When the Hamas fighters carried the coffins containing the remains of the Pepas family – which were taken into account in Israel on October 7 – the shots showed the ceremony, crossing the airport track and put the coffins on the wooden platforms to be received by the Red Cross staff.
The Israeli and Western media described the event as “respected”. The New York Times considered a “distorted delivery”, while CBS described it as a “horrible scene” that Hamas organized its show.
On the other hand, when Israel has published photos of published Palestinians, which are forced to wear shirts wearing a large blue star on the back, with a slogan saying: “We will not forgive, we will not forget”, the media have ignored this story and the threats represented by these shirts.
According to+AJ, the released prisoners and their families burned the shirts as soon as they were released “as a protest against the sick treatment and the systematic torture with which the Palestinians are confronted under Israeli families”.
By looking at the real photos of the way in which Hamas implements the Burial ceremony of the Pepas family, it is clear that it was official and majestic. The Palestinians appear silently, while the event takes place.
In the podcast, an electronic uprising, John Elmer (in 57:17 minutes) explained through the display slice of the black coffin covered with curtain before the fighters transport it to a respectable arrangement to the international Red Cross vehicle. He stressed that the Israelis were able to distort the event; Because they assumed that the American public will not be aware of the nature of real ceremonies. Indeed, American media coverage was limited to short selected plans showing the event from very distant corners.
The two children, Ariel and Kevir Pipas, were one of the Israeli hostages that were killed in Gaza with their mother during the first weeks of Israeli attack on the band.
Although Israel claims, without evidence, that Hamas killed them “with bare hands”, it is very likely that they died following Israeli bombings, as happened with many women and children who were killed in the same region during this period.
According to the Grazon report, Hamas announced the murder of Sherry and Ariel and Kevir Pepas after being targeted in an Israeli air strike in November 2023.
On December 3, Yardin Pepas appeared in a family video, confirming the murder of his wife and children with an Israeli raid, begging his government to negotiate his release so that he can bury them properly.
John Elmer stressed that the comparison of the funeral of the Pepas family should be with what happens daily in Gaza, where the bodies of children, women and men are left in the open air, or are buried under the ruins of Israeli bombardments, which are real horrible crimes.
Israel needed more than simple declarations on “lack of respect” and the “horrible scenes” to overcome the shock caused by the horrible images of the bodies of the Palestinians who were released from Israeli prisons suffering from hunger and torture.
The Middle East Eye (February 25, 2024) presented a report on Muhammad Abu Tawil, whose body bears the effects of chemical burns and beats. Most Palestinian detainees were hungry, and one of them explained that he had to endure the amputation of his leg while he was in Israeli families.
Photos of some prisoners seemed to be photos of Nazi detention camps, while others were so bad that they were immediately taken to hospital after their release. But the American media only used this comparison when they refer to Israeli hostages which lost weight during their detention in Gaza; Due to the deliberate Israeli seat of food aid.
To overcome the devastating influence of images documenting the torture of Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a propaganda video which includes an image created with artificial intelligence of the Red Head – the fact that Pepas children were thus – with an audio comment that the Hamas had killed the children, unless it is, unless it is, unless it is, unless it is, It is, it is unless children are at the head. “”
Journalist Kaitlin Johnston also indicated, the aggressive hypothesis of the idea that the children of Pepas were “red poetry” is part of a disgusting campaign of the war plane targeting the white West.
Israeli pathologist Shane Cogel – who had previously promoted false propaganda on “children of conflict children” on October 7, which was adopted by the American media, helped to market this new novel.
In Israel and in the Western world, it was widely promoted to the fact that these children were “red hair with”. Eminent monuments such as the Empire State Building in New York, the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Brandenburg door in Berlin in orange color to commemorate their memory, and orange balloons were launched in Israel and the West in honor.
But the Pepas family has become a major problem for Israeli propaganda directors when they asked the government to stop the exploitation of their family murder for political ends, and they have asked any propaganda linked to their death.
Since his release on February 2, Yardin Pepas has not confirmed the comments he made during his capture, but rather sent an open letter to the senior Israeli officials expressing his rejection of the government’s story.
His message publicly contradicts Daniel Hagari’s statements, spokesperson for the Israeli army, who said that “Erdin looked at me in the eye and asked me that the whole world knew the way his children had been killed”.
Benjamin Netanyahu also published a video declaration in English, carrying a coarse image of children and referring to it during his speech. Kaitlin Johnston explained that Netanyahu wanted the Westerners to see that these children were not the type that we were told to be indifferent to their death, as happened with thousands of children who were killed in Gaza. He wanted to explain to us that they were “skin eggs”.
During his speech to the United Nations Security Council on February 26, Daniel Levy, a former Israeli Peace negotiator, said: “A minute of silence for the two Pepas children will be appropriate, as well as a minute of silence for the 18,000 Palestinian children who were killed in the Israeli destruction of Gaza.” He added that if it had been implemented, these minutes would have continued for more than 300 hours.
At a time when Israel and his supporters were strongly promoting this novel, it was not a coincidence that Israel was about to end the ceasefire and resume his seat on humanitarian aid in Gaza.
As Monduiz said, the death of the Pepas family has become a “other hideous propaganda” that Israel uses again “to justify the genocide in Gaza”.
In July, a study published by Lancet warned that the number of Palestinian deaths could reach 186,000, but for Israel, it was not enough.
At this stage, the most recent manufacturing of Israel no longer deceives anyone, and it has just become a “desperate theater” which reflects the rejection of public opinion more than it convinces it.
The Americans want a ceasefire and support weapons expeditions to Israel, and for the first time in seven years, more Americans sympathize more than ever with the Palestinians.
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