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With the death toll in Gaza surpassing 40,000 after 10 months of war, the small, densely packed territory is crammed with bodies

Members or supporters of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, identified by the Texas Observer and Bellingcat, appear to have perpetrated a possible hate crime at the location of a river tubing company.

On October 12, the official account of the state of Israel posted an image of a tiny, charred body, claiming that the image showed a baby killed by Hamas during the attacks carried out on October 7. In the hours after the image was posted, social media users began to…

False claims about the latest Israel-Hamas war are flooding social media, making it difficult for onlookers to sort fact from fiction

As the Israeli army bombards Gaza in retaliation for Hamas attacks on Saturday, October 7, many people online have been sharing a video claiming it shows the Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius destroyed. But the footage does not show the destruction of the oldest church in Gaza, and the organisation…

Many social media accounts are sharing a viral video claiming that "Israel warplanes bombed the Saint Porphyrios Orthodox Church in Gaza". But although the church is intact, according to this Facebook post, the air strikes that we see in the viral video did strike a densely populated area in Gaza,…

Case of footage from set of Palestinian film being repurposed to make false claims is far from one-off

Sergei Shoigu, Russian defence minister, has recently travelled to North Korea to try to convince them to sell ammunition, says White House

Kyiv says four cargo planes destroyed in city 500 miles from border with Ukraine