ISRAEL [AP] — The Israeli military has launched its own channel on video-sharing website YouTube, posting footage of air strikes and other attacks on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
The spokesman's office of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it created the channel — youtube.com/user/idfnadesk — on Monday to “help us bring our message to the world.”
Israel posts video of Gaza air strikes on YouTube
ISRAEL [AP] — The Israeli military has launched its own channel on video-sharing website YouTube, posting footage of air strikes and other attacks on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
The spokesman’s office of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it created the channel — youtube.com/user/idfnadesk — on Monday to “help us bring our message to the world.”
The channel currently has more than 2,000 subscribers and hosts 10 videos, some of which have been viewed more than 20,000 times.
The black-and-white videos include aerial footage of Israeli Air Force attacks on what are described as rocket launching sites, weapons storage facilities, a Hamas government complex and smuggling tunnels.
One video shows what is described as a Hamas patrol boat being destroyed by a rocket fired from an Israeli naval vessel.
The IDF spokesman’s office said that some of the videos it had posted to the channel had been removed by YouTube.
“We are saddened that YouTube has taken down some of our exclusive footage showing the IDF’s operational success in operation Cast Lead against Hamas extremists in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF spokesman’s office said.
“As the state of Israel again faces those who would see it destroyed, it is imperative that we in the IDF show the world the inhumanity directed against us and our efforts to stop it,” it said.
There was no immediate response from YouTube to an inquiry from AFP about whether videos had been removed and, if so, the explanation for the move.
Four days of intensive Israeli bombardment have killed several senior Hamas officials and reduced much of the Islamist movement’s infrastructure in Gaza to rubble, but have failed to stop rocket fire into Israel.
Since the massive aerial attack was unleashed on Saturday, at least 373 Palestinians, including 39 children, have been killed and 1,720 wounded, according to Gaza medics.
Palestinian militants have also fired more than 250 rockets and mortar shells, killing four people inside Israel and wounding around two dozen more.
ari
yeah give them waht they deserve! the arabs will fight betwwen themselfs if we werent there and anyway israel only targeted hamas unlike hamas which targets schools and the ration is sad but acceptable (390/200 targets hit) but its still sad cuse 4 isralies died and 390 arabs is way uneven try more like 1000 to 1 israely is unfair but acceptable!
Just
Gaza citizens voluntarily and democratically voted for the terrorist Hamas to represent them. They are therefore all terrorists and are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Y. Kanefsky
It’s not a video game. This sort of thing tells us nothing about the bigger picture of what’s happening, or the issues.
disturbing!
this is disgusting. I am sorry to say that posting these things make me sad that my religion thinks it okay to do this….
us lubavitchers should be ashamed of ourselves. what happened to the love and kindness that we are supposed to show our fellow man!!
fed up
WHAT INHUMANITY!??!?!!
the israelis are the ones who are showing the inhumanity!