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Factcheck: Viral video of teenager smuggling bread to Palestinians not linked to Gaza

The video went viral with claims an Egyptian boy helped Gaza residents across Rafah border
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In the middle of the Palestine and Israel clashes when the need for food became severe in Gaza, where over 2 million are facing scarcity of nutrition, a video of an Egyptian guy went viral on social media, who is sending pieces of bread to Palestinians with a hole in the wall.

Video is being circulated on social media rapidly, where users give all praise to that guy. A private news channel in Pakistan also aired the video and it has been said that what dozens of Islamic countries could not do, this guy did.

However, When Aaj News filtered it through the fact check policy, it unfolded that the claims of people were far away from the truth.

In a video, a boy comes with dozens of pieces of bread and shares these with a boy standing other side of the wall, both are talking in Arabic language.

Fact check revealed that both boys are Palestinian, additionally, the video has no link with the ongoing war, as well as the current situation in Gaza. This video was filmed in 2015 when two boys were smuggling the pieces of bread to South Jordan from Jerusalem.

In 2005, Israel initiated the creation of a great wall at the border of Jordan and Jerusalem aimed the securing its captured territory, and a viral video was filmed at said wall.

The non-Israelis are allowed to go to Jerusalem after passing check posts of Israeli forces, but the bread supply is banned from here which triggered the boys in the video to smuggle bread.

A post of X user helped Aaj News to fact check, in a video a guy from them revealed that they had smuggled 1000 pieces of bread. But in the comments session, users said this video was not captured during the ongoing war it is at least an eight-year-old video.

The original video was published by the Palestine News Network in December 2015 and is still available on the news outlet’s Facebook page.

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