Soon after the attack of the Hamas militants on the settlements in the southern part of Israel on October 7, 2023, a video with children enclosed in cages diverged on social networks. We checked whether these are really small Israelis in the gas sector.
On a 35-second video, you can see five small children sitting in imprisonment in the cells of an ordinary chicken coop. Behind the scenes, a voice of a man mocking the children is heard - he speaks in a language very similar to Arabic. According to the cover comment, this video was laid out by the militants of the Hamas Islamist organization, which on the morning of October 7 Attack Israel, as a result of which hundreds of civilians were killed, even at least dozens, including children, in the status of hostages fell into the gas sector.
In the Russian -language segment of the Internet, the video distributed resources such as "News N." Cursorinfo, "Apostrophe","Island","Channel 24", As well as numerous Telegram channels, among which"Mardan"(714,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Fisherman"(378 000),"Truha tin 18+"(344,000),"Solovyov"(302 000), Colonelcassad (280,000), "Pozdnyakov 3.0"(274 000) and"Truthfulness"(251 000).
The radical Islamic movement Hamas (the European Union, the USA and Israel recognized it as a terrorist organization) on the morning of October 7 Apply A series of missile strikes in Israeli territory. At the same time, militants penetrated the border settlements of this country, where they arranged a real reprisal Above the civilian population. Victims of Hamas as of October 12 steel about 1300 Israelis (overwhelming majority -peaceful citizens), in the kibbutz kfar-aza was Found Several dozen bodies of children. The representative of the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) Jonathan Conricicus with reference to forensic experts confirmed The reports that appeared earlier in the media that at least a few children killed in Beeri Kibbutz were beheaded. About 130 hostages, according to preliminary data, were Drawn up The militants to the territory of the gas sector, the exact number of minors was not disclosed among them.
Disflated shortly after that over the video, although it became viral, immediately gave rise to questions regarding the authenticity and possible place of action. The watermark on all samples on the Internet, without exception, suggests that the video was published in Tiktok by the user @user6903068251281. However, at the time of writing the material is a link to the original publication She did not work, but the account itself in the first days after the video became popular, turned out to be blocked. The Israeli factor resource FakerePorter conducted an investigation on October 8–9 Laid two screenshot (video in Tiktok and a photograph taken on its basis from the same user on the social network X), on which you can see the date: "Four days ago." Thus, these videos and photos were posted even before the Hamas attack on Israel on the morning of October 7.
And under the photograph and under the video, you can see the Arabic -speaking hashtag, which can be literally translated as “the Chinese do not have a solution” - an idiomatic expression meaning “they are incorrigible”. Under this humorous hashtag in social networks often Published Funny videos.
Also, under the photograph, you can see the hashtag with the words "gas" and "Palestine", as well as the names of the Middle Eastern states.
Our colleagues from Lead Stories They found out that the gloating laughter, which is accompanied by the video, is imposed separately - it is often used in other publications in Tiktok, including those who appeared in summer 2023. Facts from the project Maldita They turned for help to a specialist in the Arabic language. He stated that you can hear dialect behind the scenes Khalidzhiwhich is spread along the coast of the Persian Gulf, but not in Palestine or Israel.
By searching for Google named user User6903068251281, you can find another video that remains in Cache search engine. Judging by the time mark, it was published on October 8, that is, after the spread of the sensational entry. In the new video, we see four children sitting on the threshold of the house.
At the same time, at least two children from this second video are very similar to children from the first.
The second video was posted as a response to a playful comment “Free them until they turned white” from another user, obviously left just under the first video.
On October 11 or 12, the Tiktok @user6903068251281 user account, the alleged author of the sensational video, was unlocked. Judging by the photos and videos published in the profile, the blogger really lives in the gas sector. As it turned out, before blocking, he managed to record a short one of the users in response to the question of one of the users AppealIn which he said that the kids depicted in the video are his relatives, and not at all “children of the Zionists”. The video, according to the man, was shot three days before the attack on Israel on the morning of October 7.
Thus, the viral publication appeared on the Internet even before the attack of Hamas militants on Israel in October 2023, and the Palestinian who called it, who called the relative of the children depicted, later published a video with unlocked boys. Most likely, the removal of both videos from Tiktok is associated with the resonance that caused the distribution of video with children in cells with an incorrect description. It should be noted that some Telegram channels that distributed videos with “stolen Hamas children” later made a refutation or updated their publications.
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