Two young boys in Gaza and Israel became victims of war - and then victims of social media disinformation.
In the opening days of the Israel-Gaza war two small boys, both aged four, were killed. One was Israeli, one Palestinian. But many posts I saw on social media weren't mourning their deaths - instead, they were trying to deny the killings had taken place.
The way the boys' deaths have been denied by social media users is symbolic of an information battle, running in parallel with the war on the ground.These false allegations have shocked family and friends grieving the loss of their loved ones - and the people who witnessed what happened."The candle of my life" is how Omar Bilal al-Banna's mother Yasmeen describes her children on Instagram.
The first online post I saw about Omar's death was from a pro-Israeli account on X . It included a video, featuring a man in a grey polo shirt holding a small child's body, wrapped in a white blanket or cloth. I would later discover this child was Omar. It shared a new post, this time featuring that same video of the child in the white blanket - and then a still from the same video, circling the child's face.
I tracked the original footage back to the Instagram page of a Palestinian photographer, Moamen El Halabi. He filmed the original video of the man in the grey shirt holding Omar, and I got in touch with him.I also made contact with another photojournalist, Mohammed Abed - who works for the AFP news agency - who was there at the same time. He took a photograph of the same man holding what appears to be the same child, wrapped in the white sheet.
They both told me, categorically, that the child pictured had not been a doll, but a real little boy - Omar Bilal al-Banna. They also shared additional images, which I have matched up with Moamen El Halabi's original video footage to verify the child's identity.Since we spoke, Mohammed Abed has posted an Instagram story with the photo he took. He declares in the caption: "This picture not a doll, its I took at Al-Shifa hospital and it's the very truth.
She messaged them on WhatsApp on the sunny Saturday morning when Hamas gunmen broke through the Gaza perimeter fence and attacked their kibbutz. She told me they confirmed to her that they had managed to get into their shelter, but that was the last she heard.Mor Lacob later found out that Omer's parents, Tamar and Yonatan, had been shot dead. Their three children - Omer plus his older sisters Shachar and Arbel - were killed when their home was set on fire.
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