Following 11 days of military confrontation that left hundreds dead,\u00a0Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the conflict progressed, social media users were sharing an image of an elderly Palestinian couple standing in front of a home, talking to another couple.<\/p>\n
The caption of the posts read, “Elderly Palestinian couple looking at the house they once lived in, now occupied by a couple from Brooklyn.”<\/p>\n
In many cases, the photo and its caption were used to illustrate the ongoing conflict over Israelis evicting\u00a0Palestinians to make room for Israeli settlers in Jerusalem. Examples of the post can be seen on Instagram and Facebook.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, there is no proof the other couple is from Brooklyn\u00a0or that the change in property\u00a0ownership was recent.<\/p>\n
Fact check: <\/strong>Photo of Palestinian child in tears not from recent Israeli airstrikes<\/span><\/p>\n USA TODAY has reached out to the posters for comment.<\/p>\n The image has been shared widely on social media to illustrate the prominent and ongoing evictions of Palestinians in Jerusalem, which allow Israeli settlers to claim the properties and land.<\/p>\n But the story behind it dates back much\u00a0further than the\u00a0recent conflict.<\/p>\n The picture appears to be a still image from a May 2020\u00a0Al Jazeera report.<\/p>\n According to an\u00a0English translation of the Al Jazeera report\u00a0posted on YouTube, the Palestinian couple in the\u00a0photograph\u00a0had\u00a0their home and village seized by Jewish settlers during the Arab-Israeli war in 1948.<\/p>\n USA TODAY confirmed the accuracy of the English translation.<\/p>\n In the clip, Al Jazeera reporter\u00a0Najwan Simri\u00a0asked the current\u00a0residents of the home, “How do you feel living in a house built on the wreckage of his house?”\u00a0<\/p>\n The Jewish woman said she was\u00a0happy to live in the home and that it was “very enjoyable.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The report does not identify the couple\u00a0behind the gate, making it impossible to verify the claim that they originate from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n While the photo in the social media posts is not related to the recent violence between Hamas and Israel, it is connected to some of the\u00a0fundamental issues of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n Fact check: <\/strong>Black Lives Matter tweeted in support of Palestinians, not Hamas<\/span><\/p>\n The recent violence was set off by Israel’s attempts to remove Palestinian families from their homes in the\u00a0Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Eastern Jerusalem. This eviction effort served the same purpose as it did in 1948, to make room for Jewish settlers.<\/p>\n We rate the claim that\u00a0a photo shows an elderly Palestinian couple in front of their old home, talking with a couple from Brooklyn as MISSING CONTEXT, because without additional information it could be misleading. Since the image was shared following recent violence between\u00a0Hamas and Israel, many social media users assumed the image showed a recent eviction of the Palestinian couple. While it is correct that the couple once lived there, the seizure of their home and village happened in 1948, not recently. Reporting from Al Jazeera confirmed the other couple in the photograph are\u00a0the current\u00a0residents of the home, but there is\u00a0no evidence they are from Brooklyn.<\/p>\nCouple’s home, village\u00a0were seized by Jewish settlers in 1948<\/h2>\n
Our rating: Missing context\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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