Missile sirens sounded across Jerusalem on Monday after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had fired missiles at the Israeli prime minister's office, a claim that sent the question 'Is Benjamin Netanyahu dead' surging through social media within minutes. Iranian state-linked outlets reported the strike as fact, but neither Tehran nor Jerusalem has offered confirmed evidence that Benjamin Netanyahu or his office were hit.
The allegation arrived during a rapid escalation in a conflict already stretching across multiple borders. Iran has framed its latest barrage as retaliation, while Israeli officials have acknowledged only that missiles were launched from Iran and that air‑defence systems attempted to intercept them. The two accounts run alongside one another without intersecting, two versions of the same moment that leave an uncomfortable gap where verification should be. That gap has proved fertile ground for rumours that move faster than official information.
