Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
Claim
Hamas burning alive Israeli soldiers.
Fact
Newschecker first ran a relevant keyword search, which did not throw up any credible news reports. We, however, noticed that the logo on the upper-right corner of the video seemed to be the flag of the ISIS terror group , raising our doubts.
Newschecker then ran a reverse image search of keyframes of the video, which led us to this Daily Mirror report, dated December 23, 2016, stating, “A shocking latest Islamic State propaganda video has been released showing two Turkish soldiers it captured in Syria being BURNT ALIVE.”
We then ran a relevant keyword search, leading us to multiple news reports from December 23, 2016, including the Hindustan Times, Al Jazeera, New York Post, NDTV, and Fox News, confirming that the viral video is not related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The reports reiterated that ISIS has released a video purportedly showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive, after Ankara vowed to fight “terror” in Syria in response to 16 of its troops being killed in battle. Access to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook was reportedly blocked in Turkey after ISIS released the footage.
Result: False
Sources
Daily Mirror report, December 23, 2016
Hindustan Times report, December 23, 2016
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Authors
Kushel HM is a mechanical engineer-turned-journalist, who loves all things football, tennis and films. He was with the news desk at the Hindustan Times, Mumbai, before joining Newschecker.
