Fact Check | 2023 video from protest in Pakistan shared as 'visuals from Gaza'
The Verdict - Misleading
The video is from a pro-Palestine gathering that was held in Karachi in 2023, where fake body bags were displayed as a symbolic tribute.
What is the claim?
A video of small body bags kept on the floor, with the words "Save Gaza" written on a white sheet, was shared online with a claim that it shows the ones killed during the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. A Facebook user shared the video with the caption, "Birds of Jannah From Gaza." Similar posts can be found here, here, and here.
The video started circulating after Israel carried out airstrikes on Gaza on March 19 and 20, 2025, killing at least 85 Palestinians. On March 23, 2025, Israel attacked a hospital, claiming to have killed two Hamas members. Around the same time, Pakistan’s religious political party Jamaat-e-Islami held rallies condemning Israel’s attacks.
However, the video is from 2023 and shows a protest held in Karachi to show solidarity with the Palestinians.
What are the facts?
A reverse image search led us to an X post (archived here), published on November 20, 2023, where the user shared similar visuals and images of small body bags atop a Palestinian flag spread across the street. The post was captioned, "Thousands of Pakistanis gathered at Nishtar Park in #Karachi to show solidarity with #Gaza and #Palestine (sic)."
Using this as a cue, we searched for looked for reports about a protest held at Nishtar Park in Karachi and found images published by the Associated Press (AP) in November 2023.
One AP image is very similar to the visuals in the now-viral video, and according to the caption, the white body bags were laid down to represent Palestinians killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza in November 2023. The caption added that supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party participated in the rally. The photograph was attributed to AP news photographer Fareed Khan.
Alamy also published pictures from this rally held in Karachi on November 19, 2023, and attributed those images to the same AP photographer.
In November 2023, several pro-Palestine rallies were held in multiple cities in Pakistan in support of Palestine and against Israel’s strikes on Gaza.
The verdict
Visuals from a symbolic protest held in support of Palestine in November 2023 in Pakistan’s Karachi have been passed off as people killed in Gaza following the recent Israeli airstrikes.
(This story was originally published by logicallyfacts.com, and republished by english.varthabharati.in as part of the Shakti Collective)
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PM Modi likely to visit New York for UNGA session next month
United Nations (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address the annual high-level session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, according to a provisional list of speakers issued by the UN here.
The 80th session of the UNGA will open on September 9. The high-level General Debate will run from September 23-29, with Brazil as the traditional first speaker of the session, followed by the US.
US President Donald Trump will address world leaders from the iconic UNGA podium on September 23, his first address to the UN session in his second term in the White House.
According to the provisional list of speakers for the high-level debate of the 80th session of the General Assembly, India’s “Head of Government (HG)” will address the session on the morning of September 26.
The Heads of Government of Israel, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are also scheduled to address the UNGA general debate on the same day.
Modi had travelled to the US in February this year for a bilateral meeting with Trump in the White House in Washington, DC. In a joint statement issued after their meeting, Modi and Trump had announced plans to negotiate the first tranche of a mutually beneficial, multi-sector Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) by the fall of 2025.
Even as trade negotiations were ongoing, Trump imposed tariffs totalling 50 per cent on India, including 25 per cent for New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil that will come into effect from August 27.
Responding to the tariffs, India’s Ministry of External Affairs has said that the targeting of the country is unjustified and unreasonable.
“Like any major economy, India will take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security,” it said.
Last week’s announcement of Trump’s executive order imposing the additional 25 per cent tariff came at a time when a team from the US is scheduled to visit India from August 25 for the sixth round of negotiations for the proposed bilateral trade agreement.
The two countries are aiming to conclude the first phase of the pact by fall (October-November) this year.
The UNGA list of speakers for the General Debate is provisional, and there is a possibility of changes in schedules and speakers over the next few weeks. The list will continue to be updated accordingly.
Considered the “busiest diplomatic season” of the year at the United Nations Headquarters, the high-level session opens in September annually.
The session this year comes amid the continued Israel-Hamas war as well as the Ukraine conflict.
Trump has said that in the six months of his second presidential term, he has solved several wars, including a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo.
Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for stopping the May conflict between India and Pakistan.
