Israeli Politicians 2022 Public Clash Video Shared as Recent With False Claim

A video is going viral on social media in the context of ongoing Israel-Iran conflict, in which two individuals are seen surrounded by media, engaging in public clash. One of the individuals is being said to be an Israeli minister, and the video is being circulated with the claim that Israeli citizens were confronting the minister, asking, “Why did you provoke Iran in the first place?” To which the minister allegedly responds, “We didn’t realize the strength of their missiles.”

Sharing the video, the handle going by the name Salman Khan wrote that an Israeli citizen confronts a minister, asking, “Why did you people provoke Iran in the first place?” In response, the Israeli minister says, “We didn’t realize the strength of their missiles!” (archived link)

इजरायली नागरिक – तुम लोगों ने ईरान को उकसाया ही क्यों था?

इसराइली मंत्री – हमें उनकी मिसाइल ताकत का अंदाजा नहीं था! 🤦🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/KzJ7EzSqNl

— Salman Khan ( HYC ) (@Salmanhyc78) June 18, 2025

The video was also shared by a handle named Rebel Warriors with the same claim that Israeli citizens were seen confronting a minister, questioning why they had provoked Iran. In response, the minister allegedly said that they were unaware of the strength of Iran’s missiles. (archived link)

एक आम इजरायली – तुम लोगों ने ईरान को उकसाया ही क्यों था?
मंत्री – हमें उनकी मिज़ाइल ताकत का अंदाजा नहीं था।#IranIsraelConflict #iranisraelwar#IsraelIranConflict #IsraeliranWar pic.twitter.com/d2vV3TqSb5

— Rebel_Warriors (@Rebel_Warriors) June 18, 2025

This video has also been shared by several other handles such as Sadaf Afreen (archived link), Gaza Middle East Update (archived link), Mr. Cool (archived link), Kabir (archived link), Zulfikar Ali Shaikh (archived link), and Inspiretrail (archived link).

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Fact Check

While conducting our fact-check research, we took keyframes from this video and did a reverse image search. We found a report from Times of Israel dated March 28, 2022, in which we spotted the same keyframe.

According to this report, the video is from 2022, showing a confrontation between Israeli far-right politician MK Itamar Ben Gvir and then Security Minister and member of the left-leaning Labor Party Omer Bar-Lev.

On March 27, 2022, there was a terror attack in Hadera, Israel, targeting civilians and border police at a bus stop along Herbert Samuel Street. On the same day, Bar-Lev arrived along with the then Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrived at the attack location to take assessment of the situation.

There were also protests at the location following the attack. As Bar-Lev was addressing the media, he explained that the incident continued and police were scanning the area to check for possible accomplices. Ben Gvir at this point cut him off and shouted at Bar-Lev, telling him “Stop it! You should be ashamed! You’re the worst minister. They took the most leftist person they could find and made him public security minister!”

This resulted in a fiery argument between the two, where Bar-Lev had retorted, “No, I’m not ashamed. You should be ashamed! You’re nothing!” The argument went so far that police intervened and had to push them apart.

We also discovered a video uploaded on Kan News on March 28, 2022, in which Bar-Lev makes a statement to the media, and how Ben Gvir cut him short, causing a verbal argument between the two politicians.

השר לביטחון הפנים בר-לב החל במסירת הצהרה על הפיגוע בחדרה, ח"כ בן גביר התפרץ לדבריו וקטע אותו pic.twitter.com/sskO7XOEdR

— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) March 27, 2022

In conclusion, the video of the verbal confrontation between the two Israeli politicians is from March 27, 2022, which was a public political clash following a deadly terror attack in Hadera. This three-year-old video is now being shared in the current context of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran with false claims, in an attempt to set the narrative that Iran has the upper hand in this conflict.

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