Image from 2016 shared linking to Israel-Hamas conflict

The image dates back to 2016 showing a makeshift camp at Idomeni in Greece.

An image claimed to be from Gaza during the Israel-Hamas conflict is going viral on social media. The image shows a baby in a cardboard box next to a woman. Users who shared the image claim that this is a picture of a Palestinian kid.

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The same image was posted on Instagram also with pro-Palestinian hash tags by the Islamicculture.

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Fact Check-

We started our investigation by running a Google reverse image search, whose results revealed that the image had been uploaded to the internet several years ago. This made it clear that the picture is old. Below you can see the image uploaded on Facebook in 2019.

In further search we discovered the same image in an article published on the website of The New Humanitarian (an independent news agency focusing on humanitarian stories) on 6 April, 2016. The caption states, “Documenting daily life at Idomeni camp”. According to the article, this is an image taken by Robert Astorgano of Idoeni, Greece, during the 2016 migrant crisis.

Taking account of these evidences we can understand that the image is old and unrelated to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.  

Conclusion-

Fact Crescendo found the claim made along with the image to be False. The image of the baby in the cardboard box is not recent. The image dates back to 2016 showing a a makeshift camp at Idomeni in Greece. It is unrelated to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.