Old video from Syria shared as Hezbollah attack on Israeli soldiers in Lebanon

What's the claim?

Viral posts on X (formerly Twitter) claim that a video shows visuals of Hezbollah using an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) against Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in Southern Lebanon. 

The caption of one of the posts reads, "IDF infantry hit in southern Lebanon by Hezbollah ATGM." 

The video clip shows a man aiming and firing a missile launcher before the camera cuts to a landscape with a group of soldiers walking down a path where the missile lands with a large explosion. 

Other posts with this claim have shared a longer version of the same clip, showing the attack's aftermath for a longer time.

Archive links to the posts are here, here, and here. 

Screenshots of posts carrying a video claiming it shows Hezbollah attacking IDF soldiers in Southern Lebanon. (Source: X/Modified by Logically Facts)

However, our investigation found the video is from Syria in 2017 and is related to the Syrian conflict, not IDF or Hezbollah.

What we found

A reverse image search of keyframes in the video led us to a news report in Arabic by the Syrian media outlet Enab Baladi about the video from April 25, 2017. 

According to the report, the video was released the same day by "Jaysh Al Izza," also known as the Army of Glory, a faction opposing the Bashar Al Assad regime in Syria. 

According to the report, the incident took place in the Northern Hama countryside in Syria, at the Zalin checkpoint south of the city of Latamneh. 

A screenshot from the viral video has been used in a Syrian media report about a battle in the Hama governorate in 2017. (Source: X/Enab Baladi/Modified by Logically Facts) 

The report says that the rebels used the American-made TOW anti-tank missile on Assad's forces. 

We also found other news reports from April 2017 that indicated fighting between the army and opposition factions in the Hama area of Syria at the time. 

We also found X posts from April 25, 2017, by Syrian journalists (archived here and here) with the video, including a full video with a duration of two minutes and eight seconds. According to these journalists, the video is from Hama in Syria and is an attack using TOW missiles on Assad's militia, who were advancing towards the Zalin checkpoint. One of the X posts also credits the attack to the Army of Glory.

We also noticed a rotating watermark on the top left of the original videos posted in 2017. One side of the watermark contains the colors of the Syrian flag, while the other is an Arabic logo. 

On translating the Arabic, we found that the logo in the watermark of the original video is of the Jaysh Al Izza (archived here), or the Army of Glory. The same rotating logo can be seen in other videos published by the group on its X account (archived here).

A comparison of the watermark in the original video with the logo of the Army of Glory shows it is the same logo. (Source: X/Modified by Logically Facts)

Therefore, this video does not show a Hezbollah attack on IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon. It is an old and unrelated video from Syria. 

The verdict

The video is from the Syrian conflict, filmed in the Hama governorate in Syria in 2017, and shows Syrian rebels attacking Bashar Al Assad's army. Social media users are sharing the video with a false claim.