Israel-Palestine War: Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading

Israel-Palestine War: A Video is going viral on social media in which a soldier is firing missiles from a mortar weapon and suddenly that mortar explodes. Users on social media are making this video viral in connection with the recent Israel-Palestine war.

Journalist "David Atherton" shared the viral video and wrote, "This might not be contemporary, but a Palestinian is mortaring Israeli positions. But not for long...."

This might not be contemporary, but a Palestinian is mortaring Israeli positions. But not for long.... pic.twitter.com/fFABbY73Jm

— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 25, 2023

Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading. This viral video is not recent but quite old and has nothing to do with the recent Israel-Palestine war.

-- Spokesman's Investigation

Starting the investigation, we first extracted the keyframes of this video and performed a Yandex reverse image search on them.

Viral video is not recent

We found this video shared on many old posts. The earliest link we found was from November 2011. The video was shared on the website https://my.mail.ru/ on November 4, 2011 and captioned in Russian, "Homemade mortar explosion".

We found this video uploaded on many sites and pages. Most of the internet users described this video from Iraq and some users commented that this video is from 2004.

Spokesman does not confirm the official date and location of the video but confirms that the video is not recent but quite old and has nothing to do with the recent Israeli-Palestinian war.

Conclusion – Spokesman in it's investigation found the viral post misleading. This viral video is not recent but quite old and has nothing to do with the recent Israel-Palestine war.