At the end of September 2024, the Telegram channels reported that after the news of the death of Hassan Nasellla, thousands of Lebanese entered the streets of Lebanese cities, who began to sing and have fun. We checked the video used to confirm this information.
Video on which the girl sings the song of Julia Butros "We are a revolution and rage"Surrounded by a crowd with Lebanese flags, began to spread on September 28 in Telegram in channels such as"Nevzorov"(525,000 views at the time of writing this analysis)"Pozdnyakov 3.0"(350,000),"Operation Z"(96 000),"Z-News | Army 🅉 18+"(69,000),"Political circus"(57 000),"Informant"(37,000) and"Bild in Russian"(20,000). The video was also popular in X, where one of the tweets Sicked More than 400,000 views. In the signatures to the video they write that the Lebanese rejoice at the death of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasellla.
On the morning of September 28, the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) announcedthat on the eve of the afternoon, during the bayrut airstrike, the heads of Hezbollah were killed, including its head Hassan Nasellla. Later the death of his leader Confirmed And the group itself. By data The Lebanese Ministry of Health, in total, six people were killed as a result of the blow, about 90 were injured.
Some sources (for example, “Bild in Russian”) published a viral video a few hours after the statement of the IDF, although the events captured in the video occur in the evening. The blow, as a result of which Naughty died, really took place the day before in the afternoon, but then distributed Information that the leader of the Hezbollah managed to escape. In addition, in the background of the video you can see an information board of gas stations with fuel prices: 25,700 and 25 100 Lebanese pounds. This indicates that the video is old. Over the past few years, the Lebanese national currency has greatly depreciated, and fuel prices in this country have risen sharply and are no longer measured by five-digit figures-so on September 27, 2024 AI-98 gasoline in Beirut It was worth it 1,446,000 Lebanese pounds per 20 liters.
"Verified" studied the video using the person recognition service Pimeyes. Judging by the results of the analysis, the heroine of the video is the graphic designer Rim Hattar, who now lives in Dubai. In the evening of September 29, the girl confirmed in Instagram And Tiktokthat she is captured on a viral video, but emphasized that the recording is not related to the death of Navella. “Friends, do not believe Fake’s video and information that they disseminate,” writes Hattar. - They use my 2020 video and say that friends and I are celebrating the murder of a politician. This is the old video of the time of the Lebanese Revolution, now I do not live in Lebanon. ”
Original video Hattar Published In Tiktok on the night of January 19 to January 20, 2020, but it could be shot earlier: judging by the girl’s account on Instagram, she actively participated in street protests in Lebanon in October 2019.
Protests in Lebanon Started On October 17, 2019, after the authorities announced plans to introduce several new taxes, including calls through WhatsApp and other instant messengers. Street manifestations lasted several months and led to the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and formation new government (which, however, lasted only a few months - to the new wave Protestrising after a large explosion in the port of Beirut).
Thus, on the viral video, not festivities in Lebanon are captured, which began after the death of the Hezbollah leader, but one of the protests that took place in this country in 2019–2020.
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