{"id":538563,"date":"2021-05-24T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538563"},"modified":"2021-05-24T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:20:51","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-members-of-hamas-pretending-to-be-dead-for-tv-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-members-of-hamas-pretending-to-be-dead-for-tv-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Members Of Hamas Pretending To Be Dead For TV Cameras?"},"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\">32<\/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-video-show-members-of-hamas-pretending-to-be-dead-for-tv-cameras%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=538563&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Hamas-1-scaled-e1621624170878.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100002477829647\/videos\/4025738077518747\/?_rdc=1&amp;_rdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows members of Hamas pretending to be dead while cameras film them for television.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video actually shows a 2013 student protest in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 72-second video shows about a dozen bodies lying on the ground covered in white sheets. Some of the bodies can be seen moving and the video ends with the sheet being lifted off the face of one of the bodies revealing a young, living man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was how Palestinian terrorist Hamas tried to show the world, through TV cameras, \u2018the cruelty of Israelis\u2019 in killing the \u2018innocent people of Gaza,&#8217;\u201d the video\u2019s caption reads. \u201cEntire drama got exposed when the people lying down started scratching after being bitten by ants on the ground.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/19\/fact-check-egypt-palestinian-flag-pyramids\/\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show Egypt Projecting The Palestinian Flag Onto The Pyramids?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israel and Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, were recently engaged in an 11-day violent conflict, which killed at least 248 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-truce-between-israel-hamas-begins-mediated-by-egypt-2021-05-20\/\">Reuters<\/a>. A ceasefire took effect at 2 a.m. on May 21, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/20\/middleeast\/israel-palestinian-gaza-conflict-ceasefire-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The video in the Facebook post, however, is unrelated to the Israeli-Hamas conflict and does not show members of Hamas pretending to be dead for the media. Through a reverse image search of key frames, Check Your Fact found the footage in a 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bJhYaF-xxOo\">YouTube<\/a> video published by Egyptian news outlet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elbadil.info\/new\/\">Al Badeel<\/a> titled, \u201cA representative show of the bodies inside Al-Azhar University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A translation of the YouTube video\u2019s description explains it shows a group of students who were members of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/03\/world\/africa\/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-explainer\/index.html\">Muslim Brotherhood<\/a>, an Islamic political group that advocates the application of Islamic law in all aspects of life, protesting at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azhar.edu.eg\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Azhar University<\/a>&nbsp;in Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/1\/64\/84813\/Egypt\/Politics-\/Student-protests-ongoing-at-AlAzhar,-surprise-move.aspx\">Ahram Online<\/a> reported in October 2013 the protest was an \u201canti-coup\u201d demonstration aimed at Egypt\u2019s military authorities, who months earlier overthrew Egyptian President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-18371427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohammed Morsi<\/a>, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.<\/p>\n<p>The video and the inaccurate caption have been shared online for years, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/martyrs-fake-death-video\/\">Snopes<\/a> debunking it in 2018. In 2017, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidpuente.it\/blog\/2017\/04\/13\/disinformazione-le-patacche-cellulare-morti-viventi-siria\/\">Italian blog<\/a> debunked the claim that the video showed fake victims of the Syrian Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows members of Hamas pretending to be dead while cameras film them for television.Verdict: False The video actually shows a 2013 student protest in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312829,"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\/Hamas-1-scaled-e1621624170878.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Members Of Hamas Pretending To Be Dead For TV Cameras?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538563","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\/Hamas-1-scaled-e1621624170878.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show Members Of Hamas Pretending To Be Dead For TV Cameras?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538563","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=538563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}