{"id":1032,"date":"2023-10-11T09:36:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2024-05-25T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T12:01:45","slug":"turkish-journalists-and-tweeters-circulate-a-photo-of-a-syrian-child-from-ras-al-ain-misrepresenting-it-as-a-victim-of-israeli-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Journalists and Tweeters Circulate a Photo of a Syrian Child from Ras al-Ain, Misrepresenting It as a Victim of Israeli in Gaza."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Turkish journalists and social media users have been circulating a tweet in English that claimed Israel burned Palestinian children in Gaza with white phosphorus weapons, which is banned by international law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The photograph of a Syrian Kurdish child was attached by the Turkish tweeters to their widely shared tweets, which previously circulated extensively on social media during the Turkish military&#8217;s 2019 attack on the city of Ras al-Ain (Serekaniye).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">According to the translated tweet, &#8220;This was done by Israel. Israel is setting those children on fire. They used white phosphorus, a weapon that is banned. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In a live broadcast, the Israeli Defense Minister even boasted about this act, saying those children were &#8220;human beings.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The True Platform team investigated the matter by searching on the Facebook, Google, and Twitter platforms (now known as &#8220;X&#8221;). Here are the results:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The tweet and photograph received significant attention on the X platform. Erem \u015eent\u00fcrk, an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and screenwriter, was among those who retweeted the misleading tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1033 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0637.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0637.jpg 552w, https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0637-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0637-150x163.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0627\u0637-300x325.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u015eent\u00fcrk&#8217;s tweet garnered nearly 1500 retweets, 2200 likes, and 540 comments within three hours before he removed it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Further research revealed that Arab sites reported that 13-year-old Mohammed Hameed of Syria had burns from white phosphorus. when Turkish forces shelled Ras al-Ain in northern Syria in October 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Furthermore, other media agencies, including the Turkish Anadolu Agency, cited the Israeli Defense Minister as characterizing Palestinian Hamas fighters as &#8220;subhuman creatures&#8221; and behaving accordingly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In conclusion:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The photograph attached to the tweet is misleading and unrelated to the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish journalists and social media users have been circulating a tweet in English that claimed Israel burned Palestinian children in Gaza with white phosphorus weapons, which is banned by international law. The photograph of a Syrian Kurdish child was attached by the Turkish tweeters to their widely shared tweets, which previously circulated extensively on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,156,164],"tags":[169],"class_list":{"0":"post-1032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editors-picks","8":"category-photos","9":"category-slider","10":"tag-israel-gaza-turkish-military-journalists-syrian-kurdish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","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=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trueplatform.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}