When there isn't much good news to make videos about, the PR department has to kludge together whatever they can and try to make it look good. The guys in the PR department probably aren't keen on being told they aren't useful and to pick up a rifle and get out of the office.
Hamas is currently being defeated militarily but propaganda is the one area where they can claim victory. Maybe the reason they make these videos is because the war is not going well on the ground?
Let's be honest. Everyone paying attention knew that Israel has a record of brutal reprisals against just Gaza rockets. But massacre on this scale INSIDE Israel was gonna lead to a ground invasion and "significant" collateral damage. That civilian damage is great recruiting PR, but combat footage is for donors. Sadly, Hamas isn't even telling the truth to it's funders because they can't show BDA!
I think it's this. You have spare capacity in the organization and you don't want to waste the guy's skills by giving him an RPG and telling him to go get killed. So you give him whatever footage you do have—which probably isn't as good as you were hoping when you recorded it—release it, and hope it moves some obscure needle somewhere.
Its the same target audience as all the the ISIL, AQ, AAB, and Taliban videos; its for jihadis living in poverty in the middle east watching the video updates on their mobile. They aren't for the westerners.
My 2 cents... all for free... This video is for their donors. Much like rich people who donate to groups like Sea Shepherd or relief efforts in disaster areas, their donors no doubt want to see either the items they've donated in use or how the money they've sent is being used. For a book with some good examples of how this sort of thing works told from a western perspective, check out the book, "Where Soldiers Fear to Tread."
I don't think this really makes sense because this isn't some group who can just raise money from random western civillians nor would this video help much to achieve this end. I mean they do have covert donations but that's usually disguised as humanitarian in nature so not super benefited by a combat video.
I think they get more donations from individuals by playing up the humanitarian angle where looking powerful isn't helpful.
I disagree. They most certainly do have benefactors who contribute money and facilitate equipment and expertise for their cause. Those benefactors are often very wealthy and want to see their contributions in action. A famous example is the MY Bob Barker, a ship purchased by Sea Shepherd for their anti-whaling actions vs. Japan. Barker donated $9m USD for the purchase and refit of the ship. He likely understood Sea Shepherd's tactics when he made the donation.
But the question isn't whether **someone** might be willing to fund such tactics but if the video is a plausible way to elicit more funding. I think that kind of violence is more likely to alienate rather than inspire support in the west (besides the sea shepherd is exactly the sort of thing that appeals to a certain kind of extreme hippie type while showing off military hardware is the opposite).
Having said this, I'll grant this only covers western money. If they are drawing substantial funding from individual donations from, say, the UAE it might be different but I couldn't find anything on whether they get much private support from such sources since I suspect that they may not have a huge amount of support there and many of the gulf governments might not allow that kind of thing but I don't really know.
In rebuttal, Virgilio was not drawing ideological comparisons between those who wish Japan's "for research" whaling fleets that contain canning ships, but to draw comparison between rich donors wanting to see some results from their donations. And they aren't necessary trying to "elicit more funding" but, at the very least, *continued* funding rather than decreased funding. And of course this material is not intended to draw Western support--that's not the intended audience.
I think that we shouldn't underestimate the fact that the Palestinian cause is white hot with fanaticism and hatred. Oddly enough, I learned just how deep (and often seemingly irrational) this fanaticism and hatred is by talking to a highly opinionated Navy Special Warfare Combat Crewman years ago. He was an otherwise worldly, experienced, fun guy who was a legit joy to be around (just don't bring up the Palestinians). Based on my own perceptions formed by routine encounters with this friend and having spent an extended period of time in the region on the ground in a military capacity, I can easily see a basis for the assertion that appealing to donors is an important factor here. I would also assess that showing attacks by brave fighters (attacking a tank with a hand held weapon requires courage, I don't care who you are) using modern equipment against legit military targets (IE-the IDF) is a strong selling point for many in the Arab world with deep pockets. I would further assess that the senior leadership of Hamas lives in Qatar in no small part because it enables them to engage in fundraising from with wealthier donors. Maybe I'll see if I can run this theory to ground and share what I get if you're interested.
