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Senior journalist at BBC Verify | disinformation, conspiracy theories, verification, AI, open source investigations, extremism | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk

Oct 26, 2023, 5 tweets

Thread: Israel-Hamas war misinformation - Day 21

This video, falsely claiming to show a Palestinian "crisis actor" seriously injured one day and fine the next has been viewed tens of millions of times.

Those are two different men, and the hospital video is from August.


See how many millions of views this totally false claim has got. It was also tweeted by the official Israel account.

One is Saleh Aljafarawi from Gaza who can be found on Instagram, and the other is Mohammed Zendiq, 16, from the West Bank, who lost his leg at a hospital in July.


This video, viewed 1.4 million times, falsely claims to show thousands of US marines landing in Israel tonight to join the war against Hamas.

The video is from June 2022, and shows the 101st airborne division arrive in Romania for a Nato mission.

Jackson Hinkle is spreading misinformation again. These are not "breaking" pictures of US air strikes in Syria right now.

These images are from March, and show US strikes against an Iran-backed group in Deir el-Zour, Syria; fact-checked by @ContextFall.

This video, with 370,000 views here, is being shared widely tonight as footage of missile attacks on Tel Aviv.

The video shows Israel's Iron Dome intercepting rockets over Ashkelon on 11 October.

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