Fact-checked: Images show Israeli soldiers burning books in Gaza’s library • FRANCE 24 English
The IDF has opened a probe after social media images went viral showing its soldiers in front of burning books during operations in the Gaza Strip. What’s true and what’s fake, and how do we know? Vedika Bahl explores in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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Sounds like something from 1930s Germany?
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
Sounds like they took a page out their oppressors playbook. Or maybe more than a page, maybe the entire book.
@thesystemera
16 күн бұрын
@@AlisaM-L Bliw off! Next you’re gonna say 40 beheaded babies!
@danielmendi77
16 күн бұрын
@@AlisaM-Lthese videos don't exist. Go take your hasbara back under your rock with you
@imnotmephisto
16 күн бұрын
more like 2018 America.
@paradox6604
16 күн бұрын
keep on projecting
at least they're not burning people, oh wait...
@azurebadger
17 күн бұрын
Lol you think they read books. What is intifada again? What did they teach their children? Who is using ‘martyrs’ to garner sympathy? Hiding behind them? What did they burn? Any idea? Course not. You dont think
@lawrencehawkins7198
17 күн бұрын
Israel has a right to defend itself…against books.
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
Babies, elderly, women, everything and everyone basically
@roxia7484
16 күн бұрын
@@ChrisAlbertH47 Hamas did
@baruwankuinaruwanku3187
16 күн бұрын
@@roxia7484Yeah, that's a Hamas soldier not IOF one.
"The most moral army in modern history" Obviously
@Vito-yp5wh
12 күн бұрын
Was für ein ekelhafter Witz!!
@marcioguerr482
11 күн бұрын
F*** off. People bothered with books while people are risking their lives fighting terrorists & searching hostages.
@fnzprint-designer421
11 күн бұрын
they learned it from genghis khan army during the raid on baghdad which saw "house of wisdom" completely destroyed
@anmolt3840051
9 күн бұрын
(im)moral
@alfaisalabdullah1746
8 күн бұрын
@@fnzprint-designer421 so does it allow them to burn books?
Why do they destroy olive trees , fig trees , cemeteries, schools, hospitals. Infrastructure, places of worship, , businesses, flags, homes, women and children ?
@sehrguterTyp
16 күн бұрын
you forgot about the press and aid organizations
@Geraltofrivia12gdhdbruwj
16 күн бұрын
Yup@@har3036
@gregwoolley
16 күн бұрын
Men need to be included in the list, they matter too. Israel is also expert destroyer of truth.
@EllieIbu
16 күн бұрын
Because they did it before, and the world believed them when they said "there was nothing here".
@caseclosed9342
15 күн бұрын
Why did Hamas do that on October 7th?
"Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." -Heinrich Heine (German poet of Jewish descent)
@josephmedina6403
16 күн бұрын
Yeah. Who is setting the fires ? Israel or Hezbollah ?
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
They have.
@Paullyb79
16 күн бұрын
Yeah. They did it the other way around
@whongedhan7
16 күн бұрын
like how Uthman burned all the quran variants?
@EternalKhann
16 күн бұрын
@@whongedhan7 I don't think tackling misinformation campaigns has anything to do with the intentions of the IDF here. Typical Hasbara move from you to compare them though. Nice try. 🤡
Don't blame the soldier, he thinks Hamas might have built a tunnel in the books. When one is bored of killing children, books are probably where he finds new excitement.
@infinitesolutions2602
16 күн бұрын
thank you
@PeterJames143
11 күн бұрын
yes, there may be hamas fighters in the books. How dare the hamas fighters hide in the books in the first place.
@marcioguerr482
11 күн бұрын
@@PeterJames143 🙄 people crying about books when there are hundreds of human hostages
@findingkelly
11 күн бұрын
@@marcioguerr482the books are Hamas. Duh.
@marcioguerr482
11 күн бұрын
@@findingkelly 🤡
IDF soldiers filming their own war crimes at its worst; idiocy in the least. Social media has been a blessing for prosecutors seeking self-incrimination.
