This video does not show Palestinian activist Saleh Aljafarawi arriving in Qatar amid the cease-fire in Gaza.

10 month old video uploaded by Saleh Aljafarawi shared as recent. The video was taken way before the Israel-Hamas war started.

A video of Saleh Aljafarawi, a popular Palestinian Instagram influencer who has been documenting the bombings in Gaza for the past two months, has gone viral on social media with the claim that he is now in Qatar during the cease-fire in Gaza. Saleh Al-Jafarawi is a Palestinian activist in Gaza. He became widely known after the start of the recent Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7. Al-Jafarawi documented the Israeli massacres in Gaza. Millions of people now follow him on his accounts. Saleh Aljafarawi claims to be a Palestinian national and a resident of Gaza. He is known as “Mr. FAFO.” The viral video is circulating with many false claims. The users who shared the video claim that he’s now living his best life in Qatar, that he’s been spotted in Qatar, etc.

The caption states, “He’s done it again! Mr. Pallywood (aka #MrFAFO) has turned up in…Qatar. After posing in a dozen different jobs, adopting all the orphans in Gaza, dying and coming back to life more times than I can count, he is now living his best life in Qatar”.

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Same video is going viral with the caption, “Hamas crisis actor Saleh Aljafarawi, who has appeared in dozens of propaganda videos for the terror group, has arrived in QATAR. Qatar is the country of residence for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who has a $4 billion net worth & a luxury Doha residence”.

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We started our investigation by running a Google reverse image search, whose results revealed us that the extended version of the viral video was uploaded on Aljafarawi’s YouTube channel on 22 January 2023, not now. So we can clearly understand that it is a 10 month old video taken way before the war started.

 The description part mentions “The action began and the adventures began..Today I am in Qatar for a very big reason for me”.

The video documents Saleh Al-Jafarawi’s trip to Egypt. In a previous video, Saleh Al-Jafarawi even documented the procedures he went through at the Rafah crossing.

Israel resumes combat operations against Hamas

Fighting resumed in Gaza today immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory. The seven-day pause, which began on November 24 and was extended twice, had allowed for the exchange of dozens of hostages held in Gaza for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and facilitated the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave. Dozens of Palestinians killed since Israel resumed attacks on Gaza after expiration of truce, according to health officials. International mediators, including Qatar, Egypt and the United States, had pushed for another extension of the pause, which expired today.

Conclusion-

Fact Crescendo found that the video shared without proper context. 10 months old video uploaded by Saleh Aljafarawi shared as recent. The video was taken way before the war started. This video being passed around of his trip to Qatar was uploaded in January 2023.