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A video showing a torrent of mud and water inundating the village of Ras Baalbek, Lebanon in 2018 has been miscaptioned online as floods in Jericho in the West Bank. A user on Facebook (archived) shared the video with the caption: “Happening now! Reuters geolocated the buildings visible in the video to Google Map satellite imagery of the village of Ras Baalbek. Reports from June 2018 say heavy rain resulted in major floods in Ras Baalbek. The video shows floods in Lebanon in 2018.
Persons: Read Organizations: West Bank, Facebook, YouTube, American University of Beirut, Reuters, Google, Thomson Locations: Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, Jericho, Jordan, Lebanese, Baalbek
A video showing a room in the occupied West Bank stocked with firearms, army fatigues and other military equipment dates to at least August 2023 and is unrelated to the November attack by the Israeli army on Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. The clip, captioned, “Israel defense forces found a complete ARMORY inside the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza. #Israel #IStandWithIsrael” was shared on Facebook (archived) amid a military blockade by Israeli troops around Shifa before they eventually entered the building on Nov. 15, 2023. The video also circulated on messaging platform X (archived), formerly Twitter, with a caption saying that it shows the Shifa hospital. The video dates to at least August 2023 and was filmed in the West Bank, not Gaza.
Persons: Al, IStandWithIsrael ”, Hanan Amiur, , , Amiur, Read Organizations: West Bank, Facebook, Oslo Accords, ” Reuters, Reuters, Central Unit, IDF, Border Police, Israeli Police, Thomson Locations: Al Shifa, Gaza, Israel, Shifa, Ramallah, Oslo, Gaza’s, Judea, Samaria, Beitunia
A video of armed personnel climbing aboard a bulk carrier from three smaller motorboats has been falsely presented online as showing Yemen’s Houthis hijacking a cargo ship in the Red Sea in mid-November. The video can be dated to at least June 2022, more than a year before the Red Sea incident. On Nov. 20, the Houthis released video of armed men seizing the Galaxy Leader, a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship that the rebels described as being Israeli. The vessel in the Houthis video does not resemble the one in the social media posts. The video dates to at least June 2022, thus predating the Houthis seizure of the Galaxy Leader.
Persons: Yemen’s, YEMENIS, Houthis, Read Organizations: Galaxy Leader, Reuters, Polish Special Forces Component Command, Car Carriers, Ray Shipping, Thomson Locations: Red, Iran, British, Isle of, Tel Aviv
A video of a French farmer dumping manure outside a McDonald’s in eastern France to protest fast-food outlets that import foreign meat products has been falsely claimed online to be about Israel’s war with Hamas. Yannick Augrandenis, an associate at the communications consultancy representing McDonald’s France, told Reuters in an email that the video shows the Nov. 24 protest. This included 21,950 tonnes of beef for minced steaks used in McDonald’s recipes and 18,001 tonnes of chicken, which meant nuggets were 100% French meat, the statement said. The video shows a farmers’ protest over fast-food chains importing meat, not the Israel-Hamas war. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
Persons: Yannick Augrandenis, Read Organizations: Hamas, Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, Google, McDonald’s, Thomson Locations: France, Vesoul, Haute, Saone, McDonald’s France, Israel
Israel-Hamas war: Answering readers’ questions
  + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Jenna Zucker | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +8 min
Reuters editors took some of those readers' questions about the war received on Reddit and had two of our reporters answer. loadingHOW TO SPOT MISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDAWhat level of misinformation is being released on both sides? * False or miscaptioned footage of reactions to the war in other countries, like this example or this one. loadingChristina Anagnostopoulos, U.S. Fact-Checking EditorThis is a war between two sides, both very skilled at presenting their own version. So it's an information war as well as a ‘real’ one.
Persons: Christina Anagnostopoulos, , Stephen Farrell, , haven't, that's Organizations: Yale Law, Reuters, Jerusalem Bureau, FAIR, Thomson Locations: Israel, U.S, Balfour, Rafah, Gaza, Galilee, Jerusalem, Iraq
The Malta-flagged container ship attacked in November is managed by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS), which is in turn controlled by Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer. The same image can be seen in a Reuters report (photograph 8/19) (archived) about the incident dated Jun. Another photo of the ship on fire, captured from a different angle, was also published by Reuters (archived) in 2019. At the time, the U.S. blamed the incident (archived) and an explosion aboard a second tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Iran, which denied the allegations. The ship image dates to 2019 and is unrelated to the Nov. 24, 2023, attack on the Mayet.
