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☆ Fact Check: Video of Knesset members crying filmed after Hamas attack screening
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video of people crying in Israel’s parliament after viewing footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 cross-border attack is being baselessly claimed online to be a reaction to military losses. However, the 24-second video, which shows people crying and consoling one another inside the Knesset, was taken following a private screening to lawmakers of raw footage from Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, according to a Knesset spokesman. According to a report by The Times of Israel, footage was screened to more than 50 Knesset members on Nov. 1. It included uncensored call recordings, CCTV, bodycam footage, dashcams, social media content, and mobile phone videos by Hamas, Israeli victims, and first responders. The video shows Knesset members crying after watching uncensored footage of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.

Persons: baselessly, ”, Read Organizations: Hamas, IDF, Israel Defence Forces, The Times, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, WhatsApp

☆ Fact Check: Video does not show Hamas forcefully recruiting people from their homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed forces raiding a civilian’s house in Yemen has been falsely shared online as showing Hamas militants forcefully entering houses in Gaza to recruit men to fight against Israel in the war that started on Oct. 7, 2023. The video shows armed men dressed in military-style camouflage forcing their way into a home and taking a man into their custody, after which they search the house while a woman can be heard protesting and several children look on. The same video, however, was shared on social media (archived) on Oct. 3, predating the Hamas attack on Israel, with reference to a region that includes eastern Yemen. Video shows UAE-backed militias forcing their way into the house of a civilian in Yemen, not Hamas militants forcefully recruiting Palestinians to fight. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Read Organizations: United Arab Emirates, Israel, Israeli Army, Twitter, Yemen Press Agency, Reuters, Thomson Locations: UAE, Yemen, Gaza, Israel, Mukalla

☆ Fact Check: Old video of security guard detaining a child is from Sweden, not Israel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of a security guard forcefully detaining a child on a train platform was filmed in Sweden in 2015 and the child was not killed, contrary to online claims that the clip shows an Israeli police officer strangling a Palestinian child to death in October 2023. The clip, however, was filmed in February 2015 in Sweden. No media outlets reported that the boy had been killed in the encounter. Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan reported in April 2015 that the security guards would not be prosecuted. The video of a private security guard violently detaining a child was filmed in Sweden in 2015, not Israel in 2023.

Persons: Sydsvenskan, Read Organizations: U.S, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Sweden, Palestinian, Jerusalem, Israel, European, Malmö

☆ Fact Check: Video does not show Israeli soldier saying Netanyahu is ‘deceiving’ people
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A 45-second clip was shared repeatedly on Facebook (archived) and X social media (archived) captioned “Israeli soldier after returning from Gaza - We fought with ghosts, I was saved from hell. Netanyahu deceives his people with video and says we are winning.”However, a Reuters translation of the man’s remarks in Hebrew in the video clip is: “I am in pain about Yigal along with you. A video of an injured Israeli police officer sending a recorded message to members of his unit does not accuse Israel's prime minister of deception. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu deceives, Yigal, Netanyahu, “ Yair Wisner, Wisner, Israel's, Read Organizations: Israel’s, Facebook, YouTube, Kipa, Israel Police, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Israel, Gaza

☆ Fact Check: Video does not show protesters burning French flag in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video of a woman burning a paper French flag during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Morocco in October 2023 has been falsely shared as a scene taking place in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron visited Israel on Oct. 24, expressing solidarity with Israel and condemning the militant Islamic Palestinian group Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Moroccan outlet Tanja News TV uploaded the video (archived) circulating online to YouTube on Oct. 24 stating that it showed the French flag being burned outside the French Consulate in Tangier. A building with green and black signage displaying the name of Morocco-based bank BMCI that is seen in the video is located on Tangier’s Place de France, opposite the French consulate. The video shows a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the French consulate in Tangier, Morocco, not a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Read Organizations: Islamic, Facebook, Israel, France, Tanja, YouTube, Consulate, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Morocco, Paris, Israel, Islamic Palestinian, France, Tangier, Morrocco, Moroccan

☆ Fact Check: Edinburgh war memorial vandalised in 2022, not 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Edinburgh’s war memorial has not been vandalised in 2023, said the city’s council, despite online accounts sharing the aftermath of its vandalising in 2022 as if recent. Some accounts link the damage to pro-Palestinian demonstrations responding to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. A war memorial in Rochdale, northern England, was defaced on Nov. 7. There were no records of reports of a 2023 incident at the site of the Edinburgh war memorial as of Nov. 9. Footage of Edinburgh’s war memorial having been set on fire are from 2022.

