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