No, this video doesn’t show Palestinians faking a funeral

A video of men carrying what looks like a body on a stretcher down a street ends when sirens sound, the group drops the stretcher and runs away while the person they were carrying sits up and darts off camera. 

It’s being shared on social media as an example of staged anti-Israel propaganda.

"Palestinian funeral procession for a child killed by the Israeli reprisals. Only to be interrupted by an air raid siren," one post sharing the video says. "The siren was so loud it woke the dead!" 

More than two dozen children have been killed in Gaza amid violence there, but this video isn’t depicting the funeral after such a death. It wasn’t even filmed there. 

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Doing a reverse image search, we found that this video has been online for more than a year. It was published on YouTube in March 2020, and translated into English, the title says, "A (fake) funeral during home quarantine in Jordan." 

A media outlet in the United Arab Emirates published an article that month that said Twitter users were then sharing the video of a group of people in Jordan who were trying to break a stay-at-home order the government imposed to try to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Reuters reported that it was shared as a satirical example of Jordanians creatively trying to circumvent the lockdown. 

We rate claims that this was staged and filmed in Palestine False.