Accounts on “X” recently published a video clip of demonstrators carrying coffins wrapped in Israeli flags, claiming that they were the bodies of occupation soldiers in Haifa.
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” tool and found that it is old and the claim is misleading. The clip circulated last September of demonstrators in Tel Aviv carrying fake coffins demanding an agreement to release the Israeli prisoners held in Gaza.
The Associated Press published the video on 6/9/2024 with the following caption: “Protesters carrying mock coffins draped in Israeli flags made their way through a demonstration in Tel Aviv on Thursday, demanding a deal to release the remaining hostages held in Gaza.”
Ultra Palestine account on “X” also published the video on 5/9/2024, with the following caption: “Israelis carry 27 coffins in reference to the prisoners killed in the Gaza Strip, during a demonstration attended by thousands of supporters of the exchange deal in Tel Aviv.”
Israeli-Hebrew newspaper Haaretz published a photo matching the video clip circulating on 5/9/2024, with the following caption: “Demonstrators demanding a prisoner exchange deal carry coffins in Tel Aviv, on Thursday.”
“Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Thursday, 5 September, carrying 27 mock coffins representing 27 hostages killed in Hamas captivity in Gaza, demanding a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages,” The Times of Israel reported . “This is the fifth consecutive demonstration since the bodies of six Israeli hostages were recovered last Saturday, 1 September 2024.”
Hamas announced on 1/9/2024 that “the six prisoners were killed by the Israeli occupation army’s ongoing bombing of the Gaza Strip, and held Netanyahu’s government and the American administration responsible for their deaths and the deaths of the prisoners who preceded them.”
The Israeli occupation army announced in a statement that four soldiers were killed and 67 others were injured as a result of a drone attack in Binyamina, south of Haifa.
| Sources of Verification | Sources of Claim |
| Associated Press Ultra Palestine The Times Of Israel Al Jazeera 1 Al Jazeera 2 | Iranian media personality Dr. Sh. Ammar Shaalan |