Fact Check - Viral video of protestors climbing the Israeli wall is from the year 2021, not recent
Israel and Lebanon share an 81-kilometer (50-mile) southern border. Israel built an 11-kilometer concrete barrier on the Israeli side of the demarcation line in 2018 to protect Israeli communities.
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Israel and Lebanon share an 81-kilometer (50-mile) southern border. Israel built an 11-kilometer concrete barrier on the Israeli side of the demarcation line in 2018 to protect Israeli communities. The barrier is built entirely within Israeli territory.
Over the past few days, Israel and Hamas have been at war with a lot of civilian casualties due to the attacks. Recently, a video of thousands of protestors climbing up a huge fence wall is going viral with the claim that it shows protestors climbing the wall in support of Hamas.
The claim in Hindi goes as “आतंकी और उनके समर्थक बाड़ फां
When translated, it claims: “Terrorists and their supporters are trying to enter Israeli territory by jumping the fence. View of the #Israel - #Lebanon
Fact Check:
The claim is False. The video is from the year 2021.
When we searched the extracted key frames from the video using Google reverse image search, we found a post on Twitter published on May 16, 2021. The caption on the video is “Attack on Titan Attack on Israel. Lebanon at the Palestinian border"
We also found another YouTube video published on May 20, 2021, on a channel. The title of the video is “4 days ago, they reached the border of Palestine and wanted to fight with the Jews”
Upon further keyword search, we also found a few articles that were published in May 2021, stating that thousands of Palestinian and Lebanese protestors protesting along the Lebanese border with Israel threw rocks and climbed the cement wall drawing tear gas and smoke bombs from Israeli forces.
According to arabnews.com, demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinians were held at the southern Lebanon border as political and civil figures continued to call for Lebanon not to be involved in the developments in the region.
A number of Lebanese Future Movement supporters went to the border town of Marwahin to declare their solidarity with the Palestinians.
Therefore, the viral video showing protestors climbing up the Israel – Lebanon fence is not from the recent Israel- Palestine war in Gaza. It is from the year 2021.