"You Crossed EVERY Moral Line!" Piers Morgan Vs Hamas + US-Iran War & Spain-Morocco Migration
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Claim 1
“President Trump says the US has delayed the biggest military attack since it nuked Japan after a direct request from a Saudi crown prince and from Iran itself.”
Trump said the United States delayed a planned attack on Iran after requests from Saudi Arabia and Iran, describing it as the biggest attack since World War II.
Trump did say he had postponed a planned attack after appeals from regional leaders and unnamed Iranian officials, and described it as the biggest attack since World War II. The transcript's wording is misleading because it changes the comparison and presents Iran's involvement as established despite Iranian denials.
Omits: The report substitutes "since it nuked Japan" for Trump's stated comparison, "since World War II," and does not mention that Trump also cited Qatar and the United Arab Emirates; Iranian officials disputed that Iran had asked him to hold off.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
Trump added that a plan was in place for U.S. forces to carry out "the biggest attack since World War II" on Sunday.
- 2Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
Trump suggested that his conversation with the Saudi crown prince weighed heavily in his decision to halt his plans to carry out strikes on Iran.
- 3Iran Immediately Calls BS on Trump's War Talks Vow↗
Background
Iran's acting Defense Minister Majid Ibn al-Reza said that Tehran still views all threats as "real and credible."
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
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Claim 2
“Once again, Trump says that they are close to securing a deal.”
Trump said that the United States and Iran were close to securing a deal.
Contemporaneous reporting states that Trump said negotiations with Iran were resuming and that the two sides were pursuing an agreement. This verifies that he made the claim, not that a final deal had actually been reached.
Sources
- 1Trump optimistic Iran talks will reopen strait, and other developments in the Middle East↗
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President Donald Trump said Monday that the two sides are resuming talks to wind down the war, even as Iranian officials claimed their diplomatic efforts were focused on neighboring nations.
- 1Trump optimistic Iran talks will reopen strait, and other developments in the Middle East↗
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Claim 3
“US and Israeli officials are being forced to deny extraordinary claims that they helped to plan a rush of 60,000 migrants into one of Spain's Moroccan exclaves.”
About 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco over a short period.
Spanish officials did report that roughly 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco. However, AP described the related claims that Trump and Israel encouraged or coordinated the crossing as conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated, so the framing is misleading.
Omits: The 60,000 figure concerns migrants who entered Ceuta, but the available fact-checking describes the claims that Trump and Israel helped plan the crossing as unsubstantiated; the transcript presents the conspiracy allegation without clearly distinguishing it from the verified migration figure.
Sources
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain's Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Supports
Some 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday and Friday, local Spanish officials have said, equivalent to 70% of the city's regular population.
- 2FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain's Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Refutes
The mass crossing has given birth to conspiracy theories online, including one take that sees Trump and Israel encouraging a friendly Morocco to let this happen as payback for Spain's position on immigration and its harsh criticism of their joint attack on Iran and the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain's Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
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Claim 4
“Trump's controversial border peace says it's reached a landmark deal for Hamas to disarm and for Israel to leave Gaza.”
Trump announced a landmark Gaza deal under which Hamas would disarm and Israel would leave Gaza.
Trump did announce a deal calling for Hamas's complete disarmament and an Israeli withdrawal. Calling it an achieved landmark deal overstates the status because reporting described unresolved implementation questions and uncertainty about the parties' formal acceptance.
Omits: The announcement concerned an agreement or plan whose implementation and acceptance remained uncertain; reporting said the details were limited and that Israeli and Hamas officials had not publicly acknowledged the arrangement in the same terms.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Read the full text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza↗
Supports
President Donald Trump announced a deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza.
- 2Trump claims Hamas has agreed to disarm↗
Background
Details on the deal remain limited, but Trump said it was brokered by the international Board of Peace, which he established earlier this year to oversee the Gaza peace plan.
- 3Trump’s Announcement of Gaza Deal Raises Many Unanswered Questions↗
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The White House and President Trump's Board of Peace believe Hamas could sign an agreement in the coming days to disarm and demilitarize the Gaza Strip, four sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.
- 1Read the full text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza↗
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Claim 5
“There's been no official word from Israel, which carried out intensive strikes in Gaza this weekend.”
