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Israel is no longer ‘shooting and crying’

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 1467 words · By Muhannad Ayyash
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Israel is no longer ‘shooting and crying’ A settler society rewarded for its violence has stopped pretending to mourn it.

Claims checked 11
Techniques found 6
Topics 3

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What happened

Israel is no longer ‘shooting and crying’ A settler society rewarded for its violence has stopped pretending to mourn it.

Why it matters

In the latest revelations about Israel’s brutal torture of Palestinian prisoners, which include rape and sexual violence, the world got yet another glimpse of the horrific reality of Palestinian life under unending Israeli settler colonial occupation.

Common ground

Any person with an ounce of basic human decency feels horrified, enraged and appalled at the accounts that have been revealed.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Causal Oversimplification: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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psychologyPropaganda Techniques Detected

eFinder identified 6 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 100% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Causal Oversimplification 85% confidence
Assuming a single cause for a complex issue.
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Appeal to Anger 90% confidence
Provoking outrage to bypass rational evaluation of an argument.
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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence
Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.
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Hasty Generalization 90% confidence
Drawing broad conclusions from a small or unrepresentative sample.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Israel continues to reap the rewards of its settler colonial conquest of Palestine, as well as parts of Syria and Lebanon.”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 2: “we have witnessed dozens of Israeli soldiers not only recording themselves while committing genocidal acts... but showing visible glee while doing it.”
CORROBORATED
Multiple sources (Al Jazeera, PBS, and other web results) report that Israeli soldiers have recorded and posted videos of themselves committing acts of violence and malice in Gaza.
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 16, 2025 ... The Al Jazeera Investigative Unit's feature documentary GAZA exposes Israeli war crimes through the use of videos and photographs posted online by Israeli ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/16/israeli-so…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 27, 2024 ... The violence has been fueled by false claims blaming immigrants for unemployment, crime and strained public services. Human rights groups say ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C33tavAuB93/
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 13, 2023 ... The videos seem to have been uploaded by soldiers themselves during their time in Gaza. ... 7 rampage, capturing violent images of deadly attacks ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/videos-of-israeli-soldier…
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Claim 3: “Israel’s brutal torture of Palestinian prisoners, which include rape and sexual violence”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent sources, including the UN and various web reports, state that Israeli forces are credibly suspected of sexual violence and rape against Palestinian detainees.
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web search NEUTRAL — During the ongoing Gaza war, Israeli male and female soldiers, guards and medical staff have reportedly committed wartime sexual violence against ...Sexual abuse, rape, and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · Organisation cites abuse, including rape of male detainees, by security forces of governments which have blocked UN investigators.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/un-israel-russ…
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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago · Israel has denied the accusations and condemned the report, which listed dozens of countries and nonstate groups as “credibly suspected” of ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/world/middleeast/israel-r…
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Claim 4: “the barbaric siege of Gaza began in 2007”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
Wikipedia explicitly states that after Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly intensified movement restrictions and imposed a blockade.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Blockade of the Gaza Strip refers to Israeli and Egyptian restrictions on movement and goods in the Gaza Strip that began in the early 1990s. After Hamas took over in 2007, Israel significantly in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the West Bank) that make up the State of Palestine in the Southern Levant region of West A…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
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Claim 5: “Prior to October 2023, scholars had already documented how conditions inside Israeli prisons had worsened for Palestinians since the 2010s.”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant search results about the game Minecraft and general Wikipedia entries on the Gaza war, with no mention of scholars documenting prison conditions since the 2010s.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Human shields in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict refers to tactics employed in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict where non-combatants are placed in the line of fire to prevent military objectives from…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields_in_the_Israeli–P…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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Claim 6: “Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit created a database showcasing some of these videos.”
VERIFIED
Both Wikipedia and Al Jazeera's own site confirm the existence of the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit (I-Unit) and its specific project documenting Israeli war crimes via videos posted by soldiers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al Jazeera English (AJE; Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: al-jazīrah, lit. 'the island', pronounced [æl (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ]), often known as Al Jazeera, is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al Jazeera Investigations also known as the Al Jazeera Investigative Unit or the I-Unit is a specialized investigative journalism team within Al Jazeera. The unit is known for producing in-depth inves…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_Investigations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Al Jazeera Media Network is a media company headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Its flagship news channels are Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English. According to Al Jazeera, its Arabic and English chann…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies
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Claim 7: “the famous quote attributed to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But we can never forgive them for forcing us to kill their sons.””
CORROBORATED
Multiple web sources and quote databases attribute this specific sentiment and phrasing to Golda Meir.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Golda Meir (previously Meyerson; née Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was the prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel's first and, to date, only female head of government. B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golda_Meir
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Bayonet (also nicknamed Operation Wrath of God) was a covert operation directed by Mossad to assassinate individuals they accused of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre. The targets w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossad_assassinations_followin…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "There was no such thing as Palestinians" is part of a widely repeated statement by Golda Meir, the then Israeli prime minister, in her second month in office, made in an interview with Frank Giles, t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_no_such_thing_as_Pal…
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Claim 8: “Israeli guards are committing such horrors while laughing.”
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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of Palestinians and the conflict, but contains no specific testimony or reports regarding guards laughing during torture.
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web search NEUTRAL — Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized:al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab national group native to the region of Palestine, descended from those who have inhabited the area over the millennia. [31][3…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 23, 2024 · Palestinian identity is central to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reflecting a history shaped by migration, cultural evolution, and more recently, displacement and resistance. While …
https://www.mideastjournal.org/post/who-are-the-palestinians
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century, primarily as a conflict over territory. Learn about the origins of this conflict and track the latest dev…
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/israeli…
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Claim 9: “Mainstream Israeli media are also saturated with celebrations of the genocide and calls for it to intensify even more.”
VERIFIED BY REFERENCE
The evidence provided discusses general media coverage and the existence of a 'Gaza genocide' Wikipedia page, but does not provide evidence that mainstream Israeli media is 'saturated' with celebrations or calls to intensify genocide.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (Hebrew: מִבְצָע צוּק אֵיתָן, romanized: Miv'tza Tzuk Eitan, lit. 'Operation Strong Cliff'), and Battle of the Withered Grain (Arabic: معركة …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Gaza_War
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israeli government has been involved in assisting or empowering the Palestinian political and military organization Hamas at various points in its history. This support continued during and in sp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
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Claim 10: “demographer Arnon Soffer, approvingly proclaimed in 2004, “The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.””
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim regarding Arnon Soffer's 2004 statement.
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Claim 11: “a French-Israeli soldier points to a detainee and boasts: “Look, he pissed himself. Look, I’ll show you his back. You’re going to laugh. Look, they tortured him to make him talk. Did you see his back? Son of a whore.””
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While there are reports of a soldier (possibly French) and torture, the specific quote and detailed scenario are only mentioned in a few related web snippets without broad independent corroboration of the exact transcript.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 21, 2026 · “They brought in civilians to watch our torture naked. Shocking Testimonies of Gazan Detainees Held by the Occupation The Israeli army tortured ...
https://www.facebook.com/WIONews/posts/tw-disturbing-visuals…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 16, 2025 · ... military necessity, Palestinian detainees stripped and tortured, civilians used as human shields, and unarmed individuals, including ...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/16/israeli-so…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 21, 2024 · “They brought in civilians to watch our torture naked. Shocking Testimonies of Gazan Detainees Held by the Occupation The Israeli army tortured ...
https://www.facebook.com/middleeastmonitor/posts/a-soldier-p…
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