@DonSkua
16 күн бұрын
They are doing it because they know they are "untouchables".
@bald871
16 күн бұрын
like you believe everythink on the internet, especially media, because random instangram accounts with 6 posts only is for sure for sure, for real for real, its real.
@Jake-jr2zh
16 күн бұрын
@@DonSkuaNOBODY is untouchable.
@thegamiac9539
14 күн бұрын
@@Jake-jr2zhthey are
@adrin8394
14 күн бұрын
@@DonSkua True, USA fully support them, even wanted to sanction ICC due to netanyahu warrant
The biggest joke is when israel investigates its own war crimes.
@chrismckell5353
11 күн бұрын
Zionists only think Zionist Jews are human. No one else presumably includes most of us on this platform.
@barryirlandi4217
10 күн бұрын
Never has
@rosart4838
4 күн бұрын
The biggest joke is when Palestinians studying in universtats of israel .
@julimaynes2193
4 күн бұрын
All demacratic counties do.Every one gets accountable
The historical parallels are shocking! The victims are now the criminals!
@jaegybomb
17 күн бұрын
Dictators dropped Sarin gas on 700k civilians in Syria, 1400k have died in Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, 2000k have died from the Iranian sponsored civil war in Sudan but 24k and a book is worse than Hiller. The side that supported them then supports them now.
@thiphan264
17 күн бұрын
When you don't have knownledge from the history, you should not write wrong comment. The Jews in Germany contributed to science, technology, medicin, literature, Nobel prizes for Germany. Albert Einstein and others were Jews. Many of them were rich or successful in economy. Hamas educates the children and the youth to support terrorism and autocratic state. There is connnection between Islam and terrorism in the world. Many Sharia states like Afghanistan, Yemen are failed states. The world doesn't need to have more failed states like these but Hamas wants to build a Sharia state. The Palestinians under Hamas can not feed their children and demand always money and aids from other countries. This library is useless for the Palestinians and the world.
@SailingInfidels
17 күн бұрын
I've been drawing that parallel for years. Decades, in fact.
@canadianbeef1958
16 күн бұрын
Maybe they were never really victims at all, maybe we were lied to about history.
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
It seems they're intent on projecting their trauma on the Palestinians. That's a sign of unresolved psychological issues. Except the illness is societal.
This makes Genghis Khan kind hearted and more humane than IDF,
@ajaipal1
14 күн бұрын
But ldf still remains coward.
@234ddrtttt
12 күн бұрын
Why you go so far in times u dont know?
@eddyr1041
11 күн бұрын
Huh... what about Baghdad house of wisdom... the seconds biggest book burning in history practically. .. First is greek Alexandria book great library burning...(by accudents)
@Sunaki1000
11 күн бұрын
true
@sayanbasu5640
7 күн бұрын
True.... How can they burn tarrorist books!
Absolute monsters and somehow are still labeled as the “victims”
@steve7236
16 күн бұрын
@@AlisaM-L apologies without actions are just meaningless words. The IOF continues to commit the same atrocities and continues to lie about them and then later apologize. Israelis aren't ever sorry.
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
Only they see themselves as such. I don't know anyone else who does that isn't simply pandering to them.
@danielmendi77
16 күн бұрын
@@AlisaM-Lthe grapes that there is absolutely no proof of?
@Paullyb79
16 күн бұрын
And armed as such
@victoriaZimm62
16 күн бұрын
They are followers of the moustache villain hiding behind his victims to carry on his vision
That's terrorism.
@duckmann006
9 күн бұрын
Exactly, very often what the West classifies as "terrorism" is actually counter-terrorism against western or colonial terrorism.
@habijabi2473
8 күн бұрын
Yes, it is.
Who are the Human Animals, and Barbarians?
@nadamvs
16 күн бұрын
@@BabyDucks-pv7tr What the hell did I just read? I can't believe how messed up someone's mind must be to come up with something like this.
