Reverse image searches on Google using keyframes of the falsely shared clips led to the same footage appearing in reports about a devastating port explosion in Lebanon's capital Beirut in August 2020.

However, this is false: the video was filmed in 2020 in Lebanon, where a massive explosion caused by chemicals stored at Beirut port destroyed large parts of the capital city.

The Lebanese judge investigating the massive 2020 Beirut port explosion questioned two former security chiefs on Friday, including a former head of the General Security Directorate who appeared in ...

The Aug. 4, 2020 blast in Beirut’s port tore through the Lebanese capital after hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate detonated in a warehouse. The gigantic explosion killed at least 218 people, ...

Hundreds of Lebanese gathered solemnly near Beirut's coast on Monday to commemorate a half-decade since the cataclysmic port blast of 2020, when more than 200 people were killed in one of the largest ...

More than a Month After the Explosion and Subsequent Political Unrest in Beirut, A Brandeis Scholar Finds Little Cause for Optimism A demonstrator with the Lebanese National Flag takes part in a ...

Families of the victims of a port explosion in Beirut are still searching for justice after an investigation into who is to blame has been repeatedly delayed. On 4 August, 2020, 2,750 tonnes of ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's health minister says more than 70 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured in the huge explosion that rocked Beirut.