Accounts and pages on social media circulated widely shared images, whose publishers claimed were stills taken from a video proving the execution of Dr. Rania al-Abbasi’s children and several other children at the hands of a man named Amjad Youssef.
Kashaf’s team followed the circulating claim to establish the truth of the images and contacted the media office of the National Commission for the Missing directly, finding the claim misleading with regard to the children’s identity. The media office officially denied to Kashaf that Dr. Rania al-Abbasi’s children appear among the images circulated in those posts. It should be noted that the verification was limited to denying any link between the alleged images and Dr. Rania’s children, while Kashaf’s team was unable to confirm the accuracy of the images themselves or the reality of what they document as of 31 May 2026.
Why is this claim misleading?
Misleading identity attribution: Exploiting images circulating on social media whose accuracy has not yet been established, and identifying the people in them as Dr. Rania al-Abbasi’s children despite the official denial issued by the National Commission for the Missing, is classified as a misleading act that promotes false information.
