On September 9, 2023, anonymous Georgian-language Facebook accounts (1, 2) shared a video showing an armed attack on a woman wearing a white hijab. The video shows how two armed men ask a woman standing in a circle of people to hand over her bag, and then shoot her. A gunman kicks a fallen woman. According to the author of the post, this video should be seen by those who “think Antichrist Uriah is good,” which creates the impression that a Palestinian woman is being killed by Israeli soldiers.
The video does not depict a real event, but a theatrical performance, which was held in 2015 in the city of Ramallah in Palestine by the theater group “10/10.”
On December 3, 2015, the “10/10” theater group held a performance in the Palestinian city of Ramallah. The full version of the video can be viewed on the Facebook page of AjyaL Radio Network-ARN. The description of the post says that it is part of the performance of the theater group “10/10”, which was performed on December 3 in Al-Manara Square in Ramallah. (Archive)
In January 2016, the theater group posted the video on their Facebook page. The post says the performance represents the kind of abuses and field executions the Palestinian nation is subjected to.
In the description of the Facebook page “فرقة عشرة على عشرة 10/10” it is said that the theater group was founded in the city of Ramallah in 2015, although their last activity on the social network was recorded on April 21, 2016.
In July 2017, Indonesian Facebook users shared this video with the following headline: “A woman also met her Lord as a result of Jewish barbarism.” The posts mention that the Jews asked the woman where she kept the bullets and weapons. The Palestinian replied that she had no bullets and weapons, she swore by Allah many times, but the “damned Israelis” still executed her.
In 2017, Indonesian publication Jawa Pos asked Indonesian citizen Abdillah Onim, who lived in Palestine for ten years and was involved in MER-C’s humanitarian missions, about the video. According to Abdillah Onim, the video did not depict the real event and represented a theatrical action held by Palestinian students. Onim did not remember the exact date of the theatrical performance, although he said the video was shot several years ago. It is worth noting that the circulating video was examined by the news verification platform Dabegad.com in 2016. The article explains that the video depicts a theatrical act that took place in Ramallah Square in Palestine.
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