Fact Check: Indian Army attacks Sialkot in Pakistan after Pahalgam terror attack? No, video is from Gaza (2025)

Hyderabad: Following the Pahalgam terror attack on April 22, which claimed 26 lives, India suspended visas for Pakistan nationals and ordered heightened security measures across the country.

Amid this, an X user posted a video with the caption, “Breaking News: Al Jazeera Channel has released new footage of the Indian Army’s attack on Sialkot, Pakistan.” (Archive)

The video, shot at night, shows large explosions and fire in the background illuminating a building. In the foreground, we can see white tents, a tree and people fleeing the explosions.

Fact Check

NewsMeter found that the claim is false. The video shows an Israeli airstrike on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, originally shared by Al Jazeera in November 2023.

The Al Jazeera logo is visible in the bottom right corner, along with the text ‘InShOT,’ indicating the video was edited using the InShot app.

A reverse image search of a keyframe from the viral video led to a report by The Sun titled “RAINING FIRE Dramatic moment Israeli airstrike pounds Hamas terror HQ in ‘pressure cooker bombing’ to clear civilians from hospital,” published on November 10, 2023.

The report detailed an Israeli airstrike on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza. The article embedded the same video, crediting Al Jazeera as the source, showing the identical explosion, white tents and people running away from the blasts.

Additionally, a keyword search led us to an X post shared by Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) on November 9, 2023.

The post included the same video, captioned as footage of an Israeli strike on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, confirming that the visuals were recorded during the Israel-Gaza conflict in 2023, not a recent event involving the Indian Army or Sialkot, Pakistan.

The viral claim video shared by the X user and the original Al Jazeera video depict the same event but appear to be recorded from slightly different angles. The viral video includes the ‘InShOT’ watermark, suggesting it was edited, but the main visual elements—white tents, the explosion and a person running—are consistent with the Al Jazeera footage from 2023.

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Moreover, there are no credible reports of the Indian Army attacking Sialkot, Pakistan, following the Pahalgam terror attack.

The claim that the video shows the Indian Army attacking Sialkot, Pakistan, is false. The footage is from an Israeli airstrike on the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza in November 2023, as originally reported by Al Jazeera, and has no connection to the Indian Army or the Pahalgam terror attack in 2025.