Israel had not officially commented on the announced Gaza deal at that time.
Contemporaneous reporting said Israel had not publicly issued a statement acknowledging the announcement, while Israeli forces were continuing military operations in Gaza. The claim is limited to the absence of an official Israeli statement at that time.
Sources
- 1Trump’s Announcement of Gaza Deal Raises Many Unanswered Questions↗
Supports
Israel has yet to comment publicly, with US officials saying that Trump would be “very disappointed” if Israeli forces do not withdraw from Gaza.
- 2Read the full text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza↗
Background
President Donald Trump announced a deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from Gaza.
- 1Trump’s Announcement of Gaza Deal Raises Many Unanswered Questions↗
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Claim 6
“People are killed every day. People are exterminated every day in Gaza.”
People in Gaza were being killed every day.
The speaker's first sentence is supported by repeated reporting of continuing deaths in Gaza during the war. The wording "exterminated" is a characterization, but the underlying assertion that people were being killed daily is factual.
The checker returned Accurate but could not show evidence for that verdict, so this is recorded as unverifiable.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Explainer-Does the Gaza deal mean the two-year-old war is over?↗
Background
The ceasefire agreement and hostage deal aimed to bring immediate relief to the devastated, starving population of Gaza in the form of a halt in fighting and a rush of humanitarian aid.
- 2Board of Peace envoy meets with Netanyahu on Gaza disarmament deal and urges a halt to strikes↗
Background
The Board of Peace official overseeing Gaza's postwar transition met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement, in part to discuss a new disarmament deal the board had reached with the militant Hamas group.
- 1Explainer-Does the Gaza deal mean the two-year-old war is over?↗
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Claim 7
“from mass killing from massacres from genocide”
The Gaza war involved genocide.
The existence of mass civilian killing and grave violations in Gaza is extensively documented, but whether those facts legally satisfy the definition of genocide is disputed by credible institutions. The claim therefore falls under the specified contested category.
The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.
Sources
- 1Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza↗
Supports
Amnesty International’s report concludes that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
- 2Israel rejects Amnesty genocide accusation↗
Refutes
Israel rejected Amnesty International's accusation that it is committing genocide in Gaza, calling the report false and based on lies.
- 1Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza↗
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Claim 8
“settlements in the West Bank confiscation of lands”
Israeli settlements and land confiscation have affected Palestinians in the West Bank.
UN and other international bodies document Israeli settlement expansion and associated confiscation or seizure of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Sources
- 1UN Security Council press release on Israeli settlements↗
Supports
Condemning all measures aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, including, inter alia, the construction and expansion of settlements, transfer of Israeli settlers, confiscation of land, demolition of homes and displacement of Palestinian civilians
- 2UN Human Rights Office report on discriminatory administration of the occupied West Bank↗
Supports
Palestinians continue to be subjected to large-scale confiscation of land and deprivation of access to resources.
- 1UN Security Council press release on Israeli settlements↗
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Claim 9
“They killed more than 30 people citizen children and women”
Israeli forces killed more than 30 civilians, including children and women, after Hamas accepted an agreement.
The transcript does not identify the date, agreement, incident, or source for this “yesterday” claim. Without the recording date and a specific event, the reported number and causal connection cannot be reliably checked.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 10
“Israel is a state of occupation, state of uh uh extermination, a state of genocide, a state of racism, apartide.”
Israel is a state of occupation, extermination, genocide, racism and apartheid.
The occupation characterization is supported by the ICRC and UN institutions, while the genocide and apartheid labels are the subject of formal, unresolved disputes. The ICJ's provisional-measures decisions were not final merits findings on genocide.
The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.
Sources
- 1International Committee of the Red Cross: IHL on the Occupied Palestinian territory↗
Supports
The ICRC's official position is that the West Bank has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
- 2UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide↗
Supports
Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry ... and presents a summary of the Commission's findings on the crime of genocide
- 3International Court of Justice, Order of 26 January 2024↗
Background
The Court may indicate provisional measures only if the provisions relied on by the applicant appear, prima facie, to afford a basis on which its jurisdiction could be founded, but it need not satisfy itself in a definitive manner that it has jurisdiction as regards the merits of the case
- 4International Court of Justice, Order of 26 January 2024↗
Refutes
The accusation of genocide against Israel is not only wholly unfounded as a matter of fact and law, it is morally repugnant
- 1International Committee of the Red Cross: IHL on the Occupied Palestinian territory↗
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Claim 11
“you went on camera uh publicly and said we will do this again and again and again and said you were wedded to annihilating Israel.”
