Fact check: Viral video falsely linked to Hezbollah rocket attacks on Tel Aviv

MENA

Published: 2024-09-27 10:44

Last Updated: 2024-09-27 17:00


Fact check: Viral video falsely linked to Hezbollah rocket attacks on Tel Aviv
Fact check: Viral video falsely linked to Hezbollah rocket attacks on Tel Aviv

Social media users have circulated a video showing large fires, claiming it depicts the aftermath of rockets and missiles launched by Hezbollah on Tel Aviv.

However, after fact-checking by Agence France-Presse (AFP), it was confirmed that the video actually shows a warehouse fire in Brazil, unrelated to the ongoing conflict.

The video went viral amid recent rocket strikes by Hezbollah on various areas in Israeli Occupation, in retaliation for intense 'Israeli' airstrikes targeting several towns in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the Lebanon-Syria border. These attacks have resulted in hundreds of casualties so far.