Social media accounts recently published a video clip that includes two scenes: the first is of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the second is of a person being beaten, claiming to be Netanyahu. The video was accompanied by the following claim: “Because of his loss in Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is being beaten by members of the Israeli parliament.”
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” tool and found that the video consists of two different clips and that the claim is misleading.
The first scene, which occurs between 0.00 and 0.01, is an excerpt from a video published by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his account on “X” on 29/9/2024. During which he announced the expansion of his government coalition and the inclusion of opposition MK and former minister Gideon Sa’ar in it.
The second scene, which took place between 0.02 and 0.19, was published by haberturk website on 19/1/2013, and stated that the video documents the assassination attempt on Ahmed Dogan.
The Associated Press also posted the video on its YouTube channel with the following title: “Party leader threatened with gun while giving a speech.” The channel stated in the video’s description that Bulgarian police arrested a man after he pointed a gun at the leader of the Turkish minority party, Ahmet Dogan, while he was giving a speech at a party conference in the capital, Sofia, on Saturday, January 19, 2013. No shots were fired.
A report published by Al Jazeera on 19/1/2013, which included a truncated image of the same event, stated that “Ahmet Dogan, the leader of the Bulgarian Movement for Rights and Freedoms, which represents the Turkish minority in Bulgaria, survived an assassination attempt with a gun during a party conference in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.” The report added that the attacker is 25-year-old Oktay Eni Mehmedov, a Bulgarian from the Turkish minority, and he was arrested.
On 28/10/2024, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, posted a video on his “X” account of his speech before the Knesset, in which he spoke about his intention to expand peace agreements with other countries in the region after the occupation achieves its goals in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Upon examining the video clip, Kashif’s team found that Netanyahu was not beaten during the speech.
The ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and the Israeli occupation army began on 27/11/2024, after months of mutual military operations between the two parties, after Hezbollah announced the opening of a support front for Gaza following Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”
The Israeli occupation’s violations of the ceasefire amounted to more than 75 violations until Monday afternoon, 2/12/2024, targeting villages and towns deep inside Lebanon, accompanied by shelling that targeted members of the Lebanese army and state security.
For its part, Hezbollah announced in a statement on Monday, 2/12/2024, that it targeted Israeli army Ruwaysat al-Alam site in the Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with two missiles, as an “initial warning defensive response” to the occupation’s violations.
The Israeli occupation army targeted, on Tuesday night 3/12/2024, the towns of Haris in Bint Jbeil District and Taloussa in Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon with raids, which resulted in the killing of nine people and the injury of three others.
| Sources of Claim | Sources of Verification |
| Afashi Rabbi Sayyed Issam Fares Adam Najar | Benjamin Netanyahu (1) haberturk Associated Press Al Jazeera (1) Benjamin Netanyahu (2) Al Jazeera (2) Al Hurra Anadolu Hezbollah’s war media |
