Video Of Israel Attack On Syria From 2024 Falsely Shared As US Attack On Fordow

Claim

Visuals showing the explosion at Iran’s Fordow nuclear site after a missile attack by the US.

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Fact

On a reverse image search on the keyframes of the viral video, Newschecker was led to several news reports from December 2024,  carrying the same viral video. 

One such article by the Daily Mail, published on December 15, 2024, featuring the same video, reported that it showed a ‘colossal’ explosion filling the skies in Syria after “Israeli strikes are said to have targeted military sites in the ‘the heaviest strikes’ in the area for more than a decade – with blasts which registered on earthquake sensors.”

“A war monitor group said that Israeli strikes had targeted military sites in Syria’s coastal Tartus region. ‘Israeli warplanes launched strikes’ targeting a series of sites including air defence units and ‘surface-to-surface missile depots’, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in what it said were ‘the heaviest strikes in Syria’s coastal region since the start of strikes in 2012’. It has been claimed that the explosion was so large, it measured as a magnitude 3.0 on seismic sensors,” the Daily Mail reported.

Other media outlets such as Times Now, and WION, also carried screengrabs from the same video, while relaying similar information. These articles were also published in December 2024. 

Thus, we find that a video showing a targeted military strike in Syria by Israel is being falsely shared as an explosion in Fordow after a missile attack by the US.

Result: False

Sources

Report by Times Now, dated December 17, 2025
Report by WION, dated December 15, 2025
Report by Daily Mail, dated December 15, 2025