Pro-Israeli accounts, over the last few weeks since the war began, have accused Palestinians of faking their suffering. Posts claiming to show how Palestinians have faked their deaths amid the conflict to inflate the death toll in the region are rampant online. BOOM has identified and debunked 12 such claims so far, which actually show unrelated photos and videos that are falsely connected to the Israel-Hamas conflict in order to undermine the Palestinian death toll.
The one term that has been made popular by these false claims is 'Pallywood'.
This is just one of the many false claims doing the rounds on the Internet.
To put things in context, more than 10,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis have been killed in Gaza since October 7, when Islamist militant group Hamas first attacked Israel leading to retaliatory strikes that have continued for over a month.
According to the Gaza health ministry, of the 10,000 Palestinian deaths, about 4,104 include children. Gaza has one of the youngest populations in the world, with almost 47% people under the age of 18. However, since the Gaza health ministry is run by Hamas itself, the numbers released by them have been questioned on multiple occasions amid the conflict. One of the most popular sceptics include US President Joe Biden who expressed that he had "no confidence" in the Palestinian death toll released by the ministry. US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby made a similar statement and spoke about how the...
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