Social media accounts recently published a video clip consisting of two scenes showing a group of people being targeted, claiming that they were soldiers in the occupation army who had fallen into an ambush by Hezbollah. The video was accompanied by the following text: “Terrifying scenes for the Israeli entity. Watch how a number of the entity’s soldiers were hunted down in southern Lebanon.”
Kashif verified the video via reverse image search on “Google Images” tool and found that it is old and incorrectly linked to the town of Khiyam in southern Lebanon. The clip was circulated in 2016, before the start of the Israeli army’s ground operation in southern Lebanon in September 2024, and Hezbollah’s announcement of opening a support front for Gaza on 8/10/2023.
On 11/5/2016, Orient News channel published the video clip and explained that it was in Aleppo, and the clip included the slogan “The Conquest of Aleppo” and the “Slogan of the Mujahideen Army” in Syria.
On 22/5/2016, “Lunatik13” published a cropped image of the first scene of the circulated video clip on the pikabu.ru platform, and published a GIF image of the second scene of the video. Kashif’s team also noticed that the scenes included the slogan “Liberation of Aleppo.”
The Israeli army spokesman announced on 30/9/2024 the start of a “targeted and specific” ground operation against Hezbollah targets in the area near the border in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced on Monday, 25/11/2024, that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli army forces south of the city of Khiyam.
| Sources of verification | Sources of claim |
| Orient News Lunatik13 RT Hezbollah’s War Media | Urgent now Dr. Mahran Al-Sudi Yemen Mohammad Al-Sharfi |