ALBAWABA - A video widely circulated online of a young child claimed to be Ismail Haniyeh when he was young singing a song for Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The black-and-white clip was posted on Facebook with captions claiming that the person in the footage was the former leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, who was targeted and killed in Tehran on July 31.
The video shows a child singing a national anthem, with several other children standing next to him. The publishers allegedly said: "Ismail Haniyeh has been singing for Al-Aqsa Mosque since he was a child."
Baby Ismail Haniyeh sings to Al-Aqsa? What's the truth?
Despite that many claimed the person in the video was Haniyeh. However, this is wrong.
The video was originally filmed in colors and shows an Egyptian reciter named Ahmed Saad.
The circulated video is not of the former Hamas chief when he was a child. But after research, a version of the clip was published on YouTube in 2009, in which it appears to be in regular color, indicating that its promoters replaced it with black and white to make the video appear old, from Haniyeh's childhood.
The misleading video was widely posted days after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, which Israel is blamed for, triggering Egyptian reciter Ahmed Saad posted a clarification on his page, confirming that he was the one performing the anthem on a program on Al-Rahma TV.
