A video is being shared on social media claiming it is the recent visuals of football player Cristiano Ronaldo waving the Palestine flag and extending his support to Palestine. Amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine, this video is going viral on social media. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of Cristiano Ronaldo extending his support to Palestine by waving its flag after victory.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows Moracco football player Jawad El Yamiq waving the Palestine flag after Morocco’s victory over Canada during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with Cristiano Ronaldo. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, a video showing similar visuals was found published by the Middle East Eye news site on 02 December 2022. The news site reported it is the visuals of Morocco football player Jawad El Yamiq celebrating victory over Canada with the Palestine flag during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
An image of Jawad El Yamiq posing with a Palestine flag after victory over Canada was published on the Getty Images site. The image was published on ‘Getty Images’ site with the description, “Jawad El Yamiq of Morocco celebrates after the team’s qualification to the knockout stages during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group F match between Canada and Morocco at Al Thumama Stadium on December 01, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.”
Several news websites reported this news about Morocco players celebrating victory over Canada by waving the Palestine flags. A few of those news articles can be seen here, here, and here.
To sum it up, an old video of Morocco player Jawad El Yamiq was shared as the recent visuals of Cristiano Ronaldo extending his support to Palestine by waving its flag after victory on the ground.
