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إنفجارات ضخمة بالقرب من منزل نتنياهو شمال تل أبيب.
The video in this post is not from near Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in Israel. It is recycled footage of the 2015 Tianjin chemical explosions in China.
Full reasoning
Independent reporting and a same-day fact-check both identify this footage as old video from Tianjin, China, not a 2024 explosion in Israel.
- The Arabic fact-check site Chayyek investigated posts from November 4, 2024 making this exact claim and reported that a reverse-image/video search showed the clip actually "returns to a huge explosion in Tianjin, northern China, on August 12, 2015," not an explosion near Netanyahu’s home.
- Contemporary 2015 coverage matches that identification. The Guardian published the eyewitness video in August 2015 and described it as footage of the Tianjin blasts, crediting Reuters/Dan Van Duren.
- ABC News likewise reported in August 2015 that stills from the same video showed the explosions in Tianjin, China, and said the footage was posted by eyewitness Daniel Van Duren after the Tianjin blasts.
Because the clip was already publicly documented in 2015 as showing the Tianjin chemical explosions, it cannot be authentic footage of explosions near Netanyahu’s home in November 2024.
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- فيديو انفجار بالقرب من منزل نتنياهو مضلل ويعود لعام 2015
في 4 نوفمبر/تشرين الثاني 2024... أجرى "فريق شييك" بحثًا عكسيًا على الفيديو، وتبين أنه لا يوثق انفجارًا قرب منزل نتنياهو، بل يعود لانفجار ضخم وقع في مدينة تيانجين شمال الصين في 12 أغسطس/آب 2015.
- Tianjin blasts: eyewitnesses capture explosions on film, then flee - video | The Guardian
A video filmed by stunned eyewitness, Dan Van Duren, captures the moment successive huge blasts tore through an industrial area in the Chinese port city of Tianjin... Source: Reuters/Dan Van Duren.
- Dramatic Video Shows Deadly Explosion That Rocked Tianjin, China - ABC News
Still images from a video posted to YouTube on Aug. 12, 2015 by Daniel Van Duren show explosions in Tianjin, China... The video... was taped from less than 1km away from the twin blasts.