West Asia Conflict: 2025 Syria gas station fire video falsely viral as Iran bombing Israeli city

As tensions continue to escalate across West Asia, a video, around 33 seconds in length, is viral on social media, with the claim that it shows scenes from an Israeli city bombed with cluster missiles by Iran.

X user @bekiservet posted the viral video on March 16. The caption reads: “Even if the broadcasting ban carried a 50-year prison sentence instead of 5 years, we wouldn’t deprive people of this pleasure! You’re burning as of now, Tel Aviv. The Rishon LeZion area, where the Iranian missile fell, is burning tonight…” (Archive) 

Yayın yasağının 5 yıl değil 50 yıl hapis cezası olsa bile insanları bu zevkten mahrum bırakmayız!

An itibarıyla yanıyorsun Tel Aviv🔥🔥

İran füzesinin düştüğü Rishon Le Zion bölgesi yanıyor bu gece… pic.twitter.com/w51GbG1Cb7

— Servet BEKİ (@bekiservet) March 15, 2026

Another user (@K_TURK_19051919) posted the video with similar claims. (Archive) 

Konuşmanın tercümesi:

“Şu anda, İran’dan gelen bir füzenin Tel Aviv yakınlarındaki Rishon LeZion bölgesine isabet etmesinin ardından bölge bu gece alevler içinde.

Yayın yasağını ihlal etmenin cezası 5 yıl yerine 50 yıl hapis olsa bile, insanları bu andan mahrum bırakmazdık. Şu… pic.twitter.com/RGPUUdE9a2

— KABAC 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 🇹🇷 (@K_TURK_19051919) March 16, 2026

Several other others on X, including @ahturgut, @BilalTekatli63, @MuammerAydin_25, @GazaNews571, also posted the viral clip, claiming that the area of Rishon LeZion, in Israel, had been bombed. (Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4) 

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Fact Check

To verify the authenticity of the claims surrounding the viral clip, first, we broke down the video into keyframes. Running a reverse image search on one such keyframe led us to this video, uploaded on Facebook, on April 23, 2025.

The caption, which is in Arabic, says: “A massive fire broke out at the ‘Al-Boushi’ gas station in the city of Al-Bab, east of Aleppo.”

Taking cue from this, we ran a relevant keyword search, and came across this news report, posted Alfajr Newspaper, which talks about the same incident.

It reports that a gas explosion in the city of Al-Bab in northern Syria left at least 28 people injuries. It took the authorities more than three hours to bring the flames under control, after it had spread to adjacent buildings.

To conclude, footage from a gas explosion in Syria in April 2025 has gone viral on social media with users incorrectly claiming that it shows an Israeli city being bombed by Irani missile clusters amid the ongoing West Asia conflict.