A Hamas official publicly said the October 7 attack would be repeated and Israel should be annihilated.
Hamas Political Bureau member Ghazi Hamad said in an October 2023 television interview that the attack would be repeated and that Israel should be removed or destroyed. The transcript's attribution is therefore substantially accurate, although it does not name Hamad.
Sources
- 1Sky News Australia: Hamas official threatens to repeat October 7 attacks until Israel is annihilated↗
Supports
A Hamas official has threatened to replicate the October 7 terror attacks on Israel "again and again" and with "full force" until the country is destroyed.
- 2UN Human Rights Office report on the October 7 attack and subsequent conflict↗
Supports
We must teach Israel a lesson, and we willdo this again and again.
- 1Sky News Australia: Hamas official threatens to repeat October 7 attacks until Israel is annihilated↗
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Claim 12
“after October the 7th, one of the worst terrorist attacks of modern times”
The October 7 attack was one of the worst terrorist attacks of modern times.
The October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack killed around 1,200 people and involved 251 hostages, but “one of the worst terrorist attacks of modern times” is an undefined comparative ranking rather than a precisely testable standard.
The intensifier “one of the worst” is judged as stated; “worst” lacks an agreed comparison set and threshold, so the ranking cannot be objectively confirmed.
Sources
- 1Associated Press report on the Israel-Hamas war↗
Background
The war in Gaza began after the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killed around 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
- 1Associated Press report on the Israel-Hamas war↗
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Claim 13
“What do you expect for from Palestinian people under occupation for 80 years?”
Palestinians have been under occupation for 80 years.
The 80-year figure may describe the period since the 1948 war or the broader Palestinian displacement and conflict, but it is false as stated because Israeli occupation of the territories generally identified as occupied began in 1967.
Sources
- 1International Committee of the Red Cross: IHL on the Occupying Power's responsibilities in the Occupied Palestinian territory↗
Refutes
The ICRC's official position is that the West Bank has been occupied by Israel since 1967.
- 2U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian: The Oslo Accords↗
Background
On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.
- 1International Committee of the Red Cross: IHL on the Occupying Power's responsibilities in the Occupied Palestinian territory↗
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Claim 14
“the Palestinian people, Palestinian organization, PLO, they try to find a solution peace process with Israel”
The PLO tried to pursue a peace process with Israel.
The PLO entered the Oslo peace process, recognized Israel and negotiated interim self-government arrangements with Israel beginning in 1993.
Sources
- 1U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian: The Oslo Accords↗
Supports
Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO renounced terrorism and recognized Israel’s right to exist in peace.
- 1U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian: The Oslo Accords↗
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Claim 15
“you yourself said publicly that you wanted Hamas to keep doing an October the 7th style attack again and again and again”
The interviewee had publicly said he wanted Hamas to carry out October 7-style attacks repeatedly.
The transcript provides no source, date, or exact quotation for the alleged public statement, and the available evidence reviewed here does not establish whether he made this statement or what its full context was.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 16
“You had 3,000 members of your organization, Hamas, pour over the Israeli border”
About 3,000 Hamas members crossed the Israeli border during the October 7 attack.
The figure of 3,000 appears in reporting about Hamas’s planned force, while the UN’s investigation describes more than 1,000 armed-group members actually launching the attack, alongside civilians and multiple armed groups. Presenting 3,000 as confirmed Hamas members who crossed the border overstates what the cited evidence establishes.
Omits: The UN Commission of Inquiry describes an attack by more than 1,000 Hamas and other Palestinian armed-group members, accompanied by Palestinian civilians; separate reporting referred to a planned deployment of about 3,000 Hamas fighters, not necessarily 3,000 people who crossed the border.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
On 7 October, a coordinated attack by more than 1,000 members of Hamas military wing and other Palestinian armed groups, accompanied by Palestinian civilians, was launched against Israeli civilian targets and military bases in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Background
According to reports, Hamas military wing planned to deploy 3,000 militants to the field and have another 1,500 fighters for reinforcement and support.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 17
“commit a series of despicable crimes in which you massacred innocent civilians uh all over uh Israel”
Hamas and allied Palestinian armed groups massacred civilians in attacks across southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The UN Commission found that Hamas, other Palestinian armed groups, and Palestinian civilians attacked civilian targets in at least 24 localities and public spaces in southern Israel. The underlying claim of widespread civilian killings is supported, but “all over Israel” gives a geographically broader impression than the evidence supports.
