Video shows protesters in Lebanon “storming the border with Palestine in support of Gaza” in October 2023.
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This video shows Lebanese protesters supporting Palestinians in 2021, not 2023
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This video is from 2021 and shows Lebanese protesters demonstrating at the country’s southern border with Israel.
An Oct. 13 Instagram post suggests a video of people scaling a wall is current footage of Lebanese demonstrators supporting Palestinians as violence persists in Gaza with Israel and Hamas at war.
"BREAKING: Protesters in Lebanon are currently storming the border with Palestine in support of Gaza," text above the video says.
But this video is old, and this post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
The video is from TikTok, and the handle of the user who shared it is visible in the Instagram post. We couldn’t find the original video — that account appears to have been deleted — but we found another post from a different account that posted the footage in May 2021.
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Photos and video from news outlets in 2021 show the same scene from different perspectives, capturing Lebanese protesters at the country’s southern border with Israel demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians.
But the video in the Instagram post doesn’t show protesters in Lebanon "storming the border" in October 2023. We rate that claim False.
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Instagram post, Oct. 13, 2023
X post, May 16, 2021
YouTube, 4 кун олдинги видеор Фаластин чегарасига етиб келишди чегарани бузиб ўтиб Яҳудийлар билан курашмоқчи, May 20, 2021
The Associated Press, Demonstrations at Lebanese-Israeli border, May 15, 2021
CNN, غضب على الحدود اللبنانية الاسرائيلية بسبب أحداث غزة.. شاهد ما حدث, May 17, 2021
Reuters photo, May 15, 2021
Getty Images, Protest in Kafr Kila for Palestinians in Jerusalem, May 15, 2021
Al Jazeera, Hundreds of protesters gather along Lebanese-Israeli border, May 15, 2023
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