Claim
Hamas fighter kills Shafas Lavier, the “deadliest sniper in the Israeli Army”.
The archived versions of the tweets can be seen here and here.
Fact
Newschecker ran a keyword search for “Shafas Lavier Israeli sniper Hamas”, which did not throw up any credible news reports of such an incident happening nor any accounts of such a sniper, raising our doubts.
We then ran a reverse image search of the photo, which led us to this Washington Post photo feature, headlined “In Photos: Scenes From The Israel-Gaza War”, dated October 17, 2023. We saw that the viral image, falsely claimed to be of Shafas Lavier, had been cropped from a Reuters photograph, dated October 13, taken at Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, with the caption reading, “Israeli soldiers rest on a patch of grass”.
Similar reports featuring the same photo can be here and here, reiterating that the Israeli soldiers were resting on a patch of grass at Kibbutz Be’eri, after a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel.
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Result: False
Source
The Washington Post report, October 17, 2023
The National report, October 14, 2023
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