Accounts and pages on social media circulated a video whose publishers claimed it documented a missile strike at the moment Syrian personnel arrived at "Riyan" Airport.
The fact-checking team verified the circulating clip by breaking it into still frames and running a reverse search on them, and found that the video is old and originally comes from the missile attack that targeted "Aden" International Airport, published on 1/1/2021, and that the footage has no connection to any new events relating to "Riyan" Airport.
Why is this claim misleading?
Out of temporal and geographic context: Old footage of an attack on "Aden" Airport was repurposed and presented as a strike on Syrian personnel at "Riyan" Airport, suggesting to the reader a new security incident for which the circulating footage offers no support.
