A video purporting to show a 7-year-old Palestinian girl being taken hostage and arrested by Israeli soldiers is making the rounds.
Verified accounts on twitter, including Palestine Times (“@Palestine_time“) tweeted “ARMED ISRAELI IOF SOLDIER ARRESTS AND TAKES HOSTAGE A 7 YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL FROM HER SCHOOL.” after sharing the two minutes and twenty seconds video of the incident on X. The user also added popular hashtags like #الهلال_الاهلي #غزة_الآن #crymua #starlinkforgaza #ธี่หยด #الإجتياح_البري #Gazabombing #انقذوا_فلسطين #IsraeliNewNazism #Gaza #Isreal #Gazawar #Gazabombing #Gaza_Genocide #GazaWar #Gaza_Genocide #GazaGenocide from the ongoing conflict. The tweet was made on Oct 28, 2023, which has received an about 11.7k views on twitter.
ARMED ISRAELI IOF SOLDIER ARRESTS AND TAKES HOSTAGE A 7 YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL FROM HER SCHOOL.#الهلال_الاهلي #غزة_الآن #crymua #starlinkforgaza #ธี่หยด #الإجتياح_البري #Gazabombing #انقذوا_فلسطين #IsraeliNewNazism #Gaza #Isreal #Gazawar #Gazabombing #Gaza_Genocide #GazaWar… pic.twitter.com/lUlmV78i6Q
— Palestine Times (@Palestine_time) October 28, 2023
Half Baked Humans (“@halfbakedhumans“) also claimed that the video is from the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. The twitter user wrote in the caption that a 7-year-old Palestinian girl is arrested and taken hostage by armed Israeli IOF soldier from her school.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 ARMED ISRAELI IOF SOLDIER ARRESTS AND TAKES HOSTAGE A 7 YEAR OLD PALESTINIAN GIRL FROM HER SCHOOL pic.twitter.com/GL4770eO1e
— Half Baked Humans (@halfbakedhumans) October 28, 2023
Several other users, including toumi313 (“@toumi313“), Sheraz Qabir (“@Itsqabir77“) claimed that the video is from the current war between Israel and Hamas where the 7-year-old Palestinian girl is being taken hostage and arrested by Israeli soldiers from school. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About the Video? : Fact
The incident in question occurred in 2019, involving a 9-year-old accused boy.
The nine-year-old boy in the video, Zain Abdeen Ashraf Idriss, was accused of throwing stones at soldiers before leaving for school that morning. An operation to arrest Zain was carried out by soldiers inside the school. Later in the day, he was set free.
Gulf News published an article on this incident with the headline “Video: Israeli army arrest boy, 9, from school goes viral” on March 26, 2019. The same image was attached from the video with the caption “An Israeli army soldier is seen grabbing the 9-year-old boy from school after the boy allegedly threw stones at them.”
The viral video shows the army entering inside Hebron school to arrest a boy suspected of throwing stones. The boy’s teachers tried to stop the arrest at the door of the classroom.
The video, which was posted on YouTube on March 20, 2019, went viral at first because people assumed the boy was the brother of martyr Omar Abu Layla.
Omar stabbed an Israeli, stole his car, and then attacked a group of Israeli soldiers, killing two and injuring several others. The Israeli army later killed Omar.
Later, it was revealed that the video was of someone else. First of all, the video was shot on March 18, the day before Omar was killed. The school in the video is in Hebron, but Omar is from somewhere else. The soldiers accused the boy in the video, identified as Zain Abdeen Ashraf Idriss, 9, of throwing stones at them before going to school that day.
Check out the full video here:
D-Intent’s Fact- Checking Results:
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— D-Intent Data (@dintentdata) October 30, 2023
ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A video is being spread with misleading claims that Israeli Soldiers arrest and take hostage a 7-year-old Palestinian girl from her school. The fact is this incident is from 2019, and that was a 9-year-old accused boy. (1/3) pic.twitter.com/GJSn9mct8l
Intent:
Anti-Israel accounts are sharing old videos with fake claims and hiding the entire fact to influence the ongoing #IsraelPalestineConflict .
Conclusion:
Claim : A video has gone viral, claiming that Israeli soldiers has taken hostage and arrested a 7-year-old Palestinian girl from her school.
Fact : The truth is that this incident occurred in 2019, and the accused was a 9-year-old boy. Zain Abdeen Ashraf Idriss, the boy in the video, was accused of throwing stones at soldiers before going to school that morning. Soldiers inside the school carried out an operation to arrest Zain. Later that day, he was released.
