Wow, one of the most damning pieces of evidence against the IDF yet.
Haaretz reveals the IDF was directly running the Telegram channel 72 Virgins, which posted extremely graphic daily content from the front to glorify war crimes against Palestinians.
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Relevant excerpts from the article:
"Reversing an earlier denial, Israeli military officials have admitted that the Telegram channel 72 Virgins – Uncensored was operated by members of a department of the Israel Defense Forces' Operations Directorate.
The admission comes after a Haaretz published an exposé on the channel last month, which led to an internal investigation into the matter.
The probe, conducted by Maj. Gen. Oded Basyuk, head of the Operations Directorate, found that the information that led to the original denial that the channel was operated by or on behalf of the army was incorrect, and relied on misinformation relayed by members of the Influencing Department. In the wake of these findings, the unit's wartime commander is to end his military service...
After processing its findings, IDF officials contacted Haaretz to present their conclusions. In a written response, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said that after a thorough investigation, 'it was found that the Telegram page was operated by the IDF without authorization and without authority. The incident has been dealt with.'...
The channel's administrators posted graphic content [...] on a daily basis. [...] An October 11 post read: 'Burning their mother… You won't believe the video we got! You can hear their bones crunch. We'll post it right away, get ready.' [...] Photos of Palestinian men captured by the IDF in the Strip and the bodies of [Palestinians] were captioned: "Exterminating the roaches… exterminating the Hamas rats… Share this beauty." [...] On October 14, alongside the caption "Exclusive video of a good night, don't forget to share and repost" was a video of an Israeli vehicle repeatedly driving over the body of a [Palestinian]. 'Very good, Gershon!!! Run him over run him over!!!! Screw the bastards! Flatten them,' the accompanying text read."
Please note that in the paragraph above I substituted 2 mentions of "terrorist" by "[Palestinian]" because it's simply awful journalism by Haaretz to label all those killed by the IDF as "terrorists" by default, especially given the fact we all know such a huge percentage of the victims are in fact civilians... This revelation on the 72 Virgins channel is a big scoop but Haaretz obviously also continue doing basic IDF propaganda...
Same thing for taking the IDF at their word in the article when they very conveniently distance themselves from this EXTREMELY inconvenient revelation that they themselves were directly running the most genocidal pro-Israeli social media account out there... As if they wouldn't know they themselves were running it: the account was literally posting for the past 4 months daily gore videos and photos directly from the front, content that only the IDF could have...
Mike