Fact Check: Video showing trucks carrying aid to Gaza makes a FALSE claim that the convoy was obstructed, it is NOT RECENT
A video showing dozens of trucks, carrying aid to the people of Gaza, standing at the Egypt-Gaza border is shared virally on social media with the claim that the convoy has been stalled and denied entry into Gaza by Israelis recently.
Egypt-Gaza border
A video showing dozens of trucks, carrying aid to the people of Gaza, standing at the Egypt-Gaza border is shared virally on social media with the claim that the convoy has been stalled and denied entry into Gaza by Israelis recently.
Several posts shared the video with the claim “BREAKING: AID VEHICLES AT RAFAH, EGYPT BORDER REFUSED ENTRY INTO GAZA BY ISRAEL.”
A few Facebook users shared the video with the claim “Egypt: Israel blocked a huge humanitarian aid convoy for the Gaza Strip including Ambulances. Aid collected by both ordinary Muslims and international organizations, including the UN and other Western charities, as well as a large cargo from Turkey.”
Fact Check:
The claim is Misleading. The truck convoy seen in the video is from the year 2021 and is not recent.
When we searched the key frames extracted from the video using Google reverse image search, we found it online since 2021.
Egyptian News Channel Al Nahar first shared the video on their Facebook page on May 31, 2021. The caption in Arabic states مصر ترسل أضخم قوافل الدعم والمساعدات إلى الفلسطينيين
When translated, it states “For the third time, #Egypt sends the largest convoys of support and aid to the Palestinians in #Gaza”
A news article published on May 24, 2021 shares similar images as in the viral video, with the title “Egypt sends aid to Gaza – in Pictures”
According to an article published in arabnews.com on May 24, 2021, Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has offered to send a large aid convoy to Gaza. Spokesperson Bassam Rady said that the country had sent 130 trucks loaded with 2,500 tons of food, medicine, baby milk, clothes, furniture, electronic appliances, and other materials through the ‘Long Live Egypt’ (Tahya Masr) fund.
Hence, the viral video does not show the humanitarian aid convoy sent by Egypt to Gaza being obstructed by Israelis recently. The claim is Misleading. The video shows an aid convoy sent by Egypt to Gaza in 2021. The aid was distributed among the people in Gaza and was not obstructed.