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  • 2022-12-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Video shows fans at football match in Morocco in 2019, not at Qatar World Cup (en)
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  • An old clip of football fans singing a pro-Palestinian song has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times in posts that falsely claim it was filmed during the World Cup in Qatar. The clip circulated as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict made its presence felt at the first World Cup on Arab soil, but it was in fact filmed at a football match in Morocco in 2019. The clip has been viewed over 240,000 times since it was shared on Twitter on November 27, 2022. Its English-language caption reads: *Great moment.* *First time in world's *History.* *Whole Qatar FIFA stadium sung together unitedly in favour of Palestine against Jews and Israel. The two-minute 20-second clip -- showing a crowd in a stadium singing a song called Oh our beloved Palestine -- resurfaced online as the Palestinian cause is being embraced by many Arab fans and some officials at the 2022 World Cup. Host nation Qatar has no diplomatic relations with Israel and remains a supporter of the decades-long Palestinian cause for statehood. Arab fans flooding Qatar have been refusing to speak with Israeli media, while some yell Long Live Palestine in front of Israeli television cameras, AFP reported . Screenshot of the false post, captured on December 5, 2022 The same clip has also been viewed over 40,000 times alongside a similar claim on Twitter here , here , here and here ; and on Facebook here , here and here . It was also shared in Facebook posts from South Africa and the United Kingdom . The claim, however, has been previously debunked by Indian media organisations Newschecker and India Today . While there are reports of pro-Palestinian songs being sung by fans in Qatar ( here and here ), the clip shared in a false context online predates the Qatar World Cup and was filmed at a stadium in Morocco. Fans in Casablanca A combined reverse image and keyword search on Google found the clip corresponds to a longer video posted here on YouTube on September 24, 2019. The magnificence of Rajawi's Palestinian song from the match between Al-Raja and the Palestinian Hilal Al-Quds, the video's Arabic-language title reads. The misleading clip largely corresponds to a two-minute 20-second section of the 2019 YouTube video beginning at its 29-second mark . The clip diverges from the YouTube video between the 1:19 and 1:49 marks -- where earlier crowd footage has been inserted -- before it again matches up with the YouTube video. Below is a screenshot comparison of the clip used in the false posts (left) and the 2019 YouTube video (right): Screenshot comparison of the clip used in the false posts (left) and the 2019 YouTube video (right) A similar video of the same event was also published on YouTube by Moroccan sports newspaper Koora Life on September 24, 2019. According to a report by English-language newspaper Morocco World News, the video was filmed during a football match at the Mohammed V stadium in Casablanca. Supporters of Raja Casablanca expressed their support for the Palestinian cause during their team's game against the Palestinian team Hilal Al-Quds, the report reads. Throughout the game, more than 50,000 supporters chanted songs in support of Palestine. A structure in the stadium visible in the clip used in the false posts can also be seen in Google Maps’ imagery of the Mohammed V stadium. Below are screenshots comparing the structure seen in the clip falsely shared online (left) and the same structure visible on Google Maps (right) : Screenshots comparing a structure seen in the clip falsely shared online (left) and the same structure visible on Google Maps (right) AFP has previously debunked false and misleading claims about fans at the Qatar World Cup here and here . (en)
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