It is important to note that donors isn't the only way Hamas funds itself. They "tax" imports, have "charities" (some of which have been found in the US and other western nations), they get support from Iran in the same way the US supports Israel and, like many other organizations... they invest. Like all things in the region, the issue is layered and complex.
As I understand it, what Hamas wants (and needs) from "the west" is political pressure on their enemy. I suppose they are getting some financial contributions from some sources in "the west, " but those sources are certainly not western by culture or values. Their funding is almost all coming from middle eastern sources and now maybe a little from a far northern source. So this video (and the other[s] like it) will not have great appeal to "the west" to be putting pressure on the enemy of Hamas. Videos effective to that end are the ones that show Palestinians as oppressed victims.
There is a significant Arab diaspora in the West that is sympathetic to their cause. Look at Dearborn, Michigan as an example. Charities that support Hamas are also not always transparent or look the other way when it comes to how their donations get spent. We all get that, I think. Hamas has a social arm and a military arm. They likely both engage in fundraising in their own right.
As for driving political pressure, I am with Ryan McBeth on this one. I doubt anyone in the West who is likely to attend a protest/"call their congressman" or donate to the social arm of Hamas would ever see this video. I will revise my statement to share that I believe that this video is meant for a specific type of Hamas donor.
It'd be interesting to do a SCAME (source/content/audience/media/effect) report on some of these videos; the audience part identifies four separate classes of audience: apparent, intermediate, unintended, and ultimate.
My first thought about the ultimate audience is the "for the donors" answer, to demonstrate that they are actually putting the arms they're getting into effect. I don't think we've really seen HAMAS put some of the bigger weapon systems they have to use; all of the videos I've seen to date show the PG-7R or Yassin 105. Maybe they're trying to show their backers that they can and will use some of these bigger systems. It's definintely curious.
I like to use a simplified version when explaining to people how everything you see is propaganda. Maybe you could do a video covering the basics of SCAME and point to it in future videos.
I tend to agree. The old “follow the money” trail would seem to point to this as an investor relations piece. It’s pretty common to have a 2-minute hype demo to go with your boring presentation numbers. This is the sort of thing that’ll buy you another quarter of funding.
I must echo many of the people commenting here. It really looks like it's for donors. Notice how much the video focuses on the weapons. They do a full character introduction of the laser guided anti-tank missile, like it is the star of the show, and it is. It seems to also highlight the power difference between the Russian unguided rocket, and the devastating explosion of the guided missile. 3 things were emphasized in the video:
1. Palestinians are heroically fighting Israeli tanks.
2. They are bravely using these unguided anti-tank rockets, with limited effect.
3. They could devastate the battlefield with these AMAZING guided anti-tank weapons.
To our eyes, this video seems to play to a low brow audience, but it is actually masterfully done. This is why:
A. It visually tells you the story with almost no dialog; exactly what yo want to do with a visual medium.
B. It uses music to emotionally empower the visual story.
C. Makes you connect to the characters of the story: the weapons.
The creator of this short film is not only skilled at editing, but also at understanding and conveying his message/story to his audience.
It would also appeal to many of the Palestinians who are sure to watch it, but they are of secondary importance. If it was meant for them, then the young fighters themselves would be the focus of the story, and not the weapons. They would also edit it to make it appear that they are more successful in their attacks.
But I think that makes a mistake about who the donors are. Because of sanctions etc individuals in the west can't effectively donate (nor would this be a good way to draw donations) and as Ryan observed the Palestinians aren't so popular with the Arab public and even there I expect that practically the governments control if donations reach Hamas. That means the donors they need to impress are probably mostly nation states like Iran who won't fall for some slick garbage. They'll demand much more detailed and meaningful information.
