A video that shows heavy firing on a mosque’s minaret is viral on social media with the following Hindi caption, translated as, “Israeli army fired at a mosque in Palestine near Israeli border because they were annoyed with the sound of Azan coming from the mosque.
The same video was uploaded on Facebook with the claim, “Israeli army attacked Palestinian mosque, but nothing happened to the mosque even after the attack.” This post was shared over 1,700 times. The video was also shared by American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore in 2008 which carries the testimony of US marine Jon M. Turner. He said that the video shows the US army attacking a mosque in Iraq. In another video of the testimony of Jon Turner, he confessed that he was in Iraq in 2006 with his troops. The viral video is played at 6:40 in the testimony. “It is illegal to shoot into a mosque unless you were taking fire from it. There was no fire that was taken from that mosque. It was shot into because we were angry,” he said.
A video of the US army firing at a mosque in Iraq in 2008 is viral with the false claim that the Israeli forces attacked a mosque in Palestine over the sound of azan.
The article, originally in Turkish, when translated to English mentioned, “In the footage shot in different cities of Iraq at different times, it is seen that US soldiers fired on the minarets targeted by heavy machine guns for minutes. The video carries the logo of ‘IVAW’ which stands for ‘Iraq Veterans Against the War’ and the website carried several video links mentioning: “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan featured testimony from US veterans who served in those occupations, giving an accurate account of what is really happening day in and day out, on the ground.”
The website also mentioned that it has been renamed to ‘About Face: Veterans Against the War’ and the YouTube handle of the same had uploaded Turner’s testimony in 2012 in which one can see the aforementioned details.
