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=== Israeli media campaign ===
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Before and after the siege, the Israeli government engaged in a public relations campaign aimed at justifying its siege and takeover of the hospital. On 11 November, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted a video purportedly of a nurse at al-Shifa in which she backs up Israeli allegations of Hamas usage of the hospital. ''[[The Nation]]'' described the campaign as [[propaganda]], and stated that the video was widely mocked, with many Arabs questioning its authenticity, and the ministry deleting the tweet in a day.<ref name=nation_prop>{{cite web | title=Israel's Ludicrous Propaganda Wins Over the Only Audience That Counts | website=The Nation | date=November 17, 2023 | url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-propaganda-biden/ | access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', remarking on the video, said "Everything about it smacked of high school theater—from the botched accent that sounded like it was straight out of an Israeli soap opera to the perfectly scripted IDF talking points rolling off her tongue."<ref>{{cite web | last=Jones | first=Marc Owen | title=Israel's Comically Bad Disinfo Proves They're Losing the PR War | website=The Daily Beast | date=November 15, 2023 | url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/israels-comically-bad-disinfo-proves-theyre-losing-pr-war | access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> [[France 24]] found the video to likely be staged.<ref>{{cite web | title=Video of 'nurse' denouncing Hamas occupation of Gaza's Al-Shifa Hospital is staged | website=France 24 | date=November 15, 2023 | url=https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20231115-video-of-nurse-denouncing-hamas-occupation-of-al-shifa-hospital-in-gaza-is-fake | access-date=November 25, 2023}}</ref> Subsequently, France 24, citing three experts, Michael Milshtein of [[Tel Aviv University|Tel-Aviv University]], Scott Savitz, an Engineer, and Daphne Richmond-Barak of [[Reichman University]] in Israel, found the Israeli-released footage of tunnels beneath Shifa hospital "do indicate that these tunnels have all the characteristics of tunnels that belong to the Hamas terrorist group."<ref name=truthfake>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-21 |title=Truth or Fake - Al Shifa hospital: Do images published by Israeli army show a Hamas tunnel? |url=https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20231121-what-we-know-about-the-55-metre-tunnel-under-the-al-shifa-hospital-found-by-israel |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=France 24 |language=en}}</ref>
Some experts have said that questionable evidence such as stating an Arabic calendar was a Hamas shift schedule, and displaying curtains as evidence that hostage videos were filmed has weakened Israel's credibility, with [[H. A. Hellyer]] stating “The irony is they might find something and nobody is going to believe them, at this point their credibility is shot." Adding "We don’t take seriously what a terror group says, but we do take seriously what an army says, especially one that’s an ally of ours,” he said. “So we naturally hold it to a higher standard.”<ref>{{cite web | title=Information missteps have led to questions about Israel's credibility | website=NBC News | date=November 18, 2023 | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/information-missteps-led-questions-israels-credibility-rcna125723 | access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref> Muhammad Shehada, [[Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor]] Chief of Programmes and Communications, said of the requirements that Israel imposed on media outlets on their supervised tours of al-Shifa that the outlets have essentially agreed to broadcast propaganda, saying of the outlets "You are not allowed to speak to any Palestinian or Gazan to challenge what the IDF is spoon-feeding you. You are not allowed to go beyond the tour that the IDF has staged, so you stick to what the IDF wants to show you and where they take you. And you have to review the material with them before you publish, so that the result of that is not journalism. It’s propaganda."<ref>{{cite web | title=Israel's Raid on Al-Shifa Questioned as IDF Fails to Present Hard Evidence Linking Hamas to Hospital | website=Democracy Now! | date=November 20, 2023 | url=https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/20/muhammad_shehada | access-date=November 25, 2023}}</ref>
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