Tech 4 Peace
Does the video depict Israeli soldiers fleeing during a confrontation in Gaza?
A video was circulated on social media with a text stating, "They thought it was a bomb... a mouse causing panic among Israeli soldiers as they raided a house in Gaza".
The truth:
The attached claim is misleading, The circulated video does not show Israeli soldiers escaping in fear of a mouse, as was claimed. When searching for the video, other clips have reached that show the same features of the place in the circulated clip and carry the title phrase “Airsoft”. Searching for this word revealed that it is a Military simulation game in which players participate in imaginary combat using weapons and military tactics close to reality.
Airsoft game is similar to paintball game but uses round balls made of hard plastic, and the guns used are life-size replicas of real-world weapons.
We have observed the phrase "Beit Dagan" repeated next to the game's name in the titles of some similar videos posted by Israeli accounts. Upon further investigation, we discovered that "Beit Dagan" is the name of a Palestinian village located in the West Bank, situated among the Israeli-inhabited cities in Palestine, to the east of Nablus.
