Surveillance footage shows Hamas bringing hostages into Shifa Hospital on Oct. 7
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The Israel Defense Forces releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center.
Can we yet dispense with the fiction that hamas is fighting some just war?
Hiding behind civilians and intentionally using their deaths as propaganda is terrible.
Also, free palestine, fuck hamas, fuck likud, fuck Iran, and fuck Russia.
I don't think anyone is saying the war is just but rather relatable. If someone occupied my country, killed my family and took my family land I can't say I'd react any different.
You'd sneak into their villages and go door to door killing thousands of innocent people in their homes? And do the same to young people at a music festival?
I think we can all relate to resistance, but this is something else.
You'd become a hardline religious extremist, torture your own people, and massacre civilians in cold blood?
Weird thing to admit to man.
Where is Gaza's military allowed to be?
So a whopping 2 hostages on the day of the attack, of which one was critically injured, which was more than a month ago.
Definitely Hamas HQ confirmed. Was worth all that civilian collateral to capture.
At least they finally got some footage so we don't have to rely on some crappy IDF PS1 graphics renders.
There are more than two hostages. They've already found one of the previous hostages dead near the hospital grounds.
Wait until more footage comes through
Definetly worth the collatral and the casulties. Hiering a hitman doesent make you inoccent.
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One of the hostages is visibly wounded in his arm and is brought on a hospital bed, while the second is forcefully dragged into the hospital. “These findings prove that the Hamas terror organization used Shifa Hospital on the day of the massacre itself as terror infrastructure,” the IDF says.
TIL bringing a wounded civilian in for treatment makes the treating hospital "terror infrastructure".
Further images released by the IDF from the surveillance cameras at Shifa show Hamas terrorists inside the hospital, and outside the rooms of the hostages, as well as stolen IDF vehicles brought to the medical center.
It wasn't a wounded person that was the problem.
Okay, let's say you're a cop and you have an injured prisoner but no car. You grab a vehicle off the street and bring the guy to the nearest hospital. You don't want your prisoner to escape, so you stand guard outside the room while he's getting treated, then take him into custody.
You see the problem here? In one viewpoint, it's a soldier responsibly getting treatment for a prisoner; in another viewpoint, the entire hospital complex had enemy soldiers in it at some time and therefore deserves to be razed to the ground.
In an evening press conference, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the two wounded hostages were later taken by Hamas to hideouts, and that the Red Cross was unable to visit them. He says their locations are currently unknown.
You're going to just disagree with the IDF spokesman here?
The wounded guy? Sure thing. But the other one didn't seem to be too injured to be taken to a hospital for treatment
In an evening press conference, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the two wounded hostages were later taken by Hamas to hideouts, and that the Red Cross was unable to visit them. He says their locations are currently unknown.
They were both wounded
If you take two prisoners and don't want to split up your forces, then you bring both of them to the hospital, get the injured one treated, and take both of them away.
Dude's never broken a bone and it shows
well this community suddenly became very quiet.
Is this according to the same Israel that called a water reservoir an "opening into the Hamas tunnels?"
The same one that released a faked video of a "nurse from al-Shifa?"
To be fair, Al Jazeera is blatantly anti-Israel, so I wouldn’t trust their analysis without other corroborating sources. Regardless, the evidence the IDF presented for that particular video was far from conclusive, so it’s certainly possible that particular entrance wasn’t to the Hamas tunnel network.
I also don’t doubt that nurse video is fake, but the source of the video is far from definitive. Many parties in this conflict benefit from muddling the waters with fake videos.
As if being anti-Israel means that Al Jazeera throws journalistic integrity into the wind? If the facts are valid, they're valid regardless of what the spin being put on them is.
Gee, I sure wonder why Al Jazeera would be anti-Israel...
I'm honestly confused because the original article just says Hamas was seen taking one of the hostages to the hospital. Isn't that a good thing like hey they are trying to make sure these people don't die?
This will hopefully put to rest any notion that Hamas hasn't been using civilian infrastructure as shields.
Isn't this just bringing in wounded hostages for treatment? What do you expect hostage takers to do with wounded hostages exactly?
No, it fucking isn't. They weren't there for treatment.
What I expect from hostage takers is brutality, murder, and the intentional targeting of civilians, which is what they did. If Hamas wants to be taken seriously as a government, and not what they are - a terrorist organization that is as bad, if not worse, for Palestinians as the oppression from Israel - then I expect something else: NOT TAKING HOSTAGES.
Let them die duh
No one has been making that claim. So the only person who could lay it to rest is you. Since you're the one claiming that. Everyone knows Hamas has been using civilian shields. We're just upset about Israel committing genocide and using that as an excuse.
