A video showing a torrent of mud and water inundating the village of Ras Baalbek, Lebanon in 2018 has been miscaptioned online as floods in Jericho in the West Bank. A user on Facebook (archived) shared the video with the caption: “Happening now! Reuters geolocated the buildings visible in the video to Google Map satellite imagery of the village of Ras Baalbek. Reports from June 2018 say heavy rain resulted in major floods in Ras Baalbek. The video shows floods in Lebanon in 2018.

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Persons: Read Organizations: West Bank, Facebook, YouTube, American University of Beirut, Reuters, Google, Thomson Locations: Ras Baalbek, Lebanon, Jericho, Jordan, Lebanese, Baalbek