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    Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel

    As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope.
    by Shannon Bond Nov 27, 2023 4 minutes
    This picture taken from a position in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing in the the Palestinian territory after an Israeli strike on November 21, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.

    On one side of the split-screen video, a young man lies injured in a hospital bed. A red banner across the top of the frame reads "Yesterday." On the other side, under a green banner reading "Today," a similar-looking man walks through rubble in Gaza.

    "I'm now walking in a neighborhood where there were houses. There are no houses anymore," he says.

    The post on X, formerly known as Twitter, claims the side-by-side videos show the same person. It accuses him of faking his injuries, only to be "miraculously healed" and walking around just a day later.

    But the videos actually show two different people, according to from media . One is a who lost his leg this summer during an Israeli raid in the West Bank. That video was originally posted to TikTok in August.

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