WATCH: Mansur Ashkar exposes Iranian propaganda about Israel being 'laid waste'

In his report for ALL ISRAEL NEWS, Mansur Ashkar takes us to a high tower in Tel Aviv for a view of the current situation in the war with Iran. 

“Usually we'd go to the bomb shelters back and forth maybe two to three times a night. This time we had to spend the entire night around the bomb shelter,” Ashkar explains. 

Alerts are sent to various areas of the country targeted for attack, but we have also seen the entire country put on alert all at once, several times over. Tragically, there have been some direct hits and 24 people have been killed so far, with hundreds more being treated for injuries and shock. Scenes of tower blocks ripped open by rockets have been constantly in the news, but what is the real situation on the ground?

Within a few days, Israel quickly gained dominance over Iranian airspace and began destroying the missile launchers deliberately aimed at Israeli civilians. With fewer and fewer missiles coming now, it seems Israel’s efforts to neutralize Iran’s fire power are finding great success.

However, Iran does not want to lose face in this conflict and has been going to great lengths to demonstrate their military prowess. Scenes of civilian areas ablaze in Israel may serve to gratify the IRGC support base, but Ashkar highlights some of the wilder fake news and propaganda that has been emerging. 

“The Iranian regime is trying to portray a false image that Israel has been laid waste,” he says. In one particularly unsavory incident, a clearly faked AI image of an enormous plane appeared, with claims that Iran had grounded an Israeli jet and taken captive a female pilot. People quickly spotted the glaring errors in the image and joked about the ridiculous size of the aircraft, being more than six times the size of an Israeli F35, never mind the factual inaccuracy of the claim.

“The propaganda that the Iranians are trying to show here is that they're winning this war and they're destroying Israel,” he continues. “They're using AI images, fake images, images from movies, sometimes even from computer games.”

“So I want to show you right now how Tel Aviv looks… so you know better for yourself not to believe the Iranian propaganda,” says Ashkar, showing scenes of Tel Aviv still intact, and how Iranian claims that the airport has been destroyed can be easily debunked.

“As you can see, this is Tel Aviv behind me, right here. That's basically over there. That's the airport. That's from the river to the sea. It doesn't look destroyed. It doesn't look desolated,” he says. Indeed, the airport hasn’t been hit even once.

“Israel is still strong. People are still standing here, driving, going to work. The nation of Israel is very resilient. We don't break easily, but we should not ignore the fact that the enemy is targeting civilian locations. They're shooting at buildings, they're shooting with rockets that have [a] two kilometer radius of accuracy. That's about a mile and a half, meaning that it will just aim to the center of a city and hope to hit somewhere around that city.”

“Israel, on the other hand, is using very smart, very precise munitions, trying to eliminate the evil leadership of the Iranian regime,” Ashkar informs.

“These are the enemies of the West, the enemies of Israel,” he says of the Iranian regime. “But I just wanted to give you that picture so you can see with your own eyes the lies that they're saying. Don't believe these lies. Israel is still strong, Israel is doing everything it can to defend its citizens,” he concludes, adding, “we are not easily broken but we'd appreciate all the prayers that we can [get] from our allies in the West.”