As casualties mount in Israel's war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, social media users are claiming a video shows a camera crew staging footage of a wounded child.
But the clip shows a 2022 movie's production, and the violence upending the Gaza Strip has not been faked; the fighting has killed thousands and was triggered by the deadliest attack in Israeli history.shows a crowd of people huddled around and appearing to lend instructions to a boy, who lays on the ground with his leg twisted and a red liquid splattered behind his head. Hovering about him is a large movie camera.
Hamas fighters killed more than 1,400 people -- most of them civilians -- and took approximately 150 hostages. In response, Israel has flattened neighborhoods in Gaza in a series of air strikes, killing at least 2,750, most of them ordinary Palestinians., aid agencies called for vital humanitarian supplies to be allowed into the Gaza Strip, warning that time was running out to save millions of people as water supplies dried up and food and fuel stocks dwindled.
But the video being shared is unrelated to the latest hostilities and does not prove the violence has been"staged," as the posts online claim.) from an account with a similar name, which says the video shows a behind-the-scenes view of the filming of a movie., a Palestinian boy who in 2015 became a symbol of a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Manasra, who was 13 years old at the time of the incident in a Jewish settlement neighborhood in annexed east Jerusalem, was hit by a car as he and his cousin fled.
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