Accounts on X posted a video showing an explosion in the middle of a group of people during a funeral procession, claiming that the video documents a bomb exploding in the body of a Palestinian whose body was held by Israel. The video was accompanied by the following text: “Israel sent the body of a Palestinian martyr and planted a bomb inside this body, which was detonated in the middle of a crowded funeral procession, killing many people”.
Kashif verified the video and via reverse search on Google, Kashif found that the video is old and the claim is misleading. The video dates back to an incident in which a body exploded during a funeral in Syria, not Palestine. Several Syrian sources published the video, including ShaamNetwork SNN, which published the video on YouTube on 30 June 2012 with the title: “Sham, Rif Dimashq, Zamalka, Explosion Among Mourners”.
Syrian Pules account also published the video on YouTube, with the title: “The Syrian Pulse – The Complete Massacre at the Zamalka Funeral, 30/6/2012”.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights also documented the incident, and reported that the Syrian security forces stormed the city of Zamalka, located in the countryside of Damascus, east of the capital, in the Eastern Ghouta region, on 30 June 2012, and opened fire and killed Abdul Hadi Al-Halabi. During the funeral, they placed a Saba car bomb in the funeral path, and when the funeral passed, they detonated it. The network added that the explosion killed over 72 people, and wounded 400.
The war on the Gaza Strip has been ongoing since October 7, with the death toll from the Israeli occupation’s aggression on the Gaza Strip rising to 41,118 and 95,200 injured Palestinians. In the West Bank, 703 have been killed and 5,700 were injured, according to the latest update from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.