No real atrocities, so atrocities have to be invented. The “Palestinians” have been doing this for decades, with eager help from the establishment media that passes on their fictions as fact. Read about the “Palestinian” victimhood propaganda industry in The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process.
“FAKE ALERT: Fake news spread under #StopIsraeliTerror hashtag on Twitter,” Times of India, November 15, 2019:
Hashtag #StopIsraeliTerror was trending on top on Twitter in India yesterday. Tweeting under this hashtag, a Twitter user by the name of ‘Mo.Riyaz’ shared an image of an injured baby to imply that the infant was injured by the Israel Army, recently.
Highlights
- Fake news and fake pictures are being shared under hashtags #StopIsraeliTerror and #IsraeliCrimes on Twitter.
- Israel’s recent action against Palestine sponsored terrorism is being criticized by some fake news peddlers.
CLAIM 1
Hashtag #StopIsraeliTerror was trending on top on Twitter in India yesterday.Tweeting under this hashtag, a Twitter user by the name of ‘Mo.Riyaz’ shared an image of an injured baby to imply that the infant was injured by the Israel Army, recently.#StopIsraeliTerror
Peace Loving bhakts stand with terrorist pic.twitter.com/9ukVA7RTl9— Mo.riyaz (@Moriyaz59955459) November 14, 2019
TRUTH AND VERIFICATION
The claim is false. The baby in this picture was not injured by the Israeli Army. The image is of an injured infant from Mosul, Iraq and is over two years old.Using reverse-image search on Google, we found a tweet dated April 24, 2017, from the verified handle of MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) India which posted the same image saying that this baby, severely injured, was rescued from Mosul and that she was the only surviving member of her family.
#Iraq: This baby, rescued from west Mosul, was the only surviving member of her family. She received medical aid at… https://t.co/3OgknMjFGT
— MSF INDIA (@MSF_Ind) 1493033579000
The image was also used in a report titled ‘After the battle: The unfolding of a disaster’ published by msf.org on July 11, 2018.
The report talks about military offensive led by an alliance of the Iraqi security forces and an international coalition to retake Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city. In this article, the image is shared and credited to some Javier Rius Trigueros.
VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that image of an injured baby from Mosul is being falsely shared as one injured by Israeli Army recently…