Omits: The attacks were concentrated in southern Israel and near the Gaza border, rather than occurring throughout Israel as the phrase “all over Israel” suggests.
The intensifier “all over Israel” was judged; the narrower claim that civilians were massacred in multiple locations in southern Israel is supported.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
Hamas military wing, other Palestinian armed groups and civilians attacked distinct civilian targets in at least 24 localities, as well as public spaces and outdoor festivals.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Background
On 7 October, a coordinated attack by more than 1,000 members of Hamas military wing and other Palestinian armed groups, accompanied by Palestinian civilians, was launched against Israeli civilian targets and military bases in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 18
“You then captured over 250 of them, including Holocaust survivors and a baby”
More than 250 people, including Holocaust survivors and a baby, were taken hostage by Hamas and its allies on October 7, 2023.
UN reporting records 251 people abducted to Gaza on October 7, including older people, and Israeli official reporting identifies Holocaust survivors and infants among the victims and hostages. The speaker’s “over 250” is consistent with the documented total.
Sources
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
Supports
On 7 October 2023, a total of 251 people (226 civilians and 25 members of the Israeli security forces) were abducted in Israel and taken to Gaza as hostages.
- 2Two years since October 7, 2023↗
Supports
Hamas terrorists started this war by murdering over 1,200 people - babies, children, women, men, even Holocaust survivors - in a brutal massacre.That day, 251 people were taken hostage by Palestinian Hamas and held in Gaza.
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
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Claim 19
“Hamas deliberately massacred people at a music festival. Hundreds of young people enjoyed a music festival. That is a war crime.”
Hamas deliberately massacred hundreds of civilians at the Nova music festival, and this constituted a war crime.
The UN Commission found that 364 attendees at the Nova festival were killed by Hamas’s military wing and other Palestinian armed groups and concluded that members of those groups committed war crimes during the October 7 attack. The wording “hundreds” is supported.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
Of 3,000 young people at the Nova music festival in Re’im, 364 attendees (including 215 men and 136 women) were killed by members of the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, while around 40 others were abducted to Gaza.
- 2Six-month update report on the human rights situation in Gaza↗
Supports
Palestinian armed groups had committed serious violations of international law on a wide scale, including attacks directed against civilians, killing and mistreatment of civilians, destruction of civilian objects, and taking of hostages, which amount to war crimes.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 20
“You burned people alive in their homes.”
Hamas and allied attackers burned civilians or homes during the October 7 attack.
The UN Commission documented attackers setting homes on fire and reported burning and other mutilation of corpses. UN reporting also verified that an Israeli child was killed by burning during the October 7 attacks.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
militants systematically moved from house to house setting homes on fire, shooting into private and public shelters, and removing people from hiding places, killing, injuring and abducting civilians to Gaza.
- 2Children and armed conflict, Report of the Secretary-General covering the period from January to December 2023↗
Supports
The United Nations verified that 43 Israeli children (29 boys, 14 girls) had been killed in Israel (37) during acts of terror on 7 October (live ammunition (27), crossfire (2), burned (1) and by rockets (7))
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 21
“how hundred thousands of Palestinians since 1948 civilians women and children were killed by days of forces”
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians, women, and children have been killed by Israeli forces since 1948.
No authoritative, comprehensive casualty series was found that establishes the exact broad claim as stated, including the period since 1948, civilians and combatants, women and children, and deaths specifically attributable to Israeli forces. Available sources document very large Palestinian losses in particular wars and periods, but do not substantiate this aggregate figure with the stated scope.
Sources
- 1Casualties - Thousands killed in conflict-related incidents↗
Background
These figures bring the Palestinian death toll by Israeli forces during the decade to 3,601 throughout the OPT.
