A video claiming Hezbollah published footage of their anti-ship missiles preparing to attack US ships entering Israel via the Mediterranean Sea is widely circulated on social media. Many users claim it to be true.
A Facebook user posted the viral post with a caption: 🚨🇱🇧🇺🇸 Hezbollah published footage of their anti-ship missiles as US carrier groups sit in the Eastern Mediterranean.
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FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the viral post, and found it to be false.
Running a Reverse Image Search of the video keyframes, the NM team identified a tweet on an unverified profile, dated August 16, 2019. Given that the video was posted in 2019, it cannot be linked to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Another news article in Iran Press News Agency — a news agency from Iran, dated August 16, 2019, and titled: Hezbollah’s C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles, carries a video that matches with the viral clip. It shows the footage depicting C-802 anti-ship cruise missiles resealed for the first time. They belonged to the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
A similar article was also published in Tasnim News Agency informing that the video is part of a documentary film recently broadcast by Al Manar TV. It shows details of the operation in which the Israeli Saar-5 ships were struck during the 2006 war.
Therefore, we can conclusively say that the viral post, claiming Hezbollah published footage of their anti-ship missiles preparing to attack US ships entering Israel via the Mediterranean Sea, is false.
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