Persons: Idan Ofer, Read Organizations: Eastern Pacific Shipping, CMA, Reuters, U.S, Galaxy Leader, Facebook, Twitter, Iranian Students ’ News Agency, Thomson Locations: Norwegian, Gulf of Oman, Malta, Singapore, Iranian, Israel, Red, ISRAELI, U.S, Iran
An image from a satirical Malaysian TV movie released in 2018 has been shared online as evidence of Palestinians staging pictures of people in hospital during Israel’s war with Hamas. Included in the image is a caption: “Just a few important items: 1. Eid telemovie ‘Laksa Di Ambang Wati’.”Contacted by Reuters, Yusop confirmed that the image was a screengrab from his TV film he shot in 2018. Malaysian actor Tapai Gegarlawak starred in the scene, Yusop added. The image is from a 2018 satirical Malaysian TV movie.
Persons: Ambang, Al Jafree Md Yusop, oximeter, Eid, , Di Ambang, , Yusop, Tapai Gegarlawak, Read Organizations: Hamas, Social, Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Malaysian, Palestine, Hollywood, Israel, Gaza
A video showing an opposition rally in Warsaw on Oct. 1, 2023, has been falsely shared online as footage of a pro-Palestinian protest in Poland held amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war which began on Oct. 7. The video can be traced back to Oct. 1 when an opposition rally was held in Warsaw. A Reuters video of the protest captured from the opposite angle (archived) can be found on YouTube (archived). Local media outlets reported that a pro-Palestinian demonstration was held in Warsaw on Nov. 18. The video shows an opposition rally in Warsaw from Oct. 1, not a pro-Palestinian protest in Poland.
Persons: Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, European Union, Protesters, Reuters, YouTube, Local, Thomson Locations: Warsaw, Poland, Israel, Marszalkowska
A video of British singer Adele carrying a Mexican flag during a performance in Las Vegas has been mislabeled online, with some saying it shows her holding a Palestinian flag. She’s holding the Palestinian flag and singing her heart out,” read a post sharing the video on social media platform X (archived), formerly known as Twitter. The resemblance can also be seen in another YouTube video (archived) uploaded from the event (see about 6 seconds in). A side-by-side comparisonof screenshots from the two videos shows similarities with the Mexican flag. This video shows Adele holding a Mexican flag, not Palestinian flag.
Persons: Adele, She’s, , Adele ”, Read Organizations: Palestinian, Hamas, Twitter, Facebook, Caesars, Reuters, Thomson Locations: British, Las Vegas, Israel, Palestinian, Mexican
Video showing chaos with audible gunfire inside the Rabaa al-Adawiya hospital in Cairo, Egypt in August 2013, has been falsely shared online as showing Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) inside the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza in 2023. The miscaptioned video circulated online after Israeli troops entered the Al Shifa hospital on Nov. 15 after a days-long siege. Israeli forces say that the hospital covers tunnels used by the Islamist group Hamas, a claim that has been denied by the group, Reuters reported. “Israeli forces shooting inside al shifa hospital” read posts sharing the old video on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter (archived). The video, however, was uploaded to YouTube (archived) by Egyptian news outlet Rassd News Network (RNN) in mid-August 2013 and depicts shooting inside the Rabaa hospital.
Persons: Al, , Mohamed Mursi, Read Organizations: Israeli Defense Forces, Al, Hamas, Reuters, Facebook, YouTube, Rassd News, The Atlantic, The Washington, Thomson Locations: Cairo, Egypt, Gaza
A video of a red-coloured lake in Chile has been falsely claimed online to show the River Nile, with some users suggesting it's a sign of “the end times”. “You mean to tell me on November 9, 2023, the Nile river looks like this,” said one person who added a voiceover to the clip and shared it to social media (archived). However, the video shows a lake in Chile that is famed for its red colour, not the River Nile. Reuters found no reports or corroborating visuals of the River Nile, which stretches across northeastern Africa, turning red on Nov. 9. The video show Laguna Roja in Chile, not the River Nile.
Persons: , microalgae, Read Organizations: Reuters, Laguna, Chile Travel, Roja, Thomson Locations: Chile, Chilean, Africa
An image from Yemen in 2020 of an injured child lying on a road while another child tries to drag her away from the scene has been shared with captions falsely suggesting that it shows Palestinian siblings killed by Israeli soldiers amid the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. A Nov.15 Facebook (archived) post shared the years-old image alongside the text: “A pair of Palestinian siblings went to fetch water but were killed by Israeli soldiers. The younger brother dragged his sister's body home. Photo shows an injured child lying on a road in Yemen in 2020, not Palestinian civilians affected in the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
Persons: Ruwaida Saleh, Read Organizations: Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Yemen, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, Yemeni, Taiz, Iran
A billboard with the word “KIDNAPPED” surrounded by images of faces referring to the people held hostage by Hamas was placed in Lakewood, New Jersey, and not, as suggested in online posts, Melbourne, Australia. A post (archived) on social media sharing a photo of the billboard said: “Try ripping this down assholes. Thank you Melbourne, Australia.” Another post (archived) with identical wording was shared on Facebook. The billboard can be geolocated to a Shell gas station in Lakewood, New Jersey, with poles and structures that match the image shared on social media. The billboard shared on social media was placed in the U.S., not in Australia.
