In April 2024, a video spread on social networks, which stated, the Iranian drone, heading towards Israel, but entangled in the wires in Iraq. We decided to check if this is so.
On the night of April 14, Iran Launched For targets in Israel, more than 300 drones, winged and ballistic missiles. The vast majority of them were shot down. Soon, a video appeared in social networks, on which, according to it, it was captured just one of these drones. Network users wrote that this drone did not reach Israel and got confused in the wires somewhere in Iraq. This, in particular, wrote Telegram channels about this "Live broadcast"(853,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(327 000),"Truthfulness"(203,000),"Uncle Glory"(194,000) and Voblya (155,000).
In the 26-second video from different angles, a drone is shown, stuck in wires. The authors of the video accompany the shooting with exclamations in Arabic. No other objects in the frame are visible, therefore, to set the time and place of creating the video, we turned to the opposite search for Google by the image.
To the earliest record, which managed to detect "verified" - post on the social network X, posted there on February 20, 2024 at 20:38 Moscow time, was attached not a video, but a screenshot from it. The author of the publication claims that the drone was stuck in wires in the territory of the Syrian province of Hasek. To the same results regarding the original source, factor from Lead Stories And AFP.
The earliest video that managed to find through the reverse search for Google, appeared in X On the same day, February 20, but a little later, at 22:55. The author of this video, working in the region Kurdish journalist Zan al-Ali wrote that the drone crashed in the city of Kamar-ad-Din, located between Hasek and Deir ez-Zoro.
This location-the area between Hasek and Deir ez-Zor-indicated and Many others Users who posted the video on February 20 and 21, 2024.
Syrian opposition television channel Syria TV, reporting On the fall of the drone on February 21, he suggested that the drone was launched by the pro-River formations towards the base of the Western coalition, located near the city of Esh-Shaddad. This settlement is located south of Hasek. American military bases in Syria are constantly attacked by drones: such blows were in November 2023, and in February 2024. Moreover, most often the goals of the attacks are bases in the northeast of Syria, in the area of the Esh Shatdada and Deir ez-Zor.
Thus, the viral video has nothing to do with the attack of Iran on Israel in April 2024. The video with a drone that confused in wires was shot no later than February 20, and the incident itself did not occur in Iraq, but in the north-eastern part of Syria.
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