Fact Check: Do the remains in the viral image belong to the late Hezbollah Colonel Nasrallah? Here is the truth

The Lebanese Hezbollah group, long backed by Iran, confirmed on Saturday the death of its supremo Nasrallah after Israel said it had eliminated him in an airstrike on Beirut's southern suburbs. Amid this, on social media platforms, numerous users on X have shared the image.

An account with the username @DonKlericuzio posted this picture on X and wrote: “The remains of Nasrallah's ring and note”

Furthermore, the image was shared by many users with similar claims. The link can be viewed here, here and here.

Fact check

The DFRAC team fact-checked the viral image above. We reverse searched this viral image using Google lens and found that the image has been under one in Baghdad in the month of January since January 5, 2024.

In addition, we found that several media such as The Guardian, CBS & AP reported this news. A US airstrike on the headquarters of an Iranian-backed militia in central Baghdad has reportedly killed a senior militia commander. The Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a coalition of militias nominally under the control of the Iraqi military, said in a statement that its deputy chief of operations in Baghdad, Abu Taqwa, had been killed “as a result of brutal American aggression.”

Diploma

DFRAC's fact-checking shows that the viral image was misleadingly shared on X. It is an old image from January 5, 2024 and does not show Hassan Nasrallah's remains or items.

Analysis: Misleading