Does video of a night air raid document India's May 6, 2025 attack on Punjab Province in Pakistan and Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, as was claimed on social media? No, that's not true: The clip exactly matches video posted to YouTube October 23, 2023, long before India's ballistic missile attack. In the original posted version of the video, multiple accounts described the scenes as Gaza.
The footage was posted May 6, 2025, on X (archived here) on the "Republicans against Trump" account which opened:"🚨BREAKING: India has carried out ballistic missile attacks on multiple sites in Pakistan." It continued:
A war between two nuclear powers has begun.
Here's what the post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:
(Source: X screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
The @RpsAgainstTrump post uses the same footage from more than 18 months earlier, found on an X page with the handle @kabulnewstv (archived here). On X, translation of Pashto captions of the video into English said: "Israel intensified its bombing of Gaza last night. According to Palestinian media reports, 400 people, including women and children, lost their lives in last night's bombings, and hundreds more are still trapped under collapsed buildings." Here's what the October 20, 2023 post looked like at the time:
(Source: X screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
That scene from the video, as well as others, is found in the video posted May 6, 2025, claiming to show India striking Pakistan. Here's an example:
(Source: X screenshot taken by Lead Stories.)
Additional Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Pakistan can be read here.
