Several official Israel X (formerly Twitter) handles and other pro-Israel accounts shared a CCTV footage and an unrelated video to falsely claim that Palestinian youth Mohammed Nazzal had not suffered any injures after being released from Israeli prison. Nazzal (18) was recently released from an Israel prison among several other Palestinian prisoners as part of a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas last week.
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BOOM found that the claims are false and Nazzal sustained fractures in both of his hands. The same was also independently verified by Arabic fact-checking website Misbar and the BBC. We also found that an unrelated video of another Palestinian youth Mohammed Shattara was being shared falsely as Nazzal.
As soon as the week-long truce between Israel and Islamist militant group Hamas ended, the former resumed its attack on Palestine where Hamas is based. The renewed bombardment has killed over 700 Palestinians taking the total number of Palestininandeaths since October 7, 2023 to over 15,000. In Israel the official death toll stands at about 1,200.
Israel government's official X handle tweeted CCTV footage of Nazzal leaving the Israeli prison with the caption, "CCTV footage shows Mohamed Nazal leaving prison and boarding the bus with two perfectly working arms." This was accompanied by a screenshot of a tweet claiming Nazal was tortured while in prison.
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