I suspect that there are private donors in the middle east, even outside Iran. There have been private donors, even in Saudi Arabia that have donated to Palestinians Even if they don't think highly of them, there are a lot of rich Arabs that hate the Israeli's even more. Also, though Iran has very intelligent military, the Shaw himself doesn't seem super sophisticated. Yelling Allah Akbar with explosions and intense music seems up his alley.
Hamas has long range anti tank weapons in Gaza in small numbers, surprisingly the long range one are less effective in this war because of the trophy system on our tanks, the new tandem munitions used with low range rpg's are much more effective in killing crew mate's and injuring us, but not so much in destroying tanks.
I was in beit hanoun last week and two of our tanks got hit with this munition, one got his equipment compartment burned, the other injured the officer with shrapnel, we are reserves soliders, we don't even have a trophy system on our tanks.
Even funnier I'm now home because of in injury, I broke my hand while swapping tracks,i'm not even by enemy actions, just by my own stupidity.
Call me crazy, but I wonder if this also works to the Israeli advantage showing the world that they are up against well armed, well equipped adversaries who could potentially take out their best battle tank. It would undermine sympathy from the bleeding heart Liberals for the poor outmatched Palestinians. Israel would be tactically foolish to agree to a cease fire that it seems everyone is pushing for and this video is a good reason to NOT allow a cease fiire. Just a thought.
Call me crazy, but I agree with the first part of your contention but believe even the American fascist righties would not want the level of righty collateral damage when the militias destroy the enclaves of the minions of Wokism, amirite? Time for me to go back to sleep...zzz
Why don't more Middle East nations take in Palestinian refugees? It's like Westerners who watched a couple "Israel bad" videos care more about the Palestinians that many if not most people in the actual Middle East.
Because historically when Arab nations have let Palestinians in they ended up being attacked and have a war inside their country trying to kick them out again.
note that the King of Jordan gave a speech saying he and Egypt have already taken in ENOUGH Palestinians. Many have been there a LONG TIME. I don't know why many do not acclimate, perhaps because they see being in Egypt or Jordan as a temporary thing? Some Palestinians do well, as in the Queen of Jordan has a Palestinian background. Others, I've only heard they are in camps and not wanted to be a burden on their economies. While wonderful nations, Jordan and Egypt are trying to build their economy and help their citizens to an even better standard of living. A large number off refugees, who perhaps do not have the same more progressive outlook at Egyptians and Jordanians, would not be sustainable. I don't ' think they are being uncaring, I think that economically, they are already they feel doing enough.
What if it is to try and convince people that israel is lying about its casualties. For example, Israel will say they lost x amount of tanks but if the uninformed watch these videos and see other pictures, they may conclude that Israel has lost more than x amount of tanks. And if they can do that, then it goes towards helping convince people Israel is lying about other things like weapons and tunnels in hospitals, universities and schools. Israel has been doing daily briefings with videos, audio recordings, pictures, satellite imagery and statistics of what they are doing and what of what they find in their ground offensive and I believe the key for hamas to obtain the ceasefire they want is ensuring enough people believe Israel is lying about everything.
Isn't an obvious answer that it's for their supporters and (potential) recruits in Gaza and the west bank? They need to convince these individuals they are powerful and awesome so they want to continue to support or join them not to mention maintain moral. If people feel Hamas is weak and ineffective they might be inclined to give up and maybe even provide intelligence to the Israelis. They don't need to show they can win just that they can get some vengeance.
Not in the west bank they can't. But also I think your notion of effective is miscalibraited. Obviously they can see Hamas isn't effective in holding territory or other traditional military objectives but is it effective in hurting Israelis? That's alot harder to judge and I fear that's the question more than any other that matters to potential supporters/recruits.
What the average local sees is just a bunch of explosions, yelling and they hear a bunch of shots. I'd guess it's probably pretty difficult to judge how much damage is being taken by Israeli forces.
