Israel's Army Arrested A 6-Year-Old Child? Here's Fact Check Report

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Israel-Palestine War: Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading

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Israel-Palestine War Latest News: Another video is going viral on social media regarding the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. In this video, Army personneL can be seen arresting a small child. It is now being claimed that this video has emerged from Palestine, where a 6-year-old boy was arrested by Israeli forces in front of his father.

X account "Ragged Trousered Philanderer" shared the viral video and wrote, Imagine just how helpless and humiliated you'd feel to be a Palestinian father watching armed enemy Israeli soldiers abduct your children and take them off to god knows where to be beaten, tortured, sexually assaulted and detained for months or years?

Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading. This viral video is not recent but old and has nothing to do with the recent Israeli-Palestinian war.

-- Spokesman's Investigation

Starting the investigation, we first carefully watched this video and extracted the keyframes of the video and performed a reverse image search.

-- Viral Video Is 8 Years Old

We found this viral video shared by a Facebook page called Popular Struggle Coordination Committee on 17 November 2015. Sharing the video, the title was given, Israeli occupation forces arrest of activist, and head of board members, of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Coordination committee, Munther Amira, and 6 year old child, Abdallah Lutfi Yousef. From Aida refugee camp."

According to the available information, "In the video, the chief of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee and activist Mantar Amira and his 6-year-old child Lutafi Yusuf were arrested by the Israeli army from Aida Refugee Camp.

Keeping this information in mind, we started searching for news about the matter through keyword search. We got the news about the matter on "https://www.rt.com/". In this news, giving an update on the matter, it was informed that Yusuf, the son of the arrested activist, was released after a few hours.

Conclusion- Spokesman in its investigation found the viral post to be misleading. This viral video is not recent but old and has nothing to do with the recent Israeli-Palestinian war.