Israel-Palestine crisis: Violent images, graphic videos of injured, dead civilians flood X

Violent images and graphic videos flooded social media on Saturday, claiming to show the dead and wounded bodies of Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

On X, a violent video claiming to show the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Saturday morning. The New York Times found hundreds of X accounts sharing images of bodies, claiming to be Israeli civilians killed in the last 24 hours of fighting. Some of the images viewed by the Times appeared to be manipulated and edited.

Underneath some of the videos and images posted on X, people warned that they could be spread as part of a campaign to stoke fear among Israelis. Some of the accounts claimed to be working on behalf of Hamas.