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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