A video is widely circulating on social media depicting a young boy in distress crying out for his sisters, purportedly lost during Israel’s Gaza siege. Many users claim that the Israeli soldiers were responsible for his sister’s demise.
The video is shared on Facebook with a caption: “A Little Boy in Gaza Was Seen Crying After His Sisters Were Killed By Israeli Airstrike”.
Here’s the link to the above post.
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the above claim, and found it to be FALSE.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, our team spotted a similar clip on YouTube, uploaded on October 19, 2014. According to the Arabic caption, the video depicts a wounded Syrian child mourning the loss of his sister.
Also, an extended version of the video on YouTube, posted by Aleppo Media Centre — a Syrian activist media group, dated February 14, 2014, indicates that it captures a child grieving for his sibling, who was a casualty of a helicopter bombing in the Masaken Hanano district of Aleppo, Syria. In 2014, Aleppo Media Centre also shared a photograph of the weeping child on its Facebook page, accompanied by a caption: “Masaken Hanano neighbourhood.”
CNN Arabic had featured the clip of the mourning brother in a report on February 16, 2022.
Thus, it is evident from the above information that the viral video is old and unrelated to the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
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