Hamas has released a video announcing the death of two Israeli hostages and claimed that they were killed by Israeli airstrikes.
The video showed a female hostage named in Israeli media as Noa Argamani, 26, speaking under duress, revealing that two men she was held captive with had been killed in captivity. It was not clear when or where the video was filmed and there was no independent confirmation of Hamas’s claims.
The three hostages were shown in a 37-second Hamas video released on Sunday in which the group urged the Israeli government to halt its aerial and ground offensive and bring about their release. The undated clip ended with the caption: “Tomorrow [Monday] we will inform you of their fate.”
In a statement released with the new video, Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam brigades, said the two men, believed to be Yossi Sharabi, 53, and Itay Svirsky, 38, had been killed in “the Zionist army’s bombing”.
Dudes over here trying to be like ‘there is no objective truth’ while totally ignoring the non-throwaway bit about lying being systemized by Israel.
It’s literal state media policy. They’ve been open about it.
When one side objectively, countably, lies more than the other, that side is believed less. It’s that simple.
Also, when a country restricts access to food, potable water, and medicine to a population they consider undesirable and than says it isn’t committing genocide, then you also don’t believe them. Those two things are mutually incompatible.
The point is the determination that only one side is at fault should not prevent you from listening to both sides. But, for some it does.
One side is a nuclear armed entity that had 2.2 million trapped in an open air prison and intentionally blockaded them and publicly boasted about only allowing in a starvation diet amount of calories.
The other side can dig tunnels.
So no to the listen part, I guess. And so it goes.
You’re trying to discredit the ungodly number of dead from a nuclear powered military that is intentionally targeting a population of mostly woman and children because they don’t want to engage in tunnel fighting.
You’re doing it by questioning the source of the number that has been shown to be accurate multiple times by multiple uninvolved unbiased groups.
The very question you started with ‘why do people believe Hamas’s numbers’ is obvious bad faith propaganda.
No, this response has to do with information denials. There is another response about numbers. Read that one.
This is information denial.
Do you believe that a government starving a population it considers undesirable is genocide?