Video of woman claiming Hamas stole medicines from Gaza hospital ‘clearly staged’: Digital media expert

By Can Efesoy

A digital media and disinformation expert confirmed the falsity of a video in which a woman posing as a nurse claimed that Hamas stole fuel and medicines from the Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

The video was posted on the X social media platform on Saturday by the “Open Source Intel” account and was viewed more than 13 million times before it was eventually deleted.

Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, said that the woman’s testimony was “clearly staged.”

“I think the best part of this clearly staged video is not the dodgy accent, or the well-lit room despite Hamas apparently stealing all the fuel, or the choice of injury (a fracture), or the neatly packaged IDF talking points, is the stock audio sound effects of bombing,” he said on X.

Pointing out that the woman in the video was wearing a mask, Jones said that nurses rarely wear masks in the recently published videos of the Al-Shifa Hospital, and also drew attention to the fact that the woman was alone in the environment.