A video purporting to show three-year-old kid being arrested by Israeli IOF Forces Armed with Rifles has gone viral, featuring men in uniform holding the child.
Verified accounts on twitter, including Sulaiman Ahmed (“@ShaykhSulaiman“) tweeted the 32 seconds video and claimed that the child aged three are arrested by Israeli military forces armed with rifles. The tweet was made on Oct 24, 2023 by the user. The post went viral and has reached to an almost 554.8k views on X. The archive can be read from above.
ISRAELI IOF FORCES ARMED WITH RIFLES ARREST 3 YEAR OLD CHILDREN pic.twitter.com/2COvQWMlUu
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) October 24, 2023
@jacksonhinklle wrote in caption “Israeli IOF forces ARREST a three year old Palestinian child!” after sharing the same video on twitter. The post reached to 1.6M users, contributing to the spread of the information.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israeli IOF forces ARREST a three year old Palestinian child! pic.twitter.com/XfMQrat6qF
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) October 24, 2023
Several other verified users like Kashif Arsalaan (“@KashifArsalaan“) tweeted Terrorists with no mercy are not even sparing innocent children. He also questioned in his tweet that what crime could this child have done to suffer like this.
ज़ालिम आतंकवादी मासूम बच्चों को भी नहीं छोड़ रहे हैँ,
— Kashif Arsalaan (@KashifArsalaan) October 24, 2023
क्या कुसूर रहा होगा इस बच्चे का। pic.twitter.com/GKCi5s9lhA
Is the Video Related to the Current Conflict between Israel and Palestine? : Fact
In actuality, this is an old video from the West Bank from 2018, showing the Israeli soldiers holding the child. Even so, the child’s elder brother managed to free him from the soldiers’ grasp.
IMEMC NEWS published an article on March 28, 2018 and attached the same picture from the video clip.
A three-year-old Palestinian child was attacked by Israeli soldiers in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, and attempted to be abducted, according to a video released by nonviolent activist Raed Jihad Abu Rmeila.
In the footage, the soldiers are seen holding the terrified three-year-old Durgham Karam Maswada as he cries in front of his house in the Old City of Hebron, close to the Ibrahimi Mosque.
Additionally, it depicts the child’s elder brother managing to release him from the soldiers’ grasp, who were holding him despite his cries.
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) October 24, 2023
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video that shows men in uniform holding a child has been shared claiming that Israeli IOF Forces Armed with Rifles arrested a 3-year-old child, as per reports, this is an old video from the West Bank, (1/2) pic.twitter.com/vWkfVqoJDK
Intent:
Influencers are spreading outdated videos with incorrect information while claiming it to be recent in order to spread misinformation.
Conclusion:
Claim : According to a video that has gone viral, Israeli IOF Forces Armed with Rifles arrested a three-year-old child. The video shows men in uniform holding the child.
Fact : It is an old video from 2018 showing Israeli soldiers holding the child in the West Bank. Even so, the child’s elder brother managed to free him from the soldiers’ hands.
