{"id":533771,"date":"2021-05-21T13:50:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533771"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:50:31","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-palestinian-boy-wiping-away-the-blood-of-his-dead-father-and-brothers-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-a-palestinian-boy-wiping-away-the-blood-of-his-dead-father-and-brothers-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Palestinian Boy Wiping Away The Blood Of His Dead Father And Brothers In Gaza?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-a-palestinian-boy-wiping-away-the-blood-of-his-dead-father-and-brothers-in-gaza%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=533771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyaIsleemEn\/status\/1393224391861972995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> allegedly shows a Palestinian child wiping away the blood of his father and brothers who were recently killed in Northern Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7197508\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7197508\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7197508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter\/Screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21.jpg 348w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-82x120.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-620x912-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-768x1129-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-1536x2259-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21-2048x3013-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7197508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Twitter\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The picture, which dates back to at least 2012, shows a boy cleaning up blood from a slaughtered cow in the West Bank, according to its caption on the photo-sharing website 500px. It is unrelated to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The claim about the graphic image showing a Palestinian boy cleaning the blood of his family off the floor has circulated on social media amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/05\/17\/world\/middleeast\/israel-palestine-gaza-conflict-death-toll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violent conflict<\/a> between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect early Friday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-57195537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/14\/fact-check-video-hamas-rockets-gaza-strip\/\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Hamas Rockets Landing In The Gaza Strip?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10158552004377606&amp;set=a.10150164474982606&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a>, a young boy appears to be wiping away blood that is covering the floor. Check Your Fact blurred the child\u2019s face for privacy reasons and the blood due to its graphic nature. The caption of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AyaIsleemEn\/status\/1393224391861972995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 14 Twitter post<\/a> describes the picture as depicting a child wiping away \u201cthe blood of his father and his brothers who were martyred last night by the Israeli agression (<em>sic<\/em>) against the Bedouin village in Northern Gaza.\u201d Over 240 people in Gaza, a Hamas-controlled territory, have been killed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-truce-between-israel-hamas-begins-mediated-by-egypt-2021-05-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>However, a reverse image search reveals the picture both predates and is unrelated to the Israel-Hamas conflict that has occurred this month. The image <a href=\"https:\/\/500px.com\/photo\/3544508\/Palestinian-Kid-by-Rj-Stitt\/?ctx_page=1&amp;from=search&amp;ctx_type=photos&amp;ctx_q=Palestinian+kid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be found<\/a> on the photo-sharing platform 500px, where the description says, \u201cPalestinian Kid cleaning up after the slaughter of a cow in his parents slaughterhouse, Nr Ramallah, Palestine.\u201d The description on 500px <a href=\"https:\/\/500px.com\/photo\/3544508\/Palestinian-Kid-by-Rj-Stitt\/?ctx_page=1&amp;from=search&amp;ctx_type=photos&amp;ctx_q=Palestinian+kid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also indicates<\/a> it was uploaded to the website nine years ago, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ramallah\">Ramallah<\/a> is a city located in the West Bank. Cows and other livestock are frequently slaughtered by butchers and non-professionals in the West Bank and Gaza for the Muslim holiday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Eid-al-Adha\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eid al-Adha<\/a>, according to the Canadian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/world\/spooked-cow-kills-palestinian-trying-to-slaughter-it-for-muslim-feast-1.1013503\">CP24<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Twitter allegedly shows a Palestinian child wiping away the blood of his father and brothers who were recently killed in Northern Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312605,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Palestinian Boy Wiping Away The Blood Of His Dead Father And Brothers In Gaza?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021-05-21.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show A Palestinian Boy Wiping Away The Blood Of His Dead Father And Brothers In Gaza?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}