Old Photos of Syrian Girl Used to Spread False Claims About Palestine
The Claim
A photo shows a girl in Gaza being rescued in three different locations, which proves that it was staged.
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Pro-Israel accounts shared a photo of a young girl being rescued in Gaza. According to the claim, the same girl was rescued in three different locations, which proves that it was staged.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar investigated the circulating video and found the claim to be misleading.
The Photo Was Taken in Syria in 2016, Not Gaza
Misbar's team found that the images dated back to 2016 and were taken by photographer Ameer Alhalbi in the Maadi district of eastern Aleppo.
We conducted a thorough investigation of the viral collage of photos of a girl being rescued by different men, and we found another photo listed on GettyImages, that shows one rescuer handing over the same girl to another rescuer who is seen in the third photo. This clearly means that they are from the same incident and the same girl who was handed over to different people while being rescued that day.
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