After the alleged death of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in joint US–Israeli airstrikes, tensions between Iran and these countries have escalated. In retaliation, Iran initiated missile and drone strikes throughout the Middle East, targeting US and allied military positions in the United Arab Emirates.
Amidst this, a video showing a red sky and fires across several buildings is going viral on social media with the claims to show multiple fires in the centre of Tel Aviv tonight caused by Iranian missiles. The caption of the post states, “Iran is emulsifying the center of Tel Aviv right now”.
Factcheck:
We started our investigation with a reverse image search on Google and the results led us to a similar video posted by Berbere Television on X on 7 August, 2020 with the caption: “Algiers — it happened tonight at 10:00 p.m. in Belouizdad”.
Moving forward we found a similar video on a TikTok account also, it was uploaded in 2023.
Using these hints, we conducted further searches and we found several videos resembling the clip. The text along the video states, football fans launching fireworks and flares in Algeria’s capital Algiers after CR Belouizdad won the Algerian championship in 2020.
Reuters identified the use of red flares as being synonymous with the celebrations often carried out by CR Belouizdad supporters. So, taking account of all these evidences, we can understand that an old video of public celebration of a football team in Algiers falsely shared as multiple fires in the centre of Tel Aviv caused by Iranian missiles.
Conclusion
Fact crescendo found that the claim made along with the viral video to be misleading. This video shows football fans in Algeria celebrating with fireworks in the Algerian capital of Algiers after CR Belouizdad’s victory in the championship.
Title:This viral video shows fireworks display in Algeria, not Iran’s missile attack on Israel
Fact Check By: Usha ManojResult: Misleading
