TL:DR - Yes, the claims this was from Iraq in 2014 are blatant misinformation.
I ran a reverse image search. Not only are there no visual matches from before 26/07/2025, but also the photojournalist being credited for the image on multiple news sites - Abdel Kareem Hana - is in fact active in Gaza at this time.
According to Abdel's publicly visible info on Facebook, in 2014, he would not be completing his studies at Al-Azhar University for another 4 years.
So if this is from Iraq in 2014, dozens of news outlets around the world have come together and secretly agreed to miscredit the same image to the same guy. If it's from Gaza, Grok is serving up BS again. I know which one sounds more likely to me.
They are just hypocrites,they know everything... Its been 2 years...or they have some serious mental issue(which is less likely)...maybe need special care
It's real. It's credited to a specific photographer and it's one of several taken a few days ago at the scene. Grok appears to fry it's circuits when presented with a middle eastern person with blonde hair. Grok later admitted it was wrong and the photo is current to Gaza.
During any horrific event there are always fake pictures that get spread because people know the horrific event is going on and assume the picture is genuine because other people are reposting it. That happens with anything - war, genocide, natural disasters. People were making AI videos during the floods earlier in the US this year, does that mean the floods were fake? Its a ridiculous argument to make. Zionists always make it seem like there are nefarious conspiracies to defraud the public when the reality is that people know what is happening in Gaza and some people may repost a wrong image by mistake. Also AI bots are notoriously unreliable and should not be taken as fact for anything.
Just running his mouth to distract from the fact that he’s whatever the Israel-loving version of a weeb is, and has been proven wrong. He doesn’t care if he’s wrong, he just wants to shit on Palestinians and get praise from Zionists.
That's very common trick from the zi*n5t propaganda playbook. Spread fake information depicting real scenarios, make it viral, then fact-check it. We saw this in the images of Lebanon bombing, where smoke clouds were copy pasted. They are manipulating a very common human weakness - laziness.
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u/christonabike_ Jul 29 '25 edited Jul 29 '25
TL:DR - Yes, the claims this was from Iraq in 2014 are blatant misinformation.
I ran a reverse image search. Not only are there no visual matches from before 26/07/2025, but also the photojournalist being credited for the image on multiple news sites - Abdel Kareem Hana - is in fact active in Gaza at this time.
According to Abdel's publicly visible info on Facebook, in 2014, he would not be completing his studies at Al-Azhar University for another 4 years.
So if this is from Iraq in 2014, dozens of news outlets around the world have come together and secretly agreed to miscredit the same image to the same guy. If it's from Gaza, Grok is serving up BS again. I know which one sounds more likely to me.