Persons: Scotland, Rishi Sunak, “ We’ve, ”, Read Organizations: Facebook, Pro Palestine, Britain’s, Edinburgh Council, Reuters, Scotland Police, Thomson Locations: Israel, Rochdale, England, The City, Edinburgh

☆ Fact Check: Video of policeman set on fire is from 2020 Mexico protest, not London 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A graphic video of a policeman being set on fire at a protest in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2020 has been falsely labeled online as a British policeman being set on fire by pro-Palestinian protesters in London calling for an end to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. The caption of a social media post (archived) sharing the dated footage reads: “Savage! The scene in the video shows Guadalajara’s Zona Centro, at Av. A video shows a police officer set ablaze by protesters in Mexico in June 2020, not pro-Palestine protesters in London in 2023. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: “, ’, Read Organizations: Pro Palestine, Hamas, Zona Centro, Palestine, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Guadalajara, Mexico, British, London, Israel, Mexican, Av

☆ Fact Check: Syria hospital attack footage falsely said to be Gaza 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

(Note: Some links in this story include distressing footage)A compilation of CCTV footage showing a hospital being bombed in Aleppo, Syria, in 2016, has been shared online to falsely claim it shows Israel attacking a Gazan hospital in 2023. “ISRAEL was CAUGHT on camera BOMBING the Al-Sadaqa HOSPITAL,” reads a post sharing the dated video on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Out of the nine clips in the social media video, Reuters found eight in the AMC compilation. The first clip (0:00-0:03) in the social media video can be seen from 0:49-1:01 seconds of the AMC montage. The video dates to 2016, when it was shared after a hospital was bombed in Aleppo, Syria.

Persons: Israel, “ ISRAEL, Omar bin Abdul Aziz, Read Organizations: Twitter, Facebook, Palestinian, Turkish Friendship, Reuters, Aleppo Media Center, Syrian Network for Human Rights, YouTube, World Health Organization, AMC, Thomson Locations: Aleppo, Syria, Gaza, Turkey, Israeli

☆ Fact Check: Photo shows concentration camp victims in Germany, not Deir Yassin massacre
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

On April 9, 1948, Jewish gunmen killed scores of Palestinian men, women and children in the village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem. Scene of Deir Yassin.” The photo shows a group of people walking around a pile of bodies. The photo, however, shows the bodies of people who died in the Nordhausen concentration camp in Germany in 1945. The caption adds that the image shows “less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. The circulating image was taken in Germany during World War Two and does not depict Deir Yassin in 1948.

Persons: Deir, “ Israel, “ Long, Deir Yassin, Read Organizations: . Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Archives, College, U.S . National Archives, Records Administration, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Germany, Deir Yassin, Jerusalem, Israel, Gaza, Nordhausen, College Park , Maryland

☆ Fact Check: Altered, miscaptioned images of Cristiano Ronaldo in pro-Palestinian video
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A video showing mostly altered photographs and miscaptioned videos of Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is being shared online alongside claims that the images reflect his support for Palestinians. A Facebook post published on Oct. 27, 2023, sharing the video compilation that lasts over one minute had more than 21,000 views at the time of publishing. The caption reads: “Cristiano Ronaldo Full support palestine.”Reuters ImageIn the first video clip of the circulating compilation, Ronaldo is framed by a poster and map overlaid on the video and he says: “We know that you have been suffering a lot. @SavetheChildren.”The compilation of the miscaptioned images then continues to show a variety of suggestive clips and images. The videos and images in the video compilation pre-date the 2023 Israel-Hamas war and many are altered or miscaptioned.

Persons: Cristiano Ronaldo, “ Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Don’t, Jawad El Yamiq, “, Lorca, ”, Lionel Messi, Read Organizations: Ronaldo’s, Canada, Palestinian, Reuters, FIFA, TNT Sports, Lorca, Palestine, Observers, Palestinian Football Association, Thomson Locations: Portuguese, palestine, Syria, Moroccan, Madeira, Lyon, France, Budapest, Morocco, Gaza, ”, Lorca , Spain, Israel

☆ Fact Check: California governor Newsom misidentified in resurfaced video
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video showing an individual falling down the steps of a plane has been miscaptioned in online posts in November as showing California governor Gavin Newsom. Senator Tommy Tuberville in 2014 during his tenure as coach of the college football team Cincinnati Bearcats. Gavin Newsom falls down from plane's stairs.” Another similar post said: “Down goes newsom,” referring to the governor. “That’s not the governor,” Erin Mellon, the communications director for Newsom, said via phone, referring to the video circulating online. The individual in the circulating video was misidentified as California governor Gavin Newsom.

