Skip to main content

PeakMetrics / Fact Checks

War & conflict fact checks

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

5,837 published reviews in this topic

dpa-factcheckingWar & conflict

Video zeigt israelischen Luftangriff auf Gebäude in Gaza.

Publisher’s rating: Das Video ist aus dem Jahr 2021 und zeigt keine aktuellen Kampfhandlungen.

The video at issue shows a high-rise collapsing in Gaza. The review says it was shared as footage of a current Israeli attack, amid Israeli airstrikes following the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. Its investigation identifies the footage as an earlier event, not a recording of those current hostilities. The review traces the scene to May 2021, when the same bombardment and collapse were broadcast live on television. It describes a BBC live report in which a staff member took cover as Israeli rocket fire struck near the broadcast location; the camera recorded the building being hit and collapsing. The building is identified as Al-Shorouk Tower in Gaza City. The review’s account places the video in the context of the 2021 Israel–Hamas fighting: Hamas had fired rockets at Israel, and Israel responded with airstrikes in Gaza. That confrontation ended after eleven days with a ceasefire. Thus, the footage does show an Israeli strike in Gaza, but the review’s evidence dates the depicted strike to May 2021 rather than the October 2023 fighting.

Fact CrescendoWar & conflict

Claim: Egypt military drill video shared as the Hamas invading the Israel I இஸ்ரேலுக்குள் இறங்கிய ஹமாஸ் படை என்று பரவும் வீடியோ உண்மையா?

Publisher’s rating: ஃபேக்ட் கிரஸண்டோ ரேட்டிங்: FALSE

Fact Crescendo investigated a social-media video of parachutists that was being presented as Hamas fighters entering Israel. The review describes a Facebook post published by Troll Mafia on October 8, 2023, whose caption likened the scene to entering Israel as in PUBG. The question was whether this particular footage showed a Hamas attack in Israel, rather than whether Hamas had used parachutes in other footage.

The Palestinian Observatory “Tahaqaq”War & conflict

“Hamas terrorists kidnapped a Jewish baby girl in Gaza”.

Publisher’s rating: The girl in the video is a lost Palestinian child in the West Bank city of Dura rather than a kidnapped settler in Gaza. On the 8th of September. 2023, Izz al-Din Lajlasi, a user of the “TikTok” app, posted the video to his account.

DoğrulaWar & conflict

“Mehmetçik Gazze’ye” sloganının atıldığı videonun güncel olduğu iddiası

Publisher’s rating: Yanlış

The claim concerned a video presented as current footage of a crowd gathered in Istanbul’s Fatih district to protest Israel and support Palestine, chanting “Mehmetçik Gazze’ye.” The review says the footage was not current: it traced it to demonstrations in May 2021, held in response to Israeli forces’ actions at Al-Aqsa Mosque. To investigate the chant’s provenance, the review says it searched for the slogan and for the name “Muslimport” visible in the video. It reports finding that the footage had been recorded and uploaded online on 10 May 2021. It also notes that Akit TV had used the same video in a news article, but identifies the footage’s earlier online date as the basis for dating it. The 2021 context matters because the review describes protests in multiple countries, including Türkiye, amid tensions between the Israeli army and Muslims living in Jerusalem and events at Al-Aqsa during Ramadan. That history supports the distinction between the old footage and its later presentation as a current event; the supplied excerpt does not give further details about the video’s original uploader or the specific demonstration location.

Fact CrescendoWar & conflict

हमास आतंकी हमले के बाद,इजराइल का रौद्र रूप,इज़राइल ने ऑपरेशन आयरन स्वोर्ड्स शुरू किया इज़राइल ने तीसरे गाजा टॉवर को नष्ट कर दिया, फिलिस्तीनी आतंकवादियों को नष्ट कर रहा है गाजा हमास,इंडिया स्टैंड्स विथ इजराइल

Publisher’s rating: Missing Context

المشاهدWar & conflict

ثلاثة يمنيين قتلوا خلال مشاركتهم في المعارك الدائرة في قطاع غزة بفلسطين

Publisher’s rating: مضلل

The review examined posts claiming that photographs showed three Yemenis killed while taking part in fighting in Gaza. It traced each image and checked the claims about the people pictured. Its findings do not support the claim as stated: the three images did not establish that three Yemenis had been killed while participating in the fighting. For the first image, the review matched the picture to a profile photo posted months earlier by a man named محمد موسى, whose account said he lived in Gaza. It also found a Palestinian university student’s Facebook post on October 7 identifying him as a relative who had been killed. The review therefore described the man as Palestinian, not Yemeni. For the second image, it found that إبراهيم عدنان جراد had in fact been killed, but reported that he was born in Jenin, held Palestinian citizenship, and had Yemeni family origins; the article does not establish that he was killed while fighting. The third image was of أديب حسن فيصل أبو زيد, whom the review said was alive and in Yemen. The review’s conclusion is therefore more qualified than simply saying every detail about the three people was fabricated: one person was Palestinian, one was reported killed and had Yemeni ancestry but was Palestinian-born and a Palestinian citizen, and one was alive. Those findings contradict the viral description of three Yemenis killed while participating in the Gaza battles.