By now, you should have come across the many variants that accompany the green video that has been circulating heavily on various social media platforms.
BREAKING: CONFIRMED ISRAEL APACHE HELICOPTERS KILLED THEIR OWN PEOPLE
“The pilots realized that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian… The rate of fire against the… pic.twitter.com/d5FTCYaaVe
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) November 19, 2023
The earliest form of the current form of the video that alleges that Israeli Air Force shot it’s own civilians appeared online in early November 2023.
The first person to share the current form of the video appears to be Maram Susli who is better known as “Partisan Girl” or “Syrian Girl”. She shared the video on November 9th 2023 captioning it as follows.
BREAKING: Israel admits apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival. “The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a soldier or civilian… The rate of fire against the thousands of terrorists was tremendous at first, and only at a certain point did the pilots begin to slow down the attacks and carefully select the targets.”
BREAKING: Israel admits apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival.
“The pilots realised that there was tremendous difficulty in distinguishing within the occupied outposts and settlements who was a terrorist and who was a… pic.twitter.com/wv6wR710qO
— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) November 9, 2023
Another account calling itself “Pelham” shared it on Nov 9th 2023 the video captioning it:
BOMBSHELL: Leaked footage from Israeli Airforce proves it was the IDF that took out its own citizens with Apache Helicopter on October 7 at the music festival….
BOMBSHELL: Leaked footage from Israeli Airforce proves it was the IDF that took out its own citizens with Apache Helicopter on October 7 at the music festival…. pic.twitter.com/Yl3nYcUIWv
— Pelham (@Resist_05) November 9, 2023
The above account also shared the video again on Nov 19th 2023 and Sept 8th 2024
BOMBSHELL: It’s now been confirmed via a police investigation that this footage from October 7 Nova Festival showed IDF Apache helicopters killed the majority of civilians…pic.twitter.com/Yl3nYcUIWv
— Pelham (@Resist_05) November 18, 2023
BOMBSHELL: Leaked footage from Israeli Airforce proves it was the IDF that took out its own citizens with Apache Helicopters on October 7 at the Nova music festival….
Israel has now admitted 28 Apache helicopters discharged their ammunition and had to be reloaded… pic.twitter.com/FPA3irrrAh
— Pelham (@Resist_05) September 8, 2024
Several prominent accounts shared the video here and here.
The Facts
The original video from where the clips are obtained was first shared by IDF on October 9th 2023 as part of a long form video (the clipped video begins from minute 2:06 to minute 2:20).
מטוסי חיל האוויר מבצעים לאורך כל היממה האחרונה תקיפות נרחבות לאורכה ולרוחבה של רצועת עזה וממיטים הרס וחורבן על מחבלי חמאס. רק בשלוש השעות האחרונות נתקפו כ-130 מטרות באמצעות עשרות מטוסים. מוקדי התקיפה: בית חאנון, סג׳עיה, אל פורקן ורימאל>> pic.twitter.com/vuzQtK4yly
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) October 9, 2023
Several accounts monitoring the early stages of the attacks shared the clipped version of the above video and posted it online on October 9th 2023.
These clips appear to be the ones that were appropriated many months later on, to be used as “evidence” for various claims.
Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas terrorist with 30mm chain gun fire and Hellfire missiles pic.twitter.com/CapuONBuHY
— Frontalforce (@FrontalForce) October 9, 2023
Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopters engage Hamas militants with 30mm chain gun fire and Hellfire missiles pic.twitter.com/mkgMAawY30
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) October 9, 2023
A Newsweek report on Oct 10th 2023 also capture the correct events which was Israeli army engaging with Hamas militants and not shooting at civilians at Nova Festival.
BBC’s Shayan Sardarizadeh who is a senior journalist at BBC Verify first debunked the video on November 9th 2023.
This widely shared video, viewed at least 8 million time, claims to show an IDF helicopter kill Israeli civilians at the Supernova festival on 7 October.
The claim is completely unsubstantiated. The video, released by the IDF on 9 October, shows its helicopter engaging Hamas. https://t.co/WgDdGuTn4E pic.twitter.com/ojHsjhlBMH
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) November 9, 2023
He again debunked the video on September 9th 2024 which is when the claims surged again.
This video, which falsely claims to show IDF helicopters killing Israelis at the Supernova festival, is once again going viral.
The video isn’t “leaked” and wasn’t filmed at the festival. It was posted by the IDF on 9 October, showing Hamas gunmen targeted near the Gaza border. https://t.co/MzinBkoff8 pic.twitter.com/g3QTOv7nW9
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) September 8, 2024
A thorough investigation by GeoConfirmed on November 10th 2023 found the assertion that IDF was shooting at civilians to be false.
GeoConfirmed ISR – PAL Investigation.
This claim is viewed over 30 million times.
“Israel admits Apache helicopters fired on their own civilians running from the Supernova music festival.”
❌DISINFORMATION ❌
This whole story is a perfect example how disinformation works.
1/X pic.twitter.com/Jahc97GUDx— GeoConfirmed (@GeoConfirmed) November 10, 2023
Verdict
The assertion is false and misleading.
