The post, shared on March 2, 2026, received over 169,000 views and 159 reposts at the time of this article being written.\u00a0(Archive<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Viral video shows a woman livestreaming from her Dubai apartment moments before it was struck by an Iranian missile, causing massive destruction. pic.twitter.com\/hox49uBLsn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) March 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Other media outlets such as Lokmat Times<\/a>, NewsX<\/a> and Republic<\/a> also posted the same video with similar caption. They described the video as showing an incident in Dubai.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n N<\/span>ews portals such as Zee News Marath<\/a>i (Archive<\/a>) and ABP News Hindi<\/a> (Archive<\/a>) published articles based on the same video, echoing the same claim.<\/p>\n On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a joint assault on Iran, targeting key military installations. The strikes reportedly killed Iran\u2019s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, along with several senior figures of the ruling establishment. The attacks also caused civilian casualties, including children. In retaliation, Iran carried out strikes on US military bases across Central and West Asia, including in Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan and Qatar. Late on March 7, four oil depots in and around Tehran were hit killing at least six people. The situation remains fluid and highly volatile at the time of writing, with developments continuing to unfold.<\/p>\n The video is being shared in this context. In addition to media outlets, several social media users across various platforms have also shared the same video. Below are a few instances:<\/p>\n To verify the clip\u2019s authenticity, we conducted a reverse image search using screenshots from the viral video. This led us to an almost six-year-old video from Beirut<\/span><\/span>, which is now being reshared online as footage from Dubai.<\/p>\n The video was originally posted on YouTube<\/span><\/span> by a Filipino migrant worker, Edlyn Candido Lacse<\/span><\/span>, on August 6, 2020, with the caption: \u201cBlast while I am on my streaming<\/a>.\u201d The original video is about one minute and 30 seconds long. (Archive<\/a>)<\/p>\n A day earlier, on August 5, 2020, the same account had uploaded another video titled \u201cMy Beirut Explosion Experience<\/a>,\u201d further indicating that the sequence of videos was originally presented as footage from Beirut. In that clip, the scale of the devastation following the blast is clearly visible.<\/p>\n [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_lhucKpZ_IY?si=fgjHYQnBXdzjcrp4]<\/p>\n We also found the same interrupted livestream video<\/a> uploaded by another YouTube account named Yeiron Jee, with the description: \u201cno intended to copyright, this video was taken from live stream of my friends edlyn lacse in lebanon.\u201d This was posted on August 4, 2020.<\/p>\n Beirut, the Capital city of Lebanon, was rocked by a major explosion on August 4, 2020<\/a>. The explosion was caused by the ignition of around 2500 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which was stored at the Beirut Port. The massive explosion resulted in at least 218 deaths and nearly 10 thousand injuries. The video in question had captured the whole essence of this devastating incident.<\/p>\n\n
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