A video is making rounds on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) showing pedestrians crowded on a busy street. Users are sharing this video and claiming that dozens of IDF sоIdiers were deliberately run over by a speeding truck near Tel Aviv.
An account with the username @narrative_hole shared this video and wrote: “Dozens of
IDF sоIdiers get deliberately run over by a speeding truck near Tel Aviv”
Notably, several users shared this video and made similar claims. The preview link can be seen here, here and here.
Fact-check
In the probe, the DFRAC team found that the video was from January 2017 showing 4 soldiers killed & 15 others wounded in the Israeli settlement of Armon Hanatziv in East Jerusalem.
We reverse-searched the keyframes generated from the viral video using Google Lens and found a similar video available on Youtube since 2017 with the title: “Video, the moment Israeli soldiers were run over in Jerusalem”.
In addition, we found some reports from January 2017 that carried the screenshot from the above viral video. As per reports, a truck has plowed into pedestrians on a busy street near the Israeli settlement of Armon Hanatziv in East Jerusalem, killing at least four soldiers and wounding 15 others in what authorities have described as a deliberate attack.
Whereas, according to recent reports from Aljazeera and NBC news, one person has been killed and 40 others injured after a truck crashed into a bus stop near the Glilot military base north of Tel Aviv. The incident happened on sunday, Oct 27 with rescue workers saying several people were trapped under the truck.
Conclusion
DFRAC’s fact-check proves that the viral video has been misleadingly shared on X. Originally, the video dates back to January 2017 showing the incident in East Jerusalem., not in Tel Aviv.
Analysis: Misleading
