Accounts and pages on social media platforms circulated reports claiming that violent clashes had erupted between military factions affiliated with the Syrian government in Daraa province, resulting in deaths and injuries and the burning of a number of homes in the area.
The Kashaf team followed the reports circulating about the nature of the field events in Daraa province and contacted the platform’s correspondent there to ascertain the details. The correspondent flatly denied that any clashes had occurred between military or security forces in the area. The correspondent confirmed that the reality of the matter goes back to an internal dispute arising from old blood feuds between cousins of the Al-Zoubi clan, in which one person opened fire on a family, resulting in the killing of two young men, one of them named Ibrahim Youssef al-Zoubi, and the wounding of three others. In the aftermath, the family of the two victims retaliated by burning homes belonging to the perpetrator’s family, before security forces intervened and deployed to bring the situation fully under control.
Why is this claim misleading?
Distortion and falsification of the nature of local incidents: The circulating posts deliberately distorted the course of a local tribal and family conflict and revenge-driven disputes, and portrayed them in a manner contrary to reality as armed confrontations and clashes between government military forces, with the aim of inflating the security events and giving them false factional and political dimensions.
