As celebrities respond on social media to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, some posts claim to share images of Lionel Messi holding the Israeli or Palestinian flag. This is false; both pictures are altered from sports memorabilia advertisements that predate the latest hostilities in the Middle East.
As celebrities respond on social media to the conflict between Israel and Hamas, some posts claim to share images ofOther social media users shared the image of the captain of the 2022 Argentine World Cup championship team, who now plays for Inter Miami, onand fight ground battles in the Gaza Strip in response to Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack.
Israel subsequently cut off food, water and electricity to Gaza and began its relentless bombardment campaign, which the Hamas-run health ministry said had killed more than 9,000 people as of, and posts claiming to show photos of Messi holding the Israeli and Palestinian flags include what appear to be screenshots from his Instagram and Facebook pages.
The picture was taken in 2013 when Messi and the rest of FC Barcelona, his team at the time, embarked on a"FC Barcelona football player Lionel Messi puts a paper with wishes in a crack in the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem on August 4, 2013
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