False image shows Inter Milan supporting Palestine with flag

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False image shows Inter Milan supporting Palestine with flag  Not only is the photo old, it's been cropped, with the original showing children waving both the Palestinian and Israeli flags.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/09/false-image-shows-inter-milan-supporting-palestine-with-flag  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00False image shows Inter Milan supporting Palestine.

00:05An image has been going around online allegedly showing Italian football team Inter Milan

00:11waving the Palestinian flag in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

00:15The picture shows children walking past the squad,

00:18giving the players on the field a high five while brandishing the flag before a recent match.

00:23It's been shared with captions like

00:25Inter Milan shows solidarity with Palestine before their game

00:28and others saying free Palestine.

00:31One of the posts has been liked almost 200,000 times at the time of recording,

00:35but ultimately the image and its captions are misleading because the picture has been cropped.

00:40A reverse image search leads us to the original, posted on Getty Images,

00:44which dates back to 23rd September 2009,

00:48meaning it was taken well over a decade before the attacks

00:51which sparked the Israel-Hamas war on 7th October 2023,

00:55but still during the wider Israel-Palestine conflict.

00:59We can see that the photo has been cropped.

01:01The original image shows both Israeli and Palestinian children from an inter-camp

01:06waving their respective flags and giving high fives to players

01:09before a Serie A match against Napoli.

01:12A further search reveals that this scene was part of an inter-campus event

01:15where children from inter-camps all over the world spent a week in Italy,

01:20culminating in a lap of honour by each delegation before the Inter-Napoli match.

01:23The photo resurfaced again in 2015,

01:26attached to an article reporting on a proposal by former FIFA president Sepp Blatter

01:31to host a peace match between Israel and Palestine.

01:34The match ultimately did not take place.

01:37The reverse image search also shows us that this isn't the first time

01:40that the cropped image has been shared in this misleading way.

01:43It appears to show up every few months since the 7th October attacks.

01:47For more investigations and fact-checks, head to our website, euronews.com.

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