According to a disturbing video that went viral, a Yemeni national was punished by Houthi terrorists for not accepting that the Earth is flat. The video depicts a guy being violently crushed by a tank.
Verified accounts on twitter, including @BaapofOption tweeted “As per SM reports, A Yemeni national punished by Houthi Terrorists for not believing that Earth is flat. This is considered sacrilege in Islam as this is against what is written in holy Qur’an. They crushed him by the tank.” on April 5, 2024. The tweet has received an about more than 3k views on X. Several other accounts, including @RealBababanaras, @sanjoychakra, @MithilaWaala made the same claim that the Yemeni national is crushed under a tank due to the punishment by Houthi terrorists for not believing that the Earth is flat. The archive can be read from above.
What is the Actual Truth About this Incident? : Fact
The truth is that this is an old video from Syria, showing the October 2015 ISIS-inflicted death of Syrian army soldier Fadi Amr al-Zaydan in Homs city. It is unrelated to Yemen or the Houthi. We visited rudaw.net, which published an article on this incident on October 25, 2015 with the headline “ISIS executes Syrian Army soldier by tank”. It added “ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Islamic State militants released new video footage on Saturday purportedly showing a Syrian army soldier in Homs being run over by a tank and executed.”. ISIS media reports that a soldier employed by the Syrian Air Force intelligence was taken into custody by ISIS terrorists. The soldier was identified as 19-year-old Fadi Amr al-Zaydan from the Sian village in the northern Latakia province’s Jableh area.
In the video, Zaydan appears to be tied while wearing an orange outfit. Then a tank approaches him and tramples him under its treads. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Zaydan’s death marks the first execution of this kind by ISIS in regions it controls in Syria. The organisation said that it was informed in September 2015 that the terrorist group would kill Syrian government forces by running them over with tanks. Zaydan’s death follows a rescue mission that freed 69 ISIS hostages in a joint Kurdish-American operation in Hawija, Iraq. For more clarification, we went to dailymail, which posted the video with the heading “Video: ‘Terror threat is the highest I’ve ever seen,’ says MI5 chief: Britain faces unprecedented risk from ISIS and Al Qaeda fanatics”. Also, nairaland posted the details alongwith pictures about this on Oct 27, 2015 with the heading “ISIS Executes Syrian Army Soldier By Heavy Tank / GRAPHIC – Politics – Nairaland”.
D-Intent’s Fact-Checking Results:
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ANALYSIS: Misleading
FACT: A sensitive video that shows a man being brutally crushed by a tank has been shared, claiming that a Yemeni national was punished by Houthi Terrorists for not believing that the Earth is flat. The fact is that this is an old video from Syria (1/2) pic.twitter.com/uF8l5vb3yp
Intent:
Propagandists are circulating old videos with false claims to set their narrative based on religion. A sensitive video that shows a man being brutally crushed by a tank has been shared, claiming that a Yemeni national was punished by Houthi Terrorists for not believing that the Earth is flat. This is actually an old video from Syria, where in October 2015, ISIS members killed Syrian army soldier Fadi Amr al-Zaydan in Homs, Syria. Yemen and the Houthi have nothing to do with it.
Conclusion:
Claim : Sensitive footage of a man being mercilessly crushed by a tank has gone viral, purporting to be proof that Houthi terrorists punished a Yemeni national for not accepting that the Earth is flat.
Fact : The fact is that this is an old video from Syria where a Syrian army soldier named Fadi Amr al-Zaydan was killed by ISIS members in Syria’s Homs city in October 2015. It has nothing to do with Houthi and Yemen.
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