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🔴On 7 October 2023, Israel began spreading atrocity propaganda — rapes, burned babies, family massacres. But a big share of deaths that day were by Israeli fire. From the start, EI exposed these lies while mainstream media spread them. Here's some of our key investigations🧵
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On 16 October 2023, we published the groundbreaking story, "Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says" — Yasmin Porat's firsthand testimony that Israeli troops, not Palestinian fighters, massacred Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Be'eri https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
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Later that month, we ran, "Israel furious that elderly captive spoke of humane treatment by Hamas" — about Yocheved Lifshitz, who spoke well of the treatment she had received in Gaza, a message the government did not want the world to hear https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-furious-elderly-captive-spoke-humane-treatment-hamas
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In "Shoot everything: how Israeli pilots killed their own civilians," we revealed that Israeli aircraft fired indiscriminately, killing Israelis and Palestinians alike https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/shoot-everything-how-israeli-pilots-killed-their-own-civilians
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In November 2023, Israeli air force colonel Nof Erez confirmed to a Hebrew-only podcast that Israel had targeted its own people, calling it a “mass Hannibal” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/we-blew-israeli-houses-7-october-says-israeli-colonel
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We revisited Be'eri in "Israeli child 'burned completely' by Israeli tank fire at kibbutz," and revealed the truth about 12-year-old Liel Hatsroni's death, which Israel had exploited for its propaganda https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-child-burned-completely-israeli-tank-fire-kibbutz/41706
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On the EI Livestream on 4 December 2023, we did our first major debunking of Israel's 7 October "mass rape" hoax — many more reports would follow, dismantling Israel's false claims of systematic sexual violence https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-debunking-israels-mass-rape-propaganda
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Later that month, in "Israeli general killed Israelis on 7 October, then lied about it," EI revealed how senior officer Barak Hiram ordered his forces to fire on Israelis, then tried to blame Hamas https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-general-killed-israelis-7-october-then-lied-about-it/43176
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In January 2024, we published more evidence of Israel's use of the Hannibal Directive — its policy of killing its own people to stop them being taken captive "at any cost" https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-hq-ordered-troops-shoot-israeli-captives-7-october
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In March 2024, EI reported that Israel’s celebrated "Civil Commission" on 7 October rape claims was a sham and that even the @nytimes, which has yet to retract its own false "mass rape" claims, had undercut its own reporting https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-commission-7-october-rape-claims-exposed-fraud/45401
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That same month Yossi Landau, the Jewish extremist who concocted some of Israel’s worst atrocity propaganda, admitted that his story about Hamas executing children was untrue https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israeli-source-executed-children-lie-admits-story-was-untrue
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In “Israel’s national murder-suicide pact,” we examined the history and psychology of the Hannibal Directive and what drives so many Israelis to accept their own government deliberately killing them or their loved ones https://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-national-murder-suicide-pact/46006
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In May 2024, we debunked "Screams Before Silence," Facebook billionaire Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 October "mass rape" film, showing how it is riddled with contradictory and unverified claims and outright falsehoods https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/debunking-screams-silence-sheryl-sandbergs-7-oct-mass-rape-film
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The same month, German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock claimed she saw a video filmed by a Hamas member of an Israeli woman being raped on 7 October 2023 — something that does not exist. She's never been held accountable for this oft-repeated lie https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/german-foreign-minister-says-she-saw-nonexistent-7-oct-rape-video
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We also showed how the UN — despite attempting to launder Israel's mass rape lies and give them credibility — ended up debunking and discrediting them instead https://electronicintifada.net/content/un-report-launders-israels-fraudulent-mass-rape-propaganda/45021
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In July 2024, we revealed that the Israeli army's probe of the 7 October killings at Kibbutz Be'eri was a cover-up – to exonerate Israeli officers involved in ordering and carrying out direct fire at Israeli civilians https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-army-probe-covered-friendly-fire-killings-7-october/48046
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On the genocide's first anniversary, we published, "How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October," drawing together the evidence mainstream media continue to ignore or deny https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216
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In April 2025, in "The Vach brothers: Israel’s first family of genocide," we exposed how senior army officers were perpetrating massacres and crimes against humanity in Gaza without any accountability — and are still being promoted https://electronicintifada.net/content/vach-brothers-israels-first-family-genocide/50629
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This should have been world news, but EI was one of the few to report, in February 2025, the former Israeli defense minister's admission that the army was ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/army-was-ordered-kill-israelis-7-october-defense-minister-confirms
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In another major story ignored by mainstream media, in April 2025, we covered how key Israeli "mass rapes" witness Rami Davidian was exposed as a liar who profited from his fake tales of 7 October heroism https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/key-7-october-mass-rapes-witness-denounced-liar-israeli-reporter
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In a related story in early 2025 — also ignored by mainstream media — we reported on an interview in which a top Israeli prosecutor admitted that there had been no credible complaints of rapes on 7 October https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/israel-still-cant-find-any-7-october-rape-victims-prosecutor-admits
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The Electronic Intifada has consistently exposed how Israeli atrocity propaganda was manufactured and spread to justify genocide, but to this day, these lies are still repeated. The truth must prevail. Find these investigations and more here: https://electronicintifada.net/tags/7-october-investigations
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Israeli child "burned completely" by Israeli tank fire at Kibbutz Be'eri: Survivor Yasmin Porat provides new details of 7 October bloodbath FULL STORY by @AliAbunimah and @davidsheen: https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-child-burned-completely-israeli-tank-fire-kibbutz/41706
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đź”´ Israel just promoted Gen. Barak Hiram to command its Gaza division, after a report cleared him of killing multiple Israelis on 7 Oct. But as @DavidSheen and @AliAbunimah show, the report is a shoddy cover up of how Israel killed its own citizens https://bit.ly/4dnzR7h
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The Israeli army detonated and completely destroyed the specialized surgery building, which it had already bombed and set on fire on Monday https://bit.ly/3xeVwPd
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🚨WATCH: Israeli children sing, "We will annihilate everyone" in Gaza, against a background of destruction. Disturbing video was posted, then deleted by Israeli national broadcaster @kann_news. We captured it and added English subtitles FULL STORY: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/watch-israeli-children-sing-we-will-annihilate-everyone-gaza
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Israel never substantiated claims it made about beheaded babies and systemic mass executions that "defined the public mood" that led to its ongoing genocide in Gaza, says @AliAbunimah. But "Nobody in the Western media or Western politicians is going back to Netanyahu and saying: Wait, you said all this. Where's the evidence?"