No, This Video Does Not Show Iran Attacking Israel’s Tel Aviv With Missiles

The video dates back to March 2024 and reportedly shows Ukraine attacking Crimea.

Fact-Check | The video is unrelated and does not Iran attacking Israel's Tel Aviv.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video showing large explosions in an area is going viral on the internet to claim that it shows Iran attacking Israel's Tel Aviv with heavy missiles.

What have users said?: Those sharing the video have uploaded it a caption that said, "BREAKING ALERT – Iran has started to attack israeli occupied TelAviv with heavy missiles; fires of hell are burning, several buildings destroyed (sic)."

An archive of the post can be found here.

(Source: X (formerly Twitter)/Screenshot)

The video had garnered over five thousand views on the platform. More archives of similar claims can be found here, here, and here.

Are these claims true?: No, the video could be traced back to March 2024 and reportedly shows Ukraine attacking Crimea's Sevastopol.

How did we find that out?: We performed a Google Lens search and found a news report published by The US Sun that carried similar visuals.

• The report mentioned that an overnight strike in Crimea resulted in the explosion of two Russian warships.

• It said that the incident took place in the occupied city of Sevastopol.

• The report further said that the Ukrainian forces later claimed to hit two large Russian warships - Yamal and Azov.

The report was published on 23 March.

(Source: The US Sun/Screenshot)

Other sources: Team WebQoof found the same visuals uploaded on the official YouTube channel of The Telegraph.

• It was published on 24 March with a title that said, "Huge explosions rock Sevastopol after Ukrainian missile attack."

• According to its description, the Ukrainian military said that it had struck two Russian warships and other facilities in the Black Sea.

• The organisation had credited the video to one X user named 'OSINTtechnical.'

• On searching for the handle on X, we found a longer version of the viral video uploaded on 24 March.

• Another user had shared the geolocation of the incident in the same thread. The user named ' EjShahid' confirmed the location as Crimea.

Conclusion: It is evident that this video is being shared to falsely claim that it shows Iran attacking Israel.

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