A video of several people making fake wounds and blood has been mistakenly shared on social media, claiming to be from the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.
The distributors claim that the video shows Palestinians staging fake injuries, but in fact, the footage is a simulation used by the French charity Doctors of the World in 2017 to train their doctors.
The text at the top of the images reads “The new fakery of the Gazans. They make fake blood and paint wounds that are of course not real. All this in order to make the world feel sorry for them, to make Israel look bad.”
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Captions on the posts include: “Palestinians in Gaza display fake blood and paint fake wounds on children to gain global sympathy and make Israel look bad”; “Now they apparently have to create fake “martyrs” in order to sway public opinion to their side”; and “Pallywood is REAL.”
"Pallywood" is a term that blends "Palestine" and "Hollywood" and is used to refer to alleged manipulation of the media by Palestinians to gain public support in the conflict with Israel.
Weeks of violent clashes in East Jerusalem have sparked the heaviest fighting in recent years between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
As can be seen, in the upper left corner of the video, the inscription "Gaza Post" is placed, and that the video was edited together with footage from a Gaza Post report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq485mm3Ct4&ab_channel=%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA
This report states that, from February 25, 2017, a group of young Palestinians described how they created the first company in Gaza specializing in cinema composition and special effects.
TRT World published a report about this video in English (here) about the company, including interviews with the same people as in the Gaza Post report and footage from what appears to be the same event.
TRT World's commentary explains that the artists were creating fake injuries in actors participating in a project by the French charity, Doctors of the World (www.medecinsdumonde.org/en).
The blue logo of Doctors of the World, or in French "Médecins du Monde", can be seen on the backs of two people in the video.
(Full Reuters article in English)