Is it true that there are orders in Russian in the video of Hamas on Israel?

After the attack of the militants on Israel on October 7, a video became popular on social networks that captured the actions of the group. It supposedly sounds Russian speech. We checked whether such statements are true.

Information About what orders militants Giveled on Russian language, Can Find in numerous posts users social networks. As evidence, a roller allegedly published by the Movement is used, shot in the first hours of attack on Israel, as well as its fragments of different lengths. Two commands are heard in the video: “cover” and “go”.

October 11, such a video Published On its YouTube channel (108,000 views) Russian human rights project gulagu.net. Its founder Vladimir Osechkin* during Stream On the Feigin Live YouTube channel, was the question of Wagner PMC fighters of PMC fighters. The next day, a similar roller Shared In X (formerly Twitter) adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko. His tweet gained 4.5 million views. News notes on this topic, mainly with reference to gulagu.net, Placed And Media: For example, UNIAN, MIGNEWS And Gordonua.

Radical Islamist group Hamas, recognized terrorist in many countries of the world, attacked Israel on the morning of October 7. The militants inflicted a series of missile strikes across the country, and also, destroying the wall on the border of the gas sector, penetrated to border settlements. As a result of the actions of the militants, according to the latest estimates of Israel, at least 1,400 people were killed, another 222 were Taken In hostages.

The video dispersed along social networks was shot, as can be seen from the record itself, after the destruction of the wall on the border. And he was posted on the network no later than 17:04 Moscow time on October 8, when appeared In a large (723,000 subscribers at the time of writing this analysis) the Telegram channel, the name of which can be translated from Arabic as “AD-Din al-Kassam brigade”. Also called Hamas military wing, but on Official website Groups contain a link to another channel. The signature for the video reads: “The scene of the assault“ Cassama brigades ”of the Erez base (there is a checkpoint on the border of Israel and Gaza sector. - Approx. Ed.). During the operation #the flood of_al-aks, several enemy soldiers were killed or captured. ” 

To figure out what language and what people say in the video, “verified” turned to journalists from Arab Fact Checkers Network (AFCN) for help. Salahat wound from the Moroccan project TahaqaqAfter watching a video, she told us that she could not hear any language except Arabic. At the seventh second, instead of the alleged Russian “cover”, a person says in Arabic: “steal your head”, and then follows a phrase, also in Arabic, which can be translated into Russian as “I will fight”. 

Orientalist Ruslan Suleimanov The video also looked at the request of "verified." He did not hear in the video of the teams in Russian, and for more detailed comments he turned to friends who own the Palestinian dialect of Arabic. So, a resident of Gaza dismantled a phrase in the video, which can be translated as “come from here”, “hey you, steal your head” and “went, go”. The Palestinian living in Jerusalem also heard the order to bend his head, and also the Arabic -speaking replica "Come on, the guys." 

The video about Russian -speaking instructors among the militants Hamas also Interested The factor from the Georgian project "MIF Detector". They asked to watch a video of Jordanian journalists from the Fatabyano publication, also engaged in checking the facts. They testified that there was no Russian language in the video, all dialogs are conducted in the Palestinian dialect of Arabic. In particular, Fatabyano employees said that “the phrases“ lower your head, man ”,“ God is great, God is great ”,“ step, step ”sound in the video. A few words from the conversation are incomprehensible due to noise, although they also sound in Arabic. ”

When asked why the Arabic native speakers in many replicas hear different words, Suleimanov explained that this language has a huge number of dialects - far from always, for example, the Alzher and the Syrian can easily understand each other. In the verified case, everything is complicated and not the best sound quality on the recording. At the same time, all the speakers of the Arabic language that we have and our colleagues, and the people who use it in their professional activities came together in one thing: no other language, except Arabic, sounds in the video.

Thus, two independent factor -speaking editions at once confirmed that no commands in Russian in the attack captured in the video attack. People came together in the same for whom Arabic - native or actively used in the work of the language. 

*The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation introduced Vladimir Osechkin in the list of foreign agents.

Image on the cover: Stop frame from the analyzed video

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