In October 2023, a video was widely dispersed on the Internet, on which a doll was supposedly instead of a deceased Palestinian child. We checked how justified these statements are.

During the attack of the Hamas group on Israel on October 7 and the follow -up blows on the gas sector, thousands of residents of Israel and Gaza died, many of them were civilian. By October 22 It is known About at least 1,400 killed Israelis, the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Gaza, controlled by Hamas, reports It is not possible to confirm the Palestinian data about more than 4,500 dead in this territory (it is not possible to confirm the Palestinian data).

On October 13, in the official accounts of the state of Israel, a 17-second video appeared on social networks (in the video, the man transfers the body of a child to another man wrapped in a shroud) and a stop frame from this video, in which the child’s face is highlighted in a red circle. “Hamas accidentally published a video with a doll (yes, with a doll), claiming that this is one of the victims of the attack of the Israeli armed forces,” the relevant publications in the relevant publications Instagram (53,000 likes) and X (former Twitter, 1.4 million views at the time of writing this analysis, 7800 reposts).

In Russian, information has spread to Xand then in Telegram marked that the video was soon deleted from Hamas channels. The “puncture of Hamas” wrote, in particular, channels Azfront (205,000 views), "Israeltrukh"(94,000),"Bild in Russian"(55,000) and"Eastern syndrome"(35,000), some of these messages were shared, in particular, the editor -in -chief of the Rain television channel Tikhon Dzyadko and political scientist Abbas Gallamov. The plot hit the row German And Azerbaijani Media about the video about the video Wrote "New News." On October 21, Julia Latynina mentioned the story of the doll in ether Your YouTube channel - part of Stream was dedicated to fakes from Hamas, decryption Published On the website of the publication "Echo".

Publication in the official Israeli account in X

Search for a video source using Google Lens leads to tweet dated October 15, which states that the video is shot and posted on Instagram by the user X @Momen1_0, as well as that there are confirming the reliability of the event pictures taken by the photographer of the AFP agency Mohammed Abed.

The @Momen1_0 account in the social network X, judging by the description of the profile, belongs to the Palestinian photographer Mamun al-Halebi. He really leads the blog on Instagram, it was there that the original was published on October 12 video clip. The high -resolution video lasts a few seconds longer than the viral, at its beginning the entrance to the hospital is shown in more detail, while the video has a watermark (it is preserved in the posts published the next day in the official Israeli accounts).

Viewing the page of the page element on Instagram allows you to determine the exact boot time - 13:59 according to Greenwich (16:59 Moscow time), but presumably related With Hamas channels In Telegram, which was studied "verified", this video appeared Not earlier than at 20:38 the same day. IN archives The official channel of the group (link to it is indicated on the site) Video traces are not in principle.

On the left - the exact time of publication in the page on the page on Instagram; on the right - publication in one of the supporting hamas channels

Together, these data refute the affirmation that has spread on the Russian -speaking Internet that the video was originally published precisely by Hamas channels and later, when the forgery was opened, removed. At the time of writing this parsing, the video is still available in the aforementioned Telegram channels associated with the group, and on the page of Mamun al-Khalebi.

On high-resolution frames laid out by al-Halebi, an ambulance with the marking Ahli Arab Hospital Gaza is visible, a car from which two children are carried out, and the hospital building with a sign and the Red Cross emblem. Search by keywords and Photobank Reuters Allowed the geolocy of the place-this is the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in the gas sector, and in the frame the entrance to the ambulance department.

Stop Kadra from a video published by Momun al-Khalebi

To the same conclusions, regardless of “verified”, factor came AFP. They also confirmed that the photographer of the Mohammed Abed agency on October 12 took several pictures of people who fell into the al-Halebi lens. On the same day, a man in a gray T -shirt was captured by a newspaper correspondent Times of Gaza. Abed said that the photographs were shot in the al-Shifa hospital, next to the morgue, and also expressed confidence that this is the real body of a deceased child, not a doll. AFP reports that the photographer took about 20 pictures of this scene, some of these photos are available in Photo banks AFP and Getty images.

A number of Internet users who distribute videos with a child noticed that in his mouth there is something that resembles cotton wool or a piece of cotton-this, in their opinion, proves the falsification of the video. However, this is Standard element Muslim rite of farewell to the deceased.

In addition, Mamun al-Halebi, who posted the original video, told publications India Today And Altnews The name and age of the deceased child, and also sent a photograph of a corpse taken from a closer distance. Details picture (the nature of the damage and the rings on the hands of a man raising the body) coincide with the details on the video and allow us to make sure that this is not a doll.

Thus, all available evidence refutes the statement of a staged video with a doll. The real video, it shows a child who died in gas on October 12. This is also confirmed by photographs shot by several photographers that worked independently of each other. At the same time, the assertion that the video was accidentally distributed and then removed by the Hamas channels in Telegram - false.

Photo on the cover: Times of Gaza