- 2From 1937 to 2024: How Zionists and the IDF have always killed civilians↗
Background
- 1Casualties - Thousands killed in conflict-related incidents↗
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Claim 22
“nobody in Hamas committed any crimes on October the 7th is just a brazen lie.”
No Hamas members committed crimes on October 7.
A UN commission found reasonable grounds that Hamas’s military wing and other Palestinian armed groups committed multiple war crimes on October 7, including intentional killings, torture, cruel treatment, and hostage-taking.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Background
The Commission finds that these actions were taken as collective punishment against the Palestinians in Gaza and are part of the ongoing Israeli attack against the Palestinian people that began on 7 October.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
the Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that members of the military wings of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups, as well as Palestinian civilians who were directly participating in the hostilities, deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages and committed SGBV
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 23
“your terrorists poured over the border and slaughtered hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of innocent civilians and capt and captured and captured many more.”
Hamas and allied attackers killed hundreds of civilians and captured many more people on October 7.
The October 7 attack killed more than a thousand people in Israel, including hundreds of civilians, and Palestinian armed groups took more than 200 hostages. The wording does not specify that all perpetrators were Hamas alone, but its substantive numerical assertion is supported.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
members of the military wings of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups ... deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages
- 2United Nations report on hostages and missing persons↗
Supports
On 7 October 2023, a total of 251 people (226 civilians and 25 members of the ...
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 24
“I think we did him very very kind with them. We feed them. We give him all kinds of of of protection and shelter.”
Hamas generally treated Israeli hostages kindly by feeding and sheltering them.
Some released hostages reported receiving food or medical care, but the UN Commission of Inquiry found that Hamas and allied groups committed torture and cruel or inhuman treatment against hostages. Presenting the treatment as broadly kind and protective creates a misleading impression.
Omits: The statement omits documented findings that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups subjected hostages to torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, and sexual violence; it also generalizes from an asserted level of care to all hostages.
Sources
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
Refutes
Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, rape and sexual violence and have violated the customary international humanitarian law prohibition on enforced disappearance.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages and committed SGBV
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
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Claim 25
“our prisoners now more than seven or 9 thousands now every day they are exposed to the tortures and exposed to the humiliation”
More than 7,000 or 9,000 Palestinian prisoners were being exposed daily to torture and humiliation.
Contemporary reporting placed the number of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in the several-thousand to roughly 9,000 range, and UN reporting documented torture and mistreatment. However, the evidence does not support the universal daily claim about all prisoners.
Omits: The statement treats the entire prisoner population as being tortured every day, whereas the available evidence documents serious abuse and torture of detainees but does not establish that every one of more than 7,000 or 9,000 prisoners experienced torture daily.
Sources
- 1UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment↗
Supports
Since 7 October, thousands of Palestinians – including medical staff, patients and residents fleeing the conflict, as well as captured fighters – have been taken from Gaza to Israel, usually shackled and blindfolded.
- 2Palestinian prisoners describe systemic abuse in Israel’s jails↗
Supports
Intense waves of arrests in the aftermath of the Hamas attack mean that prisoner numbers soared to 9,623 as of early July.
- 3At least 75 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since 7 October 2023↗
Supports
We have documented the systematic torture and ill-treatment to which Israel has subjected Palestinian prisoners
- 1UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment↗
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Claim 26
“about 1,400 people were killed you can see 80% of the are civilians women and children”
About 1,400 people were killed after the referenced agreement, and 80% were civilians, women, and children.
The agreement is transcribed as “Shashik,” which is not sufficiently identifiable, and the statement does not define the time period, location, or source for the 1,400 deaths and 80% figure. Without those terms, the claim cannot be reliably tested as stated.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 27
“more than 80 according to aesthetics and the subject of the international organization more than 90% of people are civilians.”
More than 80% or 90% of people killed in the war were civilians.
The transcript is unclear about whether the percentages refer to people killed, Gaza’s population, or another denominator, and it does not identify the cited statistics or international organization. The undefined denominator and conflicting 80%/90% figures prevent verification.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 28
“the fact that 75 80% of Gaza is pretty well uninhabitable is a disgrace.”
Seventy-five to eighty percent of Gaza was uninhabitable.
UN and humanitarian sources described Gaza as becoming uninhabitable and documented extensive destruction, including nearly 80% damage in some areas. But “75–80% of Gaza” and “uninhabitable” lack a clearly defined measurement in the cited statement, so the precise claim cannot be confirmed.
