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This Xeet thread on X is pretty interesting:
It seems that there used to be a Hamas operative named Ismail al-Ghoul who had his internet identity scrubbed (accounts removed from TikTok, X, Facebook, etc.) after October 7th, followed by the appearance of a new Ismail al-Ghoul, who looks the same and now works for Al Jazeera. This "journalist" was involved in a skirmish with IDF forces as they cleared out the Shifa Hospital, where he was alleged to have been beaten and arrested by the IDF. The outcry has been...utterly as expected, with no one questioning where this guy came from. Enter the internet sleuths who found his old accounts and have exposed his transformation from Hamas propagandist to Al Jazeera journalist (and is still a Hamas propagandist).
It reminds me of the 2006 Lebanon conflict where graphic photos of "aid workers" pulling injured children from the rubble of Israeli strikes were a big part of the UPI coverage of the conflict. The problem was that many of them were staged. It seems the same playbook is happening in Gaza...with the same results of the Western journalists falling for it.
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Ismail the Ghoul. Very apt.
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And some lawyers...
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It's "funny" ("funny-strange, not funny-ha-ha") that despite all of this "X" stuff, every time I follow one of these links/stories it still redirects to twitter.com
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I've seen this called Pallywood.
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