| Title: | AFP photo from West Bank falsely shared as ‘Ukrainian child throwing stones at Russian tank’ |
| URL: | https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.328J7RB |
| Publisher: | AFP |
| Date published: | April 21, 2022 |
| Description: | A photo of a child throwing a stone at a tank has been shared repeatedly in Chinese-language posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo alongside a claim it shows the Ukrainian resistance against Russia’s invasion. This is false: the photo was taken by an AFP journalist in 2002 and actually shows a Palestinian child throwing a stone at an Israeli tank. |
AFP photo from West Bank falsely shared as ‘Ukrainian child throwing stones at Russian tank’
A photo of a child throwing a stone at a tank has been shared repeatedly in Chinese-language posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Weibo alongside a claim it shows the Ukrainian resistance against Russia's invasion. This is false: the photo was taken by an AFP journalist in 2002 and actually shows a Palestinian child throwing a stone at an Israeli tank.