@kamarulbahari152
16 күн бұрын
@@nadamvs That's what they get drowning in their own lies
@furuwrecker1420
16 күн бұрын
@@BabyDucks-pv7trthe most idiotic post I read all day...
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
@@BabyDucks-pv7tr Given that it is the Izraelis that are taking a page out of ol' Shitler's playbook, maybe you should look in the IDF barracks for copies of Mein Kampf
books is the history and written culture of a people. to destroy their books means to erase them from history. Which is the intention.
@ChrisAlbertH47
16 күн бұрын
They've destroyed schools and universities. Including targeting Palestine intellectuals and scholars. This is trivial by comparison.
@User1234lkjhasdf
14 күн бұрын
they also steal and dig illegally at Palestinian historical sites
@UserHandle454
11 күн бұрын
Chilling
@rosart4838
4 күн бұрын
Palestina is name of Roman civilization
People burn books when they can’t refute the ideas within them.
"The only democracy in ME" what a joke 😂
@user-vj5ml8hy8m
16 күн бұрын
They really mean that it is the only white country in ME.
@lunifikateur6524
16 күн бұрын
@@user-vj5ml8hy8m 😄Stuf like that
@infinitesolutions2602
16 күн бұрын
Absolutely
@ardi08
13 күн бұрын
"Democracy only for Jewish people or those non Jewish but loyal to israeli government"
@tavfshl4314
12 күн бұрын
@@user-vj5ml8hy8m "White colony"
Apparently books and civilians are the main target.
@marcioguerr482
11 күн бұрын
F*** off. People bothered with books while people are risking their lives fighting terrorists & searching hostages.
what world is this when we let the criminal to investigate his own crime
"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine
"The most moral army in the word..." Yeah, right 😂
There's only one question to be answered: Why have these Criminals been allowed to pursue their Atrocities for so long? Whom are they serving?
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
16 күн бұрын
counter question why has hamas been left in gaza for so long?
@har3036
16 күн бұрын
The present inhabitant of The White House.
@bachirchabane1603
16 күн бұрын
@@har3036 No. All previous and future inhabitants of White House.
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
13 күн бұрын
@@friendship9904 what?
@moh6233
12 күн бұрын
@@BabyDucks-pv7tr this question you should ask your Zionist masters. They created, funded and supported Hamas but their own admission. Next time read a little before come here with your what-aboutry question
This is United States of Israel, no one said anything. Just watching.
this happens when a country gets free pass for decades....
It’s to erase the Palestinian word and change a few things about history and geography books. This is just an update to say that Israeli settlers who come from Europe have actually been living in Palestine for over 40,000,000 years.
@kamalabrahman6925
9 күн бұрын
Hahaha, they existed be4 dinosaurs....😅😂😅
@lunifikateur6524
9 күн бұрын
@@kamalabrahman6925 It was long before dinosaurs and amybes, it’s written somewhere.😄Before the invention of writing
@biroelangit-nya
6 күн бұрын
😂@@lunifikateur6524
Burning Books.... unthinkable, those should be ashamed of themselves 😞
@josephmedina6403
16 күн бұрын
Are they all quarans?
@rgrg5442
16 күн бұрын
Are Muslims ashamed of themselves? Darfur Sudan Syria Yemen
@nadamvs
16 күн бұрын
@@josephmedina6403 nope there are other books also
@infinitesolutions2602
16 күн бұрын
definitly, thank you
They literally upload their crimes and their supporters claim its false.. SubhaanAllah
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
16 күн бұрын
just like how you people try to justify what hamas did right?
@nadamvs
16 күн бұрын
@@BabyDucks-pv7tr here comes another blind person (blinded by heart not eyes). your lies are already exposed. this wont work any more
@josephine4611
16 күн бұрын
@BabyDucks-pv7tr actually allow an investigation into Oct.. I'm not condemning anything from Israels words with literally no evidence..
