A graphic video exhibits an explosion at a funeral procession. However the incident was not orchestrated by Israeli forces, as social media customers claimed.
“IsRealHell despatched the physique of a Palestinian martyr again to Palestine with a bomb embedded within the corpse!” textual content on a Sept. 12 Instagram video reads. “It exploded on the funeral procession, killing many mourners.”
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However the video doesn’t present a current Palestinian funeral. It was taken throughout a July 2012 funeral procession in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, NBC reported on the time.
The person within the video, recognized as Abdul Hadi Halab by the Los Angeles Occasions, was wrapped in a Syrian revolutionary flag and had allegedly been killed by authorities forces. Opposition activists say a government-organized close by automobile bombing prompted the explosion throughout the funeral, CNN reported in 2012.
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