I agree with this. To someone who doesn't know better, and for someone who is inclined to want to be part of a resistance, this works. Similar to how ISIS did recruitment. Also similar to how things like the Jacob Blake clips lead to riots even though someone who knows enough about policing and the situation would conclude it was justified force.
They may not know the who or why... combat TikTok. Their audience probably never even considers whether the explosion had any effect... just a big kaboom.
This is for the Qataris and for the Zoomers on ticktock. It's also to keep the pro-Hamas Westerners believing that Hamas can actually fight, so they stay agitated and on the street hoping that if they just rip down enough hostage posters and deface enough monuments they can abolish Israel as a state and Jews as a people.
One thing is that does Hamas truly think they can get rid of Israel? Well, not at the top level. Is Hamas the "leader" of the Palestinians? There are many groups that are "Leading". Many. far more committed to working this out with Israel, as in the end it's the only way that will work. Not having peace, means someone gets to be leader. It's hard to explain, but peace has often been the last thing the leaders have wanted. If you have peace, then you have to answer to your own people about where all those donations go. You have to start running a government, that is not corrupt. You have a group of citizens focused on day to day life, and not the WAR. Israel is great to blame things upon. I would say most of the Westerners on the streets protesting, have not a clue what Hamas stands for, and what they will implement if they ever do gain power. Do they stand for homosexuals in jail or executed? Do they stand for a woman not being able to leave the home without the permission of her husband? It goes on and on, and no one stops to ask "What happens to the Palestinians if Hamas wins and is their leader?"
Sometimes work product is just to show your boss that you can generate work product.
This might be it. Or you have some dude with mad Premier Pro skills who wants to continue drawing a paycheck.
When there isn't much good news to make videos about, the PR department has to kludge together whatever they can and try to make it look good. The guys in the PR department probably aren't keen on being told they aren't useful and to pick up a rifle and get out of the office.
Hamas is currently being defeated militarily but propaganda is the one area where they can claim victory. Maybe the reason they make these videos is because the war is not going well on the ground?
Let's be honest. Everyone paying attention knew that Israel has a record of brutal reprisals against just Gaza rockets. But massacre on this scale INSIDE Israel was gonna lead to a ground invasion and "significant" collateral damage. That civilian damage is great recruiting PR, but combat footage is for donors. Sadly, Hamas isn't even telling the truth to it's funders because they can't show BDA!
I think it's this. You have spare capacity in the organization and you don't want to waste the guy's skills by giving him an RPG and telling him to go get killed. So you give him whatever footage you do have—which probably isn't as good as you were hoping when you recorded it—release it, and hope it moves some obscure needle somewhere.
Its the same target audience as all the the ISIL, AQ, AAB, and Taliban videos; its for jihadis living in poverty in the middle east watching the video updates on their mobile. They aren't for the westerners.
It's Call of Duty for people with no electricity
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My 2 cents... all for free... This video is for their donors. Much like rich people who donate to groups like Sea Shepherd or relief efforts in disaster areas, their donors no doubt want to see either the items they've donated in use or how the money they've sent is being used. For a book with some good examples of how this sort of thing works told from a western perspective, check out the book, "Where Soldiers Fear to Tread."
I don't think this really makes sense because this isn't some group who can just raise money from random western civillians nor would this video help much to achieve this end. I mean they do have covert donations but that's usually disguised as humanitarian in nature so not super benefited by a combat video.
I think they get more donations from individuals by playing up the humanitarian angle where looking powerful isn't helpful.
I disagree. They most certainly do have benefactors who contribute money and facilitate equipment and expertise for their cause. Those benefactors are often very wealthy and want to see their contributions in action. A famous example is the MY Bob Barker, a ship purchased by Sea Shepherd for their anti-whaling actions vs. Japan. Barker donated $9m USD for the purchase and refit of the ship. He likely understood Sea Shepherd's tactics when he made the donation.
