Saleh Al-Jafarawi earned his nickname by posting celebrations of the October 7, 2023, terror attacks — then posting videos of himself crying at the Israeli military reply. (FAFO stands for “f*ck around and find out.”)
He adopted a wide variety of characters in purporting to document the war from a Palestinian perspective.
He was also accused of using his notoriety for self-enrichment, ostensibly by raising funds for Gaza.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
Saleh Aljafarawi, a well-known social media influencer affiliated with Hamas known as “Mr. FAFO”, was killed by an anti-Hamas militia in the Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV confirmed on Sunday.
According to reports, Aljafarawi — one of the most prominent pro-Hamas voices online in the Gaza Strip — was found shot in the head.
The influencer had gained global attention for his viral videos from Gaza, frequently appearing in clips even after being falsely reported dead. On several occasions, he filmed himself from hospital beds after reportedly surviving attacks.
As Breitbart News noted earlier Sunday, Hamas and rival groups are battling in Gaza following the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) withdrawal as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ceasefire-and-hostage deal.
Some skeptics online suggested that “Mr. FAFO” might have faked his own death, as he had done before on many occasions — this time, perhaps, to slip into obscurity with whatever money he had managed to hide.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of The Zionist Conspiracy Wants You, now available on Amazon. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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