As the war situation between Israel and Hamas is intensifying relentlessly, several photos and videos have surged on social media platforms with numerous false and misleading information. One such video is going viral on social media platforms showing some people trying to burn the Israeli embassy in Manama, Bahrain.

Video shared on X(Twitter)

A user named Babar Khan Niazi shared a video on X(Twitter) and claimed: “People of Bahrain tried to burn the Israeli embassy in Manama”

Other users also shared this video

Subsequently, other users also shared this video on X(Twitter) making similar claims.

Fact-Check

The DFRAC team converted the viral video into some keyframes and reverse-searched it on Google. We found some evidences revealing the facts of the above viral video.

Video found on YouTube channel

We found a similar video on the YouTube channel named Police Brutality. Riots TV with the title: “Bahrain protesters throw in the police building Molotov cocktails. 2012”. The video was uploaded in 2014 but it captured the incident which took place in 2012.

According to Media Reports

Following this, we found some media reports from The National News and Gulf News, published in the year 2012.

According to a report published by The National News on August 26, 2012, A large crowd attacked a police station outside the Bahraini capital with petrol bombs, police said last night, as sporadic protests intensified in the Gulf state.

“Some 150 people attacked with Molotov cocktails” in the Shiite village of Sitra, provincial police said in a statement carried by the official BNA news agency. Security forces “managed to repel the attack by a group of terrorists,” and arrested the driver of a car “carrying a large number of petrol bombs ready for use,” the police statement said.

Moreover, the News website Gulf News at Bahrain police station News published a report on August 26, 2012, with the headline: “Petrol bombs thrown at Bahrain police station”. In this report, Gulf News reveals: “It was not immediately clear if the attack on the police station followed an anti-government demonstration in Sitra. On August 18, a 16-year-old protester died after what opposition activists in Bahrain said was a “brutal attack” by security forces, but the Bahrain government described it as a defensive response to a petrol bomb attack on police”.

Conclusion

It is clear from DFRAC’s Fact-Check that the viral video showing People attacking the Israeli embassy in Bahrain is misleading since the video is associated with an incident of a mob burning a police station outside Bahrain’s capital, which took place in the year 2012.