Old video from Syria shared as the recent footage of Hamas militants launching missile strikes targeting Israeli soldiers - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
November 10, 2023
A video is being shared on social media claiming that the visuals show Hamas militants launching missile strikes targeting Israeli soldiers. Alleging that the visuals are from the recent Israel-Palestine conflict, the post claims that hundreds of Israeli soldiers have died in multiple attacks in Gaza. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: A recent video of Hamas militants launching missile strikes targeting Israeli soldiers.
Fact: The post shared a 2016 video of Syrian rebel brigades striking at the Syrian regime forces and their supporting militias in Aleppo, Syria. The video shared in the post is old and has nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, a video showing similar visuals was found published by a journalist on 19 August 2016. The journalist reported it as the visuals of missile strikes on two groups of Assad forces in Aleppo, Syria.
When we searched for further sources using this information, we found a video showing similar visuals on the ‘Orient’ news channel on 20 August 2016. The news site published the video with the description, “Shiite militias are killed in Aleppo, and the competent authorities carry out a mass escape in the Ramousah area.”
Reporting the complete details of the incident, Al Jazeera published an article on 19 August 2016. According to the news report, the Syrian opposition brigades conducted missile strikes on Syrian regime forces and their supporting militias when they tried to storm the Air Technical College in the Ramousah area of Aleppo in Syria. From all these pieces of evidence, it can be confirmed that the video shared in the post shows old war visuals from Syria and have nothing to do with the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
To sum it up, an old video from Syria is shared as the recent visuals of Hamas militants striking Israeli soldiers with missiles.