But the question isn't whether **someone** might be willing to fund such tactics but if the video is a plausible way to elicit more funding. I think that kind of violence is more likely to alienate rather than inspire support in the west (besides the sea shepherd is exactly the sort of thing that appeals to a certain kind of extreme hippie type while showing off military hardware is the opposite).
Having said this, I'll grant this only covers western money. If they are drawing substantial funding from individual donations from, say, the UAE it might be different but I couldn't find anything on whether they get much private support from such sources since I suspect that they may not have a huge amount of support there and many of the gulf governments might not allow that kind of thing but I don't really know.
In rebuttal, Virgilio was not drawing ideological comparisons between those who wish Japan's "for research" whaling fleets that contain canning ships, but to draw comparison between rich donors wanting to see some results from their donations. And they aren't necessary trying to "elicit more funding" but, at the very least, *continued* funding rather than decreased funding. And of course this material is not intended to draw Western support--that's not the intended audience.
I think that we shouldn't underestimate the fact that the Palestinian cause is white hot with fanaticism and hatred. Oddly enough, I learned just how deep (and often seemingly irrational) this fanaticism and hatred is by talking to a highly opinionated Navy Special Warfare Combat Crewman years ago. He was an otherwise worldly, experienced, fun guy who was a legit joy to be around (just don't bring up the Palestinians). Based on my own perceptions formed by routine encounters with this friend and having spent an extended period of time in the region on the ground in a military capacity, I can easily see a basis for the assertion that appealing to donors is an important factor here. I would also assess that showing attacks by brave fighters (attacking a tank with a hand held weapon requires courage, I don't care who you are) using modern equipment against legit military targets (IE-the IDF) is a strong selling point for many in the Arab world with deep pockets. I would further assess that the senior leadership of Hamas lives in Qatar in no small part because it enables them to engage in fundraising from with wealthier donors. Maybe I'll see if I can run this theory to ground and share what I get if you're interested.
It is important to note that donors isn't the only way Hamas funds itself. They "tax" imports, have "charities" (some of which have been found in the US and other western nations), they get support from Iran in the same way the US supports Israel and, like many other organizations... they invest. Like all things in the region, the issue is layered and complex.
As I understand it, what Hamas wants (and needs) from "the west" is political pressure on their enemy. I suppose they are getting some financial contributions from some sources in "the west, " but those sources are certainly not western by culture or values. Their funding is almost all coming from middle eastern sources and now maybe a little from a far northern source. So this video (and the other[s] like it) will not have great appeal to "the west" to be putting pressure on the enemy of Hamas. Videos effective to that end are the ones that show Palestinians as oppressed victims.
There is a significant Arab diaspora in the West that is sympathetic to their cause. Look at Dearborn, Michigan as an example. Charities that support Hamas are also not always transparent or look the other way when it comes to how their donations get spent. We all get that, I think. Hamas has a social arm and a military arm. They likely both engage in fundraising in their own right.
As for driving political pressure, I am with Ryan McBeth on this one. I doubt anyone in the West who is likely to attend a protest/"call their congressman" or donate to the social arm of Hamas would ever see this video. I will revise my statement to share that I believe that this video is meant for a specific type of Hamas donor.
Email notification worked this time!!! Have a great day Ryan.
It'd be interesting to do a SCAME (source/content/audience/media/effect) report on some of these videos; the audience part identifies four separate classes of audience: apparent, intermediate, unintended, and ultimate.
My first thought about the ultimate audience is the "for the donors" answer, to demonstrate that they are actually putting the arms they're getting into effect. I don't think we've really seen HAMAS put some of the bigger weapon systems they have to use; all of the videos I've seen to date show the PG-7R or Yassin 105. Maybe they're trying to show their backers that they can and will use some of these bigger systems. It's definintely curious.