@bald871
16 күн бұрын
its a random instagram accounts with 6 posts only, like cmon....
@josephine4611
16 күн бұрын
@@bald871 so many videos of them..
they checked the books for hostages.
Imagine the crimes and atrocities that have been committed and going on for 75 years that haven't been documented! Thank God, for technology and social media.
The parallels between NAtional ZIonism and conflict from the last century is truly disturbing.
@Alpharizzchad
17 күн бұрын
They showed it is False but you know that it your a Bot your IP address is noted
@user-qf1zg4zz8j
16 күн бұрын
@@Alpharizzchad I quote France24 at the end of this podcast after careful fact checking "We would have to mark this one as true". And I am no "Bot".
@patricksweeney6334
14 күн бұрын
@@Alpharizzchad "They showed it is False but you know that it your a Bot your IP address is noted" If you *did* actually watch the video, you seem to have missed their conclusion (which you'll see at about five minutes and four seconds in): "...so we would have to mark this one as True".
France 24. Blocking comments that call out “You Know Who” for burning books.
@mrsossie
16 күн бұрын
I'm thinking that's the "You know who's" bots work overtime, censorship's been all over socials
@putra4101
15 күн бұрын
State dept control, brought to you by "freedom of speech" or you will be banned like TikTok 😂
@LazyEyePolitics
10 күн бұрын
Thats youtube. Take it from a creator. KZread holds comments for the craziest of reasons and creator's aren't always on top of checking their held for review comments in studio.
@LazyEyePolitics
10 күн бұрын
P.s. france 24 posted this fact check. Check YOURSELF
Well done fact check. This is what 21st century journalism should look like.
Shame on humanity to see without acting
@leighagnello7993
16 күн бұрын
What do you propose other countries should act on?
@mariatod
12 күн бұрын
@@leighagnello7993 to stop sending them arms, to stop covering their crimes in the media, to divest from Israel apartheid businesses, to boycott, to sanction, pause diplomatic ties through the embassy, etc
@allcatall3931
11 күн бұрын
not 'humanity', as much as certain powers, including in unsc..
These fact check videos are crucial in the disinformation era of the communication age.
@notoftentold4076
8 күн бұрын
Its easy though. Never trust an Israeli
What kind of world we are living in … they think Palestinians child are not human .. but what kind of human they are they hv killed 14000 thousands child in GAZA --human can not do this …
3:00 This is some damn fine journalism, thanks.
@YTShadowBan
12 күн бұрын
You're joking, right?
@johnd2058
12 күн бұрын
@@YTShadowBan trollbait username checks out.
@YTShadowBan
12 күн бұрын
@@johnd2058 Palestinians journalists are my standard when it comes to 'fine journalism' but if pulling a Google Earth Map makes the trick for you, ok.
@johnd2058
11 күн бұрын
@@YTShadowBan They still have any that have survived Hamas, Likud, and PIJ?
I appreciate this media organization actually deconstructing the IDF's lies instead of carrying water for them.
This is sickening beyond imagination!
Shameless inhumane behavior
This is a potential violation of international law
@DeactivatedUser
10 күн бұрын
International law only matters if the aggressors are not allied with the imperialists.
@kupis1408
10 күн бұрын
israel have been violating international laws for decades but miraculously never they were prosecuted for some reason
The most moral army is at it again ya'll. I'm positive that this two "soldier" will get a sternly written letter on what not to post on social media
Is that soldier an American Jew or a European jew?
why the occupation army need to remove all the roads?? pure evil
Yet more evidence of war crimes. Criminals just cant help themselves.
It is easy to kill books, they don't shoot back.
@danyleon4870
11 күн бұрын
Its only the matter of reprinting.
Our ally…
@infinitesolutions2602
16 күн бұрын
Agree
@kupis1408
9 күн бұрын
this so called ally murdered 34 americans on US ship back in 60's in attempt to create false flag against egypt, and when found out, they compensated to the victim family members with american tax money
There are so many of these type of photos. They really have no shame, this supposed most moral army?
@TheOnlyAndreySotnikov
16 күн бұрын
Yes. It's by definition. They are God-chosen people. Thus, their army is the most moral army in the Universe. Their book of fiction says so. It must be true.
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
16 күн бұрын
says you? prolly been to a pro hamas rally and those people try and justify what hamas did, the pro hamas side has lost all right to judge.
@taareq91
16 күн бұрын
The most moral army in the world of the only democracy state in the area. Titles are the only way colonists can last these days. even their weapons are useless.
@mariaserralheiro9196
16 күн бұрын
@BabyDucks-pv7tr Says you who has probably been blocking aid to children in Palestine already dying by forced starvation by your moral army and illegal settlers.
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
15 күн бұрын
@@TheOnlyAndreySotnikov book of fiction? i suppose you think hamas and hezbollah are moral "armies" then? i mean the leader of hezbollah was praising the protests you support right?
Nice work by the young female journalist. You don't often see proper journalism today, so this is very welcome and appreciated
"Not aligned with its values..." - sorry, what values?
i think this is the first time i liked a france24 video. this fact checking segment is actually a good idea!
Ah but it still won't stop them playing the victim card.
@Madlen29
12 күн бұрын
Their victim card has expired.
What a shame
This is no longer just apartheid it's a dictatorship. Moustache villain part 2
The only democratic country in the Middle East or The most moral army in the world ... Which lie is bigger? I could not decide.
????? Who lies the most ???????
@balsdsa
17 күн бұрын
Hamas ez question.
@user-qf1zg4zz8j
17 күн бұрын
Is a lier
@ZONE-fj8ly
16 күн бұрын
@@paralaval225 Zionists are not Jews.
Most moral army in the world..!
Remind you of anything in particular?
Excellent fact-check. Could you please link the sources in the description?
@SajidaLillah502
10 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@SajidaLillah502
10 күн бұрын
You have reached the maximum level of brainwashing. There is no opportunity for you to go to Gaـza and see for yourself more horrors than this.
@Rovsau
9 күн бұрын
@@SajidaLillah502 Laughing ridicule. How mature. Are you an adult?
Gee...guess they didn't take that, "Never Forget" thing seriously...
@patricksweeney6334
14 күн бұрын
"Gee...guess they didn't take that, "Never Forget" thing seriously..." I think it was actually 'Never again', but... same essential idea. Apparently, though, the Zionists had an addition to that, that they just never said aloud: "Never again, because we will *become* the tormentors instead of the tormented!"
So how about the dead palestinians, they don't mean anything right? All the videos of people burned, head burst, limbs gone and all the people suffering now without food and treatment?
@rgrg5442
16 күн бұрын
Right
@Oparejoseph
16 күн бұрын
Never attack if you can't defend.
@shahesfelazi8549
16 күн бұрын
@@Oparejoseph the oppressor will never give in to resistance, never was freedom given without a fight
@arturferrao7353
15 күн бұрын
@@Oparejoseph You try to convince the israelites of that.
@danyleon4870
11 күн бұрын
@@shahesfelazi8549 They did have some peace deal several times.
Did that happen in Germany before? I bet Ursula and Analina’s forefathers were involved in similar acts. No wonder they have complete support for the regime. I’m sure they’ll pre-fact things to show a different outcome.
Hmm anyone remember some other group that infamously burned books, i think they followed a certain mustached guy? I can't seem to remember..... I think their name rhymed with yahtzee.
Thank You to the Journalists for exposing the truth!
Hmm book burning. I wonder where they got that idea Germany: don't look at us .
@Somebum
11 күн бұрын
from 2016 when ISIS destroy many places did you forgot?
