By Pascal Ibe
Claim
An X user posted a photo of a wounded Palestinian kid and claimed the Israeli forces gathered and shot her recently.
Verdict
This claim is MISLEADING.Findings by FACTWATCH indicated that the incident happened on 12 October 2015, after a Palestinian teenager, Marah Bakeer, attempted to stab two Israelis in Eastern Jerusalem. Marah was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment thereafter.
Full Text
On the 7th of October, 2023 Hamas militants staged the worst-ever attack on Israel.
On that fateful day, hundreds of Hamas fighters infiltrated Israel. The unprecedented attack resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Gunmen rampaged through southern communities massacring some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 to Gaza.
Israel responded with a military campaign to topple the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip, destroy the terror group, and free the hostages.
The Hamas-run health ministry has said over 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, though the figure cannot be independently verified and is believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza.
Reacting to the unending war in Gaza, a Palestinian Activist, @Nadila_Ali shared a photo of a Palestinian teenager and claimed she was shot by Israeli forces recently.
The x user said “More than 10 Israeli men surround a 15 year old Palestinian girl and shøøt her…“
“Would you accept living like this or would you do something about it?“
Another X user, Jonny Utd shared this photo in July and wrote, “This is 1 of the most evil things I’ve seen in 9 months.
The post had garnered more than 600k views and 6k reposts.
Many people who came across this post believed that this incident occurred recently.
Verification
FACTWATCH subjected the photo to a simple Google image reverse search and results showed that the image first appeared online in 2015.
This Fact Checker found a report by a Palestinian news agency on October 12 , 2025. The report narrated that Palestinian girl was shot and injured on by Israeli police near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, when an Israeli settler yelled saying the girl tried to stab him, said local sources and witnesses.
It was gathered that as a group of female students were leaving ‘Abdullah Bin al-Hussein school in Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, they were verbally abused by Jewish settlers, resulting in an altercation.
According to witnesses, a settler threw a knife nesr the girl and started screaming sayng the girl attempted to stab him. Israeli police encircled the student and shot her. According to another female student, ten bullet shots were heard.
Israeli police claimed in a statement that the girl, who sustained serious injuries, was targeted after allegedly carrying out a “stabbing attack”.
In another report in 2016, a report by Clarion India stated Israel’s central court in Jerusalem sentenced a Palestinian teenage girl to eight-and-a-half years in prison , convicting her of attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in occupied East Jerusalem in October 2015.
According to Amjad Abu Asab, head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, the court sentenced Marah Jawdat Moussa Bakr, 17, from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, to eight-and-a-half years of prison and imposed a fine of 10,000 shekels (approximately $2,595).
Bakr was shot and subsequently detained by Israeli forces on Oct. 12, 2015 after carrying out a stabbing attack which injured two Israelis in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, where she attended the nearby Abdullah Bin al-Hussein high school.
According to Abu Asab, Bakir sustained critical injuries in her arm and still needs treatment and medical-follow-up. The teenager was initially imprisoned in Israel’s Ashkelon prison before being transferred to Ramla prison, and then to HaSharon prison.
Freed In 2023
Al Jazeera reported in 2023 that Marah Bakeer is one of 39 Palestinian women and children released from Israeli prisons on Friday in exchange for 13 Hamas captives under a Qatar-mediated deal that includes a four-day truce in Gaza.
The report stated that her mother, Sawsan Bakeer ran down a flight of steps to greet her 24-year-old daughter, Marah, who had just been released after eight years in an Israeli prison.
Conclusion
The X users recirculated the picture which first appeared in 2015. The incident didn’t occur recently.
