2023-12-16 18:00:10
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, took up, on France 3, the argument of the Israeli embassy in France according to which Hamas would pass off dolls as dead babies on December 10. FRANCE 3 / SCREENSHOT
Fake Palestinian corpses filmed to move international opinion? This is the idea defended by pro-Israeli communication since the start of the conflict against Hamas on October 7. Formerly confined to social networks, it has made itself heard even on French TV sets. “You yourself, the media, show images where we see mothers crying with a plastic baby, making people believe that it is a dead baby”, the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region, Christian Estrosi, spoke on France 3 on Sunday December 10. The Nice to Gaza association filed a complaint for “false and serious remarks”, reports the channel.
At the origin of this controversial assertion, the publication on December 1 on the Instagram account of Palestinian photojournalist Omar Aldirawi of the video of a Palestinian mother in tearsher infant in a shroud in her arms, then the presentation of it by Al-Jazeera. It would be about” a doll ” in a staging worthy of« un spectacle de Broadway », accuses Israeli diplomat. The author of a message went viral on X even swear that “Hamas’ secret weapon has been revealed: the puppet industry”. The accusation was relayed by the Jerusalem Postwho has since expressed regret and deleted the article. Of Turkish Anadolu news agency has the France 24 verification unitmany media outlets showed that it was indeed the lifeless body of young Muhammad Hani al-Zahar, aged five months.
These accusations are part of a broader imagination, that of “Pallywood”. A contraction of “Palestine” and “Hollywood”, this portmanteau with conspiratorial overtones accuses the Palestinians, and in particular Hamas, of staging false mourning in an almost industrialized manner to move and manipulate international public opinion. “It is not a scientific concept, it does not describe reality, warns Amélie Férey, researcher at the French Institute of International Relations. It is a militant, prescriptive concept that implies that Palestinians are liars. He belongs to the Israeli hard right. »
The concept of “Pallywood”, heir to the Durah affair
This accusation has its source at the start of the second Intifada, with the death of young Mohammed Al-Durah in 2000. The child’s last moments were filmed by France 2 cameras while he and his father were caught in an exchange of fire between Palestinian and Israeli shooters. Despite divergent interpretations on the real origin of the fatal shot, the child had become the symbol of the Palestinian martyr, and the images of his death had been used by Hamas communications.
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