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…
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