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Israeli and pro-Israeli TikTok users have been mocked by their Arab counterparts after mistaking a video of Omani men clearing irrigation tunnels for footage of Palestinian fighters in tunnels in Gaza. The video, uploaded by an Omani social activist called Hussein Al-Rasibi to TikTok, has unintentionally gone viral, garnering over 7.2 million views and over 5,000 comments. It showed men in “falaj” tunnels knee deep in water, digging soil and filling buckets with it, which were later hoisted up. Oman’s traditional falaj irrigation system, which depends on tunnels and canals, involves the delive…

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