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On Feb. 28, 2026, the U.S. and Israel launched a large-scale offensive on Iran, targeting military installations and killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In early March, the Islamic Republic launched a wave of missiles into the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, after Israel began strikes in Lebanon.
As the conflict developed, video footage (archived) spread online purportedly showing footage of Iran's missiles landing in Tel Aviv in 2026. Social media users shared the clip with captions (archived) like: "Tel Aviv is burning! Direct Iranian missile strikes captured on camera in the center of the city!"
In short, the footage does not show Iran attacking Israel in 2026. Instead, the video depicts events from the June 2025 twelve-day Israel-Iran War. As such social media users miscaptioned the clip.
Google's reverse image search tool uncovered footage of the same strike (archived) posted online on June 13, 2025. It was not possible to determine the source of the clip, though it appeared to be authentic, as explained below.
The beginning of the above video shows a projectile leaving the city as one crashes among a group of buildings with blue and red lights on them. Snopes compared the above social media footage to different, authenticated footage of projectiles landing in Tel Aviv, as published by Al Jazeera English in June 2025. A third of the way through the Al Jazeera video, one missile lands between buildings with blue and red lighting as another leaves, indicating it depicts the same incident as the clip in question circulating on social media.
We took a screenshot of the exact moment from the Al Jazeera video:
(Al Jazeera English)
The same moment can be seen at the end of this video from The Associated Press:
In early March 2026, Iranian missiles did hit parts of Tel Aviv. According to The Guardian newspaper, Israeli emergency services reported no injuries. Footage of those attacks can be seen here.
Snopes is frequently covering rumors and fake news pertaining to the 2026 U.S-Israel war with Iran.
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