00:04Hello and welcome to The Cube, Euronews fact-checking show.
00:07A raft of AI-generated and misleading footage has emerged in recent days,
00:12misrepresenting Italy's relationship with Israel.
00:15One video supposedly depicts Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
00:18refusing to shake hands with her Israeli counterpart,
00:22Benjamin Netanyahu, with captions suggesting that she ignored him.
00:25They are shown meeting at a UN venue with a Palestinian flag dropped over Meloni's shoulders,
00:30but the clip has clearly been AI-generated and there are no reports of her snobbing Netanyahu.
00:36Another video depicts an angry Meloni throwing papers and shouting before storming out of the room.
00:42But this video has clear inconsistencies, such as Meloni's hands turning grey as she walks away.
00:47It appears to have been curated from a photo of Meloni attending an AI summit in the UK in 2023
00:53when she wore this outfit.
00:56Captions under this video claim that Meloni has ended all agreements with Israel,
01:00but this is not true.
01:01In April, Meloni announced that Italy had suspended its defense agreement with Israel,
01:06which covered the exchange of military equipment and technology.
01:10But it's far from the only agreement Italy has with Israel.
01:13Later in April, Italy and Germany actually refused calls to suspend an EU-wide cooperation agreement with Israel,
01:19with Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani pushing back on making a decision.
01:24Around the same time that fake clips of Meloni circulated,
01:28several pro-Palestinian accounts began sharing a video that allegedly shows a recent nationwide protest in Italy
01:34after Meloni refused to recognize the Palestinian state.
01:37But this footage is old.
01:38It actually dates back to September 2025 and shows clashes between protesters and police
01:44during a pro-Gaza demonstration in Milan amid wider protests across the country over Italy's stance on the war in
01:50Gaza.
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