The Observers - The France 24 Observers is both a website and a TV show focusing on international news through the lens of amateur images. All photos and videos are analyzed and verified by our team.

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debunked israeli politician

Did this Israeli politician pretend to get the Covid-19 vaccination?

West Bank Concert

Angry group breaks up Palestinian DJ’s concert at historic West Bank site

Students protesting on 19 and 20 May in schools in Ra'anana (left) and Modiin (right). Screen captures from Twitter.

Female students in Israel banned from school after wearing shorts in a heatwave

Screengrabs of videos showing a homophobic attack that took place on December 2 in Ramallah (Credit: Twitter)

Palestinian territories

Videos show homophobic attack on three LGBTQ Palestinians in the West Bank

Screenshot from the video broadcast on Saturday by the Israeli television station Channel 13.

Leaked footage shows Israeli police shooting unarmed Palestinian in the back

Screenshot of a video of the event, which has been circulating on social media since September 18, 2019.

Video: Palestinian woman shot and killed by Israeli soldiers at checkpoint

Several social media users shared videos of protests in Israel to mislead others into thinking that the scenes took place in Calais, France.

Videos of police brutality protests in Israel used to show 'everyday' migrant clashes in Calais

A misleading photo from 2007 was used to illustrate the Gaza attacks earlier in May.

Viral photo claiming to show recent Gaza attacks is actually from 2007

Trump campaign advisor Katrina Pierson used an old video, which was originally filmed in Belarus, in a tweet about the Gaza attacks.

Where the old video used by a Trump advisor to condemn the Gaza attacks really came from

Screen capture from a video that shows a protest in Ramallah against the new social security law.

Thousands protest Palestinian authority’s social security scheme

A billboard in Shiraz, Iran as part of Sacred Defense week, commemorating the Iran-Iraq war.

Billboard honouring Iranian army uses photo of… Israeli soldiers

South Sudanese students at Trinity boarding school in Uganda. In the middle of the top row, the man with a hat is Rami Gudovitch, programme co-director for the Come True project, which funds the children's schooling. Photo courtesy of Rami Gudovitch.

ISRAEL / SOUTH SUDAN / UGANDA

Why do these South Sudanese kids in Uganda speak Hebrew?

Journalists shield themselves from tear gas released by Israeli drones.

ISRAEL / PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Al Jazeera reporter: Israeli soldiers 'aimed at us intentionally'

A Holot Theatre performance that took place on May 12 in Shefayim, Israel. Screengrab from a video by Doron Lev.

How theatre helped African asylum seekers explain their plight to Israelis

A man takes a selfie with another man while grabbing his hair in his fist. The photos caused an outrage on social media.

Photos of 'migrants' humiliated in Tel Aviv cause outrage

Several Israeli news sites published a satellite photograph that they said showed an Iranian military airfield inside Syria

An Iranian air base inside Syria? No - Israeli media use wrong photo

Screen grabs of the video showing Abd el-Fatah Abdel Nabi hit by a bullet on March 29, 2018, in Jalabiya.

ISRAEL / PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

Communication war follows release of video of Palestinian killed by IDF

Screen captures taken from Facebook lives broadcast by activist Sigal Kook Avivi.

Israel denies African migrants the chance to apply for asylum

Some images from stories that we've debunked over the years!

THE OBSERVERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY

10 debunks that shaped the history of the Observers

On the left, 'Trump' bounces on a space hopper. On the right, 'Mike Pence' tries to tackle him away from the toy.

President Trump drunk in a kindergarten? Nope, just a comedy skit

The "Salt Water Challenge" has gone viral on social media.

#SaltWaterChallenge: A social media challenge in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

What it's like to be an atheist in the world today (Part One)

Photo courtesy of Homebiogas.

Israeli company converts food waste to cooking gas

An Israeli university exam question likens African migrants to rats

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