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War & conflict fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about war & conflict. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

5,834 published reviews in this topic

dpaWar & conflict

Deze video’s tonen dezelfde vrouwen, op de eerste video als Hamas-terroristen en op de tweede video verkleed als burgers die zich voordoen als slachtoffers van een bomaanslag.

Publisher’s rating: Nee, de bovenste video toont twee vrouwen tijdens een herdenkingsbijeenkomst van overleden jongens - die zeer waarschijnlijk niet gelieerd waren aan Hamas, maar aan Fatah - op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. De tweede video toont twee andere vrouwen bij een ziekenhuis in Gaza. Scherpere beelden tonen duidelijk dat het om vier verschillende vrouwen gaat.

dpa-factcheckingWar & conflict

Das Video zeigt tote Palästinenser, die sich bewegen, ergo eine Inszenierung.

Publisher’s rating: Falsche Zuordnung und kein Beleg, dass das Video im Zusammenhang mit dem Gaza-Krieg zur Inszenierung verwendet wurde. Es entstand bei einem Studentenprotest von Anhängern der Muslimbruderschaft in Kairo im Jahr 2013. Ob palästinensische Accounts dieses Video überhaupt verbreitet haben, um auf Tote hinzuweisen, ist nicht belegt.

The claim concerns a video circulated with the question, “Why can dead Palestinians move?” It shows people lying on the ground under white cloths bearing Arabic writing, with one person moving, while a crowd stands around them. The dpa review says the clip is being presented as evidence that Palestinian deaths in the Gaza war were staged, but finds that the footage does not show a Gaza event: it documents a 2013 student protest in Cairo. To identify the footage, the review reports conducting a reverse image search using frames from the video. That search led to a fact-check identifying it as an action by Egyptian students close to the Muslim Brotherhood. The review says the protest took place at Al-Azhar University in October 2013, opposing an impending trial of the Brotherhood’s leadership and the removal of Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi three months earlier. It says the identification is also supported by the dpa archive, an Egyptian media report, and an archived Arabic-language report whose outlet had video of the protesters dressed as corpses. This provenance means the clip is not evidence that deaths were staged in Gaza during the current war. The review also distinguishes that conclusion from a separate question about how the video was shared: it could not establish whether Palestinian accounts circulated it to claim the people shown were current Gaza casualties. It notes that the footage had previously been misrepresented, including as a supposed Palestinian staging in 2018 and, earlier, as a supposed staging of deaths in Syria.

بيم ريبورتسWar & conflict

مصدر عسكري يصرح بأن الحرب ستتوقف برجوع عبدالله حمدوك ريئساً للوزراء وعبد الرحيم دقلو نائبا للمجلس السيادي

Publisher’s rating: مفبرك

The claim under review attributed the proposal to a military source at the Jeddah negotiating delegation. In the circulated post as described by Beam Reports, the source allegedly said the war would stop if Abdullah Hamdok returned as prime minister and Abdel Rahim Dagalo became deputy head of the Sovereignty Council; the post also threatened separation of Darfur. The review identifies the alleged speaker as Rapid Support Forces negotiating-delegation member Ezz Al-Din Al-Safi. [S1]

Fact CrescendoWar & conflict

Claim: Palestine military exercise shared now as Hamas hunting the Israelis army

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

The review investigates a social-media video presented as Hamas attacking and capturing an Israeli military tank, with the caption that Hamas was hunting Israeli soldiers. It says the post appeared on Facebook on October 31, 2023, during the Israel–Hamas war. The fact-check’s conclusion is that the video does not show an event from that war: it identifies the footage as a Palestinian military exercise from 2020, later circulated with a misleading description. To trace the footage, the publisher says it converted video frames into images and ran Google reverse-image searches. It found social-media posts sharing the video from 2021 onward, including posts describing it as Palestine defeating the Israeli military. The review also reports finding a 2020 news item identifying matching scenes as part of Palestine’s first military exercise, and other 2020 reports with scenes resembling those in the checked video. The excerpt does not provide the underlying posts or those reports in full, so their details cannot be independently assessed from the supplied text. The mismatch in timing is central to the verdict: footage already circulating from 2021 and linked by the review to a 2020 exercise cannot be footage recorded during the 2023 war. The publisher therefore calls the claim that it shows Hamas hunting Israeli forces false. It also notes that the video’s setting looked staged, with toy objects visible, but presents the earlier circulation and reports identifying an exercise as its substantive provenance evidence.

tafnied - تفنيدWar & conflict

مصر خاضت 5 حروب من أجل القضية الفلسطينية، قولا واحدا ده أمر مفيهوش كلام 5 حروب، انتهت معاك مشكلتك كمصر مع إسرائيل بتوقيع اتفاقية السلام الشهيرة بكامب ديفيد

Publisher’s rating: الادعاء "مضلل"، حيث خاضت مصر 5 حروب مع إسرائيل لعدة أسباب، منها حرب واحدة فقط من أجل القضية الفلسطينية

FACTLYWar & conflict

Videos of a Palestinian blogger who recovered from the Israeli bomb attack in one day

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The post presented two videos as showing one Palestinian blogger who had been attacked in an Israeli bombing and was walking normally the next day. FACTLY’s review found that the videos show two different people, so the apparent before-and-after comparison does not establish a one-day recovery: “The persons who appeared in the two videos are different.” The review used reverse image searches of screenshots to trace the clips. It found that the first video was posted by Saleh Aljafarawi, a Gaza-based video creator, on 26 October 2023. In the video, Aljafarawi said missiles had landed nearby and an area had been wiped out; the review reported that it could not find the second video on his social-media accounts. It therefore did not identify the first clip as showing him recovering from an injury. The second clip was already circulating by August 2023, according to the review. It identified the person in it as Mohammed Zendiq, a 16-year-old whose leg had been amputated following a reported raid on the Nur Shams refugee camp on 24 July 2023. The review cited an International Solidarity Movement photo identifying Zendiq and said videos on his TikTok account documented his recovery. It also reported that a later video there still showed him with one leg, while Aljafarawi appeared with both legs in October posts. These separate identities and timelines undermine the claim that the clips show one blogger recovering from an attack in a day.

بيم ريبورتسWar & conflict

تصريح كاميرون هدسون بتورط قيادات اسلامية في الحرب

Publisher’s rating: مفبرك

The claim concerned a statement attributed to Cameron Hudson, a former director of the office of the U.S. special envoy to Sudan and an Africa specialist. The circulating wording said that 12 leaders of Sudan’s Islamic Movement were involved in the war that began on April 15 and would be announced soon. The review reports that Beam Reports searched Hudson’s official X account and examined his recent television interviews about Sudan, but found no statement confirming the claim. On the evidence and checks described in the review, the attribution was unsupported.

بيم ريبورتسWar & conflict

فيديو استهداف طيران الجيش للدعم السريع في بليلة

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

The claim concerned a video circulated on Facebook as showing Sudanese army helicopters attacking Rapid Support Forces positions in Baleela, West Kordofan. The post described the footage as recent, saying it was from the previous Monday. The investigation’s reverse search found that the video had appeared online earlier, on April 15, and showed army aircraft attacking Rapid Support Forces positions in Khartoum state instead. Thus, the footage was not from the claimed recent attack in Baleela: both its timing and its stated location were wrong. The review’s conclusion rests on the earlier online publication it found and its identification of the footage as an attack in Khartoum state. It does not establish details about any separate military action in Baleela; its finding is specifically that this video was old and did not depict that location. The review labels the claim “مضلل.”