Video of building being blown up is not Gaza parliament
21 November 2023
What was claimed
A video shows the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza being blown up.
Our verdict
The video does not show the Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza, but a different building. That said, the Palestinian Legislative Council building has since been at least partially destroyed according to satellite images.
Posts onsocialmedia have claimed a video shows a Palestinian parliament building in Gaza being blown up.
But the building in the video is not the Palestinian Legislative Council building in the Gaza Strip.
Since the video first went viral, the New York Times used satellite images to report that the actual Palestinian Legislative Council building was partly destroyed on Tuesday 14 or Wednesday 15 November, after Israeli forces took control of it.
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For the purposes of that scheme, we’ve rated this claim as missing context because the video does not show the Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza being blown up, but another building in the region.