Amid ongoing tensions in West Asia following the US-Israel-Iran conflict, a video showing a massive explosion behind a building has gone viral on social media. Users are claiming that the footage captures an Iranian missile strike on a US military base in Kuwait.
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NewsMobile investigated the claim attached ot the video and found it to be misleading.
To verify the viral claim, we extracted key frames from the video and conducted a Reverse Image Search. The search led us to an Instagram post shared by Israeli news outlet ILTV Israel on May 28, 2026. The post carried the same video and stated that it showed an Israeli Air Force strike on a Hezbollah facility in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.
The caption accompanying the post read: “The Israeli Air Force attacked a Hezbollah base in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.”
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We also found the footage in a video report uploaded by the New York Post on its official YouTube channel on May 28, 2026. According to the report, Israel carried out an airstrike targeting a Hezbollah base in Tyre, southern Lebanon.
Further, the same visuals appeared in a report published by NBC News. The report stated that Israel launched strikes in southern Lebanon despite an existing ceasefire agreement.
Notably, none of the reports linked the explosion to Kuwait or described it as an Iranian attack on a US military installation.
In conclusion, the viral claim is misleading. The video does not show an Iranian missile strike on a US base in Kuwait; it actually depicts an Israeli airstrike targeting a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon.
