Fact Check: Viral video shows gunfire in Egypt hospital, not Israeli raid in Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
The video is from Egypt and shows a shooting at Rabaa Hospital in 2013.
By Md Mahfooz Alam Published on 18 Nov 2023 9:39 AM GMT
Screengrabs of the post making the false claim. (Source: X/@hulme_edward)
Hyderabad: Amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict, Israel has claimed that Hamas is using the MRI building of the Al-Shifa Hospital as its operational headquarters and also for the storage of equipment. On November 16, the Israel Defence Force (IDF) released a video claiming to have found countless Hamas weapons in the hospital’s MRI building.
Against this backdrop, a video is being shared with the claim that it shows Israeli forces shooting inside the Al-Shifa hospital. An X user shared the video with the caption, “Israeli forces shooting inside al Shifa hospital.”
(Source: X/@hulme_edward)
Another X premium user shared the video with the caption, “ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE today attack Israeli forces shooting inside Al Shifa Hospital. (sic)”
Fact Check
NewsMeter found that the video is from Egypt and shows a shooting at Rabaa Hospital in 2013.
With the help of a reverse image search of the keyframes of the video, we found it on YouTube, published by Cairo-based Rassd network on August 16, 2021. According to the caption, the video shows heavy shooting at detainees in Rabaa Hospital on the day of the massacre.
We also found the same visuals in a documentary by Al Jazeera published on August 17, 2016, titled ‘Massacre in Rabaa - Al Jazeera World.’
The channel description stated that Human Rights Watch has labelled it “one of the world’s largest killings of demonstrators in a single day in recent history” and claimed it was “a violent crackdown planned at the highest levels of the Egyptian government.”
Hence, we conclude that the video is from 2013 and shows a massacre in Rabaa Field Hospital by Egyptian Special Forces. The claim of the Israeli shooting in AL-Shifa Hospital is false.