Isn't it weird how nobody ever says that Hamas is committing genocide when they don't give a fuck about where their rockets explode in Gaza, when they're murdering Palestinians who are trying to evacuate, when they're using Palestinian civilians as human shields, when they're firing rockets from civilian Palestinian infrastructure, deliberately making it a military target?
Does it just not count when Hamas murders Palestinians, or how does that work?
Y’all still haven’t read up on the Geneva convention hu.
Oh really, then why do I keep seeing it repeated on here over and over again?
You see, the problem is that you're trying to apply logic and reasoning.
The Iranian propaganda teams aren't sure what to say yet. They must be sweating now. I'm guessing some whataboutism as counter
Hah apparently the spin is they were taken to the hospital for humanitarian reasons. After all the rape and murder the kidnappers decided to take their hostages to the hospital for treatment clearly under duress. Yep such nice guys. Definitely what they'd do.
Yeah . Because Hamas apparently were treating prisoners humanely.
I can see why humane treatment of prisoners and outsiders can seem crazy to some countries, but it is a rule of war.
Aw hell, just add it to the list of ignored rules.
So then they shouldn't be given medical care?
... who are then taken ... say it with me ... prisoner.
Yeah, to us they're hostages, sure. But if every citizen of the other nation happens to be a reservist after their gap year of service, they're unarmed 'enemy' soldiers on extended leave.
I'm sure the answer is somewhere in the middle and can't be so simply decided on the outside by people who sleep soundly at night.
If they're releasing surveillance footage, expect more to come out. They have already announced that Noa Marciano was executed inside the hospital - most likely on camera.
Also note that they are sharing much more with the US and EU than they are making public. It will likely include surveillance footage tagged with facial recognition of every senior Hamas member who walked through the hospital.
If you're a fellow American, please stop weighing in on this whole thing. We shouldn't be propping up Israel to begin with. We shouldn't be involved in this at all.
Our support of Israel was certainly factored into Hamas's decision to escalate things. And the blowback we'll get from unconditionally supporting Israel is completely, COMPLETELY predictable.
Covid gave us an opportunity to turn the page on the war on terror, and now our unwavering support for one side of this conflict is going to prompt some yahoo to commit something stupid, and start the war on terror up all over again.
There is no upside in supporting one side over the other in this one - we need to sit it out. Stop sending billions to Israel every year and providing a pretext for some sort of revenge attack on us. Saudi doesn't care what we think anymore, OPEC is going to do whatever it wants.
The US foreign affairs community seems to be of the opinion that our involvement in Israel and its recognition by KSA or any other big player in the region is going to secure the status of the petrodollar. But de-dollarization is going to happen anyway, thanks to BRICS.
So we'll continue to sell arms to Saudi Arabia while they continue to not supply us with enough oil to keep prices low, and we'll continue to prop up Israel while they continue to piss off the entire region.
And everyone is just... okay with this?
There is no US and Israel. There is only US-Israel.
Israel is an extension of US foreign policy. The politics between them is all theatre. All Americans are culpable for its actions.
And everyone is just… okay with this?
No, I'd like to see more US intervention, pretty much worldwide. Isolationism is stupid and destructive.
But de-dollarization is going to happen anyway, thanks to BRICS.
Lmao no
It's futile, Israel. You lost the PR war. The younger gens hate you now. As more Boomers die off, your political and financial base in the West will erode, leaving you open to the wolves. If I am a young Israeli, I would look for a country to emigrate to. The next 25 years will be brutal for you.
Lmao you're just writing your fantasies out at this point
the hostages were in the hospital that got bombed?
I hope they're okay...
Yes, they were trying to free them, obviously.
If there is a Hamas bunker under a hospital it was built with the full knowledge and support of netenyahu.
Even if it's true, I can't believe anything Israel says at this point.
Again people lose sight of the fact that regardless of hamas actions, that doesn't justify the killing of thousands of kids and families that are taking shelter in the hospital.
If anything, the medical staff and families are also hostages and they shouldn't be killed either.
People kept arguing about the tunnel and the hospital ignoring the genocidal killing of Palestinians.
Tunnels or Hamas using the biggest and maybe only hospital Doesn't justify the bombing of the hospital while people still getting treated from other bombing..
Let’s be accurate here. Thousands have died in Gaza as a result of this conflict, but Israel clearly did not kill thousands at Shifa Hospital.
You're right, the hospital bombed itself.
Hamas surrenders, releases hostages and it's done. But Hamas is the one pushing this war and they're using the suffering of their own people to push propaganda - and people like yourself support their efforts.
If Hamas surrenders, Israel will simply compete the genocide they're in the middle of.
they haven't actually bombed al shifa, or any hospital for that matter.