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The viral clip is from a film set. Karim Doniazelle, a Moroccan actor who was part of the film, confirmed this to India Today.
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India Today Fact Check
This video is from a film set. It was shared by a Moroccan actor and director Karim Doniazalle.
From the very beginning of Israel’s siege of Gaza, accusations of Palestinian crisis actors overplaying the harm have made their way to social media. The term “Pallywood”, referring to an alleged industry of staging scenes of violence against Palestinians to gain global sympathy, is often used along with these allegations.
In that context, a video of a patient being brought into a hospital has been widely shared on social media. In the video, a camera and sound crew can be seen recording a patient being brought in on a gurney. Once the scene is shot, the alleged patient sits up.
An X user wrote while sharing the video, “Trailer of the new Pallywood movie that's getting released on December 20th”. Its archived version can be seen here.
India Today found that this video has nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. It’s from a film set. Karim Doniazelle, an actor in the film confirmed this to India Today.
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We noticed that several people reacting to the viral video claimed that the video was from a film set and that the man on the gurney was Moroccan actor Karim Doniazelle.
We subsequently found the Instagram account of the Moroccan actor, Karim Doniazelle. Here, he shared the video in question on October 30 with hashtags like #hollywood, #bollywood, #cinema, and #aloulatv. Al Aoula is a state-controlled TV channel in Morocco.
We contacted Karim to get more information about the video. He told India Today that this video showed the filming of a short film that he was part of. “It has nothing to do with Palestine,” he added. Karim also sent India Today two more videos related to the short film. He did not, however, mention what the name of the film was.
Since the Israel-Hamas war began, multiple old and unrelated videos have surfaced under the “Pallywood” propaganda theory. Our fact checks of two such videos can be seen here.
To sum it up, a video from a film set was falsely peddled as a recent video of Palestinians faking injuries.
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