An image showing a girl lying under the rubble of a collapsed house is making rounds on social media platforms. Claiming to be from Palestinian victims of an Israeli bombing. Several users, influencers, propagandists, pro-Palestine accounts and Hamas sympathizers have shared the image with the claim that a Palestinian child was stuck under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike. However, D-Intent Data has found that this is an old image from the Turkey-Syria earthquake. Nothing to do with the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Old image disseminated by propagandists
Several users, influencers, propagandists and Hamas sympathizers have shared the image of the girl lying under the rubble of a collapsed house and claimed to be from the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Serial fake news peddler, anti-India propagandist and Hamas sympathizer account @ShaykhSulaiman shared the image on X (Formerly Twitter) and said. “PALESTINIAN CHILD STUCK UNDER THE RUBBLE AFTER ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE”, he later deleted the post.
Several other users, influencers and propagandists have also disseminated the image with the same claims. Their posts can be seen here: RSAK1978, @sam_official586, @abdulmoeez491.
Truth about the viral image of a girl lying under the rubble of a house, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the image of the girl lying under the rubble of a collapsed house came to our notice. We conducted research and found that the image was from the Turkey-Syria earthquake in 2023.
To verify the claims made by the propagandists, we did a reverse image search on Google which led us to several media reports containing the same image of the girl lying under the rubble of a collapsed house.
According to the reports, this image shows a little girl named Sham lying under the rubble of her collapsed home before being rescued by White Helmet volunteers in Armanaz, Syria, on Feb. 7, 2023. The image was found on several media outlets like India Today, The Christian Science Monitor and Al Jazeera.
We also found that the image was captured by Mousa Zidane, a photographer who was also working as a rescue worker with White Helmets in Syria. He saved this small girl’s life after 50 hours of persistent digging during the deadly earthquake in Feb 2023.
Hence, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the viral image is from the Turkey-Syria earthquake in 2023 and has nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Intent
Hamas sympathizers and propagandists are circulating old images from Syria. And claiming to be from Palestine to set their narrative against Israel over the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
Conclusion
Claim- A Palestinian child was stuck under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike.
Fact- The image is from Armanaz, Syria. Showing a girl lying under the rubble of her collapsed house during the deadly earthquake in Feb 2023.
Related Article: Fact Check: Old image of Syrian girl falsely shared as Palestinian victim of Israeli attack – D-Intent Data (dintentdata.com)