The SCAME thing isn't a bad idea. I'm not sure why I've never talked about that. I suppose because it takes too long to explain.
I like to use a simplified version when explaining to people how everything you see is propaganda. Maybe you could do a video covering the basics of SCAME and point to it in future videos.
I tend to agree. The old “follow the money” trail would seem to point to this as an investor relations piece. It’s pretty common to have a 2-minute hype demo to go with your boring presentation numbers. This is the sort of thing that’ll buy you another quarter of funding.
Kill Hamas. Kill them all.
I must echo many of the people commenting here. It really looks like it's for donors. Notice how much the video focuses on the weapons. They do a full character introduction of the laser guided anti-tank missile, like it is the star of the show, and it is. It seems to also highlight the power difference between the Russian unguided rocket, and the devastating explosion of the guided missile. 3 things were emphasized in the video:
1. Palestinians are heroically fighting Israeli tanks.
2. They are bravely using these unguided anti-tank rockets, with limited effect.
3. They could devastate the battlefield with these AMAZING guided anti-tank weapons.
To our eyes, this video seems to play to a low brow audience, but it is actually masterfully done. This is why:
A. It visually tells you the story with almost no dialog; exactly what yo want to do with a visual medium.
B. It uses music to emotionally empower the visual story.
C. Makes you connect to the characters of the story: the weapons.
The creator of this short film is not only skilled at editing, but also at understanding and conveying his message/story to his audience.
It would also appeal to many of the Palestinians who are sure to watch it, but they are of secondary importance. If it was meant for them, then the young fighters themselves would be the focus of the story, and not the weapons. They would also edit it to make it appear that they are more successful in their attacks.
But I think that makes a mistake about who the donors are. Because of sanctions etc individuals in the west can't effectively donate (nor would this be a good way to draw donations) and as Ryan observed the Palestinians aren't so popular with the Arab public and even there I expect that practically the governments control if donations reach Hamas. That means the donors they need to impress are probably mostly nation states like Iran who won't fall for some slick garbage. They'll demand much more detailed and meaningful information.
I suspect that there are private donors in the middle east, even outside Iran. There have been private donors, even in Saudi Arabia that have donated to Palestinians Even if they don't think highly of them, there are a lot of rich Arabs that hate the Israeli's even more. Also, though Iran has very intelligent military, the Shaw himself doesn't seem super sophisticated. Yelling Allah Akbar with explosions and intense music seems up his alley.
Hamas has long range anti tank weapons in Gaza in small numbers, surprisingly the long range one are less effective in this war because of the trophy system on our tanks, the new tandem munitions used with low range rpg's are much more effective in killing crew mate's and injuring us, but not so much in destroying tanks.
I was in beit hanoun last week and two of our tanks got hit with this munition, one got his equipment compartment burned, the other injured the officer with shrapnel, we are reserves soliders, we don't even have a trophy system on our tanks.
Even funnier I'm now home because of in injury, I broke my hand while swapping tracks,i'm not even by enemy actions, just by my own stupidity.
Thank you for the first-hand account, Ravid.
Call me crazy, but I wonder if this also works to the Israeli advantage showing the world that they are up against well armed, well equipped adversaries who could potentially take out their best battle tank. It would undermine sympathy from the bleeding heart Liberals for the poor outmatched Palestinians. Israel would be tactically foolish to agree to a cease fire that it seems everyone is pushing for and this video is a good reason to NOT allow a cease fiire. Just a thought.
Call me crazy, but I agree with the first part of your contention but believe even the American fascist righties would not want the level of righty collateral damage when the militias destroy the enclaves of the minions of Wokism, amirite? Time for me to go back to sleep...zzz
I found the idea that the mesh might protect from thermal observation worth the price of admission. Thanks RM.
Why don't more Middle East nations take in Palestinian refugees? It's like Westerners who watched a couple "Israel bad" videos care more about the Palestinians that many if not most people in the actual Middle East.
