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By Srijit Das A video showing a massive crowd gathered on the streets is circulating on social media platforms with a false claim that it shows terrified Israelis gathering in Tel Aviv after the country was attacked by Iran. BOOM found that the video is from Argentina; we were able to geolocate the area outside a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Google Maps. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Israel on April 13, 2024, in response to an Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria's Damascus on April 1. President Joe Biden of the United States also condemned the 'unp...
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By Anmol Alphonso An old video of former US President Donald Trump attacking his political rival Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in a speech and quoting a 2012 post by the latter where she criticised Israel has been cropped and shared with a false claim that Trump is denouncing Israel over the current conflict in the region. BOOM found that the viral video has been taken from a 2019 campaign speech of Trump where he was actually quoting Omar and attacking her for condemning Israel, in one of her tweets from 2012, which now stands deleted. In the 11 second video, Trump can be heard saying, "May Allah ...
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By Anmol Alphonso A viral photo purporting to show United States President Joe Biden wearing a military uniform in a meeting with military officials, is AI-generated. The photo is being shared on social media claiming that it shows President Biden in a meeting to authorise US military action in the Middle East. Three US soldiers were killed in a drone attack on a US military outpost in Jordan on January 29, 2024. They were identified as Sgt. William Rivers, 46, of Carrollton, Georgia; Specialist Kennedy Sanders, 24, of Waycross, Georgia; and Specialist Breonna Moffett, 23, of Savannah, Georgia...
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By Hazel Gandhi Posts on social media claiming that Israel has declared a public holiday or national festival in the country on January 22 in lieu of the Ram temple inauguration in Ayodhya are false. BOOM found that the claims are false; we did not find any credible news reports or announcements from official sources that confirmed this. The long-awaited Ram temple is set to be inaugurated on January 22 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi was one of the first world leaders to speak in support of Israel when its war with Palestine first broke out on October 7, 2023, making it clear that India...
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By Srijit Das An old video of a truck attempting to ram into a group of protesters is circulating with false claims that it shows pro-Palestinian protesters being run over by a truck in the United States. BOOM found that the video dates back to 2020 and captures an incident where a truck driver collided with a crowd protesting against the death of George Floyd on Tulsa's Interstate 244 in US. According to recent news reports, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al Kaila alleged that the Israeli army used bulldozers to crush civilians near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza. The ongoing conf...
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By Anmol Alphonso Several official Israel X (formerly Twitter) handles and other pro-Israel accounts shared a CCTV footage and an unrelated video to falsely claim that Palestinian youth Mohammed Nazzal had not suffered any injures after being released from Israeli prison. Nazzal (18) was recently released from an Israel prison among several other Palestinian prisoners as part of a truce agreement between Israel and Hamas last week. BOOM found that the claims are false and Nazzal sustained fractures in both of his hands. The same was also independently verified by Arabic fact-checking website M...
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By Anmol Alphonso A post has gone viral on social media falsely claiming that Qatar announced the cancellation of the death sentence recently awarded to eight Indian nationals including former navy officials by a Qatari court. BOOM found that the case is still ongoing and Qatar has not released any official statement on cancellation of the death sentence. A court in Qatar had awarded the death penalty to eight Indians including seven retired naval officers and a sailor on October 26, 2023. The Indian nationals, who worked with private company Al Dahra, were arrested in August last year reporte...
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By Anmol Alphonso Two videos of a Palestinian woman cradling and grieving over the dead body of her five-month-old baby, who died in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza is being shared with a false claim that it is not a human baby but a plastic doll. Several verified X (formerly Twitter) handles and Israeli news outlet Jerusalem Post amplified the false claim that the woman is grieving over a plastic doll resembling a baby. BOOM found that the videos show the dead body of a five-month-old baby Muhammad Hani Al-Zahar who was killed after Israeli airstrikes in Deir Al-Balah in the Gaza strip. Israel r...
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By Shrey Banerjee An old image of a Norwegian cargo ship in flames and a cloud of smoke engulfing it is circulating on social media with false claims that an Israeli billionaire's ship was hit by a drone in the Indian Ocean. BOOM found that the image is from 2019 when a Norwegian-owned oil tanker was attacked in the Gulf of Oman allegedly by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The image has been shared with the caption, "An ISRAELI BILLIONAIRE'S cargo ship was just hit by a drone in the Indian Ocean." The post can be viewed here. An archive of the post can be seen here. According toreports, the US Na...
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