Nighttime scenes captured on video show a group running toward a walled building and throwing incendiary bombs.
The caption of the Oct. 20 Instagram post that shared the video read, “Zionist regime embassy in Bahrain.” “Demonstrators attacked the Israeli regime’s embassy with petrol bombs and set it on fire.”
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This is because this video has been posted online for over 10 years.
The footage appears in a YouTube video posted on December 30, 2012, with the following caption, translated from Arabic to English by Google: “Bahrain’s revolutionary media center is located in the southern part of the capital. We obtained the scene of an attack by demonstrators on a police station on the island of Sitra in Manama. The attack reportedly occurred last Saturday (November 3, 2012). This happened after the professor’s health deteriorated in Al-Khalifiyah Prison, as his cancer returned due to medical malpractice in the prison.”
The exact date this footage was taken could not be confirmed.
A Facebook post dated November 6, 2012 was labeled as November 5, 2012. A November 5, 2012, UPI article reported that “around 1 a.m., some youths threw a petrol bomb at the Sitra Police Station” that day.
And an article in AFP on October 1, 2012 reported that 32 people were on trial for attacking a police station in Sitra with petrol bombs after it was attacked on August 26, 2012. Ta.
In 2012, Israel didn’t even have an embassy in Bahrain, according to media reports and the Israeli embassy’s website. Israel’s foreign minister first opened the facility in the capital Manama in 2021.
The image of the police station on Google Maps looks similar to the building in the video.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have been rallying outside the Israeli embassy in Bahrain since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, but the building has not been set on fire.
We rate the claim that this video shows people attacking the Israeli Embassy as False.