Accounts and pages on social media circulated a video clip whose publishers claimed it showed members of the Syrian security forces fleeing inside their own country after being chased by an Israeli military patrol.
The fact-checking team verified the circulating clip by breaking it into still frames and running a reverse search to establish what it actually shows. It emerged that the video was used outside its true context and does not show any security personnel fleeing; rather, it dates to 29/03/2026 and documents the moment an Israeli patrol chased Syrian journalists in Quneitra Governorate while they were covering and documenting the patrol's incursion.
Why is this claim misleading?
Changed context: A clip documenting an Israeli patrol chasing journalists on 29/03/2026 was repurposed and presented as showing members of the Syrian security forces fleeing, which alters its true context.