Persons: Gavin Newsom, Tommy Tuberville, “ Down, newsom, ”, “ That’s, Erin Mellon, Newsom, MeidasTouch, Brett Meiselas, Tommy Tumbleville, Tuberville, Read Organizations: Republican U.S, Cincinnati Bearcats, California, UVA, Reuters, Thomson Locations: California, Alabama

☆ Fact Check: RT report on Gaza tunnels predates Oct 2023 Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

“As Israel begins targeting Gaza Terror Tunnel Network, Hamas Terror groups gives access to Russia Today journalist to visit the Tunnel Network. This is the RT on ground report from underneath Gaza. This is the Gaza Metro,” read a post sharing the report on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. RT Deutsch, RT’s German outlet, also published a report on a visit by its crew on June 19, 2021. Russia Today’s coverage on Hamas tunnels dates to 2021, and is not linked to the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

Persons: ”, RT, Read Organizations: Reuters, Hamas, Russia, Twitter, Facebook, RT Deutsch, Thomson Locations: Russia, Russian, Israel, Gaza, Quds

☆ Fact Check: Video does not show Putin announcing Russian support for Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video clip of Russian President Vladimir Putin giving a speech at a military parade in 2021 has been misleadingly captioned to suggest it shows Putin stating his support for Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas war in 2023. The snippet of Putin’s speech was shared on Facebook and X social media with the caption, “Vladimir putin announced Russia will openly help to Palestine. Uraaaaaaaaaaa.”The video and the speech, however, are unrelated to the 2023 Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which began after Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7. A Reuters translation of Putin’s comments in Russian in the video clip is: “Glory to the Victorious Nation! A video shows Vladimir Putin making a speech in 2021 where he did not mention Palestine or the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, “ Vladimir putin, ”, Read Organizations: Facebook, YouTube, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Reuters, Nazi, Putin’s, Thomson Locations: Israel, Russia, Palestine, Soviet, Nazi Germany, Putin’s Russia, Russian, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria

☆ Fact Check: Pro-Palestinian Halloween billboard pictured in Tunisia, not Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Multiple pro-Palestinian billboards were put up in the North African country of Tunisia before Halloween, despite online posts sharing an image that miscaptions one of these billboards as in Chicago, Illinois amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. Various social media users have shared these displays naming the location as Tunisia, including one on Oct. 26 that shows the same billboard as in the miscaptioned social media posts. The billboard, camera angle, streetlamp and buildings in the background match the image shared on social media. Humzah Khan, a Fulbright fellow in Tunisia, shared an image of the billboard on X with the caption, “several billboards like this in Tunis. A pro-Palestinian Halloween billboard seen on social media comes from Tunisia, not the city of Chicago in the U.S.

Persons: Hannachi Issam, Mohamed Bouazizi, VI, Humzah Khan, ” Khan, Al Jazeera, Read Organizations: IN CHICAGO, Chicago, Tunis Tribune, Facebook, Carthage International, Tunisian, Chicago Department of Buildings, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Tunisia, Chicago , Illinois, Israel, Chicago, PALESTINE, Tunis, Gaza, Carthage, la Marsa, Menzah, Marsa, Carrefour, Al, U.S

☆ Fact Check: Video of tank explosion in Sudan unrelated to Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A video showing an explosion next to fuel tanks in Sudan has been falsely captioned as showing Israeli forces targeting children and civilians as they gathered to fetch water in Gaza. The aerial footage shows a bomb detonating amid people clustered next to a large white tank. Reuters could not verify if the tanks belonged to Rapid Support Forces, Sudan’s main paramilitary group, which has been engaged in conflict with the Sudanese army since mid-April. The video shows the bombing of a fuel tank in Sudan, not Israeli forces targeting Gazan children gathered near a water tank. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

Persons: Read Organizations: Al, Support Forces, Sudan News, Army, Rapid Support Forces, Jet Fuel, Khartoum International, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Sudan, Gaza, Al Jazeera, Khartoum, ”

