13:25 BST
Emma Pengelly
BBC Verify
Footage has emerged after Sunday’s
disputed incident near an aid distribution point in southern Gaza that appears to show Palestinians taking cover as gunfire is heard.
Today, an Israeli military source told BBC Verify that warning
shots were fired towards several suspects approximately 1km (0.6 miles) away from the aid
distribution site.
Among the videos circulating on platforms such as Telegram, Instagram and X is one showing
Palestinians crouching and apparently ducking for
cover in an open area of sandy terrain while what sounds like automatic gunfire
rings out.
Image source, InstagramImage caption,
A screengrab taken from a video posted to Instagram shows people ducking for cover on a beach – but a lack of distinctive landmarks means it is hard to be 100% sure of the location
Our verification priorities are to identify exactly where and when footage was filmed. But that’s not always possible.
In this instance, there are not enough identifying features such as trees, buildings and landmarks that we can match to satellite images to confirm a location.
While we cannot be exactly sure of the location, we ran five different key frames from the video through a search engine and found that this video was posted no earlier than 03:08 GMT or 06:08 local time on Sunday.
Later that day at around 18:00 local time (15:00 GMT) the same account posted a video showing hundreds of people gathering at an aid distribution site west of Rafah – footage which we have geolocated. The area looks very crowded but no gunfire is heard.
This post has been updated to correct the time that the second video was posted online