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This Video of a Woman's Grief Over the Bombing of Her Family Is Not Staged

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23rd March 2024
This Video of a Woman's Grief Over the Bombing of Her Family Is Not Staged
This Gazan woman lost her children because of an Israeli airstrike (X)

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Amidst the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, supporters of Israel on social media, using the systematic #Pallywood hashtag on the X platform, shared a video purporting to show a Gazan woman staging a dramatic portrayal of losing her family while on a mission to secure flour. These users levied claims against the woman, alleging she was seeking sympathy through deception.

An X user shared the video under the caption, “Breaking: Amazing coincidence as two "reporters" just happened to be in the direct path of a woman who went out for flour an hour ago & came back to her building  which had actually been bombed weeks ago.This post got 3.3k likes in less than an hour. Seriously, does anyone have a brain anymore??Why are reporters there? Where is the smoke from the explosion and implosion? Where are the emergency crews often filmed when buildings collapse in Gaza?”

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