Because historically when Arab nations have let Palestinians in they ended up being attacked and have a war inside their country trying to kick them out again.
note that the King of Jordan gave a speech saying he and Egypt have already taken in ENOUGH Palestinians. Many have been there a LONG TIME. I don't know why many do not acclimate, perhaps because they see being in Egypt or Jordan as a temporary thing? Some Palestinians do well, as in the Queen of Jordan has a Palestinian background. Others, I've only heard they are in camps and not wanted to be a burden on their economies. While wonderful nations, Jordan and Egypt are trying to build their economy and help their citizens to an even better standard of living. A large number off refugees, who perhaps do not have the same more progressive outlook at Egyptians and Jordanians, would not be sustainable. I don't ' think they are being uncaring, I think that economically, they are already they feel doing enough.
What if it is to try and convince people that israel is lying about its casualties. For example, Israel will say they lost x amount of tanks but if the uninformed watch these videos and see other pictures, they may conclude that Israel has lost more than x amount of tanks. And if they can do that, then it goes towards helping convince people Israel is lying about other things like weapons and tunnels in hospitals, universities and schools. Israel has been doing daily briefings with videos, audio recordings, pictures, satellite imagery and statistics of what they are doing and what of what they find in their ground offensive and I believe the key for hamas to obtain the ceasefire they want is ensuring enough people believe Israel is lying about everything.
I don't think the Trophy system engaged. In fact I think the Konkurs missile went right over the top of the tank and exploded behind it.
Isn't an obvious answer that it's for their supporters and (potential) recruits in Gaza and the west bank? They need to convince these individuals they are powerful and awesome so they want to continue to support or join them not to mention maintain moral. If people feel Hamas is weak and ineffective they might be inclined to give up and maybe even provide intelligence to the Israelis. They don't need to show they can win just that they can get some vengeance.
Maybe, but the locals have eyes. They can see that HAMAS is ineffective.
Not in the west bank they can't. But also I think your notion of effective is miscalibraited. Obviously they can see Hamas isn't effective in holding territory or other traditional military objectives but is it effective in hurting Israelis? That's alot harder to judge and I fear that's the question more than any other that matters to potential supporters/recruits.
What the average local sees is just a bunch of explosions, yelling and they hear a bunch of shots. I'd guess it's probably pretty difficult to judge how much damage is being taken by Israeli forces.
But it's just a guess on my part.
I agree with this. To someone who doesn't know better, and for someone who is inclined to want to be part of a resistance, this works. Similar to how ISIS did recruitment. Also similar to how things like the Jacob Blake clips lead to riots even though someone who knows enough about policing and the situation would conclude it was justified force.
They may not know the who or why... combat TikTok. Their audience probably never even considers whether the explosion had any effect... just a big kaboom.
This is for the Qataris and for the Zoomers on ticktock. It's also to keep the pro-Hamas Westerners believing that Hamas can actually fight, so they stay agitated and on the street hoping that if they just rip down enough hostage posters and deface enough monuments they can abolish Israel as a state and Jews as a people.
One thing is that does Hamas truly think they can get rid of Israel? Well, not at the top level. Is Hamas the "leader" of the Palestinians? There are many groups that are "Leading". Many. far more committed to working this out with Israel, as in the end it's the only way that will work. Not having peace, means someone gets to be leader. It's hard to explain, but peace has often been the last thing the leaders have wanted. If you have peace, then you have to answer to your own people about where all those donations go. You have to start running a government, that is not corrupt. You have a group of citizens focused on day to day life, and not the WAR. Israel is great to blame things upon. I would say most of the Westerners on the streets protesting, have not a clue what Hamas stands for, and what they will implement if they ever do gain power. Do they stand for homosexuals in jail or executed? Do they stand for a woman not being able to leave the home without the permission of her husband? It goes on and on, and no one stops to ask "What happens to the Palestinians if Hamas wins and is their leader?"