A graphic video shows an explosion at a funeral procession. But the incident was not orchestrated by Israeli forces, as social media users claimed.

“IsRealHell sent the body of a Palestinian martyr back to Palestine with a bomb embedded in the corpse!” text on a Sept. 12 Instagram video reads. “It exploded at the funeral procession, killing many mourners.”

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But the video does not show a recent Palestinian funeral. It was taken during a July 2012 funeral procession in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, NBC reported then.

The man in the video, whom the Los Angeles Times identified as Abdul Hadi Halab, was wrapped in a Syrian revolutionary flag and had allegedly been killed by government forces. Opposition activists say a government-organized nearby car bombing caused the explosion during the funeral, CNN reported in 2012.

We rate the claim that a video shows a body that Israel embedded with a bomb exploding during a Palestinian funeral procession False.