What was claimed
A video of people throwing rocks into a road is of Palestinians.
Our verdict
It actually shows protests in Israel by Ethiopian-Israelis.
This is not a video of Palestinians protesting
18 July 2019
What was claimed
A video of people throwing rocks into a road is of migrants in Calais.
Our verdict
It actually shows protests in Israel by Ethiopian-Israelis.
A video that claims to show Palestinians throwing rocks has been shared over 6,000 times on Facebook. In the video, people are seen to take rocks and throw them onto a motorway.
However, the video is not of Palestinians or from Palestine. The footage is taken from protests in July 2019 in Israel around the death of an Ethiopian-Israeli teenager Solomon Tekah. Solomon Tekah was shot dead by an off duty police officer, igniting ongoing tensions between Ethiopian-Israelis and law enforcement.
The Facebook page that shared the post originally claimed that the footage was of migrants in Calais. They updated the caption after posting to say it was Palestinians. Other versions of the video across social media have also claimed it is Calais, including Tommy Robinson’s telegram channel.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false as this is not a video of Palestinians or migrants in Calais.