A video is being shared with posts that imply Hamas faked deaths as part of a propaganda campaign in its war with Israel. The video is from a 2013 protest in Egypt.
Since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the death toll on both sides has continued to climb. The Palestinian death toll in the war has surpassed 8,500, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza. In the occupied West Bank, more than 120 Palestinians have been killed. More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, most of them civilians slain when Hamas first attacked.claims to show Hamas faking Palestinian casualties, with people covered with white funeral sheets lined up on the ground.
The protesters gathered on the campus to show support for Mohamed Morsi, who was elected president in Egypt’s first free election and served from 2012 to 2013. In 2013, Morsi was ousted by the country’s military in a coup, and the military banned Morsi’s party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party. According toThis is not the first time footage from the 2013 Al-Azhar protest in Egypt has been shared out of context in connection with conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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