By Shinjinee Majumder and Mohammed Zubair

Trigger Warning: Dead Body, Child Death

[Editor’s note: It is unfortunate that we find ourselves in a position where we must fact-check a claim that portrays a deceased child as a doll. This story uses screenshots and not actual tweets. Where it is unavoidable for the purpose of fact-checking, blurred images and videos have been used.]

Against the backdrop of the Israel-Hamas war, the Israeli government on October 14 alleged that Hamas was trying to deceive the public by passing off a doll as a slain Palestinian child. On X (formerly Twitter), the state of Israel’s official handle shared a video and a photo of the said ‘doll’. The video is a compilation of two clips set to background music. The first clip shows a child being rushed to a hospital and the second clip shows what appears to be a lifeless child shrouded in white cloth. In the picture, the face of the child has been circled. The caption reads, “Hamas accidentally posted a video of a doll (yes a doll) suggesting that it was a part of casualties caused by an IDF attack”. (Archive)

The claim that a doll was being portrayed as a slain child quickly gained widespread attention. Other official Israeli social media accounts, such as the Embassy of Israel in France and the Embassy of Israel in Austria, followed suit by referring to the child featured in the viral video as a doll.

Israeli activist Yoseph Haddad was possibly the first one to tweet this claim. The fact that Hamas allegedly tweeted a video of a doll to deceive the public “exposes how hard the lying and slanderous propaganda arm of Hamas and the Palestinians works” claimed Haddad. His tweet garnered 3.7M views and close to 27,000 likes. (Archive)

Journalist Amy Mek tweeted the viral clip with the same claim and labelled it ‘Islamic Propaganda’. (Archive)

The official handle for ‘Uncensored News Network’ Voice of Europe tweeted the viral clip with the same claim. (Archive)

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