Video of Building Being Bombed in Lebanon Falsely Viral as One From Pakistan

This video is from Lebanon 2024 of Israel striking the country.

Fact-Check: This video is from Lebanon, 2024 and not Pakistan, as claimed.

(Source: The Quint) 

A video is going viral on social media in which a building can be seen collapsing after it was bombed by a missile.

The claim: The video is being shared with the claim that this video is from Pakistan, where bombs are being dropped after the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.

An archive of the post can be found here. 

(Source: Instagram/Screenshot)

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is the claim true?: The viral video is not from Pakistan.

• It shows an Israeli airstrike demolishing a structure in the Chiah region south of Beirut, Lebanon.

What we found: We divided the viral video into mulitple keyframes and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across a viral video posted in a report by Al Arabiya on 22 November 2024.

• The report noted that the Israeli military conducted airstrikes in multiple locations, such as the Burj Samali area in Lebanon.

Here is a preview of the story.

(Source: Al Arabiya/Screenshot) 

• Further, we found the same video featured in a report by The Guardian, as well. It was published on 22 November 2024.

• They reported that the video captured the moment an Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in the Chiah region, located south of Beirut, on 22 November.

• It happened during intense confrontations between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

• This move had come after Israel deployed ground forces into southern Lebanon as a key element of its rapid campaign against Hezbollah in October 2024.

• It is claimed that the goal was to ensure the repatriation of thousands who were forced out of northern Israel due to rocket strikes by the Iran-supported militant group, which initiated the Gaza conflict in support of Hamas in October 2023.

• We also found several social media posts from November 2024 which posted this video. You can view some of them here and here.

Conclusion: A video has gone viral on social media to falsely claim that it shows a building in Pakistan being bombed following the Pahalgam terrorist attack.

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