As soon as the Israeli president said this, netizens posted this picture.
According to media reports from British Sky News and New York Post, Israeli President Isaac? In an interview with Sky News on Sunday (22nd), Herzog said that some Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) militants who had sneaked into Israeli territory to launch attacks carried instructions on how to make chemical weapons with them, and he also showed Sky News a document with relevant pictures and texts. After the news was exposed, New York Post and other media also reprinted this report. However, under New York Post’s official account X (formerly Twitter), some netizens exposed a picture of then US Secretary of State Powell holding a tube of "washing powder" accusing Iraq of possessing weapons of mass destruction, in order to question the authenticity of the above news.
Israeli President Herzog showed a screenshot of the evidence of "Hamas carrying chemical weapons instructions"
According to Sky News, the explanatory document that Israel thought was related to the manufacture of chemical weapons came from an Hamas militant who was killed in Erikki Buzz, southern Israel. The New York Post report also mentioned that the documents found by Israel were kept in the USB flash drive carried by the deceased.
According to Sky News, the source of these explanatory documents is a 2003 edition of al-Qaeda manual, which contains the raw materials needed to manufacture chemical weapons containing cyanide. "ThIS is material from Al Qaeda … We are dealing with the Islamic State (IS), Al Qaeda and Hamas." The report quoted Israeli President Herzog as saying, "We have seen instructions on how to operate and how to make a non-professional chemical weapon containing cyanide. (This) situation is too shocking."
However, Sky News also said that it could not independently verify Herzog’s statement, nor could it prove that Hamas had links with the extremist organization Al Qaeda. At the same time, the report said that there was no indication that Hamas’s armed men were carrying raw materials for the manufacture of chemical weapons. So far, Hamas has not responded to this.
New York Post also reprinted this news, but under the news released by New York Post on social platform X, some netizens directly exposed the old photos of US Secretary of State Powell holding washing powder in 2003 accusing Iraq of possessing "weapons of mass destruction".
Some netizens said, "God, they are just repeating the script of’ Iraq has weapons of mass destruction’." ↓
Before the Israeli accused Hamas of carrying chemical weapons, the international community was worried about whether there would be serious civilian casualties in densely populated Gaza. According to the Tass news agency reported on the 11th, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on social media that day, condemning the Israeli use of phosphorus bombs and cluster munitions in the Gaza. The statement said, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns in the strongest way the crimes committed by the Israeli war machine against the people in the Gaza with internationally prohibited weapons, including phosphorus bombs and cluster munitions." The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also criticized the Israeli acts against the Palestinians in the Gaza as "genocide" and stressed that such acts "express themselves in the ugliest form every day".
The British Reuters also reported on the 13th that the latest report released by Human Rights Watch showed that Israeli troops used white phosphorus bombs in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, which would put local civilians at risk for a long time. According to the report, Human Rights Watch verified several videos taken in Lebanon and Gaza on October 10th and 11th, respectively, which showed that Gaza Port and two rural areas on the Israeli-Lebanese border were repeatedly attacked by 155mm white phosphorus shells. At the same time, the on-site personnel interviewed by telephone also reported that they "smelled strong garlic", which is a typical feature of white phosphorus bombs. However, the Israeli side denied the above reports.
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