After the 2022 FIFA World Cup match started in Qatar, a video has actually been making the rounds on social networks of countless individuals in an arena singing in assistance of Palestine, while waving Palestinian flags and banners.
New Delhi, UPDATED: Nov 25, 2022 00: 04 IST
After the 2022 FIFA World Cup match started in Qatar, a video has actually been making the rounds on social networks of countless individuals in an arena singing in assistance of Palestine, while waving Palestinian flags and banners.
By Dheeshma Puzhakkal: Ever given that the kick-off of the 2022 FIFA World Cup match in Qatar, social networks has actually been awash with pictures and videos from the competition. One such video supposedly reveals countless individuals in an arena singing in assistance of Palestine, while waving Palestinian flags and banners. The archived variations of comparable posts can be seen here and here.
AFWA’s examination, nevertheless, discovered that this video is from the 2019 Arab Club Champions Cup in Morocco– and certainly not the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
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We ran a reverse search of the viral video’s keyframes and discovered the exact same video and longer variations of it submitted to YouTube and Facebook in2019 This verifies that the viral video is not from the continuous FIFA World Cup.
Per the description of these videos, it reveals advocates of Raja Casablanca, a football club based in Casablanca, Morocco, singing in assistance of Palestine throughout a match versus the Palestinian club Hilal Al-Quds.
We likewise discovered numerous media reports about Raja Casablanca fans revealing uniformity with Palestinians versus the various human rights infractions in the nation. According to a report by Morocco World News, the video is from Casablanca’s Mohammed V arena. Fans sang in uniformity with Palestine throughout a match that was held as part of the Mohammed VI Arab Champions Cup (likewise called the Arab Club Champions Cup) on September 23,2019
The banner of Ultras Eagles, a fan club of Raja Casablanca can likewise be seen in the viral video.
A contrast in between the viral videos and images of Morocco’s Mohammed V Stadium readily available on Google Maps verifies that the video is certainly from the very same arena.
It is for this reason clear that the video in concern is old and from a football match in Morocco. It is not associated with the continuous FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
Edited By:
Raajnandini Mukherjee
Published On:
Nov 25, 2022