Bodies of Israeli residents and Palestinian militants lay outside of burned-out homes in the Israeli kibbutz Kfar Aza on Tuesday, days after Hamas launched a large-scale surprise assault on Israel, sending heavily armed fighters pouring across the border from Gaza and rampaging through rural communities.
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3715·
    1 year ago

    CNN could not independently verify that report, and Hamas said media reports about attacking children were false

    Late to the flame war in the comments but the #1 rule of OSINT is

    pics or it didn’t happen

    ignoring the fact that this is coming straight from the IDF and that CNN is already heavily pro Israel, it has been notoriously annoying to actually get raw footage or media on any of these events. Literally no one saw the video of Shani in the pickup truck, so everyone just assumed she had been beaten, murdered, and stripped naked because “India Now” said so.

    Now all of a sudden, she’s allegedly confirmed to be alive and a video of her at the concert also conveniently shows her wearing the same clothes as the one with the Hamas pickup truck.

    So all in all, a hostage being beaten was expanded to a citizen being killed and paraded naked because the internet is one giant continuous game of phone.

    Again, not saying this didn’t happen (because there’s a fair chance it did), but we really should not take anything at face value if none of these media outlets or sources are actually going to post the raw evidence (and in this case they don’t even have it).