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The claim

Photo Mohammad Mahroof, a Hamas militant from Gaza, accused of killing Israeli children in 2023. In 2024, Israel caught and disarmed him and left him alive.

Original publisher’s rating

FALSE

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Original review summary

The review identifies the person in the image as 15-year-old Palestinian Diaa Al-Adini, not Hamas militant Mohammad Mahroof. It says Al-Adini was injured in an Israeli strike on 13 August 2024 and that doctors amputated his limbs because of medical shortages.[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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