Social networks have circulated news about attacking Kaftin village of Druze majority at Jabal al-Zawiya region in Idlib province, by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” where they committed a massacre against children, women and the elderly, around 30 people were killed.
The source of the news was unknown. However, when contacting many activists in the region, and asking them about the attack, they all confirmed that news was completely wrong, and what happened was the opposite.
A field activist reported what happened saying: “a branch of ISIS attacked the village, but its men with the help of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and many Sunni people from surrounding villages, and they managed to defeat ISIS and prevented it from entering the village.
The activist confirmed that what published on social network was an attempt to turn the fact upside down, and killing people and abducting women were only rumors.
Activists pointed out to the regime’s previous attempts to provoke sectarian strife between Druze and Sunni in Jabal al-Sheikh, and they assume that fake news aims to unsettle the coexistence between different sects and ethnic groups.
Our sources reported that people in Jabal al-Zawiya, either Sunni or Druze, stress on the need for checking irresponsible and devious information, as distributing them may badly affect the revolution and relationships between different social and religious groups.
Read the original article; by Sara Abdul hai, Translation by Yusra Ahmed
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