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Occupied Jerusalem– Considered the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office Benjamin Netanyahuand the “Commission of the Kidnapped and Missing Persons,” that the statements made by the elderly Israeli woman Yochbad Lifshitz, which she edited Islamic resistance movement (Hamas) from captivity in GazaIt was a shocking surprise to the Prime Minister’s Office.
He pointed out that the medical treatment and good treatment she received was also seen at the political level as harming Israel’s image as well as weakening and undermining Israeli propaganda efforts.
The elderly Israeli woman, Lifshitz (85), from the agricultural settlement “Nir Oz”, was held captive with her elderly colleague, Nurit Cooper, by the Hamas movement in Gaza, and the movement released them for humanitarian reasons.
But the elderly woman surprised everyone during a press conference in Tel Aviv, where she said: “They treated us with kindness and care, provided us with food and medicine, and brought us a doctor to examine us, as well as a bandage to monitor our health condition and treat those of us who were injured.”
After the press conference held by Lifshitz and her family members, the details reported by the international media, which showed the Hamas movement in a positive light and sprouted its narrative regarding the prisoner file, sparked an uproar in various Israeli circles, with internal criticism being leveled and accusations being exchanged, according to what was reported by the website of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
Following the statements documented by Israeli and foreign press cameras, the Israeli media directed strong criticism at the Israeli government headed by Netanyahu, its handling of the file of prisoners and missing persons, and the failed management of this file, as it described it.
Hamas praise
On the other hand, there are Israeli media professionals and journalists who praised Hamas’ role and its handling of the issue of prisoners and detainees by taking the initiative to release some detainees for humanitarian reasons, thus gaining psychological and media propaganda.
The Israeli media unanimously agreed that Hamas’s release of two detainees without any compensation, and these statements by the freed detainee, Lifshitz, contributed to granting legitimacy to the Palestinian narrative regarding the detainees’ file at least, and to undermining and weakening the Israeli narrative throughout the world.
A source familiar with Israeli media and propaganda efforts during the war criticized the National Propaganda Information Service, which he said “did not assume responsibility for the matter before the press conference held at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, where she arrived upon her return to Israel last night.”
The source added to Haaretz, “Lifshitz’s statements about the humane treatment that the kidnapped people receive from Hamas harmed Israeli propaganda.”
He said that “it was right, at the very least, to make clear to Lifshitz or her family members that letters in this spirit serve the enemy at a sensitive time.” He stressed that “the information center must bear responsibility for communication between the media and editors.”
The Prime Minister’s Office made contact with Ichilov’s spokesman’s department prior to Lifshitz’s statements to the media, as a representative from Netanyahu’s office spoke with the hospital spokesman, Avi Shoshan, after an interview conducted by a nurse from the hospital in which she testified about the good treatment Lifshitz received, and requested that the hospital staff be prevented. Expressing such messages.
Those around the Prime Minister claimed that they were not aware of Lifshitz’s intention to hold a press conference, and that they could not have informed her of the messages she should convey at the event.
A senior official in Netanyahu’s circle told Haaretz: “We are not North Korea, and we do not want or cannot tell the released kidnapper or his family members, who are in a sensitive situation, what to say to the media.”
Lifshitz’s family members denied Israeli claims that someone had briefed them on the matter before the press conference, but claimed that someone had asked them not to say that Lifshitz had been treated well in captivity. They explained that they rejected the request and asked the elderly freed woman to say what was on her mind.
A Shushan Hospital spokesman said he personally called the family when he realized they were about to go to the media. “I stressed to them that they should remember that there is a conflict of narratives here,” he wrote in a post. “I cannot and should not dictate to anyone returning from captivity what to say. I am not a censor and this is not within my authority.”
Fake Israeli championship
For his part, the media director at the headquarters of the detainees’ families, Ronan Tzur, criticized the media statement, and said, “I will state the facts: the family cut off contact with the headquarters yesterday. Someone asked them to cut off contact with the headquarters. Today we have a strange interview: while there are tremendous efforts to persuade… “The world and we need to convince them that the kidnapped people will be released as soon as possible, and that someone will come and say that they are being well taken care of.”
Criticism continued at the official Israeli level, as the person responsible for the file of prisoners and missing persons, Gal Hirsch, has not done much work so far, according to Walla news website journalist Eran Tipenbrunn, who said that “the two release operations carried out by Hamas, of an American citizen… One of the two elderly women, Lifshitz and Cooper, was executed by one side, Hamas, and Israel did nothing.”
He pointed out that Hamas, based on its considerations of waging a psychological and propaganda battle, of control and control, of confronting the Israeli narrative regarding the issue of prisoners and detainees, and of refuting and weakening the Israeli narrative and allegations, was the one that decided to release the four detainees, and that it was the one that supervised the event, and thus achieved an additional achievement for the Israeli side.
The Israeli journalist added that the interview conducted by Lifshitz about proper treatment during captivity by Hamas in the Gaza Strip is already being quoted around the world, which leads to the destruction of Israeli propaganda, saying that “these statements and the performance of the prisoner file official who did not lift a finger constitute a great harm.” “For Israel.”
Hirsch chose to firmly hold the hands of the two freed women when they were handed over to Israel, as if he was saving them in a heroic operation in which he risked his life. This photo and scenes have become a bad joke in Israel, as he appears as someone doing public relations for himself at the expense of the detainees who have just returned from the nightmare of their captivity in captivity. Hamas,” according to the Walla news website.
