Video shows a 2023 drone strike in Moscow, not a drone strike in Israel

Context

On October 1, 2024, Iran launched around 180 missiles at Israel, with some of the missiles striking targets. A video circulating on X (formerly Twitter) falsely claims to show Iranian missiles hitting a building in Tel Aviv. 

"First images of Iranian missiles hitting Tel Aviv," the caption on one X post claims. The post includes video footage of what appears to be a city center. Two women can be heard speaking off-camera while the camera pans towards a building ahead moments before it is struck by a missile. 

However, the footage is from a 2023 attack on Moscow. 

What we found

A reverse image search reveals that the footage was first posted on July 30, 2023. It shows a blast in Moscow, which Russian authorities attributed to Ukraine. 

Left: 2023 footage of the Moscow blast. Right: the same footage attributed to the Iranian missile attack on Israel (Source: BBC/X/Composite by Logically Facts)

Russian authorities reported that two drones crashed into office buildings, and three more were intercepted. 

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy later commented on the attacks, stating, "Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia - to its symbolic centers and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural, and absolutely fair process."

The verdict

A video of a building blast has been circulating on social media with claims that it shows Iran's missile attack on Israel. But the video footage is from a 2023 blast in Moscow. We have, therefore, rated this claim as false.