At the end of October 2023, social networks became a viral video that captures a man with a corpse in his hands. In the signatures to the video, they say that Israeli soldiers cut off the child’s head and inserted a video camera in its place. We decided to check the correctness of such statements.
Story Failed Viral popularity in Tiktok, where one of rollers scored more than 1 million views, other - By some dozens thousands. Moreover, users are not only divided the video itself, but also Demonstrate their emotions After him viewing. Usually What is happening On the video Describe So: Israeli soldiers Cut off The child’s head was inserted in its place with a camera. In addition, you can find the following details: ""Faced And Sent child's father "," The corpse of a child Sent Parents ”or“ Mom Cried, holding the skin of the child. " This video is used and in quality Justification of the anti -Semitic action in Dagestan.
In most publications, a very short fragment of the video was used or only a screenshot with a blush, which cannot be understood what is really happening.
However, some users Lay out A more complete video. On the running line below and a characteristic dick indicating the scene, as well as in the second part of the video to the crying leader in the studio, you can understand that this is a fragment of a kind of news broadcast.
In the video, the logo of the Arab-speaking television channel Al-Ghad TV is noticeable. From the section "About us" on his website shouldthat this is a channel working from Egypt, focusing on the news of the economy, politics, culture and sports, as well as in the production of documentaries. Al-Ghad TV posts its videos on YouTube. There you can also find Full The version of the viral video - however, the authors chopped not only the body of the boy, but also the people around him. Video lasting about 2.5 minutes published on October 13 at 22:30 in Moscow.
The same fragment was used by the TV channel earlier on the same day, but without comment by the host, apparently, in a straight line broadcasts From the scene. An excerpt from the broadcast lasting a little more than 6 minutes appeared on YouTube on October 13 at 17:57 Moscow time. It clearly shows that a man takes a child from an ambulance from an ambulance, the corpse of a child is standing nearby for some time, and then lifts the decapitated body high and goes into the crowd. Some of the subsequent events are not shown using blur, then the man leaves the crowd and for some time stands at the wall of the hospital. A sunsid voice describes what is happening: in Arabic, the commentator says that the wounded wounded during the series of airstrikes from Israel, he called one of these attacks, he called the victim of one of these attacks and who fell into the frame of a decapitated child. There is no information that the head was cut off with Israeli soldiers in the video, all the more nothing is said about the camera inserted into the corpse.
From the materials of AL-Ghad TV, it is clear that a man with ahead of a child was also removed from other angles. One thing video, removed from the wall of the hospital, “verified” found in X (formerly Twitter). It begins from the moment the man is already holding the body of the child, and ends immediately after his passage with this body to the crowd shooting. There is no blur in this video, but by gestures and facial expressions of others it can be assumed that some standing nearby do not approve of what is happening. In particular, one person pulls the man by the T -shirt and shows his hand in the opposite direction, as if to say: "Come from here." However, the crowd could also indicate the way to the person towards the entrance to the hospital, because for some reason he went to the opposite.
On both videos-both from Al-Ghad TV, and from the user X-clearly shows that no camera was inserted into the place of the head of the child. Most likely, the users who distributed the viral statement saw the screenshot, where behind the body is a man who takes what is happening on the phone installed on a selfie stick. So the illusion was created that the camera was inside the neck of the child. However, the videos shot from another angle refute this.
Judging by the objects that fell into the frame, the boy’s body was really taken to the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza-its characteristic facade, and also Tile canopy In the yard. This hospital can be seen on Photos numerous media telling O situations In the gas sector.
Comparison of a fragment of a viral roller (from above) with a screenshot of the Getty Images photobank (below). The collage is "tested"
The information voiced in the direct broadcast of Al-Ghad TV that the victims of air strikes arrived in the hospital, is well agreed that in the morning of October 13, Israel attacked a number of goals in the gas sector. In a press release of the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) It is saidthat 750 objects associated with Hamas were amazed. Military correspondent of the publication Times of ISRAEL Emmanuel Fabian reported In X, that at night the military destroyed a 12-story building, in which, according to intelligence, there were Hamas militants.
Apparently, a child who fell on a viral video is a victim precisely a airstrike, and not decapitating from Israeli soldiers, who simply were not in the gas sector on October 13 (Impaal Started The ground operation is only two weeks later). In support of this version, the nature of the injuries also speaks: it is clear from the video that the child’s head is not cut off evenly (as it would be in the case of decapitation with a knife or other sharp object), the neck, part of the soft tissues of the head and fragments of the skull are preserved. Aviator and the next explosion behind it itself is quite Maybe to cause such injuries, even a separate bomb can tear off the person's head (so It happened, for example, with a suicide bomber who committed a terrorist attack at the Moscow Domodedovo airport in 2011). Moreover, on the network you can find Video protest how they look Deadless As a result of the air strikes: they have the same injury that the child has a viral video.
Finally, regarding the allegation that the body in this form received the father of the murdered. If you carefully watch a video fragment when the ambulance only drives up to the hospital, you can see that several people run out of the crowd, in particular a man in a bright T -shirt and black pants with a characteristic white vertical strip along the seam. The doors of the car are still closed at that moment. In the same way, a man who carries a child in a video shot from another angle is dressed.
Moreover, it can also be seen on an earlier fragment of a direct broadcast-this person does not stand at the entrance to the hospital, but in the crowd, then begins to move towards the vehicles approaching the hospital and finally takes the decapitated body from some of his hands and goes back to the crowd. From this we can conclude that a man from a viral video holding ahead corpse is probably a local resident who does not have related ties with a child.
Thus, contrary to the statements spreading in Tiktok, there is no evidence that the child from the viral video died at the hands of Israeli soldiers who cut off his head, and no one placed the camera on a tripod in its place. Most likely, the child received an injury incompatible with life because of the airfield and the followed explosion. The man holding the corpse - in all likelihood, is not the father of the child at all, he was in the square in front of the hospital and before the ambulance drove up to the entrance, and then grabbed the body and decided to demonstrate it to others.
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