What was claimed
A video shows a recent Hezbollah attack on Israel.
Our verdict
This is not true. The video actually shows a factory fire in Hebron in the West Bank in February 2024.
Video shows factory fire in West Bank, not Hezbollah attack on Israel
29 November 2024
Social media posts claiming to show a recent video of Hezbollah rockets targeting industrial areas in Israel actually show a factory fire in Hebron in the West Bank which took place in February this year.
The footage was shared on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), with the caption: “Hizbollah avenger 👇 #Hezbollah launched rockets at several Israeli industrial areas near Acre and Nahariya, 20 kilometers deep inside #Israel.”
But using Google Lens, Full Fact traced the video back to reports of a fire at a plastics factory in Hebron in the West Bank in February of this year. We wrote about this video back in May, when some online were sharing it with claims it was filmed at the end of April.
Earlier this week, Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired around 250 rockets across the border from Lebanon. Police said several people were injured and buildings damaged in northern and central Israel, some of them near Tel Aviv. But the video circulating on social media is unrelated to this.
On Tuesday 26 November, US President Joe Biden announced a ceasefire had been agreed between Israel and Hezbollah.
Miscaptioned or out of context footage is a common form of misinformation we see circulating online connected to the conflict in the Middle East.
For help spotting this misleading content, see our guides on how to verify pictures and videos yourself.
This article is part of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories on Facebook. You can read more about this—and find out how to report Facebook content—here. For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as false because the video shows a factory fire in Hebron in the West Bank in February this year, not a recent Hezbollah attack on Israel.