Emmanuel Nahshon, the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, said in a telephone interview that there was no need for reporters to take offense at what was merely “an attempt to poke gentle fun at some journalists who choose not to see reality.”

“The fact that this little movie is creating a debate means it did touch a raw nerve,” he added.

Mr. Nahshon also suggested that one part of the video was inspired by what he called the fact that unnamed foreign correspondents reporting from Gaza during the conflict had observed Hamas militants launching rockets at Israel but “released the footage only after the operation was over.”

Israeli officials have repeatedly made this claim without citing any specific example. Although an Indian television crew did wait until its members had left Gaza last August to broadcast footage of Islamist militants preparing to fire rockets at Israel from a densely populated civilian area, that video did air while the conflict was still going on.

Reporters who worked in Gaza have disputed the notion that they witnessed and did not report on Hamas firing rockets.

Tyler Hicks, a New York Times staff photographer who covered Gaza during the first two weeks of the conflict last summer explained at the time that the Hamas side of the war was “fought largely behind the scenes.”

“Hamas fighters are not able to expose themselves,” he told The Times’ Lens blog last August. “If they were to even step a foot on the street they would be spotted by an Israeli drone and immediately blown up. We don’t see those fighters. They are operating out of buildings and homes and at night.”

“If we had access to them, we would be photographing them,” he added. “I never saw a single device for launching the rockets to Israel.”