Persons: , @bringthemhomelkwd, Read Organizations: Hamas, Facebook, Reuters Pictures, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Lakewood , New Jersey, Melbourne, Australia, Israel, Gaza, New York City, Lakewood ., Washington, U.S
A video showing soldiers placing an Israeli flag on the roof of a school in Gaza has been miscaptioned in online posts that claim it shows the Al Shifa hospital. Israeli troops entered Gaza’s biggest hospital Al Shifa on Nov. 15, with Israel saying its forces found weapons as well as an underground structure it called a Hamas tunnel shaft after two days of searching the hospital complex, while Hamas denied the assertion. A post (archived) on social media said: “This is the IOF putting up a flag at Al-Shifa Hospital. The video circulating online, however, does not show the Al Shifa hospital. The video shows a UNRWA school in Gaza, not the Al Shifa hospital.
Persons: Al Shifa, Juliette Touma, Touma, Read Organizations: Shifa, Facebook, UN, United Nations, UNRWA, Le, BBC, School for Boys, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Gaza’s, Israel, , Gaza City
A choreographed video produced by a French stunt school has been miscaptioned amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war with false claims it shows Israeli women fighting off Muslim or Arab men. !”It was also shared (archived) on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. The video shows a choreographed scene performed by a stunt team in France, part of the Campus Univers Cascades stunt school, and not an actual fight. The school shared the video on its Instagram (archived) account on Nov. 2. The video was produced by a stunt school and does not show an actual fight.
Persons: Lucas Dollfus, , Read Organizations: Facebook, TEN, AK, Twitter, Reuters, Thomson Locations: French, Israel, Palestinian, Gaza, France
Behind-the-scenes footage from a short film made in Lebanon about life in Gaza has been shared without context online as evidence that Palestinians are faking injuries in the context of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The video shows several scenes that include makeup being applied to a child to make her appear injured and a man directing a group of people holding Palestinian flags. DON'T FALL FOR IT,” read posts sharing the video (archived) on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, and on Facebook (archived). And the video that went viral where they were applying makeup on the girl’s face was a video of behind the scenes of the short movie that i mentioned.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. Video shows the filming of a movie about the occupied Palestinian territories, not Palestinians staging injuries.
Persons: , , @rami.jardali, ” Mahmoud Ramzi, Ramzi, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Lebanon, Gaza, Israel
(Editor’s note: Graphic footage and images linked to in paragraphs two, three, four and five)A video of men in Tadamon, Syria, being pushed into a mass grave and shot has been shared online purporting to show Israeli soldiers shooting civilians in Gaza in 2023. A Facebook user (archived) sharing the video on Nov. 1 wrote: “Israeli military are conducting a war crime on the ground operation in Gaza they're doing exactly what Hitler did to them. Please share it.” Text on the clip reads that Israeli ground troops were conducting a “genocide roundup”. But the video, which shows men in military fatigues shooting blindfolded men in civilian clothes, is unrelated to events in Gaza in 2023. The clip was captured in Syria in 2013, according to researchers who investigated it when it was leaked to them in 2019.
Persons: Hitler, Annsar, Umit, Read Organizations: Institute for, Genocide, New Lines, The Guardian, Reuters, U.S . State Department, Thomson Locations: Tadamon, Syria, Gaza, Damascus, Amsterdam, France
A video of a father in Syria urging his young daughter to laugh when bombs exploded around them so she wouldn’t be afraid went viral in 2020. The miscaptioned video can be seen on social media platform X (archived), formerly known as Twitter, and Facebook (archived). In the clip, the little girl can be seen laughing every time she hears an explosion. “They started laughing, and she started laughing, and saw that the thing is just a game,” he said. A video of a father helping his young daughter cope with war by laughing when they hear explosions was filmed in Syria, not Gaza.
Persons: Abdallah al, Muhammad, Salwa, , , it’s, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, NBC News, Sky News, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Syria, Idlib, Gaza, Israel
They believe the photo shows Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and imply the 1969 moon landings were somehow staged or fake because somebody else must have photographed him. A Facebook post (archived) sharing the claim reads, “Actually the first man on the moon was Neil Armstrong’s cameraman.”However, the image being shared actually shows Aldrin and was taken by Armstrong. A description of a similar NASA photo says the moment shows Aldrin descending the ladder to the moon’s surface while Armstrong photographed him on July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon and his descent was captured by a mounted camera. A picture on social media shows Buzz Aldrin, the second man to land on the moon, not Armstrong.
