Video from Lebanon Showing Bombing Falsely Viral as One From Pakistan

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.

• 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.