Does a viral online image authentically show "Jewish settlers" pouring a "hit liquid" on two elderly Palestinian sisters in wheelchairs? No, that's not true: According to AI detection tools the image was AI generated and no liquid -- "hit", "hot" or otherwise -- was actually poured on paralysed people. The image contained several details indicating an AI origin, such as weird hands and a missing wheelchair wheel.
The image appeared in a viral post on X (archived here) published on May 2, 2025 with a description that read:
Extremist Israeli jewish settlers pour hit liquid on two paralysed elderly Palestinian sisters in the occupied West Bank city of Al Khaleel!
This is the image in question:
(Image source: screenshot from @AbujomaaGaza on X)
AI detection tool Hive said it was 95.8 %likely the image was generated using AI.
AI detection tool Sightengine also concluded that the image was very "Likely AI-generated" and gave that conclusion a 99% score:
Several clues in the image also revealed it was probably generated using AI, for example bizarrely shaped hands, the odd shape of the container holding the liquid, the unnatural way it splashed off the woman and the fact that both wheelchairs appeared to share a common wheel in the middle:
(Image: collage created by Lead Stories)
