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2/ First 650+ words of the piece:
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2/ What I spotted, and revealed, was that despite this being presented as the events of a single day, the child featured as a paramedic (an unbelievable idea already) was wearing several different pairs of shoes and had had a haircut midway though the sequence claiming to be a mass casualty incident in a war zone!


Yet again, the Mediterranean was used as a platform for self-congratulatory theatre.
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It was totally obvious this was a fake, even at first glance. But if you don't have a good sense for these things, it should have been obvious from a simple search: the photo of the faked flyer was at least one month old. Here it is in a post from February: https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1892624820132589620
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2️⃣ The BBC’s new documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, was marketed as an unfiltered look at children’s lives in the Strip.
2/ Zakaria is said by the BBC to be a child volunteer helping paramedics in Gaza. They show an elaborate sequence where we’re told he’s helping the adults at the hospital as casualties arrive from a nearby airstrike. 