Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, a picture showing a man in uniform kneeling on a man is doing the rounds on social media with a claim that it shows an Israeli soldier killing a Palestinian child.
The picture’s caption reads, “An Israeli soldier kills a Palestinian child and the world has not moved for him Share the picture until it rotates in the world to show the Zionist brutality in Palestine.”
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked and found the post to be false.
When we put the picture through Reverse Image Search, we found a report by a Chilean news website 24 Horas, dated October 3, 2016, featuring a video of the incident.
According to the report, the cop caught the boy doing graffiti on the streets of Valparaíso, Chile and detained him.
The incident was reported by another Chilean news website, Epicenter Chile on October 1, 2016. Nowhere in the reports, it is mentioned that the man in the picture died.
In the video embedded in the report, we spotted an insignia on the officer’s uniform. On comparing the insignia in the video with the logo of ‘Carabineros de Chile’- Chile’s national police force, it became clear that the officer in the picture in from Chile.
This proves that the picture in question is old not from Palestine and hence the claim is false.
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