Persons: Edwin “ Buzz ” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, , Neil Armstrong’s, Aldrin, Armstrong, , Buzz, Buzz Aldrin, Read Organizations: NASA, Reuters, Thomson
Accounts sharing the clip on social media falsely link it to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were operating deep in Gaza City since entering on Oct. 27, Israel said on Nov. 7. It purportedly shows a Muslim cleric forcing himself on a student at a religious school in Lahore, Pakistan, in 2021. The video went viral on social media, Reuters reported on June 21, 2023, with posts on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, in June 2021 (archived). Cleric Aziz-ur-Rehman was arrested, and local reports later said he confessed to assault.
Persons: Israel, Aziz, Rehman, Read Organizations: Israeli Defense Forces, Facebook, Al, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Pakistan, Gaza, Israel, Gaza City, Beit Hanoun, Nusra, Lahore
The earliest iteration of the video that Reuters could find online is a TikTok post(archived) from Aug. 19, 2023, written in Malay. The clip also appears in an Instagram post (archived) from Aug. 21, 2023, with a caption that indicates that the video shows a “Kursus Pengurusan Jenazah” which translates to “funeral management course”. A keyword search on the institute's Facebook page leads to a post (archived) that mentions a "Body Management Course of IKM TSYA Students", with Darul Ulum mosque as the venue. The Facebook page has photographs from the same venue that match the walls (archived) and the flooring (archived) of the building seen in the video. The video was filmed in Malaysia, not Gaza, and predates the 2023 Palestinian-Israeli war.
Persons: IKM, , MARA Tan Sri Yahaya Ahmad, IKM TSYA, Read Organizations: Reuters, Institut, MARA Skills Institute, IKM, Thomson Locations: Malaysia, Gaza, Israel, Malay, Malaysia’s Pekan, Darul Ulum, Palestinian
A video that shows pro-Israel messaging replacing a pro-Ukraine notice on a digital billboard in New York City is fabricated, according to the company managing the unit. Reuters confirmed the location of the advertising screens as 200 W 50th St, New York. Outdoor advertising company Clear Channel Outdoors, which manages the space, told Reuters the advertisement seen in the video is fake. The ad has never appeared on its screens, a spokesperson for the firm said. The digital billboard messages shown in the video never appeared on the New York City display shown, according to the company managing the promotional screen.
Persons: ISRAEL ”, Read Organizations: UKRAINE ”, ISRAEL, ABC, Facebook, Reuters, Outdoor, New, Thomson Locations: Israel, Ukraine, New York, Manhattan, UKRAINE, St , New York
A photograph of a woman carrying a toy down a flight of stairs in a crumbling building was captured during the conflict in Syria, contrary to posts sharing the photograph saying it is from the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. The description of the photo on the awards website reads, “Homs, Syria's third largest city, had been involved in war for four years. A mother, who returned home after the end of the conflict, found her child's toy car in their destroyed house.”Ghaedi did not immediately respond to a Reuters message via social media. The photograph shows a woman walking down a flight of stairs in a destroyed building in Homs, Syria. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.
Persons: Hassan Ghaedi, ” Ghaedi, Read Organizations: Siena, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Syria, Israel, Homs, Iranian, Syria's
A photo of a far-right protester with a swastika tattoo was captured in the north of England in 2016, not at counter-protests to a pro-Palestinian demo in London on Nov. 11, 2023, despite online accounts making that assertion. Police arrested more than 120 people on Nov. 11 after far-right counter protesters attempted to ambush a pro-Palestinian rally in central London that drew 300,000 demonstrators. One social media user sharing the photo on Facebook (archived) wrote: “English Defence League demonstrator at Saturdays March showing off his swastika tattoo whilst wearing a poppy. These people are that thick that irony is lost on them and I’m stuck for words.”Users of messaging platform X (archived), formerly known as Twitter, also shared the photo as if from the Nov. 11 protest. However, the photo was taken on Nov. 26, 2016 at an anti-Mosque demonstration in Bolton, Greater Manchester, according to the photojournalist who took the image.
Persons: I’m, Read Organizations: Police, English Defence League, Twitter, Nazi, Guardian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: England, London, Bolton , Greater Manchester, Bolton
A video of Israeli police violently apprehending a girl in Jerusalem in 2022 has been falsely claimed online to be filmed during the Israel-Hamas war that broke out in October 2023 and has been continuing unabated. Ramouz’s caption on the post, dated Feb. 28, 2022, reads: “Assaulting a girl and launching stun grenades at those present in Damascus Gate”. The clip was featured and referenced in local news reports on Feb. 28, 2022, about clashes at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, where people had gathered to observe a Muslim holiday. Using satellite imagery on Google Maps, Reuters confirmed the location of the video to be Damascus Gate. Landmarks (archived) visible in the background in the video can also been seen on Google Maps.
Persons: Amud, , Baraah Abo Ramouz, Ramouz, Read Organizations: ” Reuters, Reuters, Google, Thomson Locations: Jerusalem, Israel, Palestinian, Damascus
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