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Images of Atrocities in Syria Are Used to Blame Israel on Social Media
(Ha'aretz) Linda Dayan - Repurposed and mislabeled images from Syria have become a mainstay of Israel-Gaza misinformation and disinformation. Since Monday, 44,000 people have watched a grisly video on X that shows men in uniform repeatedly stabbing unarmed detainees, labeling the attackers as Israelis. BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh clarified on Tuesday that the video is from 2013 and the stabbers were militia forces loyal to the Syrian regime. An image, viewed over a million times, claims to show Israel dropping white phosphorus bombs near Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital. The image is from 2017 and shows air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria. A video of a crying child saying "my sisters have died" due to Israeli bombing had a million views, 12,000 retweets, and 21,000 likes. The video was filmed in 2014 in Aleppo, Syria, and shows the aftermath of bombing by Syrian government forces.