Instagram posts - Old photos, including one from 2019, don’t show Gaza on Oct. 27 | POLIFACT

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The post featured a collage of six photos and claimed it showed Gaza on that night, after 
heavy airstrikes affected telecommunications services in Gaza.

Although images from Gaza show widespread destruction and human devastation, this collage’s photos don’t sync with the Instagram post’s date. None are from Oct. 27 and one was from March 2019, after reported Israeli strikes in Gaza City, as described by Agence France-Presse.

Another photo was uploaded Oct. 24 by Quds News Network, a website that focuses on Palestinian news. It captioned the photo, "Local sources: A timber depot in Jabalya, #Gaza went up in flames following an Israeli strike using a white phosphorus bomb."

We rate the claim that these photos show Gaza the night of Oct. 27 False...


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