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An American woman’s video of tearing down Greek flags confusing them as Israeli flags has gone viral on social media. In the old video, now circulating on social media, the woman is seen tearing down the flags shouting ‘free Palestine’ slogan. The video, said to be shot a few months ago, shows the woman protesting by ripping apart the flags in front of a restaurant in New Jersey in the United States.
The incident occurred at Efi’s Gyro restaurant located in Montclair. In the video, the woman, who operated a TikTok account in the name of Ambamelia, can be seen tearing apart a sequence of white and blue flags, saying “Free Palestine! You know there’s genocide,” she screams at an obviously confused cashier. In the video she is heard saying, “I don’t stand for Zionism in Montclair!” The funny part of the video follows when one of the perplexed restaurant personnel explains the fact to the woman that the flags are actually Greek ones.
“What? Really? Oh, I thought it was Israel — my bad,” she replies. The woman in question recently shared the incident on social media, stating, “The time I mistakenly thought of the Greek flag for Israel and took the restaurant’s flag down, OMG.” It happened back in March.
That’s a Greek flag ma’am. pic.twitter.
com/yjtfZgwSaz — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 16, 2024 According to reports, restaurant owner Efi Mihalis confirmed the incident and clarified that “this was not planned nor was it calculated in any way”. Soon after the incident, she informed the police about it, saying that everyone who was there was “taken aback.” With more than a million views, the video is a direct reaction to the mounting hostility towards Israel’s actions in Gaza.
After a Hamas attack last year, Israel launched a devastating invasion of the Gaza Strip, which has increased regional tensions. Since Israel’s aggression started more than a year ago, the death toll of those in Gaza, who were killed and identified, has reached more than 2,00,000, according to The Lancet, while 99,150 people have been injured. It’s estimated that around 10,000 people could be buried in the debris.
According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, over 1,200 people died in Israel, including 346 personnel from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), 66 police officers and about 800 civilians..
