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| - Fact Check: No 'Pallywood', this 2018 video shows a medical drill in Gaza
The medical exercise was conducted during Medical Awareness Day. It featured participants simulating realistic injuries.
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India Today Fact Check
The video does not show Gazans faking injuries during the ongoing conflict but rather depicts a medical exercise conducted by the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip back in 2018.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees stated that amid Israel’s bombing of Rafah, about 3,60,000 Palestinians fled the city.
Now, pro-Israel accounts on social media are sharing a video alleging crisis actors are pretending to be injured Gazans.
Sharing the video, an Instagram user wrote, “And the award for worst performance goes to Hamas. This is the kind of lies and propaganda Israel is up against. Just ask the UN who just brought half the women and children killed in the war back to life. And they expect the world to trust the news. Israel has the most moral army in the world.”
India Today Fact Check found that the video shows a medical exercise conducted by the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip in 2018. It is unrelated to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.
Our Probe
Upon reverse-searching keyframes from the video, we came across a Facebook post by the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip from March 11, 2018. The post detailed that a medical exercise was conducted by the university's Faculty of Medicine on Medical Awareness Day. Visuals from the post matched those in the viral video, with the two injured men seen in both clips wearing the same clothing.
Further search led us to another Facebook video of the same exercise from March 2018. This video documented the entire exercise and showed university representatives and faculty explaining its objective of raising medical awareness. Participants simulated injuries with fake blood and even lighting their clothes on fire.
Additionally, we found a report from the local news outlet called "Palestinian Online" dating March 12, 2018. It stated that the exercise was aimed to recreate scenes from past attacks on Gaza as part of Medical Awareness Day. It further noted that the University's College of Medicine conducted the exercise in collaboration with the Hayat Centre for Training in Emergency and Crisis Management.
In conclusion, the video in question, falsely linked to the ongoing conflict, really depicts an old medical exercise conducted by the Islamic University in Gaza. Claims of Gazans faking injuries during the current conflict were unfounded.
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