Hamas has called on Israel to allow an impartial international investigation into its attack on 7 October 2023 and has rejected that it killed civilians or committed atrocities.
“The resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews. We challenge [Israel] to prove otherwise,” it said.
In the new document, Hamas said that “Western media and Zionist lobby groups” had launched a disinformation campaign about the events of the attack.
“The Israeli entity promoted a series of lies and fallacies about killing children and raping women, paving the way to proceed with an all-out genocide project that was pre-planned and aimed to erase Gaza from existence,” it said.
I’m kinda wondering what the goal is here.
It’s mostly been suppressed, but there’s a good amount of footage from the day, recording it seemed like a priority. Like, here on Lemmy if someone could somehow avoid things getting removed and post the footage we’d just have someone saying it’s AI or just generically sealioning and then whichever opinion felt more unpopular would be suppressed, but we’re talking about organizations who can actually verify sources.
My best guess is they’re hoping they find more bad stuff from Israel than Hamas, and that might be a solid play but I kinda doubt it. Most of the footage from the day of I’ve seen just make Israel feel kinda incompetent.
Israel wants to hide how many people were killed by the Hannibal directive, has made up a fake rape hoax and did much more lying to manufacture consent for the genocide.
Much of the Western audience still believes this obvious propaganda because Israel blocks all investigations into it and Western media uncritically repeats every Israeli lie.
Personal opinion, probably wouldn’t affect either of those points much, most of the leaked footage I’ve seen is conflict between Hamas and people who at least look like civilians. It makes sense, you’d assume the footage from skirmishes where the IDF was involved and successful would be in IDF custody and most things would be kept secret along with anything negative likely being destroyed. Unless someone in Hamas is sitting on it for a mysterious reason, seeing any evidence of the hannibal directive recorded feels incredibly unlikely. I have also seen some footage from the day that doesn’t outright show sexual assault, but would certainly imply that it could have been the next step and items like that combined with things like the UN report would be more than enough evidence for anyone in a position to do something about it. There may also be new stuff out there over the past year, I can’t be the one looking at that footage anymore.
There may be surprises though.