{"id":1018,"date":"2023-12-02T08:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T08:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:12:00","slug":"the-news-claiming-that-kurdish-mercenaries-are-participating-alongside-israel-in-gaza-is-misleading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"The News Claiming That “Kurdish Mercenaries” Are Participating Alongside Israel in Gaza Is Misleading."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, fake and personal reports on the X platform have gone viral, claiming that “Kurdish mercenaries” are fighting with the Israeli army in its war with Hamas in Gaza.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The aforementioned accounts shared the purported news alongside a photograph of three Kurd fighters. Numerous individuals commented on the majority of these tweets, employing language that incited hatred towards the Kurdish community.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dozens of accounts reposted the same phrase that says: \u201cKurdish mercenaries are fighting in the ranks of the Zionists in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The True Platform team investigated the matter, employing a reverse image search using Google. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The search revealed that the photograph had been previously published by a Turkish website affiliated with the\u00a0 Workers’ Party in January 2023, under the caption “Zagros guerrillas.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The search on the X platform revealed The claim’s source is an account named Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib. This account has the blue verification mark next to its name and identifies himself as a “Muslim, author, journalist, politician, former prisoner; I do not recognize the Assad regime; I have been out of my country for 41 years.”<\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span>More than 450 individuals engaged with Al-Khatib\u2019s tweet, which received approximately 120 retweets and over 130 comments.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The research provided no evidence or reports on the participation of “Kurdish mercenaries” with any side in the ongoing war in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\n

In conclusion:<\/span><\/p>\n

The claim regarding the involvement of Kurdish fighters alongside Israel in Gaza is inaccurate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This claim originates from the account of Abdul Rahman Al-Khatib on the X platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Further examination revealed that this account is full of misleading news and content that fosters animosity between Kurds and Arabs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Numerous accounts multiplied the tweet without verifying its accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, fake and personal reports on the X platform have gone viral, claiming that “Kurdish mercenaries” are fighting with the Israeli army in its war with Hamas in Gaza. The aforementioned accounts shared the purported news alongside a photograph of three Kurd fighters. Numerous individuals commented on the majority of these tweets, employing language that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[167],"class_list":{"0":"post-1018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hate-speech","8":"tag-kurdistan-kurdish-mercenaries-israeli-gaza"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}