Old, Unrelated Visuals of ISIS Executing People Falsely Linked to Hamas

This video is from Iraq and shows ISIS executing four queer men in 2015.

Fact-Check: This video dates back to 2015 from Iraq and is not related to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. 

(Source: Altered by The Quint) 

(Trigger Warning: Visuals can be distressing for some audiences.)

A video showing two people throwing another person off the roof of a building is being shared on social media.

What is the claim?: Users have claimed that it shows Hamas 'executing' people by throwing them from the roof of a building.

An archive of the post can be found here. 

(Source: X/Screenshot)

This post recorded 17.6K views at the time of writing this story. (Archives of similar claims can be found here, here and here.)

What is the truth?: This claim is false.

• This video dates back to 2015 and shows the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) throwing four men, who reportedly belonged to the LGBTQ+ community, from a roof of a building in Fallujah, Iraq

How did we find out?: We divided the viral video into several keyframes and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across a story by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) from 1 July 2015 which reported on ISIS killing four men by throwing them off the roof of a building for being queer in Iraq's Fallujah province.

• We matched the visuals in the report with a frame in the viral video and found similarities.

Here are the similarities between the two frames. 

(Source: Altered by The Quint) 

• Further, we ran a relevant keyword search and came across a news report by media organisation The Mirror, which noted that four queer men were tied and blindfolded before being thrown off the building.

• This was not an isolated incident. The ISIS had also executed queer individuals in Syria, as reported by NBC News in August 2015.

Conclusion: It is clear that the video does not show Hamas killing people. The video dates back to 2015 showing ISIS killing queer men by throwing them off a building in Iraq.

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