{"id":542012,"date":"2021-05-26T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542012"},"modified":"2021-05-26T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:20:26","slug":"fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-israeli-helicopter-shot-down-by-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-video-show-an-israeli-helicopter-shot-down-by-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Israeli Helicopter Shot Down By Hamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-video-show-an-israeli-helicopter-shot-down-by-hamas%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=542012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232836590-scaled-e1622062797437.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100007844568324\/videos\/2914115135526610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows an Israeli helicopter shot down by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video appears to show a government helicopter that was shot down by rebels in Syria in 2020, not an Israeli helicopter shot down in 2021.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100007844568324\/videos\/2914115135526610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video clip<\/a> shows a helicopter on fire flying through the air for a few moments before fracturing into pieces and plummeting to the ground. \u201cHamas shot Israeli helicopter down and killed 5 officers,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas and Israel recently engaged in an 11-day conflict that ended after a ceasefire went into effect on May 21, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/20\/middleeast\/israel-palestinian-gaza-conflict-ceasefire-intl\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. The fighting left at least 248 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-truce-between-israel-hamas-begins-mediated-by-egypt-2021-05-20\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/05\/14\/fact-check-video-hamas-rockets-gaza-strip\/\">(RELATED: Does This Video Show Hamas Rockets Landing In The Gaza Strip?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through a reverse image search of key frames, Check Your Fact discovered the video dates back to February 2020, over a year before the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out this month. The same footage appears in a Feb. 11, 2020 Sky News post titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/video\/syrian-military-chopper-shot-down-by-rebels-11931578?fbclid=IwAR0nFRCCPO1fDcBfL3DclFLisbv0rVL4x9ET87o2pwh1DM5iaT86fGL4Oic\">Syrian military helicopter shot down by rebels<\/a>.\u201d The caption of the video on the Sky News website <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/video\/syrian-military-chopper-shot-down-by-rebels-11931578?fbclid=IwAR0nFRCCPO1fDcBfL3DclFLisbv0rVL4x9ET87o2pwh1DM5iaT86fGL4Oic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">states<\/a> Syrian rebels in Idlib in northern Syria \u201cshot down a military helicopter,\u201d resulting in the deaths of two crew members.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, the Associated Press published on YouTube a similar video \u2013 titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w1I90nooHds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Syria rebels claim downing of government chopper<\/a>\u201d \u2013 that appears to show the same incident from a different angle.&nbsp;The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-ap-top-news-international-news-iran-russia-e99ea131c009b43f1b0f4a30dc680565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also published<\/a> a story about the helicopter being shot down at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact didn\u2019t find any reports of Hamas downing an Israeli helicopter during the clashes earlier this month on the websites of Israeli news outlets such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/search\/?q=hamas+helicopter+5+killed&amp;submit=search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Times of Israel<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/jpost-search-page#\/search;query=hamas%20helicopter%20five%20dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/search-results?q=hamas+helicopter+five+dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Haaretz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows an Israeli helicopter shot down by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.Verdict: False The video appears to show a government helicopter that was shot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313180,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232836590-scaled-e1622062797437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Israeli Helicopter Shot Down By Hamas?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1232836590-scaled-e1622062797437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Does This Video Show An Israeli Helicopter Shot Down By Hamas?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}