Accounts and pages on social media circulated a video that its posters claimed documents the arrival of Syrian bodies at one of Saudi Arabia's airports, ahead of transferring them to Damascus, after they had gone to Yemen.
The "Kashaf" team checked the circulated video through digital tracing that included breaking it into still frames and running a reverse search on them.
It emerged that the video dates to 24/11/2024, and documents the funeral prayer for the victims of a building collapse that occurred in the al-Basnawi neighbourhood in the Rusayfah area of Mecca.
Why is the news misleading?
Out of context in time and place: Republishing a video from 2024 documenting a funeral prayer for the victims of a building collapse in Mecca, and presenting it as the arrival of Syrian bodies at a Saudi airport, makes the news misleading.
