However, a number of Twitter users then pointed out that the two IDF members appear to be band members - Suhell Nafar and Mahmoud Jreri - in “bad costumes.”

An acquaintance of the band told Buzzfeed News that the photo was indeed staged but added that the band did not want to be quoted on the record as “they’re enjoying watching the reaction the photo is generating online.”

The group’s website describes DAM – Da Arabian MCs – as “the first Palestinian hip hop crew and among the first to rap in Arabic, [who] began working together in the late 1990s.”