WhatsApp groups recently posted a video showing a man shooting himself, claiming to be from Hebron. The video was accompanied by the following text: “A young man from Hebron committed suicide a short while ago, live.”
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” tool and found that the video is old and the claim is misleading. Kurdish accounts such as Rojhelat News on “X” and kobas on “Facebook” published the video on October 15-17, 2024 and explained that the video is of Zuhair Aminian.
Several Kurdish accounts on TikTok, such as kaka warty and mali_hamu_rangek, also posted the video last October.
Kashif Observatory examined a group of circulated videos showing Aminian, it noticed that he does not speak Arabic.
Kashif’s team contacted the Spokesman for the Palestinian police, Colonel Louay Erziqat, who denied the claim and confirmed that the video clip was not of a young man from Hebron, stressing that no suicide cases had been recorded in Hebron recently.
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