video Shared by X It claims to show a cargo ship attacked by Houthi rebels.

🇾🇪💫 #Yemen Naval missiles target MSC United cargo ship…Yemeni Navy missiles target MSC United cargo ship heading to Israeli port after ignoring multiple requests to stop. pic.twitter.com/fYKBX8kzSk

— Zainabzehra🏴🏴🇮🇷🇱🇧🇾🇪🇵🇸 (@ZAINABALI_72) October 10, 2024

Verdict: False

The video is from 2021 and likely shows an incident in Sri Lanka. It has no ties to the Houthi rebels.

Fact check:

According to reports, Houthi rebels targeted and attacked a Liberian-flagged cargo ship. Associated Press. The cargo ship, called the Olympic Spirit, was hit, but no one was injured, the newspaper said.

Social media users have been sharing videos of the ship on fire, saying it shows a cargo ship targeted by Houthi rebels. One user wrote: ”#Yemen Naval missiles targeted MSC United cargo ship…Yemeni Navy missiles targeted MSC United cargo ship heading to Israeli port after ignoring multiple requests to stop. ”

This claim is false. After doing a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found that the video likely depicts an incident that took place off the coast of Sri Lanka in 2021. According to Chinese media reports, time shows a frame of a video in an article about the incident.

The gray warship in the image is probably Affiliation To the Sri Lankan Navy. Another report said the white vessel was identified as an Indian Coast Guard vessel.

According to reports, the X-Press Pearl ship caught fire off the coast of Sri Lanka in May 2021. BBC News. The ship was carrying chemicals and caused an environmental disaster, the newspaper reported.

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