Social media accounts posted a photo showing the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat sitting with a group of people, claiming that the person on the right is UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his thirties.
Kashif verified the claim via Google Images search and found it to be misleading. The photo dates back to 1970 and shows the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (left) and then-PLO Central Committee spokesman Kamal Nasser (right), not UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
GettyImages website published the photo on 19/3/2015 and stated that the photo shows Kamal Nasser, spokesman for the PLO (right) and the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat “Abu Ammar” (left) during their attendance at the meetings of the organization’s Central Council in the Jordanian capital, Amman – in 1970.
The website added that the photo was taken on 27/8/1970 in Amman, following the war launched by the Israeli occupation army in Syria, Sinai and Jordan in June 1967.
The photo was also published in a report by Monte Carlo International Radio on 15/9/2020, “The Palestinian National Council meeting in August 1970 in Amman, attended by Yasser Arafat and Kamal Nasser.”
By searching Palestinian media for different pictures of Kamal Nasser, the same photo appears in the results.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement on Wednesday, 2/10/2024, that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was prevented from entering Israel, describing him as an “undesirable” person.
“Anyone who cannot condemn the heinous Iranian attack on Israel does not deserve to be allowed into Israeli territory,” Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz said in a press statement. “This is an anti-Israel secretary-general who supports terrorists, rapists and murderers.”
