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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Did you spot these fake videos about the Iran war? - Euronews.com

The escalation between Iran, Israel and the US has prompted a wave of viral war footage online. But many of the videos gaining millions of views are misleading, wrongly captioned, lifted from video games or entirely AI-generated.

As the crisis in the Middle East escalates, social media has been flooded with an unprecedented amount of misleading videos and images claiming to show strikes and military action in both Israel and Iran.

But many of the clips online don't show the war at all. Some are footage taken out of context from other countries, while others, viewed by millions, come from video games or are generated entirely with AI.

Here are three viral videos that have gained hundreds of thousands of views but do not show what they claim.

'Strike on Tel Aviv' or Algerian football celebrations?

One widely shared video on X claims to show Iranian missiles striking the centre of Tel Aviv.

It has been viewed by more than 4 million people, but it does not depict Tel Aviv. In fact, it's a video from Algeria that has been debunked multiple times in the past.

The video actually shows football fans celebrating the victory of an Algerian club called CR Belouizdad, not missiles hitting Israel.

We geolocated this footage to Al Mokrani Square in Algiers. The club has celebrated its victories in the past with similar fireworks, seen here and here.

The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team, debunked the same video in 2023, when it claimed to show an Israeli attack on Gaza.

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