☆ Fact Check: Turkish ships from centenary parade shared as response to Israel-Hamas conflict
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A Turkish navy parade with 100 ships marked the country’s centenary as a republic on Oct. 29, but posts on social media are falsely saying these ships are nearing Israel and Gaza in response to the ongoing conflict. Other posts claim the Turkish navy is responding to the Israel-Hamas conflict or that 100 warships were sent to “help Palestine to attack Israel.”The presence of 100 Turkish ships was part of celebrations for the centenary of the country’s secular republic, however, not a response to the Israel-Hamas conflict in October. Turkish state broadcaster TRT also shared footage of the navy parade passing through the strait and covered the centenary celebration on Oct. 29. Reuters previously addressed miscaptioned footage of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers shared as Turkish warships moving toward Gaza. The presence of 100 ships refers to the Turkish navy’s parade on Oct. 29 celebrating the country’s 100 years as a republic.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, ”, Israel, Read Organizations: Turkish Navy, TRT, Getty Images, Reuters, U.S . Navy, Thomson Locations: Turkish, Israel, Gaza, Istanbul, Palestine, Istanbul’s Bosphorus

☆ Fact Check: Video of covered bodies is from Egypt 2013, not Israel-Hamas war in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Video showing live people lying on the ground simulating corpses at a protest in 2013 in Cairo, Egypt, has been falsely linked online to the Israel-Hamas war in 2023 to suggest that Palestinian casualties reported in the war are fake. The video circulating online shows people fidgeting while lying on the ground covered in white sheets with messages written on them in Arabic. Reuters has previously addressed claims based on mislabeled footage that casualties are being faked during the 2023 Hamas-Israel war. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization established in Egypt in the 1920s, founded Hamas in 1987 during the first Palestinian Intifada, or uprising. Video shows a protest at an Egyptian university in 2013, not staged bodies in the Israel-Hamas war in 2023.

Persons: “, “ Al Jazeera, Mohamed Mursi, Joe Biden, Read Organizations: “ Al, Facebook, YouTube, Azhar University, Al, Palestinian, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Cairo, Egypt, Israel, Gaza, Al

☆ Fact Check: Video about Islamic State atrocities miscaptioned as an Israeli describing Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Video of a 2017 interview with Yazidi Iraqi lawmaker Vian Dakhil conducted by Egyptian channel eXtra news describing Islamic State (IS) atrocities recounted to her by victims has been miscaptioned as showing an Israeli woman who escaped Hamas in 2023. In the clip she weeps as she talks about the crimes perpetuated by IS against Yazidi women and girls. The Yazidis are a religious minority in eastern Syria and northwestern Iraq who were victims of genocidal attacks by IS during 2014 and the enslavement of 7,000 Yazidi women and girls. On Oct. 9, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in broadcast remarks that the crimes committed by Hamas mirrored those of Islamic State. The interviewee is Yazidi Iraqi MP Vian Dakhil discussing crimes committed by IS against Yazidi women and girls, not an escaped Israeli woman talking about Hamas.

Persons: Vian Dakhil, Benjamin Netanyahu, ”, Read Organizations: Islamic, Twitter, Facebook, Middle East Media Research, Washington DC, ISIS, Hamas, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Washington, Syria, Iraq, Gaza, Islamic State

☆ Fact Check: Clip of fireworks exploding on Turkish protesters predates Israel-Hamas war
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of fireworks discharging among a crowd celebrating the May 28 re-election of Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan is being falsely shared as depicting a protest in support of the militant Palestinian group Hamas. In an Oct. 29 post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter, one user captioned the video: “Pro-Hamas Turkish protester holds the fireworks the wrong way...”Facebook users also miscaptioned the clip. As reported by Reuters on May 29, the video was filmed in Istanbul during celebrations for the Turkish president’s re-election on May 28. Separately, thousands of protesters gathered on Oct. 28 in Istanbul for one of the largest pro-Palestinian rallies since the Israel-Hamas war began. The video is unrelated to the October 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict and depicts Erdogan supporters in May 2023.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Erdogan, Read Organizations: Hamas, Twitter, Hamas Turkish, Reuters, Turkish, Thomson Locations: Palestinian, Istanbul, Israel

☆ Fact Check: Image shows child in Halloween costume, not crisis actor in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

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.

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

☆ Fact Check: Brazil soccer fans video shared as pro-Palestinian rally in France
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of soccer fans walking to the Oct. 5 Copa Libertadores semi-final between Palmeiras and Boca Juniors has been mislabeled online as showing a pro-Palestinian rally in France. The nighttime video of a large column of people was also shared on Facebook. The video, however, was posted on X on Oct. 5 by a Brazilian football page called “Planeta do Futebol” and was credited to sports journalist Marcela Rafael. Rafael told Reuters in an email that the video shows fans of Brazil’s Palmeiras team before a match against the Argentine Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores, the South American equivalent of Europe's Champions League. The video shows soccer fans heading to watch a match in Sao Paolo, not a pro-Palestinian protest in France.

