An image of a child dressed in a Halloween costume that dates to at least October 2022 has been shared miscaptioned as showing a crisis actor in Gaza pretending to be a corpse amid the Israel-Hamas war that began on Oct. 7, 2023. An Oct. 25 post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, shared the image with the caption, “One of Gaza's crisis actors got bored pretending to be a dead child killed by Israel. The photograph depicts a child dressed in a Halloween costume for a contest held in Thailand’s Central Korat mall. The image can be found in a Facebook post from Oct. 29, 2022, which shared photographs of two children dressed in Halloween costumes. The image does not show a crisis actor in Gaza.

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Persons: Joe Biden, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Thailand’s Central, Central, Reuters, U.S, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Thailand’s, Thailand’s Central Korat, Central Korat