Fact-Check: Heart-wrenching Video of Palestinian child, goes viral amid Israel-Hamas Conflict

Amid Israel-Hamas conflict, which claimed the lives of more than 1200 people in Israel and around 950 deaths in Palestine,  a heart-wrenching video of a 10 year old Palestinian girl, has resurfaced online expressing her dismay over bloodshed and loss to humankind.

Claim made by the viral video

A user named Muhammad Naveed shared this video on X(Twitter) claiming “10years old Palestinian girl aspiring to become a doctor cry’s out”

Social media users sharing the video with similar claims

In addition to that, we discovered several users who shared this video making similar claims on the Internet.

Fact-Check

The DFRAC team searched some keywords related to the claim of the viral video. The team discovered numerous news articles revealing the reality of the above viral video

News articles disclosing the truth of viral video

News website ‘the horizontimes’ published news on 17 May 2021, with the headline: Do We Deserve This? I’m Only 10, Heartbreaking Video of Palestinian child”. In this news, Horizontimes says: “ a video of a 10-year-old Gaza Strip girl has gone popular on social media. Nadine Abdel-Taif is seen in the video with teary eyes, talking about how hopeless she felt during this difficult moment.The attacks were in response to Hamas firing rockets into Israel after Israeli police raided Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa mosque and clamped down on protests against Israeli deportations of Palestinians from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem”.

Moreover, According to a news published by ’Indiatimes’  on May 16, 2021, Israel strikes have killed at least 149 people since the violence began on Monday, including 41 children.Amid all this, a video of a 10-year-old child from the Gaza Strip has gone viral on social media showing how helpless she feels during this troubled time.

Another news website ‘ the Quint’ also covered this news on May 21, 2021, mentioning similar facts about the viral video.

Conclusion

Analysis: Misleading

DFRAC’s Fact-Check proves that the viral video showing Palestinian girl lamenting over the loss and bloodshed, dated back to the year 2021, not the recent one.