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War & conflict fact checks

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

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Factcrescendo Sri LankaWar & conflict

Israel Destroyed Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church At Gaza !!

Publisher’s rating: False

The claim concerned social-media posts saying that Israel’s attacks had destroyed Gaza’s Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church. The review examined that specific rumor and reported that it found no credible news reports confirming the church had been destroyed. It also said the church administration denied the claims on its official Facebook page. These are the review’s reported findings; the supplied excerpt does not identify the news sources it checked or reproduce the church administration’s post. The review further reported that it found no photographic or video evidence supporting the destruction claim. Its conclusion was that there was no evidence the church had been destroyed. That conclusion addresses the claim of destruction, not whether the church or people sheltering there might later be affected by an attack.

Factcrescendo ThailandWar & conflict

วิดีโอของกลุ่มฮามาสขณะเข้าไปยังอิสราเอล

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The claim concerns a TikTok video said to show Hamas entering Israel. The review identifies this as its first claim and says the post had received more than four million views. Its investigation sought news reports about parachutists in Israel but found none from sources it considered reliable. It also used keyframes from the video to search for matching images. The decisive evidence described in the review is a statement by BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh, whose tweet the review found through that image search. He said the clip was filmed in Egypt, not Israel, and identified the building in the background as a military academy in Cairo. On the evidence presented, the footage does not show the claimed Hamas entry into Israel: it depicts a location in Cairo instead.

Fact CrescendoWar & conflict

Claim: Animated video shared as the Hamas shooting down an Israeli's helicopter

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

The claim concerned a video circulating on social media as footage of Hamas shooting down an Israeli helicopter. Fact Crescendo’s review says the post described it as an Israeli aircraft being shot down and notes that the video looked more like a video-game scene than real footage. The review reports that the clip was posted by a Facebook page called Vidiyal on October 7, 2023, and that it was then shared by others. To investigate, the publisher says it converted frames from the video into images and searched for them using Google reverse image search. That search led it to a YouTube upload dated October 4, 2023. According to the review, that upload identified the footage as a simulation, not a real incident. This provides both a stated origin predating the claimed event and a description of the clip as simulated. The timing is central to the review’s conclusion: it states that Hamas began its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, whereas the YouTube simulation had been uploaded three days earlier. On the evidence described, the circulating animation could not be footage of a helicopter being shot down in that attack. Fact Crescendo concludes that a computer-game animation was falsely shared as an Israeli helicopter being downed by Hamas.

APA - Austria Presse AgenturWar & conflict

Auf Aufnahmen aus dem iranischen Parlament skandieren Politiker „Tod für Israel“ sowie „Tod den USA“. Dies ist eine Reaktion während des eskalierenden Konflikt zwischen Israel und der radikalen Palästinenserorganisation Hamas.

Publisher’s rating: Die Videos haben nichts mit der aktuellen Situation in Nahost zu tun. Es handelt sich um zwei alte Aufnahmen. Eine wurde im Jahr 2020 nach dem Tod des iranischen Offiziers Qassem Soleimani aufgenommen, eine andere im Mai 2023.

El Detector / Univision NoticiasWar & conflict

Los 6,000 millones de dólares iraníes liberados por Estados Unidos, tras el acuerdo de intercambio de prisioneros con ese país efectuado el pasado septiembre, salieron de los impuestos de los estadounidenses y sirvieron para financiar el reciente ataque de Hamas contra Israel.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

The claim joined two allegations about the $6 billion in Iranian funds made available following a September 2023 prisoner exchange: that the money came from U.S. taxpayers and that it financed Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. The review examines both allegations, which were publicly advanced by prominent Republicans, and concludes that neither is supported by the evidence it presents. On the source of the funds, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said they were Iranian assets accumulated through oil sales and frozen in a South Korean bank—not U.S. taxpayer money. The review also reports that the funds were transferred from Switzerland to Qatar, which acted as an intermediary in the negotiations. U.S. officials said the money could be used only for humanitarian purchases, including food and medicine. On whether the money financed the attack, Blinken, National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, and State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said none of it had been spent by the time of their statements. The review also cites former Israeli national security adviser Eyal Hulata and a source close to Hamas, both of whom described preparations for the operation as having taken place over an extended period. It reports that the U.S. released the funds in mid-September, while the attack occurred on October 7. The review’s evidence therefore disputes both the claim that U.S. taxpayers supplied the money and the assertion that it funded the attack; it does not present evidence that the restricted funds were spent on Hamas.