Wrote: Festim Rizanaj
The Facebook page "Skopje" published a video on April 14th showing a crowd of people running in the street.
The caption of this video claims that it shows Tel Aviv residents fleeing their homes in fear of Iranian attacks.
After fact-checking conducted by hibrid.info, it has been confirmed that the video material was shot in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Link to the post published on Facebook by the "Skopje" page:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0r1s2iaCfi68NimHgteXxhdokcAV1UWyAQoGS5LQkkHGznsZDz89KSVxNLs4FcfnVl&id=100064651961352 (Archive)
Video footage shared online shows a crowded street at night, with people seen running as screams can be heard in the distance.
After conducting research and re-searching several frames of the video, hibrid.info has managed to find that this video was recorded in Argentina, specifically, near the Four Seasons Hotel in Buenos Aires.
The people appearing in the video that has gone viral on social media are not Israeli citizens but fans of British singer and former One Direction lead singer Louis Tomlinson, who will hold a concert in the Argentine capital on May 18 at Velez Sarsfield Stadium.
On April 7, singer Tomlinson's official X account shared a post, saying that he met his fans in Buenos Aires and will return in May to perform in the city as part of his tour of Latin America. Some users of the X platform, formerly Twitter, published some snapshots.
The image in the video matches the location in Buenos Aires where the Four Seasons Hotel in Buenos Aires was located, which can be seen at Google Maps.
Analyze:
The video footage that has been shared on social media claiming to show a crowd of Israeli citizens running in terror through the streets of Tel Aviv (Israel) after the Iranian attack is untrue.
The video was recorded in Buenos Aires (Argentina) at least a week before the April 13 attack and features fans of singer Louis Tomlinson.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this claim as "Unverified Content".
Reasoning:
The "Unverified" rating is given to those informative contents that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which could not be verified due to certain circumstances (speed, lack of sources) during the publication of the content.