New Delhi (Visvas News). A video is going viral on social media claiming to show an attack on Hamas chief Ismail Haniya in Tehran, Iran. The video depicts the debris of a building, which users are sharing and linking to an attack on Haniya.

In its investigation, Vishvas News found that the viral video is from Damascus, Syria, and is four months old. The old video is being falsely attributed to the death of Haniya.

What is in the viral post?

Sharing the viral post, a Facebook user wrote, “Tehran: Scene of the attack on Ismail Haniya. It was not a strike but a suicide quadcopter attack.”

View the archived version of the post here.

Investigation

We started our investigation by searching the viral video through Google Lens and found this video uploaded on an X post on April 2, 2024. According to the information provided, this video is of the attack in Damascus.

We also found the viral video posted on another X handle on April 2, 2024, claiming that this video is of an attack on the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria.

Continuing our investigation, we found a report from Al-Jazeera dated April 2, 2024, according to which, suspected Israeli warplanes bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria this week and seven of Iran’s military advisers were killed in the attack.

We found an article dated April 14 about this attack on the New York Times website. As per the article, a picture of the same building was seen in the viral video. Here Getty Images is cited as the source of the picture and...

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