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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Forged Hamas documents leaked to shape public opinion, report says</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">September 9, 2024<br></div>
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<p>Jewish Chronicle and Bild reports
appear to have been an attempt to sway opinions on Israel's continued
occupation of Philadelphi Corridor, says Yedioth Ahronoth</p>
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<p>Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points
at the Philadelphi Corridor on a map during a press conference at the
Government Press Office in Jerusalem on 4 September 2024 (AFP)</p>
<p><span>Published date:</span> 9 September 2024 14:05 BST
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<span>Last update:</span> <span id="gmail-date-updatedago">2 hours 52 mins </span> ago </p>
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<div><p>Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth reports that leaked
Hamas documents that purported to show plans to smuggle Israeli captives
out of Gaza were forged.</p>
<p>Speaking to military officials, the Israeli outlet says the documents
were leaked in an attempt to influence public opinion and present a
view that Hamas and its leader, Yahya Sinwar, were uninterested in a
ceasefire deal and attempting to pin the failure to reach an agreement
on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.</p>
<p>The documents were used by the UK's <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/three-idf-soldiers-fall-ill-after-eating-donated-cookies-containing-marijuana-mkibtefp" target="_blank">Jewish Chronicle</a> and Germany's Bild.</p>
<p>The Jewish Chronicle claimed that documents seized by the Israeli
army in Gaza on 29 August revealed a plan to smuggle captives from Gaza
to Egypt across the Philadelphi corridor buffer zone, and then to Iran.</p>
<p>Sinwar, who the Jewish Chronicle said was behind the plan, was also alleged to be planning his escape.</p>
<p>Yedioth Ahronoth said that Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate
was not aware of the document used by the Jewish Chronicle.</p>
<p>“Neither the document, nor the narrative attributed to Sinwar, who
suddenly decided to escape, are known to anyone in Israel,” Yedioth
Ahronoth wrote, quoting military sources.</p>
<p>Bild reported on a document that was an alleged proposal from a mid-ranking Hamas official.</p>
<p>Yedioth Ahronoth says that while the document exists, Bild used an
alleged quote from it that purports to show Hamas' lack of interest in a
deal with Israel - remarks that do not exist.</p>
<p>The two reports come after Netanyahu held English and Hebrew news
conferences last week in which he insisted that Israel would not
withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor - a demilitarised zone on Gaza's
border with Egypt - claiming it would allow Hamas to sneak captives out
of Gaza.</p>
<p>Yedioth Ahronoth says these fake and forged documents caused "great
concern and anger in the security establishment, and it is assumed that
it will heighten the tensions between them and Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and his men".</p></div><br>
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