Does this video authentically document the Israeli military bombing Gaza, as a social media post claimed? No, that's not true: The video used in the X post originated on a TikTok account labelled: "DISCLAIMER: ALL VIDEOS I POST ARE AI GENERATED." The name of that TikTok account is "@everythingai97". Several elements of the video reveal digital artifacts of the kind often found in videos that are made using generative AI.
The video was added to a May 15, 2025 X.com post (archived here) on the @BeckettUnite account under the caption: "Israel bombing Gaza". It continued:
Israel bombing Gaza
In what world is this not a racist genocide.
Starmer has made the UK complicit.
The Hague now.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: X.com screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
In the X post by @BeckettUnite on X, the watermark of the @everythingai97 TikTok account that originally posted the video on May 14, 2025 is seen in the lower right quadrant of the video (archived here).
Among the generative AI clues in the scene are a walking person seen two seconds into the video who turns into a lowslung bike and an empty space that suddenly sprouts a wispy grey person, shown in the graphic below:
(Source: TikTok.com screenshots assembled in collage by Lead Stories.)
More Lead Stories fact checks of AI-generated content can be found here.
