{"id":40969,"date":"2019-07-12T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=40969"},"modified":"2019-07-12T19:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T14:19:18","slug":"false-claim-israel-gifted-indian-river-cleaning-machines-to-clean-ganga-and-godavari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/false-claim-israel-gifted-indian-river-cleaning-machines-to-clean-ganga-and-godavari\/","title":{"rendered":"False claim: Israel gifted India river-cleaning machines to clean Ganga and Godavari"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Israel has gifted this to India to clean Ganga. What a beautiful gesture ! Thanks to Modi Government\u2019s Friendship Efforts. This is now used at Godavari.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The above message has been posted on social media and messaging platforms along with a video which shows trash being taken out of a river by a machine.<\/p>\n

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Israel has gifted this to India to clean Ganga.
\nWhat a beautiful gesture !
\nThanks to Modi Government\u2019s
\nFriendship Efforts. This is now used at Godavari<\/p>\n

Posted by Veena Dhamija<\/a> on Monday, July 8, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

The above post by a Facebook user is of July 8. In the video, different kinds of machines can be seen collecting garbage from the river. The same has also been shared on WhatsApp with the identical narrative, that these machines have been gifted to India by Israel and are currently being used to clean the Godavari river.<\/p>\n

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Alt News found that this video and the accompanying claim have been shared on Twitter since 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Israel has gifted this to India to clean Ganga.
\nWhat a beautiful gesture !
\nThanks to Government\u2019s
\nFriendship Efforts pic.twitter.com\/PUjh6VxxSv<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Tyagraj shekhawat (@TyagrajShekhawt) July 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FALSE CLAIM<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are three machines seen in the viral video. Alt News found that only one out of the three machines pertains to India. Reverse-searching one of the frames of the video, we found that two other river-cleaning machines pertain to Baltimore in Maryland, USA and not India. The third machine, though it pertains to India, was not ‘gifted’ by Israel as claimed.<\/p>\n

Machine 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Posted below is a YouTube video of the first machine which can be seen in the viral video. It had been deployed at Baltimore harbour in 2013.<\/p>\n