"Choosen People"
As a Palestinian, we forgive the world for never believing us. WE ARE GLAD YOU ARE WITH US NOW. You guys give us the strength to continue and you give others the strength to speak up. True heroes and we LOVE YOU. Keep going
@celsoalves7681
16 күн бұрын
@@michaelw2288aren’t you just a disgrace?? Stop embarrassing yourself
@greenmushroom6891
15 күн бұрын
Are you aware that Palestinians do not exist, it is just the name of the territory that the Romans gave to Judea. And you are just alien Arabs who, as always, are trying to use someone else’s identification.
Most moral army on earth, sure 🙄
All these effort questions a book burning, but nothing about the massacre of 26th May 200 children burnt alive in tents
A fair and high standard of reporting
What’s the name of the soldier
Huh .. burgning books, are we? peculiar
If this is the culprits posting themselves, imagine how horrific and depraved the one even they think is too much for social media!
They’d eventually explain it away, possibly labelling it terror manuals for Hamas
They are followers of the moustache villain hiding behind his victims to carry on his vision
Indiana Jones and the perpetual crusade
Q: Why is an IDF soldier burning books in Gaza so important to document. When on October 7th, the Hamas murderers aired their GOPRO images online, including the burning of homes and the burning alive of entire families.
@hahaylayp
7 күн бұрын
because IOF and Israhell has destroyed more homes and burned alive more families? but Zionazis still insist that everything they do is justified and moral
Thanks for clearing this up
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Israel won't allow journalists into Gaza to observe its "most moral" war, but nonetheless the IOF are producing iconic images capturing the true nature of it. Images that will forever haunt humanity.
Isreal can say what they like, it's plain to see exactly what they are now. It's very different to what they claim to be imho
And the account private right now, which shows you the intention they had when they posted that photo 😮
not surprise
IDF didn't learn anything from teacher.
Why isn't this channel offline yet? Why aren't those journalists being called Anti-Semitic? Oh they don't podcast from the land of the free :D
@andreschuurman1053
16 күн бұрын
Why do they need to go offline?
@andrew-parker928
8 күн бұрын
@@andreschuurman1053 Any one talks against genocide goes offline
Book Lives Matter.
What excellent investigative journalism.
THIS is good journalism in fact check process.... away from all opinion, is absolutely high utility review process.
Why this channel has this low views! Its better than al jazeera or fox news. Like the video.
@alexsilent5603
17 күн бұрын
Because they don't buy bots for promotion.
@AdamBechtol
17 күн бұрын
@@alexsilent5603 Mmm
@BabyDucks-pv7tr
16 күн бұрын
being better than al jazeera is a pretty low bar to clear
Wait, I remember byzantine or rome did this too.. and I also recall Mongolian destroying lots of books.
@danyleon4870
11 күн бұрын
The Mongolian had it worse. It was said that the river turn pitch black because of the book burning ashes.
Mmm.... Just like "those people" burning books in Germany before WW2...
Hamas dug their tunnels to Narnia inside those books. Now they have no way out.
Dear EU, what do expect from warshow ghettos originated settlers despite damages?
@contact594
16 күн бұрын
@@norman_5623 And Iraq, Libya, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen, funny how they are all forgotten about...
All part of Fascism
Finally some journalism, we don't see that anymore in France those days 😢
They are So Cruel that we can't give an example
What was written in those books?
@chemophile14
17 күн бұрын
What can be in a library
@wewenang5167
17 күн бұрын
probably history books that sirahelli dont want people to know about how they steal the land and kicked out 700 000 people in 1948!
@user-uv9tl4jt8w
16 күн бұрын
Related to 72 virgins.
@chemophile14
16 күн бұрын
@@user-uv9tl4jt8w they can’t read Arabic but those books were in Palestine so they were antisemitism 😆
@hanabenhassine9299
16 күн бұрын
Something that you can live thousands lives and you can still never understand......it takes a heart that you dont have.
Who else burned the books
@danyleon4870
11 күн бұрын
Mongol?
How sad.
Show us more what happen to innocent children in Gaza and Rafah city instead of this nonsense report
It's amazing how u can waffle on and on instead of getting right to the point🙄🤦♂️
Thank you for fact checking