Of All the People to Survive in Gaza, You Knew Mr FAFO Had to Be One of Them

Imagine my surprise when the news of the signed Gaza peace agreement hit X, and it wasn’t two hours later that joyful videos of Palestinians celebrating the news flooded in.

It was also pretty amazing that, no matter where I looked in the ecstatic crowds reveling and hooting in the streets, did I see one frail, starving person struggling to speak the Arabic version of ‘YIPPEE!’

Great scenes out of Gaza of people relieved that peace could soon be a possibility. Interestingly of all the footage coming out of celebrations I’ve noticed people (including kids) don’t look like they were starved or malnourished. 🤔 pic.twitter.com/ztJbyrI0tw

— Rukshan Fernando (@therealrukshan) October 9, 2025

No one seemed to have a lick of problem with keeping the cellphones charged, that every last one of them had either.

People celebrate in the streets of Gaza following agreement to Trump’s peace plan. 👇👇
Will this satisfy the left?! 🤔 pic.twitter.com/xeQyyYe7o5

— Jannine.. #MagaMemeQueen ™️ 👑🇺🇸 (@janninereid1) October 9, 2025

Well…huh.

Celebrations broke out in both Gaza and Israel after the announcement of a ceasefire plan agreement, after an agonizing two years of war. @JDiamond1 reports. pic.twitter.com/8urlT5IhrG

— CNN International PR (@cnnipr) October 10, 2025

But the last person I expected to see actually probably should have been the person I should most have expected…and there he was.

The infamous, legendary, risen-and-rerisen-from-the-dead master of the theatrical ‘Pallywood’ propaganda short, the one and only Mr. FAFO himself. There he was, gleefully trudging through the evening light, weeping for joy and wearing what looked like a new generic press vest for the occasion.

Ah, schweet, schweet peace at last.

No way.

Mr FAFO survived the war lol. pic.twitter.com/ER8Zhj3lll

— 𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) October 9, 2025

If you are unfamiliar with this notorious character, let me assure you, he is world-famous among the innerwebs and social media savvy. His name conjures an immediate picture of some sort of over-the-top emotional appeal with a threat of imminent danger – all pure theatrics for a gullible Palestinian sympathizing population in productions known as ‘Pallywood.’ He derisively became the subject of an ongoing, farcical game of ‘Where’s Waldo (aka FAFO)’ the second his face appeared in any video of supposed carnage or exceptional cruelty perpetrated BY THE JEWS.

And there were many.

Here he is, a victim of an Israeli air raid, writhing in pain in a Gaza hospital, his slender frame dotted by wires and electrodes. And there he goes again, a day or two later: He’s a radiologist now, helping a blood-smeared patient into a small MRI machine. Since Oct. 7 he has died on camera—not once but twice—and then, like Lazarus, come back to life. He sired a (fake, plastic) child, then lost it in a bombing; found work as a foreign correspondent; picked up a gun and joined the fighting; laughed joyfully when Jews were slaughtered; wept bitterly when the Jews struck back; discovered his calling as a singer; led us on guided tours of his shelled-out hometown.

Who is he? He is Saleh Aljafarawi, 25, Gazan, Hamas supporter, and professional social media influencer. The genre in which he works is Pallywood, the term coined by scholar Richard Landes to describe a long Palestinian cinematic tradition, in which a wide variety of political parties and terrorist groups create fake dramatic videos and peddle them to sympathetic Western media outlets who pay for these comically obvious fabrications and then cynically or cluelessly present them as indictments of the Jewish state’s cruelty.

But such literal-minded answers miss the larger point. #MrFAFO—the acronym means “f**k around, find out”—matters because his work is the best prism we’ve got if we wish to truly gaze into the heart of darkness.

Because #MrFAFO, truly, c’est nous.

Some of his greatest hits put Barrymore’s silent films to shame.

This one was dramatic – fiery special effects and all.

Mr. FAFO celebrates the 10,000th scene he stumbled into completely by accident pic.twitter.com/TdgfMw8kCz

— GAZAWOOD – the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) August 4, 2024

Here he is writhing in pain after an undisclosed injury at a local hospital.

Gaza’s Mr FAFO is in the hospital. It’s unclear if he is being treated after an Israeli air raid or if he has been watching PornHub. pic.twitter.com/k58lMUOxm5

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 15, 2024

This is one of his deathbed scenes. Not exactly Aida or Madam Butterfly, but he did practice quite a bit with these. ‘A’ for effort.

Awww, poor Mr. Fafo’s dying again. Gosh, this man deserves an Oscar for his Pallywood performances. pic.twitter.com/uTuPcxthpY

— Proud_zionist_natalie ✡️🇬🇧❤️🇮🇱 (@natalie_Zion_) April 26, 2024

He was routinely featured in sympathetic Western news broadcasts until his fame spread so much that they realized the joke was on them.

The BBC used footage with Mr FAFO in a highly suspect scene as early as November 2023. I knew I had it somewhere! @mishtal @nicolelampert pic.twitter.com/qq5TI7Iusz

— WomanofValour (@MicheleGoldsmi6) February 27, 2025

Well, that and he got suspended from TikTok for a while.

Probably died and came back because of it.

Somehow, they even caught a quick glimpse of Mr FAFO doing his green screen work for what was sure to be another thrilling installment of THE JEWS DID IT.

Later, they’ll add effects, and we’ll see Mr. FAFO running in slow motion through smoke and fire as he dodges IDF bullets pic.twitter.com/WYN2pXaoSx

— GAZAWOOD – the PALLYWOOD saga (@GAZAWOOD1) January 29, 2025

Of course, there was the occasional slack off in production values…

Great video dude !!
Great miracle as well!!
But isn’t the only one
Remember Mr FAFO ?? He died many times during the Gaza war but Palestinian scientists managed to resurrect him every single time 😜 pic.twitter.com/5uNxAt7Fn7

— Shadow (@dan2069937) October 10, 2025

…but c’mon, people!

It was a war zone, famine, genocide, and THE JEWS WERE DOING IT!

It’s not always going to go smoothly, especially when you expect one guy, one lone FAFO, to wear so many hats.

Celebrations featuring Mr. Fafo – the phoney journalist with more lives then that cat and Pallywood’s greatest range of personas. https://t.co/b5g1nHQpUU pic.twitter.com/Jcsxit8u9D

— David Palmer (@DavePalmerUK1) October 10, 2025

Well, I hope, now that he has the chance to be out in the streets during the daylight hours partying with his fat Palestinian bros, that Mr FAFO thanks President Trump somewhere in all that hooting and hollaring.

He might have run out of lives eventually.

They always do when the FO catches up.

If we thought our job in pushing back against the Academia/media/Democrat censorship complex was over with the election, think again. This is going to be a long fight. Ed, David, John, and I are here for it.

COME AT US, BROS!

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