Old video was falsely linked as Syrian army bombing of sites inside Lebanese territory

Social media accounts posted a video of Syrian journalist Jamil Hassan standing in front of launch platforms during an airstrike, with the claim that the video is recent and documents the Syrian army bombing targets inside Lebanese territory. The video was accompanied by the following text: “The shelling has not stopped for three hours. The Syrian army is raining down missiles on Hezbollah strongholds.”

Kashif verified the video’s and found it to be old and falsely linked to the Syrian army’s bombing of sites inside Lebanese territory. The video originally circulated in December 2023.

“Fans of Media Personality Jamil Al-Hassan” page on Facebook published the video clip, which was circulated on 10/12/2023, along the following text: “In response to the repeated targeting of civilian neighborhoods, markets, and schools in the city of Idlib, the Al-Fath Al-Mubin operations are targeting military barracks in Nubl and Al-Zahraa in the Aleppo countryside.” 

The Lebanese-Syrian border witnessed armed clashes on Sunday night, in addition to the Syrian army’s shelling of the Lebanese Al-Qasr area. This came after the Syrian Ministry of Defense announced that a group of Hezbollah members had ambushed and kidnapped three Syrian army personnel on the Lebanese border, before taking them to Lebanese territory and executing them. However, Hezbollah denied in a statement its involvement in the events that took place on the Lebanese-Syrian border “categorically.”