The "Islamic Messages" Facebook page, which has over 26 followers, yesterday (October 23) published a photo showing two women dressed in military uniforms, one of whom is seen creating fake wounds on the other soldier's face using makeup.
Through this photo, the aforementioned site raises the claim that the women depicted in the image are Israeli soldiers and, through makeup, they are lying about being injured in the current Hamas-Israel conflict.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the photo was taken in 2012 during exercises and tests in the Israeli army.
Link to the post published on Facebook by the "Islamic Messages" page:
The original caption on the post published by the "Islamic Messages" page:
[[If there is a treacherous and faithless people, it is the Jews, they are painted and appear in the media!? This is their reality! ]]
This photo exposes their victimization from all those macabre murders they have committed against the people of Palestine in Gaza!!!
(Even when they said that the first attack launched by Hamas caused 40 child casualties, there are no facts or photos about 'those' victims, it's all a manipulation of sorts to find arguments for the massacres, the terror they continue to perpetrate on women, children and the elderly in Gaza)
After research conducted through online search engines, hibrid.info managed to find the same photo published on the Israeli website "Mako.co.il" on August 21, 2012. (see here)
In this article, which was dedicated to several women in the Israeli army, the aforementioned photo is also found.
Image description translated into Albanian:
Corporal Neta Elbaz (20) from Jerusalem is a trauma instructor at Hospital 10 in Tsirifin. Neta instructs medics and soldiers from different units on trauma care – any injury caused by gunshots, bruises and falls. In addition, she uses her previous make-up skills to decorate simulation dolls and even soldiers with fake wounds during exercises and tests. “I love my section, there’s a family atmosphere here,” she said.
Analyze:
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the "Islamic Messages" page on Facebook published a photo from 2012, which it attempted to present as current by making a false claim.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this post as "Fake News".
Reasoning:
The “Fake News” rating is given to media reports that are entirely the product of a medium that itself contains factually incorrect claims or information. Content that is rated as fake news can be determined with certainty to have been created and distributed with the intent to misinform the public, i.e., to present a claim that is completely false as fact.