the international press the brutal
00:36 attacks that Israel continues to carry out against Gaza hospitals. One of the critics was Charles
00:42 Lister, director of the Counterterrorism and Estimates Program at the Middle East Institute,
00:48 who shared Hagari's original publication describing it as totally bizarre.
00:52 And look above this. Look above it. It's a baby bottle. It's a baby bottle in a basement
00:59 above a World Health Organization sign. One of the most criticized aspects of the video is that
01:06 although in his post the IDF spokesman talks about a room full of weapons, these are never shown.
01:12 What is shown are supposed evidence of Hamas activities, no more than diapers,
01:16 baby bottles, toilets and showers. For Lister, the only thing that the published video shows
01:22 is that the basement of this WHO run hospital was being used as a bomb shelter.
01:26 Another fragment of the video shows the presence of a room with armchairs and a
01:32 curtain covering a wall. People are putting curtains with nothing above, just wall. No
01:38 reason to put here a curtain unless you want to film hostages and deliver movies.
01:45 However, critics have pointed out that this room is used by Tatars as a conference room
01:49 and that there is no logical relationship that would allow taking the presence of a curtain
01:54 on a wall as evidence that the room is an underground headquarters where prisoners are kept.
01:58 Finally, the published video concludes with the presentation of a piece of paper found
02:04 on the wall as closing evidence. In this room, there is a list.
02:14 This list in Arabic, in Arabic, this list says we are in an operation,
02:20 the operation against Israel started on the 7th of October.
02:25 The IDF spokesperson claims that it is a list in Arabic title Operation Against Israel,
02:31 which starts on October 7th and functions as a scheme of guard with the names of those who
02:36 are supposed to take care of the prisoners. However, this alleged evidence is nothing more
02:40 than a calendar with the dates of the week in Arabic and it starts on October 6th and not on the 7th.
02:46 We have a