Israel-Palestine War: Hamas Crises Affected Man Pretending Fake Injury? Here's Fact Check
Israel-Palestine War: Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading
Israel-Palestine War Latest News: Many fake and misleading claims regarding Israel-Palestine war are going viral on social media. Now in this series, a collage of 3 videos is going viral in which, in one video a person is expressing happiness over the missile attack by Hamas and in the other video the same person is seen crying when Israel attacked Hamas. Along with this, in the third video, the person can be seen admitted in the hospital. Now it is being claimed that these three videos are of the same person. The video went viral claiming that this Palestinian man was pretending to be injured and misleading people.
The X account "I Meme Therefore I Am" shared a collage of these videos and wrote, "HAMAS Crisis Actor Strikes Again."
Many users are sharing the claim. Some such posts can be seen by clicking here and here.
Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading. The first two viral videos features Palestinian blogger Saleh aljafarawi and the third video features Mohammed Zendik, a Palestinian child who was injured during an Israeli attack in July.
-- Spokesman's Investigation
Starting the investigation, we first did a reverse image search with keywords on these three videos. We found that all the three videos going viral are not of the same person.
In the first two videos, a person is seen rejoicing over Hamas' attack on Israel and crying when Israel attacked back on Hamas. We did a lot of research on this matter and found that these videos belongs to Palestinian blogger Saleh aljafarawi who has shared these videos on his Instagram account.
Is the blogger in the hospital?
No, during the search we found several media reports published on this claim. The child seen in the picture is from Palestine but not Saleh Aljafarawi.
According to the report of palsolidarity.org, "On Monday July 24, 16 year old Mohammed Zendiq lost his leg during the invasion of Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarem, by the Israeli Occupation Forces. In the 4 hour long invasion, the IOF accompanied by a military bulldozer caused serious material damage to the camp’s main streets and infrastructures as well as private property like citizen’s cars, homes and shops."
We found the viral video of this child uploaded on urlebird.com more than 2 months old. This video can be seen by clicking here.
This attack was carried out by Israel on 24 July 2023.
The story of conflict between Israel and Palestine is not new. In July, Israel attacked Palestine and captured some areas. Media report on this attack can be read by clicking here.
Conclusion- Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading. The first two viral videos features Palestinian blogger Saleh Aljafarawi and the third video features Mohammed Zendik, a Palestinian child who was injured during an Israeli attack in July.