Israel Deletes Post Accusing Palestinians of Faking Their Deaths Using Crisis Actors
Chris Menahan
The Israeli government on Wednesday deleted a comically stupid post accusing Palestinians of faking their deaths using crisis actors.
From Mediaite, “Israel Deletes Post Accusing Palestinians of Faking Their Deaths in Gaza”:
Israel’s official social media account on X, formerly known as Twitter, published a video supposedly showing a Palestinian corpse in a body bag moving on Monday, along with the caption, “Reminder: The Gaza Ministry of Health=Hamas… Bodies can’t move their heads.”
The post received more than 4.5 million views, 27,000 likes, and 7,800 reposts before it was eventually deleted on Wednesday.
the official government account for Israel once again spread the Pallywood conspiracy theory which claims Palestinians are crisis actors performing for videos & faking their death
they deleted it now but it already had been viewed more than 4.5 million times in the past two days pic.twitter.com/C2GZgSFyVG
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) November 2, 2023
“The official government account for Israel once again spread the Pallywood conspiracy theory which claims Palestinians are crisis actors performing for videos & faking their death,” reacted journalist Matt Binder on X. “They deleted it now but it already had been viewed more than 4.5 million times in the past two days.”
on the left is Saleh Aljafarawi, found on Instagram posting footage from Gaza as saleh_aljafarawe
the person in the hospital is 16 yo Mohammed Zendiq. the footage was posted on TikTok in August when he was hospitalized after losing his leg during an IDF raid in the West Bank pic.twitter.com/V1sXl56s0U
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) October 26, 2023
Astonishingly, the blunder took place just days after the official Israeli social media account deleted another post which claimed Palestinian civilians were faking their injuries from Israeli airstrikes.
The same video was shared by AIPAC on Tuesday and is still up on their timeline:
It’s literally a two-and-a-half second clip of a Palestinian opening a bodybag that’s covered in bloodstains and the bodybag moves as he’s pulling it.
In Gaza, people come back to life. It’s real. Hamas filmed the miracle. pic.twitter.com/OVg5aEIIrt
— Imam of Peace (@Imamofpeace) October 31, 2023
It shows nothing out of the ordinary but I guess for people who imagine they saw Hamas cooking babies in the oven and beheading 40 infants in one small town they can see anything they want to see.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health reports that 8,796 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, including 3,648 children and 2,290 women.
All it takes is one look at the Times of Gaza’s X page to see an virtually endless stream of dead children massacred at Israel’s hands with American bombs.
The hospital are out of room so children are being treated on the floor pic.twitter.com/sVi50OG4k2
— Jake Shields (@jakeshieldsajj) November 1, 2023
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Wednesday pointed out how Israel killed more children in one week than Russia killed in Ukraine during their 18 month war. In three weeks of bombings, Van Hollen noted, Israel killed six times as many kids as Russia.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) points out that according to the UN, about six times more children have been killed in Gaza in just three weeks than have been killed in Ukraine during the entire war
Van Hollen reports that someone he knows well in Gaza just had four children killed pic.twitter.com/lZtLE4un0o
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) November 1, 2023
While Israel’s hasbara shills are busy sharing videos accusing the Palestinians of faking their deaths, the IDF is going on CNN and admitting they bombed a refugee camp full of little kids to allegedly kill one Hamas member.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: You knew that there were innocent civilians in that refugee camp, right?
IDF spox: This is the tragedy of war. We told them to move south.
Blitzer: So you decided to drop the bomb anyway.
IDF spox: We’re doing everything we can to minimize civilian deaths. pic.twitter.com/oAtW7jV0pc
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 31, 2023
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself gave a speech labeling the Palestinians “Amalek” and the IDF’s oldest reservist is giving speeches to the troops encouraging them to kill Palestinian “families, mothers and children” and “erase the memory of them.”
Netanyahu declaring invasion: “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible”
1 Samuel 15:3
“Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass” pic.twitter.com/5QF9PkGhjJ
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 28, 2023
The idea the Palestinians would have to fake their deaths while Israel is committing a massacring them by the thousands is not only completely idiotic but outright disgraceful.
