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Fact-Check: Old Video From Pakistan, threatening Israel goes viral as recent

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Amid the Israel-Palestine Conflict, a video is going viral on Social media platforms showing a lady, who can be heard asserting that Pakistan should issue a threat & and warn Israel if atrocities against Muslims, are not stopped we will remove Israel from the map of the world.

Claim made by the user

A Twitter account named Megh Updates shared a video on X(Twitter) and claimed: “Pakistan lawmaker in National Assembly- We have Atom bombs. Pakistan should issue a threat and warn Israel that if atrocities against Muslims are not stopped we will remove Israel from the map of the world”.

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Source: X(Twitter)

Other users also shared this video

Subsequently, several social media users shared this video on X(Twitter) making similar claims.

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Source: X(Twitter)
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Source: X(Twitter)
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Source: Twitter

Fact-Check

To verify the authenticity of the viral video, the DFRAC team converted the viral video into some keyframes and reverse-searched it on Google.

Video found on TLP official status

We found a similar video on a YouTube channel named TLP official status with the Title: “Allama Khadim Hussain Rizvi 2021 | MPA Sarwat Fatima Talking About Palestine in Sindh Assembly”. Moreover, the video was uploaded 2 years ago & its duration was 6:17 mins.

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Source:  YouTube

The viral part of the video can be heard at 5 minutes 21 seconds in the full video uploaded on the Youtube channel.

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that viral video is misleading as it dates back to 2021 & the lady shown in the video, is MPA Sarwat Fatima from Pakistan’s Political party Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.