Social media accounts recently published a video clip showing clashes, claiming that they are taking place between the Syrian army and opposition factions in the Hama countryside in Syria.
Kashif verified the video via “Google Images” tool and found that it is old and was wrongly linked to the clashes between the regime army and opposition factions in the Hama countryside. The clip was circulated in 2020 as a tribal conflict.
Beit Juwaybir channel on YouTube published the video on 9/5/2020, accompanied by the following text: “I fought Beit Juwaybir and Beit Ka’id 2020.”
Reuters had previously verified the same video clip in 2022, when it was spread under the claim that it was “a tribal dispute in the Sayyid Dakhil district, south of Dhi Qar.”
The violent clashes took place on Monday evening, 2/12/2024, between the opposition factions and the regime army in the axis of Al-Jabin, Tal Malah and Al-Jalameh in the northwestern Hama countryside, in an attempt by the regime army to regain the towns that the opposition factions had taken control of on the same day.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on 2/12/2024 that opposition factions targeted the city of Mahardah in the western Hama countryside with a missile attack.
For its part, the Syrian warplanes launched six airstrikes targeting residential neighborhoods in the city of Halfaya in the northern Hama countryside, and helicopters launched four raids with explosive barrels on the city, without any information about human losses, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
