{"id":9621,"date":"2025-04-21T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:02:08","slug":"old-footage-wrongly-linked-to-recent-us-airstrikes-on-ras-isa-port-in-al-hudaydah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashif.ps\/en\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/old-footage-wrongly-linked-to-recent-us-airstrikes-on-ras-isa-port-in-al-hudaydah\/","title":{"rendered":"Old footage wrongly linked to recent US airstrikes on Ras Isa port in Al Hudaydah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media accounts<\/a> posted a video of a massive explosion, claiming it was from recent US airstrikes targeting Ras Isa port in Yemen’s Al Hudaydah governorate. The video was accompanied by the following text: “US F-16 fighter jets carried out more than 14 airstrikes on Ras Isa port in Al Hudaydah, Yemen, resulting in its complete destruction!” <\/p>\n\n\n

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One source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sputnik Arabic’s<\/a> Twitter account also posted a photo of a burning oil platform, claiming it was from the US airstrikes targeting Ras Isa port. The photo was accompanied by the following description: “Media affiliated with Ansar Allah: The number of dead and wounded from the US bombing of the Ras Isa oil facility has risen to 33 dead and 80 wounded, in a preliminary toll.” <\/p>\n\n\n

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Source of the claim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif verified the two images via Invid and Google Images, and found that they were old and incorrectly linked to the US airstrikes targeting Ras Isa Port in Yemen’s Al Hudaydah Governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First: A group of accounts on social media published the video on 3\/9\/2023, including \u201cGhalab Ahmed Alqawas<\/a>\u201d Instagram account, which accompanied the video with the following description: \u201cThe explosion of the Al-Mafzar gas station in the capital, Sana\u2019a, and the arrival of a large number of cases to the burns department of Al-Jumhuri Hospital.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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The video was posted on \u201cGhallab Ahmed Alqawas\u201d Instagram account on 3\/9\/2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Bandar Al-Mujammal’s<\/a>\u00a0Facebook\u00a0account also posted the video on the same date, along with the following description: “A violent explosion in Sana’a turned night into day as a result of a gas factory explosion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second: On 22\/4\/2010, CBS News<\/a>\u00a0published\u00a0the photo in a report titled \u201cLouisiana Oil Platform Explosion,\u201d with the following description: \u201cThe Deepwater Horizon oil platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, 22\/4\/2010.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo via CBS News – Published on 22\/4\/2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Kashif <\/a>had\u00a0previously verified the image after it was circulated with claims that it depicted a military operation carried out by the Yemeni Armed Forces in the Red Sea in November 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

US airstrikes<\/a>\u00a0targeted Ras Isa Port in Yemen’s Al Hudaydah Governorate on 18\/4\/2025, killing 80 people and wounding 150 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources of the claim<\/td>Verification sources<\/td><\/tr>
Russian Brief | Russia news<\/a>

Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,M.Sc.,DPT.<\/a>

\u2606BaghdadMansoura\u2606<\/a>

Media Excavations<\/a>

Mohammed Al-Sharqawi Al-Ararsi<\/a>

Dr-sepahi Alabodi<\/a>

Abdullah Al-Najjar<\/a>

Waleed Marouf A. Nueirat<\/a>

Sputnik Arabic<\/a><\/td>		Ghallab Ahmed Alqawas<\/a>

Bandar Al-Mujammal<\/a>

CBS NEWS\u00a0<\/a>Anatolia<\/a>

K<\/a>ashif

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