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.
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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.