After communicating with the people in the village of Hader in Mount Hermon, it became clear that the circulated video was taken from a meeting between the people and the occupation forces, and that the village’s supreme religious and temporal body rejected the Israeli offer of annexation, while the sheikh appearing in the video and those who supported him were the only ones who agreed. The video was published after it was taken out.

In short, this is a deliberately leaked video.

A supportive and reassuring stance from the new government in Damascus is what people need most right now.