Questions tagged [2023-israel-hamas-war]
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Did Netanyahu express support of Hamas in 2019?
When discussing the ongoing Israel/Hamas war, the following quotes occasionally come up.
Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and ...
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Did Netanyahu say "We will turn Gaza into a deserted island" in early October 2023?
According to a October 7, 2023 Al-Jazeera article, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said:
“We will take mighty vengeance for this black day,” the Israeli leader said in a televised address. “...
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Did Hamas dig up EU-funded water pipes and turn them into rockets?
A recurring narrative/allegation in debates about the current Hamas/Israel conflict is that Hamas has dug up EU steel pipes and turned them into Qassam rockets. The main sources for this appear to be ...
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Were babies found with their heads decapitated in Israel after the Hamas attack?
According to this tweet by CNN,
The Israel Prime Minister spokesman just confirmed babies and toddlers were found with their "heads decapitated" in Kfar Aza in southern Israel after Hamas ...
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Is there "video evidence that [Palestinians] deliberately avoided targeting women and children" during the Oct 7 attacks on Israel? [closed]
Forward, an American Jewish newspaper, reports that Queens College, City of New York University had a Muslim student group posting Instagram stories defending Palestinian/Hamas attacks on Israel on ...
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Does this clip show Israeli Apache helicopters shooting their own citizens on Oct 7?
A Tweet in French with some 200K+ views (and some thousands of likes/retweets) claims
Des images inédites ont fuité où ont voit des hélicoptères israéliens Apache bombarder ces propres concitoyens ...
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Is this footage of pro-Palestinian protesters in Algeria recent?
The Persian-language newspaper, Ettelat published a story a few days ago claiming the Algerian parliament has ratified a bill to allow the president to use military action against Israel. This appears ...
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Did Hamas bake a baby to death in an oven?
A new report has emerged of Hamas baking a baby in an oven. [NSFL images at link] (Video of the Eli Beer speech referenced in the Tweet embedded in that previous article.) This has also, of course, ...
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Has Hamas historically used protected civilian infrastructure as shields?
Whether al-Shifa hospital etc. host Hamas weapons and tunnels is under current dispute (although the videos of the under-hospital facilities keep pouring in).
However these are not new claims by the ...
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Did Hamas kill Israeli babies during the October 7 2023 attacks on Israel?
In another question, the topic of whether babies were beheaded in the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel is addressed.
Putting aside the specific claims of beheadings, allegedly some accounts are ...
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Did Hamas release a video of a doll "accidentally" masquerading as a dead child in Gaza?
The Twitter account of Israel (MFA) has [archive link, the original tweet was deleted] this slightly odd claim:
Hamas accidentally posted a video of a doll (yes a doll) suggesting that it was a part ...
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Did Israel allow newborn babies to starve to death in their cribs when they seized al-Nasr Hospital in 2023? [closed]
On November 10, 2023, Israel seized Al-Nasr Hospital in Gaza City and ordered all doctors and staff to leave. (According to an ICRC statement, the Red Cross had no part in the evacuation.)
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Did “thousands of Gazan citizens” join the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel?
One of the survivors of the Hamas music festival attack on the 7th of October 2023 has claimed the following:
When I say “terrorist”, I am including not only Hamas but also the thousands of Gazan ...
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Were some of the hostages taken by Hamas killed in cross-fire by Israeli forces?
In this widely watched interview with Middle East Eye, Yasmin Porat describes being kidnapped from a kibbutz by Hamas (translation provided by Middle East Eye):
Yasmin Porat: We shouted at that point ...
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Did a soldier who confirmed babies decapitated by Hamas previously call for "wiping out entire Palestinian villages"?
According to Anandolu Agensi [Oct, 12]:
To this day, only one soldier has said he saw babies were beheaded. David Ben Zion of Unit 71, an extremist settler who earlier this year called for “wiping ...
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Does Hamas have remote-controlled covers for their underground rocket firing pits?
NHK:
Roskin also said Hamas is capable of storing and shooting rockets and mortars from the underground, and there are underground holes that are concealed with remote-controlled covers.
I've seen ...
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Was the "cardiac ward building" of Al-Shifa hospital "completely destroyed" (by an airstrike) Sunday, Nov 12?
Something like this should be verifiable even with the current level of the fog of war, if not with respect to the exact date, at least whether the building is still around (from satellite photos etc.)...
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Did Russian instructors help Hamas in the 2023 attacks against Israel?
Gulag.net, a Russian anti-establishment website, posted a video "Прикрывайте!Прикрывайте!" Среди нападавших на Израиль были русскоговорящие инструкторы. ЧВК Вагнер?, which translates to '&...
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Did the Arabic IDF page on Facebook say "it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death"?
From Lowkey,
The translation reads,
Due to the lack of medical equipment and the lack of a medical staff, it was decided to bomb the Baptist Hospital in Gaza and give them euthanasia death
Was this ...
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Did the family of Osama Abu Essa, a Bedouin man killed by Hamas, offer a $1m reward for his killers?
There's this story circulating on Reddit about a family of an Israeli Arab killed by Hamas on the 7th of October placing a bounty for information about his killers.
Mako, an Israeli online news ...
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Did Israel replace a puppy with burned babies in a photo?
This is a more direct claim than what's been asked in another Q about "murdered babies".
A (Singaporean, I think) website called "Defense Politics Asia" claims (also on their ...
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Was Danielle Aloni’s letter to Hamas voluntary or coerced? [closed]
Danielle Aloni is one of the more than 200 Israeli hostages who were captured by Hamas during their attack on October 7, 2023. She and her daughter Emilia were released on November 24, 2023, as part ...
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Does an Al Jazeera video suggest that a rocket caused the Ahli hospital explosion?
Video shows rocket fired from Gaza make sharp turn back before blast seen at hospital (CNN):
Video from Al Jazeera appears to show a rocket fired from Gaza make a sudden turn moments before a deadly ...
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Is Hamas trying to destroy Israel? [closed]
There seems to be continued confusion about the actual goals of the Hamas movement and the motivations for the butchery of Oct. 7th.
The UN Secretary General implied the motivation was decades of ...
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Is "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free" a call for genocide? [closed]
A chant at many pro-Palestinian rallies is "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free."
Many claim this is a call for wiping out the current Jewish population of Israel residing ...
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Were the weapons shown in Gaza hospitals really left there by Hamas? [closed]
The IDF has released videos of weapons they claim were left in Gaza hospitals Rantisi and al-Shifa by Hamas members, to prove Hamas used these protected institutions for military purposes, rendering ...
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Did Israeli forces shoot their own civilians during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7th, 2023?
On October 7th, 2023, a series of coordinated attacks by Hamas militants took place in several locations across Israel, resulting in hundreds of casualties and dozens of hostages taken to Gaza. The ...
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Was Israa Jaabis tortured or subjected to mutilation?
A video (graphicy content and heartbreaking) was posted on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter) showing a Palestinian woman who freed in the recent Hamas-Israel prisoner exchange. The user (and ...
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Is it true that women's rights organizations completely ignore the plight of Israeli women targeted by Hamas?
According to this source
as Hamas targeted Israeli women and children for slaughter and abduction in their war against Israel, there has been near silence from international human rights and women’s ...
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Were most of the people killed by Hamas on October 7 Israeli soldiers (at some point)?
In this clip by Richard Medhurst he says,
Israel published a list of 1,400 causalities killed on October 7th and it turns out most of them are soldiers. Their ranks are listed right along side their ...
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