Pages on social media circulated a report claiming the killing of the Saudi national "Yasser Abu al-Qahtan", a commander in "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham", following an explosion at warehouses in the town of Al-Eis in the southern Aleppo countryside.
The Kashaf team verified the claim through a reverse image search and found that the photo belongs to Mohammad Mahmoud Sbeiha, known as "Hammoudi", a fighter in the ranks of "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham" who was killed during the "Deterrence of Aggression" battles in Hama. News of his killing was accompanied at the time by the spread of an audio recording of his father saying: "Hammoudi has been martyred, Abu Zakour".
The relevant authorities also confirmed that no human casualties were recorded as a result of the Al-Eis warehouse explosion.
Why is this claim misleading?
A photo from an earlier incident: The identity of the person appearing in the photo does not match the person mentioned in the report, and the photo was established to be linked to a different, earlier incident.
