Hamas fighters bowing their heads on the ground to praise god? Fact Check Report

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This video is not recent but from 2015 and has nothing to do with the recent Israel-Palestine war

Fact Check Report

MOHALI: A Video is going viral on social media. In this video, armed people can be seen their heads bowed on the ground. It is being claimed that Palestine fighters are entering Israel and bowing their heads on the ground to praise god.

Facebook user Arjun Rajput, while sharing the viral video, claimed that Hamas fighters are entering Israel and bowing their heads.

Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral video to be misleading. This video is not recent but from 2015 and has nothing to do with the recent Israel-Palestine war.

-- Spokesman's Investigation

Starting the investigation, we first watched this video carefully and extracted keyframes of the video and did a reverse image search on them. The viral video is of 2015.

We found the viral video uploaded on the official Facebook page of 'Halab Today TV' on March 28, 2015. According to the information given with the video, after conquering the entire Idlib city, the islamic army paid obeisance to God in Hanano Square.

During this search, we found a frame of a viral video in an article published on March 28, 2022 on a website named enabbaladi. According to the report, this picture is of Islamic fighters bowing after capturing Idlib city on 28 March 2015.

In this search, we found viral video uploaded on the official YouTube channel of Enab Baladi Newspaper. This video can be seen by clicking below.

Hence, it is clear that this video has nothing to do with the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine.

Conclusion – Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral video to be misleading. This video is not recent but from 2015 and has nothing to do with the recent Israel-Palestine war.