Fact Check: Viral video of a mother showering her kids amidst rubble in Gaza is NOT RECENT
The Israel – Hamas war has claimed more than 4,000 lives since the latter launched an attack on October 7, 2023.
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The Israel – Hamas war has claimed more than 4,000 lives since the latter launched an attack on October 7, 2023. The Israeli military has updated the number of individuals abducted by Hamas to 199. Several civilians are stranded in Gaza without food, water, and fuel.
Meanwhile, the video of a mother bathing her sons in a bathtub in the rubble after an airstrike is going viral with the claim that it is a scene from Gaza on October 16, 2023.
The video is in circulation with the caption “A scene you will only see in Gaza. Gaza life. Gaza steadfastness... - Gaza 10/16/2023 #ZionistTerror #
Fact Check:
The claim is Misleading. The video is from August 2022.
When we searched the image using Google reverse image search, we found that the image was published in August 2022.
The video of the woman bathing her sons in the middle of rubble was shared on aparat.com on August 25, 2022, with the title “Bathing of two Palestinian children in the ruins/ as a result of the attacks of the Zionist regime”
The video was also shared by Facebook page named One Nation on August 14, 2022, with the caption “Palestinian mother showering her two children on the rubble of their house demolished by airstrikes in the latest aggression on the Gaza strip.”
It was also shared by another Facebook page Spotlight Humanity on August 14, 2022.
While the image of this scene was also shared by the Twitter handle of Times of Gaza on August 12, 2022, with the caption “Amongst the rubble, Palestinian mother captured showering her kids in a bathtub that survived Israeli airstrike targeting their house in the Gaza Strip during the recent aggression.”
Hence, the video of a mother bathing two kids in the middle of ruins is an old one and not recent. The claim is Misleading.