No, Erdoğan has not threatened Turkish intervention. No, Qatar has not hinted at a global LNG blockade. No, Hamas fighters did not parachute onto an in-use soccer pitch. No, an Israeli official did not accept blame for the Gaza hospital bombing.
In the two weeks since Hamas militants stormed into Israel early Oct. 7, a flood of videos and photos purporting to show the conflict have filled social media, making it difficult for onlookers from around the world to sort fact from fiction.
Claim: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened to intervene in this Israel-Hamas conflict. But the posts are misquoting a comment Erdogan posted Oct. 17 on his personal account on X about the deadly conflict. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, a political-science professor at Northwestern University who specializes in the Middle East, added that she hasn’t seen any indication that Erdogan has made such a threat elsewhere.
Claim: The Israeli military confirmed it bombed a hospital in Gaza in a social-media post written in Arabic. The post, written in Arabic, suggests the Jewish nation said it bombed the hospital because the Gaza City medical facility lacked supplies and staff. Posts similar to the purported statement hospital statement were widely shared on TikTok and other social-media platforms.
The unit’s separate Facebook pages in English and Hebrew, as well as its X account written in Farsi, for example, all use the military’s main symbol. That gold-colored emblem features the olive-branch-wrapped sword with the Star of David in the background. Claim: A video shows Qatar’s emir threatening to cut off the world’s natural-gas supply if Israel doesn’t stop bombing Gaza.
But Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says nothing of the sort in the video. The seven-second clip is actually a tiny snippet from his opening speech at the Doha Forum in 2017. Qatar’s government on Oct. 16 confirmed the clip dates to 2017 and is being misrepresented. “This is yet another case of an online disinformation against Qatar — such a statement has never been made and never would be,” wrote the country’s International Media Office in an email. “Qatar does not politicize its LNG supplies or any economic investment.”
“Qatar has been securing investment since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed Europe to find new sources of natural gas and quickly,” he wrote in an email. “They’re making deals left and right.”Facts: The widely shared video clip is fabricated, officials with the BBC and Bellingcat, an investigative news website that is cited in the video as the source, confirm.
“We’ve reached no such conclusions or made any such claims,” Bellingcat wrote Oct. 10 in a post on X that included screengrabs of the fake report. “We’d like to stress that this is a fabrication and should be treated accordingly.” Experts say there is also no evidence of Hamas making any claims about receiving arms from Ukraine, nor would it make sense for Kyiv to provide them.
Social-media users on both sides of the latest Israel-Hamas war are sharing the video, each falsely alleging that it’s proof the other group is creating propaganda about their own. But neither allegation is correct. The video shows footage from the making of the 2022 short film directed by Awni Eshtaiwe, a filmmaker based in the West Bank.Mohamad Awawdeh, a cinematographer listed in the film’s credits as a camera assistant, posted the behind-the-scenes footage to TikTok in April 2022, around the time the film was released. A caption on the post, written in Arabic, explains that the scene being filmed in the video shows Manasra being attacked.
“Palestinian resistance fighters capture Israeli commander Nimrod Aloni along with dozens of other Israeli soldiers as the resistance fighters attacked neighbouring occupied towns and Israeli check posts near Gaza,” stated one Instagram post that received more than 43,000 likes. The clip shows people strapped to multicolored parachutes descending onto a crowded sports complex filled with children and families, many in red sports jerseys.
Images of the club on Google Maps match the scene of the video — as well as several other clips of the event from the same TikTok user — with both showing a bright blue fence around a sporting ground next to a paved area with green and blue plastic seats. Claim: Two videos show Russian President Vladimir Putin warning the U.S. to “stay away” from the latest Israel-Hamas war.
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