How 2 debunked accounts of sexual violence on Oct. 7 fueled a global dispute over Israel-Hamas war
Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash.
Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, #Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with #ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue organization — saw the body of a teenager, shot dead and separated from her family in a different room. Her pants had been pulled down below her waist. He thought that was evidence of sexual violence.
He alerted journalists to what he’d seen. He tearfully recounted the details in a nationally televised appearance in the Israeli Parliament. In the frantic hours, days and weeks that followed the Hamas attack, his testimony ricocheted across the world.
But it turns out that what Otmazgin thought had occurred in the home at the kibbutz hadn’t happened.
Beyond the numerous and well-documented atrocities committed by #Hamas militants on Oct. 7, some accounts from that day, like Otmazgin’s, proved untrue.
“It’s not that I invented a story,” Otmazgin told The Associated Press in an interview, detailing the origins of his initial explosive claim — one of two by ZAKA volunteers about sexual violence that turned out to be unfounded.
“I couldn’t think of any other option” other than the teen having been sexually assaulted, he said. “At the end, it turned out to be different, so I corrected myself.”
Unconfirmed: computers taken to Gaza by Hamas on October 7 were hacked by Iranian team exposing the list of all Mossad operatives in West Asi and Europe.
The news comes from an Iranian telegram channel and can't be verified.
If it's true. Then it's the biggest security risk for Israeli global operation in their history.
#October7 / NYT Casts Doubt on Its Own Reporting of Sexual Attacks in Be'eri
An unnamed Israeli paramedic had told media outlets that he found the partially clothed bodies of two teenage girls that bore signs of sexual violence in a home in Be'eri. However, a video taken by an Israeli soldier shows the fully-clothed bodies of three female victims, identified as two sisters and their mother, with no apparent signs of sexual assault. Residents of Be'eri who viewed the video concluded that the paramedic's account of the two girls being sexually assaulted was false.
While the paramedic declined to retract his account, the Israeli military said he may have "misremembered" the location where he saw the teenagers' bodies.
The Times of Israel has reported that the Israeli military detected the activation of Hamas phones using Israeli SIM cards 6 hours before the attack on October 7th.
This reporting suggests that the Israeli military had prior knowledge to the attack and most likely allowed it to happen.
Pictures of dying babies are TRULY awful, yes. Gut wrenching in every way.
Have you seen the pictures of the burned or bullet-ridden babies that #Hamas murdered in front of their parents?
Maybe you've seen the pics or reports of the women whose genitals were mutilated with bullets & staples after being raped by Hamas #terrorists on #October7
It sounds like you hate pictures of dying or dead innocents. So I'm guessing you'll condemn those atrocities as well, no?
A New investigation by The Intercept has confirmed that the Israeli #Zaka "search-and-rescue" group, which was responsible for the rescue operations following the #October7 military operation, had invented atrocities and accusations of beheadings and rapes against the resistance to help Israel carry out genocide in #Gaza.
This confirms a previous investigation by The Grayzone, which also proved that Zaka leveraged October 7 publicity to raise unprecedented sums of cash.
Not sure what to make of this, so I'll just provide the text written by Eldar (the Choreographer) about his short film, which as you can see, is very literal.
I'm very excited to present my new short film, inspired by the #Nova festival. While I'm proud of the outcome and grateful for my partners, creating a film on this subject was challenging. However, I had to tell this story in my own way, despite the pain, sadness and endless sorrow.
I'm deeply thankful to all the talented individuals who accompanied me on this journey; their contributions are invaluable. Without them, none of this would have been possible.
From the lies of October 7 to the lies about the UNRWA, the world is falling for the professional con man Netanyahu in compliance to commit genocide.
It's just sad that the lies we got fed to and are debunked since then, still lives on among gullible people and the hasbara army activists and bits online. This time the lies are more wage, and more deadly, but it doesn't stop the criminal leaders of the western nations to jump on the starvation wagon pulled by the most disgusting politician in modern history. The con man, the compulsive liar and the war criminal Netanyahu.
How far are they willing to take us with him on his journey to total war and death of countless innocent people?
"It appears that the New York Times manipulated a working-class Mizrahi family in the service of Israeli hasbara in order to score a journalistic achievement, which in reality is nothing more than a repetition of fake news and government propaganda."
"New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians."
Ben Norton wrote: 'Instead of investigating how it published a fake story on supposed Hamas "mass rapes", the NY Times is investigating... employees who leaked info about how its editors hired a racist Israeli propagandist to write the fake story to justify Israel's genocide.'