Pages on social media circulated a video claiming it documents Israeli occupation forces arresting a man inside Daraa governorate in Syria.
The fact-checking team verified the video by breaking it into still frames and running reverse image searches, then comparing the results with material published through open sources. It found that the video was filmed in the West Bank, not Daraa governorate, and documents Israeli occupation forces detaining an elderly Palestinian man while herding livestock in Khirbet al-Hadidiya in the northern Jordan Valley.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of geographic context: A genuine incident that took place in the West Bank was presented as having occurred in Daraa governorate, suggesting Israeli arrests inside Syrian territory that the clip does not document.
