#أسير — Public Fediverse posts

Not enough people say it directly, Hamas lied in their 7 October videos.

Mostly a lie of omission, but a lie. I mean what they showed and what their supporters saw.

The people who celebrated on 7 October were NOT celebrating attacks on civilians. They were celebrating what they saw. The destruction of the wall and the defeat of enemy military.

There was very different looking footage from CCTV and bystanders. I suspect this went viral in English and Hebrew but not Arabic. The English and Arabic internets are on all the same platforms but the users don't overlap much, at least they didn't in October 2023.

They saw
- the destruction of the wall and watch towers
- the attacks on millitary bases
- dead male soldiers
- soldiers being taken hostage
- a few dead kibbutz defenders with guns (or dead civilians they planted guns on, the oldest trick in the war crime book)
- and some clips of rockets being launched (they boasted about how many, but they were vague about where they were aiming)

The only women in it at all were a few fully clothed IDF women, and they were treated much less disrespectfully than the men, by a wide margin.

The brief appearances of the IDF wornen didn't get republished by news channels.

The attacks on women and civilians were mostly in videos taken by Hebrew and English speakers bystanders phones or dashcams or CCTV, and I suspect they ended up going viral in different networks.

Hamas at least admitted that most of the #hostages were civilians.

But I've seen some #Palestinian news websites (the ones I noticed were in English) were reporting hundreds of soldiers being taken hostage. I'm not sure if this was a miscommunication or a lie, and if it was a lie I am not sure whose lie it was.

There's a story I've found in a couple of Israeli sources where #Hamas and maybe some others they had about 100 police or soldiers hostage but they got rescued (or killed) before they got to Gaza.

Or the story might have started with the #PFLP or #DFLP I think they might have said #أسير which means prisoner but kind of implies POW and it got misinterpreted. And some other vague statements. But I suspect most ambiguity is supposed to be misinterpreted, e.g. Abu Obeada classic = "(a huge number) of Israeli tanks were damaged of destroyed" which I always assume means all of them had minor damage?

Or it could have been a flat out lie.

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