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A video snippet in the Oscar-winning documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" shows a child's anorak blowing in a tree.
@TomatkaP points out that the same image was shown 8 years ago in a video about the children of Donbass.
The video in question is from December 2015 to the music "Игрушки" by Артём Гришанов. Cool song imo.

The slightly longer original "Toys for Poroshenko" video is a period document worth seeing and can be found here:

ok.ru/video/10450868…
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The same video snippet was also used by Ukrainian TV. The place Horlivka is mentioned, but this place changed the front line several times. The Ukrainian report apparently appeared in 2019. However, the photo is located in a folder labeled 2014.
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But the pink anorak also appears in a report on Amnesty International that uses a clip from EuroNews showing the date November 15, 2014.
The search for Horlivka in November 2014 eventually leads to a Sputnik news report showing the same pink anorak.
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Finally, even the pro-Maidan infowarriors of InformNapalm confirm that Horlivka was clearly under the control of the “separatists” in November 2014. Image
It must be said, however, that this Oscar-winning documentary is misleading on many levels. For example, it shows an Ukrainian missile launched in the middle of Kiev and the commentary claims the Russians are shelling civilians.

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Right from the start, the commentary claims that there are hundreds of patients and dozens of doctors in hospital.
The photographer, who was also the cameraman for the documentary, published numerous photos of a handful of doctors and empty hallways.
The most famous face of the attack on the maternity hospital, Marianna, had described how she had to move from hospital #2 because Azov had set up camp in that hospital. This was always disputed but the documentary shows numerous Azov fighters in and around the hospital.


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Even the introductory sentence “Russia has already tried to take Mariupol once” is misleading. The barricades that were ran over by Azov tanks, the unarmed demonstrators that were gunned down by Azov, these were citizens of Mariupol.
Then there is this woman who talks about destruction and looting. In the context of the film you think she's talking about the Russians, but they weren't even there yet. In addition, the woman with the bag will not have passed the front line. Image
Witness Marianna was severely attacked in 2022 because first she went home to Donezk and second she said in an interview that she did not hear a plane. The soundtrack of the documentary proves her right.
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The documentary portrays the situation in Mariupol as if it was Russia that blocked the evacuation of civilians.
"Say thank you for not being shot" said this Azov guy.
There is more to say about this Oscar documentary, the Theater bombing and what the documentary is not telling but another day another thread.

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Mar 12
I can't believe this is real either.
And there is a reason for that.
Sarah Cohen-Fantl's Tel Aviv based German language pro-Israel agitprop account re-tweeted a New Yorker's tweet that rightly shocked her. Image
Although she says that every innocent dead child hurts her equally, this has not led her to make any discernible criticism of Israel's actions in Gaza. But the tweet, which shocked her five months after the massacre began, reflects an argument from Netanyahu's right-wing... Image
...extremist government.
And this argument aiming at children and even babies can only be understood in the context of intended ethnic cleansing.

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Mar 10
FAKE A FAKE
or How a statistics professor produces nonsense with numbers.

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First I noticed this tweet from a German (self-proclaimed) anti-Semitism watchdog. This account claims that the victim numbers (including Al Ahli Hospital) are fake because they vary far too little.
Looks convincing? Yeah but... Image
...the attack on the Al Ahli Hospital was on October 17th and is not included in the data at all. On the other hand, the number of deaths varies quite greatly if you do not represent 200 women more or less per day on a scale of 6,000 - 12,000. Image
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Feb 23
#OSINT #GAZA #UNRWA
A few days ago, Israel published the personal details of those UNRWA employees accused of being actively involved in October 7th, including Naami. WaPo wrote an article about their investigation that sounds like forensic analysis, but still seems strange.
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The accusation is based on one of two videos from the gate of Kibbutz Be'eri that Israel released immediately after October 7th. There are around 2.5 hours missing between the videos. Here is the first taken at 7 am:
This is the second video taken around 9:40 am that allegedly shows the UNRWA employee Naami.
Read 15 tweets
Feb 17
UPDATE
#UNRWA #HAMAS #GAZA
An impressive feature of the Hamas Intelligence Center is that there is no underground computer workstation. The only identifiable devices are a PC with a floppy drive and a Cisco 800 ISDN router from 2003...


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...an empty CDR spindle and completely rusted keys in the "cleared out" safe. Is it possible that this safe was cleared out before 2005 during the age of floppy disks and ISDN?

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On the other hand we have NAS storage devices that look like some older QNAP model and supports 4 to 6 hard drives. The QNAP company was only founded in 2004, which is why these devices are likely not there since the IDF withdraw from Gaza.

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Feb 13
#GAZA #UNRWA #HAMAS
UPDATE
More evidence came to light. Here it is: Image
It turns out that the journalists were shown a map before their tunnel tour. This map was more detailed but just as wrong.
According to this map, the IDF would have actually pushed the pipe right through the ceiling of the battery room.


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Strangely, you don't see the tube in the battery room photos. Instead, as some people pointed out, these green boxes are hybrid solar inverters. Why Hamas operates solar inverters under the only building without solar panels must remain a mystery. (Well, the sat img is from 2022)

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Feb 11
in an elaborate campaign, the IDF presented its evidence that a HAMAS data center was found just below UNRWA HQ in Gaza City. They released a series of videos, and the Israeli Foreign Ministry wished good luck refuting this unbeatable evidence. Image
After the UNRWA HQ has been besieged for weeks, this new discovery is indeed somewhat surprising, especially since plenty of time has passed to prepare everything thoroughly.
Finally, the IDF organized a tour for selected journalists to UNRWA HQ (31.512505° 34.444301°).

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What they were presented with there in the courtyard was a hole. The IDF had drilled this hole to prove that a HAMAS data center was located just below UNRWA HQ.
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