• palal@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    A new gun was placed in the pile before it was shown to journalists.

    How, exactly, do you define “planting” if that’s not it?

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      8 months ago

      Why can’t that be an additional gun they found? Maybe it was rearranged for camera? The BBC segment did not make any hard claims just that the evidence was suspect. You can draw your own conclusions but you can’t say the BBC outright made this claim. Don’t trust the IDF blindly, but I have to approach reporting on the conflict this way to stay sane. Too many people spewing nonsense, misinformation, and propaganda (not u specifically).

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        8 months ago

        The IDF, claiming that they’re giving journalists unadulterated access to a supposed Hamas base:

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          8 months ago

          Exactly. We only know they aren’t being fully forthcoming. We don’t know the reasons and can only infer. The BBC stopped short of drawing conclusions and merely fact checked the statements they were given. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            8 months ago

            Yeah, fair enough. I should’ve made a weaker claim.