One photograph that made its rounds on the first night of the war was that of a man stumbling through the streets of Gaza wearing only undergarments, with the claim that the man in the photo is Nimrod Aloni, a high-ranking Israeli general. Within a few hours, those claims were debunked after the IDF published photos of that same commander at a briefing with other leading officers.
Another bit of disinformation that was published within hours of the Hamas invasion, which sparked the war, was a video of several little children locked in chicken coops. The X user who used posted the video claimed that the video showed several Israeli children kept in chicken coops by Hamas terrorists. The Israeli fact-checking site Fake Reporter found that the video was posted four days prior to the start of the war. READ MORE
