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The claim

Israel put a time bomb in the dead body of a terrorist and returned it to Palestinians.

Original publisher’s rating

FALSE

Reviewed by FACTLY ↗ ·

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Original review summary

The review identifies the video as footage from a July 2012 funeral procession in a Damascus suburb of Syria, not an incident in Israel. It says the explosion was believed to have been caused by a government-organized car bomb, and concludes the claim is false.[S1]

Additional context

The review separately reports that a bomb explosion in Tel Aviv on 18 August 2024 killed the attacker and injured a bystander. [S1]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [S1] FACTLY original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 16, 2026

Original review: FACTLY. Structured data compiled by Data Commons under CC BY 4.0. Publisher article content is subject to its own terms. Summaries and context are produced by PeakMetrics with AI assistance.

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