On Friday (June 13), Israel launched attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear and military facilities. In response, Iran fired missiles back at Israel.

Amid these developments, a video began circulating online claiming that Iran had targeted the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a missile attack. The video shows a skyscraper engulfed in flames.

Watch the video circulated on Facebook with this claim here (archive), here (archive), here (archive), here (archive), and here (archive).

Fact Check

Rumor Scanner Team’s investigation reveals that the circulated video is not related to any Iranian attack on Israel. In fact, the footage of a high-rise building on fire does not come from any location in Israel. Rather, it shows a fire incident that took place on June 13 at the 67-storey “Marina Pinnacle” in the Marina area of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

As part of this investigation, a video titled “Massive Fire in Dubai Marina Building Extinguished – Breaking News” was found on the YouTube channel of Pakistani private news outlet Geo News, published on June 14. The video closely matches the one circulated with the false claim. According to its caption, the video depicts a fire in a Dubai Marina building.

Further searches using relevant keywords led to a report published on June 13 by UAE-based news outlet Khaleej Times, titled “Dubai: Fire breaks out at high-rise building in Marina; 3,800 residents evacuated”. This article confirms the fire incident at the 67-storey Marina Pinnacle in Dubai Marina on June 13.

The same information is also confirmed by Indian news outlet NDTV in their report, “Huge Fire Breaks Out At 67-Storey Building In Dubai, 3,800 People Evacuated”.

Conclusion

A video of a fire in a Dubai high-rise was falsely circulated as footage of an Iranian missile strike targeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary office. This claim is false.

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