Factcheck: IOF marks another false victory in Lebanon using old video
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The Israeli Air Force's military propaganda X account claimed that the footage demonstrated in the video showed attacks on Hezbollah's military infrastructure in Lebanon when it was not in fact true.
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IAF claims to have targeted Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon in one operation using one video, at two different times on October 15, 17 in a failed propaganda attempt. (Social Media Screenshot)
As "Israel" fails to save face amid unprecedented intelligence and military failures, the Israeli Air Force once again proved its unreliability and lack of credibility as its latest video of an attack targeting Hezbollah military infrastructure gets fact-checked.
The IAF account, via X, posted a video on Tuesday captioned, "A short while ago, the IAF struck terror targets and military infrastructure of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in Lebanon, in response to fire yesterday (Monday) towards Israel."
However, this video was soon fact-checked and proved to be false propaganda as the same video, posted earlier on October 15, 2023, was captioned as an alleged attack on Hamas' military infrastructure: "The Commander of the Hamas Southern District of National Security was killed; The IAF continues wide-scale strikes on Hamas military targets in the northern Gaza Strip IAF fighter jets, helicopters, and aircraft are continuing to strike terror targets in the Gaza Strip."
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Screenshot of the post by Israeli Air Force, on X, claiming to target Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip posted on October 17, 2023. (Social Media)
The above images depict the most recent post on the matter, while the image below depicts the primary post dating back to October 15.
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Screenshot of the post by Israeli Air Force, on X, claiming to target Hamas military targets in the Gaza Strip posted on October 15, 2023. (Social Media)
This shows the extent of failure to achieve any notable military or security objective neither on the northern front with Hezbollah nor on the southern front with the Resistance in Gaza. Moreover, this raises significant questions, and given the genocidal carpet bombing of Gaza, the video could be proof of a war crime wherein "Israel" targets yet another residential building killing tens of besieged Palestinians.
In parallel, Hezbollah and the Resistance in Gaza have achieved multiple goals and successfully targeted multiple objectives across the occupied Palestinian territories.
#WATCH | The Islamic Resistance in #Lebanon, Hezbollah, attacks several Israeli surveillance outposts in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms (Radar, Ruwaisat Al-Alam, Al-Samaqa, Zibdin, and Ramtha), with guided missiles and mortar shells, achieving accurate and direct hits. pic.twitter.com/iiXKGDluHK
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 14, 2023
Al-Qassam Brigades posted multiple military media videos showing the procession of the operation, the objectives, and the successful targeting.
#Watch | Al-Qassam Brigades publish video footage that shows its fighters targeting a gun turret.#Palestine #Gaza #طوفان_الأقصى#OperationAlAqsaFlood pic.twitter.com/NoYdfZpkVW
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 7, 2023
![In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had "engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)](https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2024/12/21/b4a69f2e-8682-43e4-9d37-49482b304ab3/3.png?v=2&format=webp "In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had \"engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)")
