Pages and accounts on social media circulated a video whose publishers claimed it documents elements affiliated with the Syrian government attacking and smashing cars in Souq al-Hal in Damascus, on the pretext that they carried As-Suwayda province registration plates.
Kashaf followed up on the video, split the clip into still images and ran a reverse search on them. The technical analysis showed that the footage is old and dates back to a brawl that took place in Souq al-Hal in Damascus on 12 September 2025, and is unrelated to the circulating claims about targeting cars bearing As-Suwayda plates; the review also showed that it is being recirculated out of its original temporal context.
Why is the news misleading?
Old video reposted in a different context: The circulating claim reuses an old clip dating to a brawl in Souq al-Hal in Damascus on 12 September 2025 to spread inaccurate information about targeting cars bearing As-Suwayda plates, out of its original temporal context.
