![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) *About ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) ## No connection with Israel # An old video of a police station burned down in Bahrain Published on 2.11.2023, 10:48 (CET) While the situation in Israel is at the center of the news, a video would show its embassy in Bahrain burned down. But this is an example of no more images relayed in the wrong context. The Israeli embassy in Bahrain was reportedly set on fire. In any case, that's what that several Internet users advance on different platforms, such as Facebook and V.K. These messages, published from October 19, 2023, are accompanied of a video in which we observe a group of people throwing torches on a building, which ends up catching fire. Images are quickly went viral, racking up several thousand views. But do they have really a link with Israel? ## Assessment No, these claims are false. The building visible in the video is not not the Israeli embassy in Bahrain, but a police station. In Besides, the images are from at least 2012. ## Facts A reverse image search leads to various posts relaying this false rumor. A warning has been added to some of them, such as here on the X platform (formerly Twitter). This warns that the video dates back to 2012, and shows a police station. A link leads to a photo published on November 6, 2012 on a Facebook page called “Occupy Bahrain”. We see the same building on fire as in the video shared more recently. The caption of the photo refers to "the siege » the day before a police station in Sitra, an island located in the northeast of the kingdom and south of the capital Manama. An image available on Google Maps confirms that it is indeed a Sitra police station, more precisely this one. We recognize in particular the distinctive roof of the building. In its post, “Occupy Bahrain” also links to a YouTube video, but which has since disappeared. The description which accompanied it may, however, be read in an archived version of the page. We can also see that the The video in question was published by the “Revolution Bahrain” channel. A channel of the same name still exists. We finally find the video of the fire, with the same background music, published on YouTube at the end of December 2012. According to the description provided by “Revolution Bahrain”, this police station police were allegedly attacked on November 3, 2012 after the state of health of Hassan Mushaima, an opposition leader sentenced to life in prison in 2011, deteriorated. His conditions of detention were denounced to several times, notably by the rights organization Human Rights Watch. At the time, protest movements in the framework of the “Arab Spring” had also shaken this Gulf archipelago Persian. The video therefore does not show the Israeli embassy in Bahrain. Opened in 2021, this is located in the World Trade Center in Manama. Since the attack on Islamist movement Hamas against Israel in early October 2023, and the retaliation by the Jewish state, demonstrations in support of the Palestinians took place in several countries in the Middle East, including Bahrain. But this is not not in this context that the images of the burning police station fit. (Situation as of 02.11.2023) ## Links Facebook Posts I and II (archived versions I and II) Posting on VK (archived version) Archived video Reverse image search (archived version) Publication on X (archived version) Photo on Facebook in 2012 (archived version) Location and photo of the police station (archived versions I and II) Archived YouTube video YouTube video (archived version, archived video) About Hassan Mushaima - Human Rights Watch (archived version) About the “Arab Spring” in Bahrain (archived version) About the opening of the Israeli embassy in Bahrain I and II (archived versions I and II) Location of the Israeli embassy in Bahrain (archived version) About the demonstrations in Bahrain I and II (archived versions I and II) ### About dpa fact checks This fact check was written as part of the independent program of Facebook/Meta check. More information about this program can be found here. To learn more about how Facebook/Meta manages accounts that spread misinformation, click here. If you have any objections or comments, please send them to the address factcheck-belgium@dpa.com including a link to the publication Facebook concerned (see the model to use here). For more information on how to submit a correction or to dispute a review, please refer to this page. powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
This video shows the Israeli embassy in Bahrain being burned down in October 2023