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| - Fact Check: Palestinian children in Israeli prison? No, this image is cropped
A photo of a few children standing behind metallic bars is being circulated on social media with the claim that it shows Palestinian children in an Israeli prison. The image is morphed.
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India Today Fact Check
This is a cropped photo. The original image shows Palestinian children waiting for food at a soup kitchen in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestine.
Children have been one of the biggest victims in the surging Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Since the start of 2023, seven Palestinian children and one Israeli child were killed. Around 12,000 Palestinian children have been jailed by Israel since 2000, according to the human rights organisation, Addameer. As of December 2022, 150 Palestinian children are languishing in Israeli prisons.
Against this backdrop, a photo of a few children standing behind metallic bars is being circulated on social media with the claim that it shows Palestinian children in an Israeli prison. The archived version of the post and similar posts can be seen here, here and here.
India Today’s fact-check team found that the image in question is morphed. The original photo shows Palestinian children waiting for food at a soup kitchen in the West Bank city of Hebron, Palestine.
AFWA Probe
With the help of a reverse image search, we found a larger version of the image in question on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA). In this version of the image, we can see an open end of the metallic structure behind which the children were standing. A girl can also be seen standing outside this structure with a green bucket in her hand. The description provided with the image reads, “Palestinian children wait to receive food, donated by the Islamic endowment authority Islamic waqf, at a soup kitchen in the West Bank city of Hebron August 18, 2010. ” The photo was credited to EPA photographer Abed Al Hashlamoun.
Similar images of children standing in a queue at the same location were also posted by Reuters around the same time. Per Reuters, the pictures were taken on August 12, 2010, the second day of the holy month of Ramadan.
We also came across a different photo clicked from the other side of the metallic structure on the stock image site, Alamy. This photograph was taken during Ramadan time of 2013. In this photo as well, children can be seen waiting outside the metallic structure with their buckets.
Thus, the image in question was cropped and circulated with misleading claims.
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