“If the Middle East is unstable, the world will not be at peace,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday. “If the conflict escalates further, not only will the conflicting parties suffer greater losses, but regional countries will also suffer greatly.”

Footage of two nighttime explosions in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin in 2015 has been falsely described by social media users as showing an Iranian strike on the port of Haifa, Israel, during aerial battles between the two regional rivals.

After Iran launched missiles at Israel in retaliation for strikes on nuclear and military facilities, a video has circulated in social media posts falsely claiming it shows a fire that broke out at an Israeli base after Iran's attack.