These Pictures Are From Lebanon, Not Kabul

Hind Khoudary

Technology

15th August 2021

These Pictures Are From Lebanon, Not Kabul

Jad Sawaya hugging his baby after Beirut's blast (Twitter).

The Claim

Pictures show what is currently happening in Kabul.

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Emerging story

Twitter users are circulating pictures claiming they show the reality of what is currently happening in Kabul. The pictures circulating allege they show a hospital being bombed in Kabul.

Think if this is happening with you.
This is the Taliban crime.
This picture is every days picture of Afghanistan.
pic.twitter.com/qERQ3ArGKB #SanctionPakistan
— shkula🌾 (@Shkulapashtana) August 10, 2021

It's the reality of life in Afghanistan now a days. Every people of Afghanistan effects from this proxy war even newborn children.
The @USAGov the @UN and all other international governments and organizations must take a decision to end this 4 decades war.#SanctionPakistan pic.twitter.com/hkBcGli8Di
— Today & Tomorrow (@TodayAfg) August 10, 2021

Misbar’s Analysis

MENA: A Google image reverse search revealed that the pictures circulating are from Beirut's explosion last year. The circulating depicts Cristal and her husband Jud becoming parents for the first time a few minutes after the deadly blast in Beirut.

This lady gave birth at the hour of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

TO THIS HEROIC DOCTOR THAT PERSISTED THROUGH THE COLLAPSING WALLS OF THE HOSPITAL TO ENSURE A SAFE DELIVERY, SALUTE SIR.

This is HUMANITY on another level. WOW!

Doctors are unsung heroes we don't deserve 😭❤ pic.twitter.com/tGhMgFSO63
— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) August 9, 2020

According to Reuters, Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
President Joe Biden on Saturday authorized the deployment of 5,000 U.S. troops to help evacuate citizens and ensure an "orderly and safe" drawdown of military personnel.