With tensions continuing to escalate in West Asia, an X handle named GPX (@GPX_Press) shared a video on March 8, 2026, showing a road littered with debris and what appear to be fragments of metal and other materials. Parked vehicles along the street appear damaged, while fires burn in the background amid heavy smoke.
GPX Press, which describes itself as dealing in “Global News & Politics 🌐Unfiltered updates. High-Signal, Zero-Noise”, described the video as “confirmed” footage from Tel Aviv.
At the time of this article being written, the X post has been viewed over 1 million times and reshared over 4,700 times. The video can be watched below:
It has been confirmed… the video is indeed from Tel Aviv.
Night there is no longer night… the sky has turned into a mouth of fire, and missiles multiply as if they are creatures emerging from the earth… something closer to the end of a horror movie than a news broadcast. 🔥🌪️ pic.twitter.com/TCwQXR93U2
— GPX (@GPX_Press) March 7, 2026
Footage Shows Plane Crash Site in Philadelphia
Alt News had fact-checked the same footage twice in the past.
The footage actually shows a plane crash site in Philadelphia in early 2025. According to reports, a medical transport Learjet twin-engine jet aircraft has crashed in a populated area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States. Three buildings in the area are reportedly damaged. The aircraft was carrying six people from Mexico.
We had also geolocated the spot and independently confirmed that it was Philadelphia.
During Operation Sindoor — the military operation launched by India on May 7, 2025, involving precision strikes on alleged militant camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack — the video was shared by some media outlets and social media users as the situation in Pakistan after the Indian armed forces reportedly hit various strategic locations in the country. Bengali news outlet ABP Ananda was among those who had falsely aired the footage.
The fact check can be read here.
In June 2025, the same video was viral again, this time as the situation in Tel Aviv after Iranian strikes. Some claimed it showed destruction by Israel in Tehran.
The fact check can be read here.
To sum up, a scene of devastation depicting a plane crash site in Philadelphia from February 2025 was falsely shared by an X handle named GPX Press as ‘confirmed’ footage from Tel Aviv.
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