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Israeli premier spokesman falsely shares video from Syria

The Arabic-language spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ofir Gendelman, has come under fire for sharing a video on social media on Tuesday, which he claimed showed how rockets fired by Hamas were falling inside the Gaza Strip - accusing the Palestinian movement of being responsible for deaths inside the Palestinian enclave.

Tweet by Ofir Gendelman

Translation: Here is yet another conclusive evidence: the terrorist Hamas militia continues to deliberately fire rockets from inside residential neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip. This is a heinous war crime. One third of the rockets fired by Hamas at Israel fall inside the Gaza Strip, killing Palestinian civilians, including children.

However, social media users have pointed out that the video shared by Gendelman dates back to at least 2018, when it was identified as taking place in the Syria city of Daraa. 

There has yet to be confirmed statistics on how many rockets fired from Gaza land in Israel. So far, at least 48 people have been confirmed killed in Gaza, five inside Israel, and two Palestinians killed by Israeli forces inside the occupied West Bank.