Israels airstrikes have targeted an ambulance carrying injured civilians towards the Rafah border...

Ignore the derailers claiming "fake news". The same names pop up over and over again on every thread with the same propaganda and attempts to detract from what is really going on.

The ambulance bombing is on BBC news right now.

@NotTerfNorCis that does make sense as everything else looked genuine. Unfortunately he is playing into the hands of people looking to discredit footage - and that happens on both "sides", there was huge denial around the 7 October stuff - but I suppose if he's more into self-aggrandisement he won't care.

The scenes from the hospital are just awful. I don't know how the medics keep going. So many people everywhere needing help and no space/supplies to treat them. It's unthinkable.

Sorry to hear what you've been through, Heidi.

It is possible this man thinks he's doing good by getting the story out. There's no way he hasn't noticed that the Israeli side is using him in their own propaganda though. And he won't stop.

@Fizzadora "There was no fucking justification for what happened on October 7th yet some apologists for terrorism seem to have completely forgotten that."

I agree there was no justification - but as you say it was a terrorist atrocity. Israel is supposed to be a civilized, democratic nation so I don't think it's too much for us to criticise it when it violates the international rules of engagement - as documented by the UN, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. I agree we should wait and find out what exactly happened in this case but there is certainly enough evidence over the past week to justify our concerns.

I know, this is not the horror Olympics FFS.

I know whom you mean, and that does seem to happen to be the case!

I do not think he is necessarily a "crisis actor", though. Probably a deeply disturbed, given the circumstances he is living under and has been for years: brutally traumatised individual!

Look, I am on the record as "I have [excellently treated, by the very best that British psychiatry had to offer on the subject] war trauma - over this very conflict". I am really, really, personally struggling these days! I suffer from sudden, violent flashbacks but also intense "survivor's guilt". I am a white, British upper-middle-class woman, a corporate executive, a "women in tech" success story - and I am holding on by a thread! I have been seeing a therapist again, for the first time in a decade, since the war broke out!

... on balance, and here comes my actual point: I think there is at least plausible reason out there to consider the possibility that this man is not some Hamas-sponsored propagandist but a very traumatised, very damaged person who has had access to far fewer opportunities to obtain help!

Before we go any further. There IS a man going about filming himself, or getting others to film him, pretending to be in roles he isn't. He even picks up injured babies and pretends to be their father. (The real father could have been killed in the same Israeli attack!) It's very clear he's doing it for himself, he's fame hungry and a narcissist. We have loads of similar specimens in the West - the only difference is, he happens to be in a war zone.

Yes he’s probably one of these would - be social media celebrities rather than an actor. The devastation he was filming looked real enough anyway.

There was no fucking justification for what happened on October 7th yet some apologists for terrorism seem to have completely forgotten that.

Who do you think hit the ambulance? Barbie and Ken?

Why is it so difficult to understand people are horrified by the harm done to both Israeli and Palestinian civilians?

After each new horror, I think the Israelis can't do anything more terrible, but once again I've been proved wrong. When is someone going to do something to stop them?

If you are horrified by this footage I suggest you watch the Israeli website with details of the massacre carried out on October 7th.
And ...do we even know who hit the ambulance?
NB. I've seen that guy on numerous videos.

SomeCatFromJapan

that man had his leg amputated back in August ,
his name is Mohammed Zendiq, he lost his leg after an attack by the Israeli forces on a refugee camp on July 24.
the other blogger is named Saleh.

For the record:

Tomorrow, it is not only going to be me and my "political" friends at the marches!

It is going to be my disabled mum and three of her friends, too!

It is going to be my sister, who has so far been to afraid to come because she feared getting sanctioned at work, too - and six of her friends!

It is going to be my Palestinian ex-husband, who has been so scared to expose himself that he has not even dared to say the "P"-word out loud so far!

It is, literally, going to be my boss at this point! And his wife and sons!

That is CRAZY if that's what he is doing. Like I said there's enough real grief and horror. Though Hamas hardly seem the bastions of sanity and moral clarity, so if that's what he's up to it could be that they are sending people out into the abyss as state actors. I'd be surprised if Hamas have the capacity to do that though as they must have, at best, 20,000 people left (they started off with 25k members and it's estimated they've lost about 5k, 1500 on October 7th and 3500 in fighting/airstrikes). I'm not even sure if it's as simple as Hamas versus IDF now. I'm pretty sure there'll be other nations who've implanted people into Gaza.

Tbh there seem to be zero rules and anything could be going on, or he could just be a crackers citizen who is grief touring and inserting himself here, there and everywhere IF it's true.

I wouldnt have thought it was Hamas propaganda. More likely people trying to portray news reports of dead bodies etc as fake if that makes sense. Discrediting them.
So yes he is self defeating if he does exist and thats what hes doing.

There's absolute chaos in Al shifa hospital
The surgeons and staff must be traumatised by what they witness everyday yet still continue

Before we go any further. There IS a man going about filming himself, or getting others to film him, pretending to be in roles he isn't. He even picks up injured babies and pretends to be their father. (The real father could have been killed in the same Israeli attack!) It's very clear he's doing it for himself, he's fame hungry and a narcissist. We have loads of similar specimens in the West - the only difference is, he happens to be in a war zone.

In one video, he's pretending to be Israeli. There's no way this is Hamas propaganda - if it was, it'd be the most self-defeating propaganda ever.

Yes war is horrific but it does not mean innocent civilians can be targeted and killed. There are laws in war and if you break them you are committing war crimes which Israel (and Hamas) are

Who cares. Its likely propoganda. You literally posted earlier on this thread and said that you saw stuff on X 'so its not verified'.

Perhaps he's just a civilian who has decided to document Israel's war crimes.

There is no timeline on the videos. Only the posters word that one is yesterday and one is today.

If it is the same man maybe he’s some kind of unofficial journalist - as i expect they may be struggling at bit at the moment and he’s trying to expose what is happening?