The image spread like wildfire. Now it is verified.
Published: 18.12.2023 15:56 | Updated: 18/12/2023 17:21
The short version
- The image of Palestinians forced into a hole in the ground by Israeli forces spread quickly. Fact Verifiable confirms that the incident took place in the Gaza Strip in early December.
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A hundred Palestinians are forced into a depression in the ground. They are forced to undress in front of floodlights set up by the Israeli military regime in the Gaza Strip.
The image has an almost painterly character, and it quickly spread on social media after it was published by Israel’s Channel 12 on December 12. It was also shared on the Twitter account @WarMonitors, where 1.2 million have seen the picture. Several questioned whether it could really be real.
Now means Actually Verifiable Actually Verifiable Actually Verifiable consists of reporters, researchers and fact-checkers from various media throughout Norway who work together to verify visual content and stories from the ongoing war. to be able to determine where and approximately when the photo was taken. They believe that the incident in which the Palestinians were captured was between 6 and 12 December, and that the photo was taken in Beit Lahiya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
They have examined satellite images and found an area that matches what you see in the image.
Other images show Palestinians being driven away in trucks. Details of what has happened to these are not fully known.
Israel has captured a large number of people in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Spokesperson for the IDF, Daniel Hagari, has previously said about the prisoner photos that they are “investigating and checking who is connected to Hamas, and who is not”. He is also said to have said that they are arresting everyone and questioning them.
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Testimony and video evidence has emerged pointing to several cases of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners carried out by Israeli forces, according to Amnesty International.
– That includes people being beaten up, and that Palestinians who are kept in poor conditions are deliberately humiliated, said the organization’s regional director Heba Morayef earlier in December.
A Palestinian from East Jerusalem is said to have been beaten yellow and blue and ended up with three broken ribs.
The unnamed prisoner says the police forced the prisoners to “praise Israel and curse Hamas”, but even after that there was no end to the beatings and humiliations. Aftenposten has previously written about how Palestinians are mistreated by Israelis.
Since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, at least 850,000 Palestinians have been in Israeli captivity, the UN estimates.
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