Thai PBS Verify found the piece of disinformation on: Threads
An original post from user ‘yacineyt41,’ shared by ‘silentfrontline’ on April 6, 2026.
Thai PBS Verify identified a video post on Threads, shared by user ‘silentfrontline’ from the original source, ‘yacineyt41,’ on April 6, 2026, accompanied by a caption stating that,
“Lebanon is Roasting them hard.”
The video gained 29,900 views, 1,900 likes and 53 comments. It was reposted 133 times, shared 70 times. Most commenters believed that the incident really involved an Israeli tank, while some argued with facts.
The Israeli tank was not attacked
Thai PBS Verify examined the video with Google Lens and discovered that the footage does not depict an attack on Israeli or U.S. forces during an invasion of Lebanon. Instead, it is a clip from an incident during the Syrian Civil War, which was originally published back in 2012.
A screenshot shows Google Lens search results, confirming that the image matches an incident in Syria from 2012.
Furthermore, the team located the same video clip on the Military.com website, published on August 6, 2012. It features the following caption: “Rocket Hits Syrian Tank at Close Range.”
The original video in 2012 from the Military.com website captures a Syrian tank being attacked on September 6, 2012.
In addition, the same video was found on the On Demand News’s YouTube channel. The channel released this footage on August 26, 2012, with a report stating as below.
“Syria’s rebels are taking a pounding at the hand of the heavy equipment of president Bashar al-assad but they’re not giving up without a fight they maybe men against tank but they can increasingly pack a punch as this attack in Duma shows
“and outside Aleppo footage emerges showing a devastated convoy of Syrian government armour the battle is far from over though Syrian troops stormed the town of daria near Damascus over the weekend forcing out the hardcore of rebels holed up there against three days of military bombardment and amid the chaos reports of a massacre activists say forces loyal to President Assad are responsible for killing over 200 civilians in the town many young children the claims cannot be independently verified.”
In addition, the same video was found on the On Demand News’s YouTube channel. The channel released this footage on August 26, 2012, with a report stating as below.
The tank in the video does not belong to Israeli army
Thai PBS Verify further looked into the source clip. The team later identified the tank involved in the explosion as a Syrian tank. After searching for relevant keywords, it was found that Syria indeed deployed T-72 tanks. Specifically, the model in service within the Syrian military was the T-72M1, manufactured as an export variant of the T-72A and widely used by countries under communism and across the Middle East.
Data confirms the deployment of Syrian tanks, showing that T-72 models were in service and upgraded to the M1 variant in 2010.
Although the United States was included in the list of T-72M users, reports confirmed that the U.S. utilizes this tank model solely to serve as opposing forces during military exercises. Furthermore, it was verified that, apart from Iran, no other party involved in the current conflict actively deployed the T-72M.
What is the truth?
It is confirmed that the video in question was not an incident occurring in Lebanon, nor did the tank belong to Israeli forces. The events in the clip were actually from the Syrian Civil War, first published around August 2012. The footage depicts Syrian rebels using a rocket to attack a tank belonging to President Bashar al-Assad’s government in the city of Douma.
