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Deutsche Presse-AgenturWar & conflict

Hochhaus mit Medienbüros im Gazastreifen wurde gesprengt und nicht von israelischer Luftwaffe zerstört

Publisher’s rating: Die Behauptung entbehrt jeder Grundlage. Es gibt zahlreiche Medienberichte über die Zerstörung des Hochhauses im Zuge eines Angriffs der israelischen Luftwaffe. Das israelische Militär und Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu haben den Angriff zudem bestätigt und ihr Vorgehen verteidigt.

The claim concerned the destruction of a Gaza high-rise housing media offices during the escalation that followed May 10, 2021. It alleged that the building had been deliberately demolished and that reports describing an airstrike were misleading. The review identifies the building as one that housed offices of the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, and says it was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on May 15, 2021. The review cites reporting by multiple media outlets and notes that the Israeli military confirmed the attack on Twitter. It also reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the action, saying the building contained a Hamas intelligence office and that occupants had been warned. These statements are presented as the Israeli government’s explanation, not as independently established facts about what was inside the building. The review’s account of the specific demolition allegation focuses on the video circulating with the claim. It says the video showed a Tagesschau segment reporting on the attack, while social-media posts asserted that an explosion was a controlled demolition rather than an airstrike. The review reports that videos of the incident showed missiles shortly before the building exploded, and says the posts offered no evidence for the demolition allegation. That evidence supports the review’s conclusion that the circulating video did not substantiate the claim.

Vishvas NewsWar & conflict

ইয়াৰ শীৰ্ষত আছে পেলেষ্টাইনী সন্ত্ৰাসবাদী গোট হামাছৰ ইংৰাজীত কৰা এটা টুইট, য’ত তেওঁক জিঅ’নিষ্টসকলৰ বিৰুদ্ধে যুঁজিবলৈ ৫ খন ৰাফেল জেট দাবী কৰা দেখা গৈছে, আনহাতে টুইটটোত অভিনেত্ৰী স্বৰা ভাস্কৰৰ উত্তৰ দেখুওৱা হৈছে, য’ত তেওঁ সহানুভূতি প্ৰকাশ কৰি কয় যে চনু ছুদ হৈছে মানৱতাৰ বাবে বাকী থকা শেষ আশা।

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

Fact Crescendo Sri LankaWar & conflict

FACT CHECK: වර්තමාන ඊශ්‍රායල – පලස්තීන ගැටුම්කාරී තත්ත්වය පෙන්වන වීඩියෝවක්ද?

Publisher’s rating: Partly False

The review assessed a social-media video captioned as showing the Israel–Palestine conflict. Its opening seconds showed a large number of rockets being launched; the longer, 3-minute-40-second clip then included footage from different settings. The fact-check’s conclusion is limited to that opening segment, rather than treating every scene in the compilation as having the same provenance. 【S1】 To investigate the rocket footage, the publisher says it took frames from the video and ran a reverse-image search. It found that the same short sequence had circulated for years with different descriptions. The review cites earlier uses purporting to show military conditions in Iran in 2019, and Oman and Qatar in 2018. 【S1】 The publisher says it could not establish with certainty which country or year the rocket footage originally depicted. But its finding that the sequence had already been used at least three years earlier to represent military situations in different countries undermined the claim that this opening footage showed the then-current Gaza conflict. The review separately notes that much of the footage after the opening sequence appeared likely to relate to the contemporary conflict, including images of Israel’s Iron Dome intercepting rockets. Thus, its finding concerns the misleading attribution of the opening segment, not necessarily the whole video. 【S1】