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Claim: Saudi Arabia and the UAE have told Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas to resign and dissolve the current government so that they can appoint a Saudi- and UAE-approved regime in its place; if Abbas does not agree, the two states would halt future financial aid to the Palestinian territories. Fact: Since no reputable outlet has […]

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Claim: A video shows a young Egyptian boy giving food to Palestinians after drilling a hole in the wall. Fact: The claim is false. The clip is actually from a 2012 Palestinian documentary “Infiltrators” which shows the struggles of Palestinians in the West Bank. On 21 December 2023, a user posted a video (archive) on […]

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Claim: A video shows a cargo ship bound for Israel attacked by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea. Fact: The video shows a vessel named Maersk Honam that caught fire on 6 March 2018. The blaze was not a result of any attack. On 15 December 2023, X account @TheNewIndian_in posted (archive) a video of […]

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Claim: A video shows a woman from India surrounded by multiple men being  harassed, touched inappropriately and manhandled. Fact: The video is from Pakistan, and not India. It’s from August 2021 when a female TikToker was assaulted and harassed in Greater Iqbal Park in Lahore on Independence Day. [Trigger warning: This fact-check contains content pertaining […]

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Claim: Germany’s new law has mandated that foreigners seeking German citizenship must recognise Israel. Fact: Only one state, Saxony-Anhalt, has set the prerequisite for aspiring citizens to affirm Israel’s right to exist before getting a German passport. The draft law is still being debated in the German parliament, and has not been implemented across the […]

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Claim: A picture shows a semi-naked Israeli rape victim from the 7 October Hamas attack; it depicts a dead woman lying face-down in a patch of grass, without trousers. Fact: The image does not show an Israeli rape victim; it was, in fact, uploaded online in 2022, more than a year before the Hamas attack […]

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Claim: A picture shows children killed in the 2023 war between Israel and Hamas in Palestine. Three other images we found circulating online are also unrelated to the ongoing war. Fact: The image actually depicts the dead bodies of children killed in a toxic gas attack in Syria in August 2013. The second image showing […]

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Claim: A video shows 130 Jews, including top US government officials, being arrested for trafficking human organs harvested from Palestinians. Fact: The video, while authentic, is not recent nor related to the ongoing war in Palestine. It is from a July 2009 sting operation by the US authorities. Furthermore, the number of detained officials was […]

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Claim: PML-N leader from Jhang, Mehar Afzal Bharwana was tortured and stripped naked by the public after he went to the neighbourhood to ask for votes as a part of his election campaign. Fact: Bharwana from Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) was beaten up and stripped naked by people he had a land dispute with, […]

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Claim: Social media video shows debris from an Israeli tank known as Mervaka that Hamas destroyed.  Fact: The claim is false because the video is from 2022 and most likely shows a Russian tank destroyed by the Ukrainian army.  On 28 November 2023, a Facebook user posted a video (archived) with an Urdu language caption, […]

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Claim: A pregnant Thai woman, Natthawaree Mulkan, who was abducted by Hamas following their attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, has delivered a baby in captivity. Fact: The woman who was taken hostage was not pregnant. Both Thailand’s foreign ministry and the woman’s mother have confirmed that the claim is false. On 18 November […]

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Claim: Starbucks will be closing seven locations in Downtown San Francisco, California following a boycott of the coffee giant for being pro-Israel. Fact: The closure of seven  branches of Starbucks in San Francisco was announced before Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October. The stores are not closing down due to the boycott against “Zionist” […]

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