The clip was also shared alongside a similar claim elsewhere on Facebook as well as on social media platform X, TikTok and its Chinese version Douyin.
But a Google reverse image search found 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 Clash Reports, although multiple users shared it earlier here and here (archived links here, here and here).
Television broadcaster Sky News Arabia also published the clip on Facebook on the same day (archived link).
The clip surfaced after the outbreak of the war in Gaza triggered by an unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen on October 7 that resulted in about 1,140 deaths, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s devastating retaliatory offensive has killed at least 33,800 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
AFP could not verify the date the clip was filmed.
A visual analysis of the location in the clip found a similar-looking highway in Google Maps imagery 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:
