It is reported in print and social media that Likud Party member of the Israeli Knesset, Sharren Haskel, thanked Azerbaijan for its support to this country in an interview with Israel's local media. In the five-sentence news article, it is written that Sharren Haskel, a member of the Knesset (parliament) of the Israeli regime, thanked and commended the Republic of Azerbaijan for its support to Israel. The following sentence states that 60 percent of the energy needs of the Israeli regime are met by Azerbaijan through the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, and that the Azerbaijani ambassador to Tel Aviv considers the Al-Aqsa flood operation as a terror attack and declares their support for Israel. source
Faktyoxla Lab. has investigated the accuracy of this news.
First of all, it was established that the news article was first published on rasthaber.com news website, which is the media organ of the Imam Reza Cultural Center headquartered in Germany and is known for its closeness to Iran.
Later, the same news article was published on the news site yazilimedya.com, which we found to belong to the brothers Jafar and Ismayil Bendiderya, representatives of Tasnim News Agency in Türkiye, on the Hur seda news site, known for its closeness to Huda – Par (Free Cause Party, a Kurdish Sunni Islamist political party in Türkiye),
on welayetnews.com, the publishing outlet of Iranians in Diyarbakir,
on kudusgunu.com, one of Kudus (Jerusalem) TV's news sites.
Apart from this, accounts on social media belonging to Tayfun Kekec, Murat Aktan, Sukuti Evcil, Memet Inci, Koksal Ay shared the same news article. The account named Ehsan Muvahidian, which constantly runs a smear campaign against Azerbaijan, also shared the same news on the X social media platform.
We decided to investigate the news published in the world press on the subject. When we scanned the news headline in English as "thanks to Azerbaijan from Knesset member Sharren Haskel", we could not find any significant results that matched our search in either the last week or the last month. Then we similarly searched for the same words in Russian, Hebrew and Persian. However, in our Persian search, we came across the interview of Knesset member Sharren Haskel on Iran International television's YouTube channel a month ago. The strange thing is that Ms. Haskel revealed her reaction to Iran in an interview with Iran International: "Iran is behind Hamas and Hezbollah. This war is between those who defend the sanctity of life and radical and extreme Islam."
Conclusion:
-The article published on news websites that Knesset member Sharren Haskel thanked the Republic of Azerbaijan for its support to Israel is completely unfounded;
-The first publication of this news on rasthaber.com already reveals how real the news can be;
- Even in our research in different languages, we did not come across a single news story containing the same discourse;
- Only a month ago, in an interview with Iran International television broadcasting in Persian, Knesset member Sharren Haskel says that Iran is behind Hamas and Hezbollah.
