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Miscaptioned: Video of people evacuating a beach dates to 2021, not related to Israel-Palestine unrest in May, 2023 Video of people evacuating a beach as sirens blare in the background dates to at least 2021 and is unrelated to the exchange of rockets and airstrikes between Israel and Gaza in May 2023. “Rocket sirens going off in Tel Aviv earlier today. People on the beach running to shelters” (Source: Reuters)

Miscaptioned: Image shows migrant caravan in Tapachula, Mexico in 2021 A photograph shows migrants walking in a caravan in Tapachula, Mexico toward the U.S. border in November 2021, but has been falsely shared on social media as showing migrants that crossed the border in Texas in May 2023. Users shared the aerial photograph of crowds of people walk (Source: Reuters)