Shaking With Fear, Palestinian Boy Reads His Creed When Tortured By Israeli Police, Is It True?

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JAKARTA - Recently, social media has been enlivened by the circulation of a video that describes a Palestinian child who was so scared that he read the creed while being tortured by Israeli soldiers.

The video circulates via WhatsApp chain messages. The chain message stated that Israeli police choked a Palestinian child to death last Saturday.

"An Israeli policeman choked a Palestinian child to death on Saturday during a protest against the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem. The innocent boy even read the shahada sentence before he died. Despite the group's many attempts to upload this video to Youtube, it has been consistently deleted by google, Facebook. and Youtube. Please make this video viral so that it reaches all media", read the chain message.

Photo: Turnbackhoaks.id

Is it true that this incident?

Reporting from the turnbackhoaks.id site, this video has nothing to do with Israeli police torture of Palestinian children. The event actually took place in 2015 and was explained in 2017 through the turnbackhoaks site.

The incident took place in the city of Malmö, Sweden, which is about 3,150.24 kilometers (air distance) from Palestine.

"The child who was in the video read the Shahada out of fear when he was arrested after being caught on a train without a ticket. The perpetrator, the security guard, was investigated for acts of excessive violence", Turnbackhoaks wrote on Tuesday, May 18.

This information is included in the wrong content or when the original content is matched with the wrong information context. The source shared a video of the 2015 events taking advantage of moments related to the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict situation (2021),

"thus giving rise to wrong premises/conclusions". Several international media have also reported on this incident, for example, The Local. In the news, it said two security guards at the main Malmö train station who was filmed apparently banging a nine-year-old boy's head against a stone floor are being investigated by police.

In a video published by the local newspaper Sydsvenskan, a guard is seen pushing the boy to the ground, sitting on him, and covering his mouth with his hand. The boy is heard reciting the Shahada prayer ('There is only one God, and Muhammad is the Prophet').

The guard, employed by security firm Svensk Bevakningstjänst, had arrested the boy and his 12-year-old friend after they were thrown off the train for traveling without a ticket.

On Tuesday, the police said they were investigating the two guards after twelve complaints about the guards.