Did the Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi make a speech wearing a military uniform in response to the Hamas-Israel conflict? No, that is not true: Sisi did not make this speech recently; the event shown in the video predates the current Hamas-Israel conflict, which started on October 7, 2023.
The claim appeared in a video (Archived here) on TikTok on October 23, 2023, with the caption (translated from Arabic into English by Lead Stories staff) that reads:
What does it mean to the president to wear his military uniform today
The Egyptian army prepares for war, President Sisi deploys tanks into Rafah
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Fri Dec 15 14:24 2023 UTC)
On December 14, 2023, a Google Lens reverse image search (archived here) successfully located the initial publication of the video. The footage featuring Sisi in military attire giving a speech pertains to a past event on March 23, 2018, during which he visited the Egyptian Air Force base in Sinai, as documented by the state-run Nile TV (archived here).
