IDF spokesperson chides Arabic media for spreading ‘false’ rumors of IDF casualties in Gaza

The IDF’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee criticizes Arab media for parroting widespread, apparently false rumors on social media that Israeli soldiers had been kidnapped, wounded, and killed in a Hamas ambush in Gaza.

In an Arabic-language post on X, Adraee accuses what he claims are Muslim Brotherhood-linked outlets of spreading “new false reports” aimed at boosting the morale of Hamas fighters and supporters who, he says, “know full well that their defeat is inevitable.”

Adraee says the propaganda depicts “prosperous Israel as defeated and destroyed Gaza as victorious,” describing it as an “illusion of victory” that Hamas is trying to sell, but insists that “in the end they will admit their defeat and apologize to all those whose minds they poisoned with lies.”

Military officials earlier said seven soldiers had been injured when an armored vehicle went over a bomb in northern Gaza. One soldier is in a moderate condition and the other 6 are lightly wounded.

الليلة الماضية نشر إعلام الإخوان المفلسين أخبار كاذبة جديدة عن معارك بطولية لحماس المهزومة في غزة وذلك لرفع المعنويات المنهارة للقادة والعناصر وداعميهم الذين يعرفون انهم سينهزمون لا محالة.

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— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) August 30, 2025