Claim: A video shows an Israeli tank running over a car with at least one passenger in Palestine. Fact: The video is from Ukraine and has nothing to do with Israel. On 24 December 2023, the Instagram account @kashaf_ul_khair20 posted a video (archive) showing a tanker, allegedly belonging to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), purposely […]
Claim: An image shows a vessel on fire after being attacked by Yemen’s Houthi group in the Red Sea. Fact: The image is old. Neither does it show the aftermath of a Houthi attack, nor was it “breaking news” in 2023. On 31 December 2023, X (formerly Twitter) user Mario Nawfal — @MarioNawfal — posted […]
Claim: A picture shows a Palestinian boy who lost his legs due to Israel’s bombing. Fact: The picture shows a Lebanese boy who lost his legs in 2006. On 28 December 2023, X (formerly Twitter) user @ShaykhSulaiman posted (archive) a picture of a child with amputated legs and wrote, “THEY TOOK THIS CHILD’S LEGS.” @ShaykhSulaiman […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Claim: A video shows the IDF identifying a hostage guardian list in a Hamas hideout. Fact: The list is a misidentified calendar that lists the days of the week. On 14 November 2023, Israeli ground operations broadcasted their investigative findings of Hamas hideouts at the Al-Rantisi hospital in Gaza. In a video posted on […]
Claim: Maulana Fazl ur Rahman has departed to Gaza with aid and is the first leader from a Muslim country to do so. Fact: Maulana Fazl ur Rahman has not left for Gaza, as confirmed by members of his party, the Jamaat e Ulema e Islami (F) – JUI(F). On 5 November 2023, an Instagram […]
Claim: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist, Dr Moshe Yatom, has died by suicide. Fact: Netanyahu’s psychiatrist did not die by suicide; recent news reports claiming so are based on a satirical article published back in 2010. On 6 November 2023, Pakistani media outlet Global Village Space published an article (archive) titled, “Israeli Prime Minister’s psychiatrist […]