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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

psychological warfare

Ela (L) and Dafna Elyakim are seen in a photo released by the IDF on May 19, 2024, which was taken while the two sisters were held captive by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip last year. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 19, 2024, 10:48 pm
IDF releases Hamas propaganda video recovered from Gaza of former child hostage
Short clip shows Ela Elyakim, 8, identifying herself and asking for freedom; family ‘asked us to share it with the world to expose Hamas’s terror,’ says military spokesman
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Protesters gather with signs showing portraits of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 Hamas massacres, during a demonstration calling for their release outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, now informally called the "Hostages Square", in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2023. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
December 12, 2023, 6:44 am
‘One girl was given ketamine’: Israeli doctor says hostages abused, drugged in Gaza
Psychiatrist cites ‘physical, sexual, mental, psychological’ torment, says one freed Hamas captive was held in total darkness for days, others still experience dissociative states
By AFP and ToI Staff
Aryeh Zalmanovich (top right) Maya Goren (top left), Ronen Engel (bottom left), and Eliyahu Margalit (bottom right), all of whom who were taken hostage from Kibbutz Nir Oz by Hamas on October 7 and declared dead on December 1, 2023. (Courtesy; combination image: Times of Israel)
December 1, 2023, 4:25 pm
Army: 4 Nir Oz residents abducted in Oct. 7 onslaught died in Hamas captivity
IDF confirms deaths of Aryeh Zalmanovich, Maya Goren, Ronen Engel, Eliyahu Margalit; Zalmanovich, 85, was the oldest hostage; relatives of Engel and Margalit were freed this week
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A soldier from the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 22, 2023, 12:31 pm
IDF admits psychological warfare attempt targeting Israeli citizens
Opening fake social media accounts and leveraging existing ones, IDF Spokesperson’s Unit sought to foster public positivity toward 2021 Gaza operation; IDF acknowledges ‘error’
By Ash Obel
Incoming IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman speaks at a ceremony in which he took over for outgoing spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis on September 15, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 16, 2021, 12:08 am
IDF spokesman denies deliberately misleading press on nonexistent Gaza invasion
Blaming incident on officer’s ‘misunderstanding,’ Hidai Zilberman apologizes for inaccuracy, says his unit doesn’t take part in psychological warfare
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Gaza, amid the escalation of Palestinian and Israeli violence. May 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
May 14, 2021, 8:17 pm
With invasion that wasn’t, IDF suspected of duping foreign press to trick Hamas
During massive overnight bombardment, military spokesman tells media that troops had entered Strip, in move that may have been aimed at luring the enemy into a deadly trap
By Judah Ari Gross
Footage from Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network showing a September 1, 2019, missile strike against an Israeli military vehicle near the northern border, broadcast on September 2. (Twitter, screen capture)
September 3, 2019, 6:22 pm
Worrying days for Israel when Hezbollah is a key source of credible information
Israel has always rightly seen our enemies’ resort to disinformation in times of conflict as a sign of weakness. So why are our military and political leaders now engaging in it?
By David Horovitz
This picture taken on September 1, 2019, from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (ALAA MAREY / AFP)
September 2, 2019, 6:38 am
No fatalities, mercifully, though truth is a casualty as the IDF fools Hezbollah
Why did the IDF come clean about faking an evacuation of ‘injured soldiers’ from an APC after a terror strike Sunday? And what else got obscured in the fog of near-war?
By David Horovitz
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