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Lies Travel Faster Than the Truth

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23.04.2026

On April 21, 2026, Syrian Girl, Maram Susli, @Partisangirl, posted a video on X with a single caption: “Israel shot a little girl in front of her brother while she was collecting water.”¹

The video is not from Israel. The story is not from Israel. It is from Yemen. August 2020.

A different war. Different actors. Different dead.

Within a day: 5 million views. 170,000 likes. 73,000 shares.

X community notes flagged it. The correction is attached to the post. Most people will not see it.

This is the event the video actually shows:

A young girl, Ruweida Saleh, shot by a Houthi sniper while carrying a 20-litre water container home in Taiz, Yemen. Her brother dragged her from........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)