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A video of an apparent funeral procession where what appears to be a corpse suddenly runs away when an alarm rings out is being shared with a misleading claim that it shows people “scared of Israel’s drones”.

During the video, a group appear to be carrying a shrouded body, which they put down and run away from when a siren sounds. The ‘dead body’ then also gets up and runs off, to laughter from the person filming.

The footage has been shared with the caption: “Even dead are scared of Israel’s Drones [sic].” That suggests the video shows people being targeted by Israeli drones, possibly in Gaza or Lebanon given current events in the Middle East. But this is not the case.

The video was actually filmed in Jordan in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. It…

A video has been shared on social media with claims it shows the aftermath of a “bombing” by Hezbollah. But it actually shows a warehouse fire in Brazil. 

The video includes two clips, both showing flames and columns of smoke. One has been filmed in daylight, while the other is at night with two vehicles visible in the foreground. 

One post on X (formerly Twitter) has almost 2,000 shares and says: “Rats got roasted by Hezbollah.” The video has also been shared on YouTube with the caption: “Hezbollah is now massively bombing the city of Safed in northern Israel.”

But this video has been miscaptioned—it does not show Safed, or anything relating to the recent escalation in fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. 

This footage actually shows a warehouse…

A video being shared on social media with claims it shows Hezbollah bombing Israel actually shows an explosion at a petrol station in Yemen.

One post shared on X, formerly Twitter, has more than 532,000 views and is captioned: “While you were sleeping last night, Hezbollah did this to Israel”. The video has also been shared on Facebook with the caption “Yesterday it was Beirut, Today ‘Haifa’!”

Cross-border fighting between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah has intensified in the past week with Hezbollah firing into Israel and Israel launching airstrikes at Lebanon.

But the video being shared is unrelated to this conflict. 

The same video can be found in news reports from August about a petrol station explosion in Aden, Yemen. 

Text in Hebrew overlaid…

A video shared on social media with claims it shows Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system failing to intercept a Hezbollah drone actually shows a Ukrainian drone targeting an oil refinery in Tuapse, Russia, earlier this year. 

One post on X, formerly Twitter, is captioned: “Video shows Israel’s Iron Dome failing to intercept Hezbollah’s drone as it makes its way to pound a regime’s power plant in northern occupied territories.” 

The video has also been shared on Facebook, sometimes with the caption “a Hezbollah drone reaches oil refineries in northern occupied Palestine”.

But the video shared with these claims is not recent, and does not show a Hezbollah drone attack. The video actually shows a Ukrainian drone striking a Russian oil refinery in Tuapse,…

A video being shared on social media with claims it shows recent footage of Israeli tanks being moved north from Gaza to the Lebanese border is almost a year old, and actually shows tanks moving to Re’im in southern Israel in the aftermath of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.

Posts being shared on X, formerly Twitter, and Facebook, say the video shows “new tanks that were recently in training in Gaza are now heading to the north as part of Division 98, the elite division of the IDF”. Other versions have the caption: “IDF’s 98th Ha’Esh Division completes arrival at Lebanese border from Gaza Strip”.

Israel has reportedly moved its 98th division to the country’s north, on the border with Lebanon, in recent days due to heightened tensions with the armed group…