Last updated on September 23rd, 2025
Editor’ s Note
In May 2025, we released a fact-check investigating a widely shared video that purported to depict an Israeli bombing in Gaza. The inquiry established that the footage was created with artificial intelligence and unrelated to any real strike. For archival purposes, the original findings and supporting evidence are retained here.
Claim
Since May 22, 2025, a viral video has circulated across X, Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube, purporting to show an Israeli air strike on civilians in Gaza. The footage shows a large-scale building explosion with heavy smoke, accompanied by a caption that reads, “This is our life in short, dead people alive. Destruction is everywhere.”
Fact-check
This video is AI-generated.
- Source analysis
- The video was first posted by TikTok user @everythingai97 on May 18, 2025, with a caption labeling it as “AI-generated.”
- The account information explicitly states that all content posted is artificially generated using AI tools.
- Audio Clues
- The video contains identical sound effects, such as bombing noise, alarms, and screaming, that have been reused in other explosion-themed AI videos by the same user. These audio elements are generic overlays, not original environment sound from any real event.
- Visual red flags
- The explosion smoke is overly sharp and hyper-saturated, lacking the diffusion seen in real footage.
- The way the debris falls is unnatural. Some of the fragments flicker, appear blurred, or disappear entirely between frames.
- Several of the moving objects display inconsistent lighting and perspective.
Conclusion
The viral explosion video is AI-generated and bears no relation to any real Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza. It originated from an account openly producing AI-generated visuals. Viewers are encouraged to assess such footage using verifiable indicators, such as the source account’ s identity, upload date, and visual coherence, before associating it with real-world events.
Have a questionable video or claim? Submit it to Fact Hunter’ s investigation team at [therealfacthunter@outlook.com].
