A video depicting burning cars and black clouds of smoke following an attack has been circulated, falsely claiming to show a recent Hezbollah attack on Israel in Acre. However, D-Intent Data has discovered that this footage is from October 2023, documenting the aftermath of a rocket attack in Ashdod, which was carried out by Hamas, not Hezbollah.
Sharing the video on X (Formerly Twitter) Palestine supporter account @lifepeptides wrote. “Scenes from Acre, northern Israel, after the earlier Hezbollah attacks. Local residents can be heard not so pleased with the situation”.
Terror sympathizer, serial fake news peddler and anti-India propagandist account @DrLoupis also quoted the post and wrote, “Iron dome not working today?”
Several other users and influencers have also shared the video and made similar claims. Their posts can be seen here, @HollowDreams01, @Abbas_477
The truth about the video shared as Hezbollah attack, Fact Check
As soon as the posts containing the video and claims came to our notice. Subsequently, we conducted research and analysis of the video and found that the video was not recent. But an old video from October 2023.
To verify the claims made by the users. We performed a reverse image search of some key frames from the viral video on Google Lens. This led us to various media reports containing the same visuals, published in October 2023. According to the reports(1, 2, 3), this video depicts visuals after a rocket attack by Hamas on Israel’s Ashdod in October 2023.
Therefore, it is evident from D-Intent Data’s Fact Check that the video doesn’t depict Hezbollah’s attack on Israel’s Acre, but an old video from Ashdod depicting visuals after a rocket attack by Hamas in October 2023.
Intent
Propagandists are circulating old videos with misleading claims to set their narrative against Israel over the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Conclusion
Claim– The video depicts Hezbollah’s attack on Israel’s Acre.
Fact– This is not a recent video. But an old video from Ashdod depicting the visuals after the Hamas rocket attack in October 2023.
