DigitEye India Fact Checkers
Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, several videos are being shared on social media and one such video shows an array of purportedly dead bodies wrapped in white cloth but one of them opening his eyes. The claim says that it is one of the videos where Gazans are faking deaths to gain sympathy.
The dead’s are waking up in Gaza …Habibi !!
This the drama #Palestine is doing in #Gaza with such fake dead bodies and makeup done fake blood stained children and women to defame Israel and trying to show that Israel is killing innocent Palestinians in Gaza .
Every day the… pic.twitter.com/vZ1QHpWll7
— Amitabh Chaudhary (@MithilaWaala) November 6, 2023
It has been shared here and here.
FACT CHECK
When we searched key frames of the video on Google Reverse Image Search, the results showed us a similar video uploaded on a TikTok account by name @metjetak17 on 21st August 2023, almost two months before the Israel-Hamas Conflict began. Same can be seen on Instagram here.
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The original video was in Malay, Malaysia’s official language and the context was that it was a classroom lesson showing how an Islamic burial should be done. The video was also seen with a caption in Malay as “Kursus Pengendali Jenazah”, which translates to “Corpse Management Course” in English. The caption on the Instagram post also indicated that the video was from a funeral management course. Hence, a false claim.
Claim: A video depicts Gazans faking their deaths amidst the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Conclusion: No, the video is older than the conflict and belongs to a a funeral management course in Malaysia.
Rating: Misrepresentation – 
