Does this video depict Egyptian intelligence entering the Gaza Strip in 2023? No, that's not true: The video is from 2021 and predates the current Hamas-Israel conflict by years. Reportedly, it shows an Egyptian security delegation arriving in the Gaza Strip in May 2021 to meet with Hamas and other Palestinian factions.
The claim appeared in a video no longer available, but archived here, published on TikTok by @esoo_222 on October 12, 2023, with a text overlay (translated from Arabic to English by Lead Stories staff) that reads:
Moments capturing Egyptian intelligence entering the Gaza Strip and issuing warnings of potential Israeli attacks, considered as an assault on Egypt.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Fri Nov 17 12:40:02 2023 UTC)
The claim on TikTok was widely shared following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, such as here, here and here.
A watermark from the Palestinian Media Network Masdar news is visible on the video, and a caption (translated from Arabic to English by Lead Stories staff) reads:
The arrival of the Egyptian delegation in the Gaza Strip, coming from Ramallah through the Israeli Beit Hanoun checkpoint.
Lead Stories performed a Google search in Arabic (archived here) on November 27, 2023, with the keywords "Masdar," "news," "arrival," Egyptian," "delegation," "Gaza" and "strip." The results revealed the original video published on YouTube by @MsdrNews on May 31, 2021.
This is what the YouTube video looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: YouTube screenshot taken on Mon Nov 27 09:33:17 2023 UTC)
The video's caption (translated from Arabic to English by Lead Stories staff) reads:
The Egyptian security delegation, led by Abbas Kamel, the head of the Egyptian Intelligence Service, arrived today, Monday, at the Al-Mashtal Hotel to meet with Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza.
Accompanied by a high-level Egyptian delegation, Abbas Kamel is visiting the Gaza Strip to discuss the latest developments following the recent Israeli aggression. He is set to be received by Yahya Al-Sanwar, the head of the Hamas political bureau in the Gaza Strip, along with a delegation from the movement.
