No, These Photos Don’t Show India’s Strike on Sialkot Amid Operation Sindoor
Both images date back to 2021 and shows Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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At the time of writing this report, this post by X user 'Global UPDATES' had been viewed nearly 11 lakh times.
(Archived versions of more posts sharing this claim can be seen here, here, and here.)
But...?: The claim is false.
Both photos date back to 2021 and show visuals of Israel targeting the Gaza strip.
How do we know?: We carried out reverse image searches using Google Lens on both images.
Image 1: The search on the first image took us to an Al Jazeera report, dated 17 June 2021, which carried the same image.
It said that the photo showed explosions in the nights sky "above buildings in Gaza city," crediting it to news agency AFP.
The photo was shared in a 2021 story.
(Source: Al Jazeera/Altered by The Quint)
We looked for the photo on AFP's repository of images and found that it was uploaded there on 16 June 2021.
The image is from Gaza, not Sialkot.
(Source: AFP/Altered by The Quint)
Image 2: We were able to trace the second image back to a 2021 New York Times report about Israel's airstrikes on Gaza, dated 16 May 2021.
The image was a part of this 2021 report.
(Source: New York Times/Altered by The Quint)
The photo was in this article and its caption said that it showed a building "aflame in Gaza city" after it was struck by Israeli forces.
The photo was shared as one of Gaza city.
(Source: New York Times/Screenshot)
Conclusion: An old set of photos from Gaza have gone viral with the false claim that they show India's attack on Sialkot.
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