Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in a video on X on Sunday, March 15, to directly address rumours that he’d been killed. A cup in hand at a cafe, he says in btween sips, “They say I’m what?”.
Speaking in Hebrew, he goes on to flash his hands to show he has five fingers, and not six as was theorised by social media users who said his earlier video was “AI-generated”.
The video came after at least two days of X and TikTok posts that said he had been “unalived” or “deleted” — words that people prefer online to “death” as the social-media algorithm allegedly deprioritises that word.
Conservative podcaster Candace Owens was among major online influencers who wondered where Netanyahu was amid unverified claims of him dying in an Iranian strike.
As per Turkey’s state-run news agency, the Israel PMO later said: “These are fake news; the Prime Minister is fine.”
But the speculation continued as he did not appear in public. After the clarification from Netanyahu’s office began to circulate online, Owens wrote: “…but they failed to present Bibi’s recent location, a video, or anything else. Iran also claimed their leader was alive and while he was dead. So we prefer proof.”
And now comes this video that talks of details of those theories, thus establishing that it’s new and not recorded.
