The Facebook page "The Path to Islam" published yesterday, October 16, a short video showing several people praying as a bomb falls near their home.
This page claims that the footage is current and depicts bombings during the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the video material was produced in 2021.
Link to the article published on Facebook by the "Road to Islam" page:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/240454009002024
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Hibrid.info, after research conducted through the automated program "InVID", has managed to find the same video material published on the social media X (formerly Twitter) on May 14, 2021.
The video material was published at the time by the Turkish media outlet "Muslim Port" with the caption: "The home of a Gaza family was hit while they were praying for protection from Israeli bombing." (see here)
Analyze:
The website "The Path to Islam" has published a video from 2021 that it tries to present as current, made during the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info rates this post as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.