Did Russia Today Journalist Visit Al-Quds Brigades' Tunnels on Hamas' access? Here's the Reality
A video is going viral on social media site X(Twitter). In this video, a reporter can be seen going down into the tunnel and observing the interior of the Tunnel while other members are sitting and doing their routine work.
Aditya raj Kaul, Executive Editor of TV 9 says:
Aditya Raj Kaul, Executive Editor of TV9 Network shared this video on X(Twitter) and wrote: “As Israel begins targeting Gaza Terror Tunnel Network, Hamas Terror groups gives access to Russia Today journalist to visit the Tunnel Network. This is the RT on-ground report from underneath Gaza. This is the Gaza Metro”.
Fact-Check
By reverse-searching the keyframes obtained after converting the viral video, similar videos were found on X(Twitter) and YouTube.
Video posted by RT ARABIC
The DFRAC team found a similar video posted on the X(Twitter) handle of RT Arabic with the caption in Arabic language: Exclusive: The Artie team enters the Saraya al-Quds tunnels under the land of Gaza and monitors their depth and restoration operations after the last war.(Translated into English)
Moreover, the video was posted on June 14, 2021.
Video was found on YouTube as well
We found this video uploaded on a YouTube channel named Southern Press captioning in Arabic: ‘Entering tunnels under “Saraya al-Quds” land of Gaza & monitoring its depth& restoration processes after last war’. The video was uploaded 2 years ago. (Translated into English)
Conclusion
It is clear from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the video shared by Aditya Raj Kaul with the claim that the Hamas group gives access to Russia Today journalist is misleading since the video was posted two years back. Moreover, It is unrelated to ongoing conflict.
