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Photo shows damage in Yemen's Sanaa airport in 2015, not 2024

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A photo of smoke billowing from a runway in December 2024 is falsely portrayed as showing an attack on Yemen 's Sanaa airport .

The post featured a photo of two planes on a runway, with thick black smoke.

It actually shows the airport in Sanaa damaged by airstrikes in April 2015 .

The Huthi rebels blamed Israel for the attack, which came after a missile attack in Tel Aviv .