ISLAMABAD- After pounding Gaza with air raids and artillery, Israel haslaunched a full-scale propaganda war against Palestine to justify itsterror acts against innocent Palestinians.
Nearly 200 citizens, including dozens of children, have been martyred asthe Israeli bombing of the Gaza strip enters the second week.
However, instead of repenting over war crimes, the spokesperson for IsraeliPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ofir Gendelman, has been sharingpropaganda videos to justify the attacks.——————————
Gendelman shared a video on Twitter, implying that Hamas is launchingmissiles at Israel’s densely populated civilian areas. He used the video asan excuse for the bombing of Gaza’s civilian population.
The 28-second video was widely watched and shared hundreds of times, but afact-checker revealed that the video was not from Gaza or even from thisweek. It is at least two years old and shows Syrian rebels launching anattack on the government forces. The video from 2018 is easily available onYouTube and many other video streaming platforms.
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The viral video is just one piece of misinformation about the growingIsraeli violence against Palestinians that has been circulated on Twitter,TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social media platforms this week.
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