![]() ![]() ![]() "This is a video that we refuted, " he told his mother-in-law. The clip had been posted online months before Hamas attacked Israel, though the footage's exact origins remain the subject of online debate. ![]() Not only did he immediately know that she was referring to deceptive footage, but the organization he runs, FakeReporter, was the first to show that the video portrayed something else entirely. "I asked her, 'what happened?' And she said I just saw a horrible video of babies in cages," Schatz said. Yet what most rattled his mother-in-law were the unsettling images of children in cages. Sometimes all three families are forced to seek shelter together from rocket attacks. The house became a cacophony of screaming children, frantic phone calls and emergency Zoom meetings. Schatz, his pregnant partner, their toddler daughter, and two other Israeli families had fled the violence of the war, putting eleven under one roof at the home of his in-laws outside of Tel Aviv. Achiya Schatz walked into the kitchen and saw his mother-in-law standing there in tears. ![]()
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