In the midst of the continuing war between Israel and Hamas, many Palestinian supporters are filling the internet with disinformation by uploading past incidents and videos and erroneously linking them to the current ongoing violence. A user with the handle @/inpic0 (Archived link) posted a video of a baby trapped beneath debris and how she was rescued. The person who posted the video wrote, “While the Western media is still searching for a picture of a single beheaded Israeli child to justify the barbaric crimes of the Israel, In 5 days and until this morning alone, the Israel killed 447 Palestinian children in Gaza 447 brutal killings documented in audio and video, which the Western media applauds and calls self-defense.”
#حقيقة
— PIC | صـور من التـاريخ (@inpic0) October 12, 2023
بينما لا تزال وسائل الإعلام الغربية تبحث عن صورة لطفل اسرائيلي واحد مقطوع الرأس لتبرر الجرائم الهمجية للإحتلال ،
قتل الاحتلال خلال 5 أيام وحتى صباح اليوم فقط 447 طفلاً فلسطينياً في غزة
447 عملية قتل وحشية موثقة صوت وصورة يصفق لها الإعلام الغربي ويسمونها "دفاعا عن النفس" pic.twitter.com/q1supyvTy4
Another user (Archived link) remarked, “A baby was rescued alive at the #Gaza strip after Israeli strikes hit his home and killed all his family members as appreciated in shocking footage. #Palestine.”
‼️🇵🇸A baby was rescued alive at the #Gaza strip after Israeli strikes hit his home and killed all his family members as appreciated in shocking footage. #Palestine pic.twitter.com/8FqYBgaxQV
— Maimunka News (@MaimunkaNews) October 13, 2023
Furthermore, the user Vipin Bishnoi (Archived link) uploaded the video with the caption, “I have no words to say… it is a very painful and horrifying situation. please stop the war.”
I have no words to say… it is a very painful and horrifying situation. please stop the war🙏🙏🙏
— Vipin Bishnoi। (@VipinBishnoi13) October 12, 2023
STOP🚨 THE WAR#EmergencyAlert #Syria#AUSvsSA #AaryaS3OnHotstar#INDIAwantsCasteCensus #Speed#TelAviv #Israel #IndiaWithPalestine #MrunalThakur#HamasWarCrimes #HamasMassacre pic.twitter.com/eowHWqsxY5
Fact Check
We began our research by conducting a reverse image search on the extracted keyframes of the video and discovered that it was from the Syria earthquake. In the start of the year, 7.8 earthquake struck southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. According to the report dated February 12, 2023, where we discovered the same video uploaded, a baby was trapped under the rubble in the earthquake in the Cenderes town of Afrin, Aleppo region of Syria. Luckily the infant was rescued alive from the rubble in the early hours of the earthquake.
Further, we also found a tweet by the Syria Civil Defence (Archived link), who on February 11, 2023, tweeted the same video of the child rescue and wrote, “Her baby sister sacrificed herself… Incredible moments to save a baby alive who was in the lap of her sister. The city of Jandiris in the countryside of Afrin, north of #Aleppo, at dawn on Monday, Feb 6, after the violent #earthquake that hit northwestern regions of #Syria..”
Her baby sister sacrificed herself… Incredible moments to save a baby alive who was in the lap of her sister.
— The White Helmets (@SyriaCivilDef) February 11, 2023
The city of Jandiris in the countryside of Afrin, north of #Aleppo, at dawn on Monday, Feb 6, after the violent #earthquake that hit northwestern regions of #Syria. pic.twitter.com/awLgP6Jlsp
Hence, the claim that the footage is from Gaza and that the infant being saved is Palestinian is incorrect and false. The incident is from Syria, where a newborn infant was trapped beneath rubble after the country was struck by an earthquake.
| Claim | Video of a child getting rescued after being trapped beneath the rubble is from Gaza |
| Claimed by | Social media users |
| Fact Check | False |
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