Video shows protesters in Lebanon “storming the border with Palestine in support of Gaza” in October 2023.

An Oct. 13 Instagram post suggests a video of people scaling a wall is current footage of Lebanese demonstrators supporting Palestinians as violence persists in Gaza with Israel and Hamas at war. 

“BREAKING: Protesters in Lebanon are currently storming the border with Palestine in support of Gaza,” text above the video says.  

But this video is old, and this post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)

The video is from TikTok, and the handle of the user who shared it is visible in the Instagram post. We couldn’t find the original video — that account appears to have been deleted — but we found another post from a different account that posted the footage in May 2021.

A May 2021 YouTube video and a May 2021 X post feature the same video.

Photos and video from news outlets in 2021 show the same scene from different perspectives, capturing Lebanese protesters at the country’s southern border with Israel demonstrating in solidarity with Palestinians. 

But the video in the Instagram post doesn’t show protesters in Lebanon “storming the border” in October 2023. We rate that claim False.