A Palestinian boy was found dead in a cistern by Israeli firefighters this week.

The Palestinian press instead reported that the 7-year-old boy was kidnapped and murdered by Israelis.

Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib retweeted this blood libel.

But it was all a lie.

Rashida Tlaib was spreading blood libel. The boy was not kidnapped and executed. He drowned in a cistern and his body was found by Israeli firefighters.

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.@RashidaTlaib spreading a blood libel. There is no evidence that the boy was "kidnapped and executed." He drowned in a cistern near his home. It was Israeli firefighters who found him, not "Israeli forces assaulted search teams." https://t.co/yZO7jdEgC8 https://t.co/TYu7Gm1IJu — Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) January 25, 2020

The Jerusalem Post reported: