A video purporting to show Israel bombing its own civilians in a recent incident is making the rounds.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @Partisangirl claimed in a twitter post that Israel acknowledges that while fleeing the Supernova music festival, its own citizens were shot at by Apache helicopters. The user also added the statement “The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian… The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.” The tweet post was made on Nov 9, 2023, which has received an about 30.1M views on X.
BREAKING🚨: Israel admits apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival.
— Syrian Girl 🇸🇾🎗 (@Partisangirl) November 9, 2023
“The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a… pic.twitter.com/wv6wR710qO
Several other accounts, including @jacksonhinklle, @Resist_05 also shared the incident and claimed that Israel bombed its own civilians and acknowledges it. The incident was claimed to be as recent. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
In actuality, this footage from October 2023 depicts Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engaging the Hamas militants.
OSINTtechnical (“@Osinttechnical“) tweeted “Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas militants with 30mm chain gun fire and Hellfire missiles” on Oct 9, 2023. This shows the video is not from a recent incident.
Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas militants with 30mm chain gun fire and Hellfire missiles pic.twitter.com/mkgMAawY30
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 9, 2023
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) November 10, 2023
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video is being circulated claiming that Israel bombing own civilians in a recent incident. The fact is that this video shows Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engaging #Hamas militants in October 2023.(1/2) pic.twitter.com/6AsJ9bBkOI
Intent:
Misinformation propaganda accounts are circulating old videos as recent with false claims to set their propaganda over the ongoing conflict. After proper research, analysis and fact-checking, we have discovered that the video depicts Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engaging Hamas militants in October 2023.
Conclusion:
Claim : A video has gone viral alleging that Israel recently bombed its own civilians.
Fact : In this video, Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas militants in October 2023.