Persons: Marcela Rafael, Rafael, Rua Jose Benedito Boneli, Read Organizations: Copa Libertadores, Palmeiras, Boca Juniors, “, Palestine, Twitter, Facebook, Hamas, Reuters, Planeta, Futebol, Argentine Boca Juniors, Europe's Champions, Allianz Parque, Thomson Locations: France, “ France, Palestine, Israel, Palestinian, Sao Paolo

☆ Fact Check: Altered CNN chyron recirculates with Maine mass shooting
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A CNN broadcast with a chyron about a mass shooter in Colorado in 2021 was digitally altered and miscaptioned online as showing a headline about the suspect in the October mass shooting in Maine. Police have identified U.S. army reservist Robert R. Card as the suspect who killed 18 people in a mass shooting at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine on Oct. 25. Posts on social media on Oct. 26 said: “The Maine shooter was an Arabic Obama supporter. However, the chyron at that timestamp reads: “COLORADO SHOOTING SUSPECT BOOKED INTO JAIL TODAY,” which does not match the inauthentic headline circulating online. The CNN chyron was digitally altered and stems from coverage of the 2021 mass shooting in Colorado, not the Maine mass shooting in October 2023.

Persons: Robert R, Obama, Brooke Baldwin, Lucy Kafanov, CNN chyron, Read Organizations: CNN, Reuters, Police, YouTube, Thomson Locations: Colorado, Maine, Boulder , Colorado, Lewiston , Maine, Boulder, COLORADO

☆ Fact Check: Video shows US soldiers arriving in Romania in 2022, not Israel in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Video showing U.S. soldiers land in Romania in June 2022 has been falsely shared online as showing U.S. Marines arriving in Israel during the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. “HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of U.S. Marines have just landed in Israel WW3 HIGH ALERT” read posts sharing the dated video on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Screenshots from the video were also shared on Facebook and TikTok as showing a scene from Israel. However, the low-resolution video contains flopped excerpts from a longer video uploaded to a media-distribution service funded by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) that shows soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) arriving in Mihail Kogainiceani, Romania in June 2022. Video shows U.S. army soldiers arrive in Romania in June 2022, not U.S. marines in Israel in October 2023.

Persons: Read Organizations: Marines, U.S, HIGH, Facebook, United States Department of Defense, DOD, 101st Airborne Division, Assault, Corps, United, Reuters, Pentagon, DoD, Thomson Locations: Romania, Israel, Mihail Kogainiceani, Europe, United States, Iran, U.S

☆ Fact Check: Decade-old US Navy videos shared as Turkish warship nearing Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Footage of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers dating back 10 years has been miscaptioned online as showing Turkish warships moving toward Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict in October. THEY MADE IT CLEAR THEY WILL DEFEND GAZA AS TENSIONS RISE IN MIDDLE EAST.”The video shows two clips of moving aircraft carriers with a CNN logo seen in the lower right corner. The video shows an unmanned X-47B stealth drone launching off the USS George H. W. Bush near Virginia on May 14, 2013. All three camera angles of the aircraft carrier are shown in the U.S. Navy’s video. The clips in the circulating video dates to 2012 and 2013 and show U.S. Navy aircraft carriers, not a Turkish warship.

Persons: Tayyip Erdogan, Gerald R, Ford, Emily Khun, George H, Bush, Harry S, Truman, Read Organizations: U.S . Navy, Twitter, CNN, Turkish, Directorate of Communications, YouTube, U.S, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, TURKEY, GAZA, Turkish, Palestine, Virginia, U.S

☆ Fact Check: Photos show girl being carried after a 2016 airstrike in Syria
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

She has miraculously survived Israel ruthless attacks on 3 separate occasions times on the same day. Reuters captured similar photos from the 2016 rescue showing the same girl in the blue t-shirt and jeans. One Reuters image includes the same man shown with the girl in one of the circulating photos seen from a different angle. The caption of the Reuters photo reads, “A man carries a girl that survived double airstrikes on the rebel held Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, August 27, 2016.”VERDICTMiscaptioned. The images show a girl being carried following an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria in 2016.

Persons: miscaptioned, Ameer Alhalbi, Bab, Read Organizations: Reuters, World Records, Facebook, AFP Factcheck, Thomson Locations: Syria, Israel, Gaza, Maadi, Aleppo

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