US President flew into Israel to pledge his country’s “full support” in the wake of an unprecedented deadly attack by militant group Hamas in October 2023. Social media posts shared a video alongside claims that it showed fighter jets and attack helicopters accompanying Biden's plane after his departure from Israel. But the claim is false: the clip was created using a digital combat simulator and its creator told AFP Fact Check that the footage was not real.

"How Biden left Israel... most highly protected man on earth," reads a post shared on X, formerly Twitter, on October 20, 2023.

The clip, reposted more than 2,200 times, was shared by Nigerian politician Dele Momodu who has been the subject of a previous AFP Fact Check debunk. It features a one-minute video with a caption reading: "Air Force One seen flying with fighter escort detail".

The claim also appeared in Spanish.

Hamas militants stormed across the Gaza border and killed 1,400 people in an unprecedented attack on Israel. Most victims were civilians. At least 240 people, many of them migrant workers, were kidnapped, according to Israeli officials (archived here).

More than 8,000 people, mainly civilians and children, have died in the retaliatory Israeli bombardment, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

Biden visited Israel under unusually tight security on October 18, 2023, (archived here).

But the claim that the video showed Biden’s aircraft leaving Israel flanked by warplanes is false.

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