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Israel forces civilians to carry weapons in Gaza and films them as if they were armed fighters

Israel forces civilians to carry weapons in Gaza and films them as if they were armed fighters

The Israeli occupation army has conducted repeated attacks and raids on areas where civilians had sought refuge and during these raids, scenes were recorded that are a stain on human history One of these shelters that was attacked was Al-Khalifa School, where 7,000 Palestinians had taken refuge. Israeli soldiers raided the school gathered males over the age of 15 and forced them to remove their clothes. Then, the propaganda network on social media stepped in and claimed that the armed individual in the footage was a Hamas member and these claims spread quickly However, officials from the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and journalists in the area confirmed that the man in the footage was Maeen Qeshta Al-Masry a small aluminum workshop owner living in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip The officials pointed out that Al-Masry had sought refuge in Al-Khalifa School like other civilians It was also revealed that the footage posted by Israeli propaganda accounts had been manipulated In one clip, the individual supposedly from Hamas is seen holding the weapon in his right hand and the magazine in his left while in another scene, the weapon is in his left hand and the magazine in his right. This shows that the scenes were re-filmed multiple times to present them in a “perfect” manner Israeli journalist Barak Ravid a political analyst and foreign policy expert at CNN deleted his posts after noticing these details