{"id":11395,"date":"2024-04-16T10:03:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T10:03:36","slug":"old-unrelated-video-being-shared-as-ongoing-israel-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/old-unrelated-video-being-shared-as-ongoing-israel-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Are these videos really of Iranian attacks on Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.factcrescendo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/English-1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20706\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, photos and videos of Iran&#8217;s attacks on Israel have become viral on social media. In a post, a Facebook user uploaded three videos claiming that those visuals were from the recent attack of Iran on Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=3417913515020851&amp;id=100004067078094&amp;mibextid=qi2Omg&amp;rdid=0Fof7s4tuqQOFrM1\">Facebook Link<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/israel-iran_202404\">Archived Link<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s find the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fact Check&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We started our investigation by taking a screenshot of the first video in the post and conducting a reverse image search. Then we came across the viral video which was uploaded on a Twitter handle on 24th March, 2024. The tweet read, &#8220;Sevastopol in occupied Crimea looked nice shortly before midnight&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sevastopol in occupied Crimea looked nice shortly before midnight <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MY3PiSnWMd\">pic.twitter.com\/MY3PiSnWMd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; English Luhansk (@loogunda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loogunda\/status\/1771666692847849485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/israel-iran-evidence-1\">Archived Link<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Sevastopol\">Sevastopol<\/a> is a city and port in southern Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moving forward, we have done a relevant keyword search on YouTube and found a longer version of the same video uploaded on the YouTube channel of &#8220;The Telegraph&#8221; on March 24, 2024. The caption was, &#8220;Huge explosions rock Sevastopol after Ukrainian missile attack\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Huge explosions rock Sevastopol after Ukrainian missile attack\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9eKmfUf86tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The description section of the video read, &#8220;The Ukrainian military said it has hit two large Russian warships as well as other facilities used by the Russian navy in the Black Sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Defence Forces have successfully hit the Yamal and Azov landing ships, a communications centre and several infrastructure facilities belonging to the Russian Black Sea Fleet,\u201d a Ukrainian military spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The extent of the damage could not be immediately verified, but a Russian official in the region reported a major Ukrainian air attack and said more than 10 missiles had been shot down over the Black Sea port of Sevastopol&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.factcrescendo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-24-1024x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20698\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKW-7VL5Ub4\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QBKjGP_mJRA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, it is confirmed that the video is not from the recent attack on Israel by Iran, it&#8217;s an old video where Ukraine attacked on the Russian troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, we took a screenshot of the second video in the post and conducted a reverse image search. The result led us to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/iran-state-tv-airs-clip-of-blaze-in-chile-claims-it-shows-destruction-in-israel\/\">report<\/a> published in the \u2018Times Of Israel\u2019 on April 14th. According to the report, the video is from Chile, North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was mentioned in the report, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1779312359195984093%7Ctwgr%5Edee3d7b1da344e8bda1d93df68536d709d9c165c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timesofisrael.com%2Firan-state-tv-airs-clip-of-blaze-in-chile-claims-it-shows-destruction-in-israel%2F\">Shayan Sardarizadeh<\/a>, a BBC Verify journalist, tweeted about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran&#39;s state TV has been continuously running this video tonight as evidence of its missiles making impact on the ground and hitting targets in Israel. <br><br>But it&#39;s old footage of farm fire in Texas and completely unrelated to tonight&#39;s attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZZJpmcHQxk\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZZJpmcHQxk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1779312359195984093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240415082353\/https:\/twitter.com\/Shayan86\/status\/1779327757714960865\">Archived Link<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We found the same video on an Instagram account uploaded on February 4th, 2024. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C26Knuoug--\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Acci\u00f3n Ciudadana Chile (@accionciudadanachile)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghostarchive.org\/iarchive\/instagram\/accionciudadanachile\/3294992787975049150\">Archived Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, we can say that the video is not from the recent Iran Israel war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, by conducting a reverse image search of the screenshot from the third video we came across a YouTube video uploaded on 14th April,2024. The caption of the video read, &#8220;Two angles showing moment Iranian missiles hit a military base in Israel&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Two angles showing moment Iranian missiles hit a military base in Israel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PO30bb6ox_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manniefabian\">correspondent<\/a> of Times of Israel <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/manniefabian\/status\/1779293496915972595\">tweeted<\/a> the same video with the caption &#8220;Footage purportedly shows Iranian missiles impacting in the Negev area of southern Israel earlier&#8221; on 14th April,2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please read <a href=\"https:\/\/thepressunited.com\/updates\/idf-confirms-minor-damage-to-military-base\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From our investigation, we can say that the viral claim is partly false. 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