The clip was also shared with a similar claim elsewhere on Facebook and on social media platform X, TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin.
But a Google reverse image search showed The Telegraph published the clip on YouTube on October 12, 2023 (archived link).
“Israel’s Iron Dome intercepts Hamas rockets in Ashkelon,” the clip’s title read.
Below is a screenshot comparison of the misrepresented clip (left) and the one published by The Telegraph in October 2023 (right):
The Telegraph credited the clip to an account on X called Conflict reportsalthough several users previously shared it here And here (archived links here, here and here).
Television channel Sky News Arabia also published the clip on Facebook the same day (archived link).
The clip surfaced after the outbreak of war in Gaza, sparked by an unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen on October 7, which resulted in some 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s devastating retaliatory offensive has killed at least 33,800 people, mostly women and children, in Hamas-held territory, according to the Health Ministry.
AFP was unable to verify the date the clip was filmed.
A visual analysis of the location in the clip found a similar-looking highway in Google Maps images of the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon (archived link).
Below is a screenshot comparison of a frame from the clip (left) and a street in Ashkelon (right) with similar features highlighted:
