In early December 2023, a series of photographs of an elderly person with a dead child in his arms parted in social networks. It was claimed that these are staged shots made in the gas sector, and in the hands of the Palestinian actually a doll. We checked whether such an interpretation is true.
On December 1, photographs appeared in many Israeli Telegram channels, including Russian-speaking ones, for example, in "ISRAEL⚡️ TrUH"(50,000 views at the time of writing this analysis" and "People for Israel | War"(25,000). Also these shots in their Telegram channel Published Blogger Rustem Adagamov. Typically, photographs were accompanied by comments like “The new video from Hamas Pictures: the inhabitants of the Gaza sob over the doll, which“ died ”during the attacks of the IDF” or “Pallywood, shoots the crying videos with cheap dolls depicting children”.
From the editorial office: We are forced to warn readers that the pictures taken by photojournalist in the gas sector are demonstrated in this material. These are rather terrible images. If you do not want to see them, please do not read the analysis.
Several photos and videos with the same child are published in social networks. In some pictures, a man holds him in his arms, on others - a woman.
There is a photo with this man in the photo bank of the information agency Associated Press. It states that the picture was taken on December 1, 2023 in the morgue of the martyr al-Aksa in the city of Deir El-Balah in the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian with the body of the murdered grandson is depicted on it.
In the base of the photo agency Getty images Not only there are pictures from other angles, but additional information is also indicated: the dead child is the name of Muhammad Hani Al-Zahar, his grandfather is Attia Abu Amra, and his mother is Asmakhan Attia Al-Zahar.
According to the staff of one of the videos of a factory project Lead Stories He established that the shooting was really carried out in Deir El Balach, a city located in the southern part of the Palestinian Enclave-in the background is a building with a characteristic dome.
The largest photograph in which you can consider the face of the child is in the already mentioned photo bank Getty Images.
If you carefully look at the eyes of the child, then dark spots are clearly visible on the squirrel. In forensic medicine, this phenomenon is called Tache Noire (or Sprinking stains) and testifies to the death of a person.
With open eyes at the corpse is happening Drying, which after two to three hours becomes noticeable on the cornea and protein membranes of the eyes. But these are indicators for room temperature: in dry weather, the process occurs faster, the first signs of clouding appear in an hour.
Lead Stories draws attention to the fact that on some photographs The child’s mouth is open wider than on others. This detail may also indicate that we are talking about a real body, and not about a doll. In many cases after death muscle relaxation occursaccompanied by the opening of the eyes and mouth, which follows cadaveric winding.
Thus, a set of signs indicates that in the photograph, apparently, the real body of a dead child who died in the gas sector under unidentified circumstances. A option is possible in which the photographers showed a mannequin made using high technologies in compliance with all posthumous characteristics, but this is extremely unlikely.
Photo on the cover: social networks
- Is it true that Hamas distributed a video in which a doll was given a doll for the body of a murdered Palestinian child?
- Is it true that this video shows Israel blocked by Israel in October 2023 a motorcade with humanitarian aid for the gas sector?
- Is it true that this video shows how the Palestinian, who died from Israeli airstrikes, “comes to life”?
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