A photo of a pregnant girl with the Israeli flag drawn on her stomach has spread on social media, with the claim that it is of a pregnant Israeli prisoner in the Gaza Strip. The photo was accompanied by the following text: “Another Israeli prisoner turned out to be pregnant. So Israel is killing children, women, the elderly, and they’re playing bride and groom undergrounds.”
Kashif verified the image via the Google image, and found that the image is old and the claim is misleading.
The photo was posted by a Russian account called Lyudmila Moshaev on Facebook, along with several photos of members of the Israeli occupation army, on 19/11/2023, before the release of Israeli female prisoners from the Gaza Strip.
Upon closer examination of the photo, the soldier’s face did not match the Israeli female prisoners released by Hamas as part of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip entered into force on 19/1/2025, and Hamas released four female soldiers in the occupation army on 25/1/2025: Karina Arif, Daniel Gilboa, Naama Levy, and Liri Elbag, while the occupation released 200 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life and high sentences, as part of the second batch of the exchange deal in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
On 30/1/2025, Hamas released Israeli soldier Agam Berger in Jabalia camp, Israeli prisoner Arbel Yehud and Israeli prisoner Gadi Moses, along with five Thais in front of the house of the former head of Hamas’s political bureau, Yahya Sinwar, while the occupation released 110 Palestinian prisoners, including 20 who arrived in the Gaza Strip as part of the first phase of the exchange deal.
Kashif verified the claim of an Israeli prisoner marrying a Hamas member.
| Sources of Claim | Sources of Verification |
| Soso El Sisi Mohamed Hamed Abdel Karim Amr El Daher Attia Abdel Latif Alaa Othman | Lyudmila Moshaev Middle East (1) Middle East (2) Al Jazeera There is no truth to the marriage of an Israeli prisoner to a Hamas member |
