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Image from 2014 purports to depict current situation in Gaza

FATBARDH DEMA

The Facebook page "Islamic Messages" published a post on October 30th about the current situation in Gaza, attaching a photo.

After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the image does not depict the current Hamas-Israel conflict, but was taken in 2014.


Link to the post published on Facebook by the "Islamic Messages" page:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid05H9s9MRfQMHHD8Et22THQfCUN3dgEPdEDtcxVN8VPNCz9pnrmqJshLzLj8qRGApgl&id=100063766562904


After research conducted through the automated program "InVID", hibrid.info has managed to find the same image published in the British medium "Independent.co.uk", where it is clarified that the photo was taken on July 29, 2014. (see here)

Image description, translated into Albanian:

Smoke rises from the Tuffah neighborhood after Israeli airstrikes east of Gaza City, July 29, 2014 (EPA)


Analyze:

After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the "Islamic Messages" page used photographs from 2014, to which it also attached an inscription about the current situation in Gaza.

Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info rates this post as "Unverified Content".


Reasoning:

The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.

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