Clip From Video Game Trailer Peddled as ‘Hamas Attack on Israeli Tank'

The clip was taken from a video game called Squad and has been on the internet since December 2022.

A video showing a military vehicles and personnel being attacked aerially is going viral on social media, where users are claiming that it shows Hamas destroying an Israeli tank.

(Archives of more posts with the same claim can be seen here and here.)

Is it true?: The video has been on the internet since December 2022 and shows a clip from the trailer of an update for Squad, a video game.

How did we find out?: Using Google Chrome's InVID WeVerify extension, we divided the viral video into multiple keyframes and ran a reverse image search on some of them.

• This led us to a post on Weibo, a Chinese microblogging website, where a user shared the same video on 11 December 2022.

• The translated version of the caption said that the video was an "animated picture of the direct war between the Chinese and American armies."

• In the comments under another post which shared the same video on the platform, we saw a comment which mentioned that it showed an expansion pack called 'Red Star Rise' for a game called Squad.

• Taking a cue from this, we looked for more information using relevant keywords.

• This led us to the YouTube channel for a game 'Squad', where a longer version of this video was shared as one of a trailer of an update called Red Star Rising.

The video was uploaded on 7 December 2022.

We noticed that the claim was taken from first 15 seconds of this game's update trailer.

We also found this video on one Robert Stoneman's channel, who said that he had made this update "cinematic trailer" for Squad.

• According to the channel's description, he makes machinima, trailers, and cutscenes for the video game industry.

Conclusion: A scene from a video game trailer was shared to falsely claim that it shows Hamas attacking Israeli tanks.

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