No, clip of burning buses isn’t from 2024 Tel Aviv attack | Fact check

An Oct. 3 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a video of buses on fire and plumes of smoke rising into the air. 
“This today! Tel Aviv on fire after Yemeni suicide drones have successfully hit their targets,” reads the caption on the post. 
Other versions of the claim were shared on Facebook, Instagram and X, formerly Twitter.  
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The video predates the Facebook post by more than two years. It shows an incident at a bus station in Safed, Israel, in 2022. 
The claim came days after Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed to have attacked the Israeli cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon with missiles and drones in retaliation for Israel’s military operations in Lebanon and Gaza, as reported by Al Jazeera. The Houthis previously said they were behind a fatal drone attack in July near the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv. 
But the video included in the social media posts predates those events. 
Al Jazeera posted the clip in June 2022, saying it showed a blaze overtaking 18 passenger buses in Safed, Israel, more than 70 miles north of Tel Aviv.  
The incident was being investigated as a possible arson attack, the Times of Israel reported at the time.
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USA TODAY has debunked an array of claims about strikes in the Middle East, including false assertions that a video showed Israeli strikes in Yemen in September, that an image showed explosions in the Israeli sky during Iran’s April 13 attack and that a video showed an Israeli airstrike on Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.  
USA TODAY reached out to several users who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Reuters and Lead Stories also debunked versions of the claim.  
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