{"id":1360840,"date":"2023-11-28T22:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/?p=245048"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:38:29","slug":"post-makes-unfounded-claim-about-doctors-without-borders-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/11\/28\/post-makes-unfounded-claim-about-doctors-without-borders-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Makes Unfounded Claim About Doctors Without Borders Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Para leer en espa\u00f1ol, vea esta traducci\u00f3n<\/a> de Google Translate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Doctors Without Borders has been working in the West Bank since fighting intensified between the Israelis and Palestinians after Oct. 7. But a video post on social media misleadingly claims it shows an aid worker from that organization passing a gun to a Palestinian fighter. The worker is wearing a vest used by the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Amid a tenuous truce<\/a> between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, some fighting between Israelis and Palestinians has continued<\/a> in the West Bank. Misinformation about that area is spreading on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A video that appears to show a person wearing a Palestinian Medical Relief Society<\/a> vest who — under fire — transfers a gun from one fighter to another in the West Bank city of Jenin has been mislabeled as showing a worker from the international aid organization Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The video<\/a> was shared on Instagram by former model and Israeli celebrity Nataly Dadon<\/a> on Nov. 9. A label on the video says, “Doctors Without Borders,” and in her post Dadon claims that the aid worker is affiliated with the group, which has a policy<\/a> of neutrality in conflict zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In this video taken today in Jenin, a medic from ‘Doctors without borders’ went to a terrorist who was shot by the IDF, lifted him up and took his weapon then brought it to another terrorist,” Dadon’s post reads. “Basically he abused his position as a medic, which the IDF cannot shoot, to break the law and assist terrorists to get a weapon.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same video has been shared<\/a> on other<\/a> social media platforms, but doesn’t include that label. Instead, it shows the Instagram handle for a Palestinian journalist named Obada Tahayna, whose Instagram account<\/a> is no longer active. We reached out to him on Facebook for comment, but didn’t receive a response.<\/p>\n\n\nQuick Take<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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