Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: images taken out of context flood social networks

Thus, a series of images on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, purporting to show panic in the occupied West Bank following the earthquake in Turkey, garnered tens of thousands of interactions.

But a reverse image search by AFP found that the photos dated back to June 2017 and showed Palestinians celebrating Eid al-Fitr in the West Bank city of Nablus.

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