Claim: Video shows Yemen’s missile strikes on Israel.
Fact: The video is old and likely shows Iran’s missile attack on Israel, carried out in October 2024.
A Facebook user recently posted a video that purportedly showed Yemen’s attack on Israel. The Urdu caption alongside the post reads: یمن کا اسرائیل پر میزائل حملہ
[Translation: “Yemen’s missile attack on Israel”]
While Houthi rebels from Yemen have carried out a ballistic missile attack on Israel recently, this video is unrelated to Yemen’s attack.
Attacks by Houthis on Israel
Houthi rebels in Yemen have carried out consistent attacks on Israel, and shipping vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden since November 2023. They say the attacks are in support of Palestine, and in retaliation to Israel’s war in Gaza.
The group carried out an attack on Ben Gurion International Airport in May, and according to Al Jazeera, a “ballistic missile launched by the Iran-allied Yemeni rebel group hit the perimeter of the airport.”
As of January 2025, they have carried out approximately 100 attacks on ships since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza, Reuters reported.
Last year, Yemen’s Houthis carried out a missile attack on the bulk cargo carrier in June 2024, “M/V Verbena, a Palauan-flagged, Ukrainian-owned, and Polish-operated ship,” injuring a crew member. The group claimed then that it had carried out attacks on three ships, including on the Verbena, “in retaliation to the crimes committed against our people in the Gaza Strip, and in response to the American-British aggression against our country”.
Prior to that, the Iran-backed group hijacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea in November 2023, which they claimed was an Israeli vessel.
Recently, Israeli navy ships struck targets in the port city of Hodeida in Yemen on 10 June and threatened the group with a naval and air blockade. The Israeli military said the attacks were in response to the Houthi missiles fired at Israel and to stop the use of the port for “military purposes”.
Fact or Fiction?
Reverse-searching keyframes from the video first revealed that it was debunked by AFP Fact Check last month when it surfaced with a claim related to the brief four-day military conflict between India and Pakistan.
In May 2025, this video (archive) surfaced online claiming to show Indian missile strikes in Pakistan. AFP Fact Check found “that the footage has, in fact, circulated since October 2024 in news reports about missiles fired at Israel by Iran.”
At the time, The Washington Post reported that videos verified by the publication showed “20 missiles striking the Nevatim air base, in the southern Negev desert, and three striking the Tel Nof base, in central Israel.”
AFP Fact Check concluded that the video shows Iran’s attack on Israel from October 2024 as it found matching footage in a video report by DD India, titled “Iranian missiles targeting the Nevatim airbase in the Negev Desert”. Soch Fact Check also reviewed DD India’s report and found that the scenes from it match the footage we are fact-checking, which confirmed that the latter does not show an attack on Israel by Yemen or the Houthis.
Moreover, the New York Post (archive) published a video in October 2024, with the title “Iran launches ballistic missile attack on Israel”. The visuals here also match the video in the claim, thereby confirming that it is not linked to any of Yemen’s or Houthis’ attacks on Israel.
Therefore, the claim that the footage shows Yemen attacking Israel is false.
Virality
The Facebook post received 9,400 likes.
It also appeared on Facebook here, here, here, here, here, and here.
On Instagram here, here, here, and here.
Conclusion: The footage does not depict any of Yemen’s missile attacks on Israel. Instead, it shows Iran’s missile attack on Israel from October 2024.
Correction: This article has been corrected to mention that AFP Fact Check found the video has been circulating since October 2024. The fact-check did not conclude that the footage specifically showed an Iranian attack on the Nevatim airbase.
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