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A post widely shared on social media falsely claims to include a photo of an Israeli soldier who took their own life after being raped.

The post, which has been shared across Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter), includes a photo of a young woman in military attire.

A caption with one post says: “Today’s scandal: The tragic suicide of the soldier ‘Sarah Awidan’ after being subjected to a gang rape and hidden in one of the army barracks in the ‘Magellan’ brigade in Gaza for several days. The Israeli army is the most morally corrupt in the world. Shameful… #Gaza #Israel.”

But the woman pictured is not “Sarah Awidan”, and Full Fact could not find evidence of a soldier of this name dying in the way described while serving in the Israel Defence Forces…

Several posts online have claimed that actor and TV presenter Bradley Walsh has died. 

However, Mr Walsh’s agent told Full Fact the claim is false, and confirmed that Mr Walsh is “alive and well”.

As others have pointed out, the claim seems to have started in a TikTok video posted around 27 January, which now appears to have been deleted or removed from the platform. 

The video received over 10,000 likes on TikTok. It was posted by an account which seems to have used the BBC News logo as its profile picture, with the display name “BBC News”. The video appeared to mimic the branding of the BBC News channel, with the BBC logo in the top left corner and on a banner that also featured the text “Bradley Walsh dies aged 63”. 

While the original post is no…