The intensifier “pretty well” was judged as part of the claim; sources describe Gaza as uninhabitable or document extensive destruction, but do not establish that exactly 75–80% of Gaza met that undefined condition.
Sources
- 1Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water↗
Supports
On January 5, 2024, Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, stated “Gaza has simply become uninhabitable.”
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
the Gaza Strip and Khan Younis virtually uninhabitable.
- 1Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water↗
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Claim 29
“We never as Hamas we never use our power and our capability against Europeans against Christians against Jews against Western people.”
Hamas did not use its power against Europeans, Christians, Jews, or Western people.
The claim uses an absolute 'never.' UN and U.S. government reporting document Hamas-led attacks against Israeli and foreign civilians, including nationals from multiple countries, so the assertion is false.
Sources
- 1Country Report on Terrorism 2023 - Israel↗
Refutes
Terrorists killed men, women, children, babies, and elderly people; raped, sexually assaulted, and mutilated women and men; and took hostage 253 Israeli and foreign citizens.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
In kibbutz Alumim, 19 Thai and Nepalese nationals were killed by militants on 7 October, out of 41 foreign workers and agricultural exchange students living in the kibbutz.
- 1Country Report on Terrorism 2023 - Israel↗
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Claim 30
“We are fighting against occupation and it is our right according to United Nation resolution according to the international community according to all kinds of regulations and laws. It is our fight against to to to end this this h this monastery this occupation. We want to end it. No one help us to do that. So I think we have to use everything”
International law and UN resolutions give Hamas a right to use everything in its fight against occupation.
International law may address peoples' political status and occupation, but it does not grant an unlimited right to use 'everything.' The ICRC states that the laws of war apply to all parties and prohibit attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks, and hostage-taking.
Omits: The statement omits that international humanitarian law prohibits attacks directed against civilians, indiscriminate attacks, terrorizing civilians, and hostage-taking, regardless of the asserted cause or existence of occupation.
Sources
- 1Conduct of hostilities and protection of civilians↗
Refutes
Key principles include distinction (between military and civilian targets), proportionality (matching means to objectives) and bans on indiscriminate attacks, terrorizing civilians, hostage-taking and human shields.
- 2Occupation and international humanitarian law: Questions and answers↗
Refutes
The taking of hostages is prohibited.
- 1Conduct of hostilities and protection of civilians↗
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Claim 31
“we never cross the lines of morality and humanity and laws in our conflict against”
Hamas never crossed moral, humanitarian, or legal lines in its conflict.
The universal claim is contradicted by documented findings from the UN Commission of Inquiry. The Commission identified multiple Hamas-led acts as war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law.
Sources
- 1Israeli authorities, Palestinian armed groups are responsible for war crimes, other grave violations of international law, UN Inquiry finds↗
Refutes
In relation to the attack of 7 October in Israel, the report found that the military wing of Hamas and six other Palestinian armed groups, are responsible for the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, destroying or seizing the property of an adversary, outrages upon personal dignity, and taking hostages, including children.
- 1Israeli authorities, Palestinian armed groups are responsible for war crimes, other grave violations of international law, UN Inquiry finds↗
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Claim 32
“On October the 7th, the actions the actions of Hamas on October the 7th crossed every single moral, ethical and humanity line. Your people committed acts of utter barbarism against innocent Israelis.”
Hamas-led attackers committed acts of barbarism against innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023.
Although 'barbarism' is rhetorical language, the underlying factual assertion that Hamas-led attackers committed grave abuses against Israeli civilians is supported by the UN Commission, which found intentional attacks on civilians, murder, torture, and hostage-taking.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
The Commission found that the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare; murder or wilful killing; intentionally directing attacks against civilians and civilian objects; forcible transfer; sexual violence; outrages upon personal dignity; and SGBV amounting to torture or inhuman and cruel treatment were committed.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 33
“your Hamas terrorists, your people, they deliberately posted videos of their of themselves committing their atrocities in real time.”
Hamas terrorists deliberately posted videos of themselves committing atrocities in real time on October 7, 2023.
Contemporaneous reporting and digital investigations documented Hamas-linked channels broadcasting or posting attacker-recorded footage during the October 7 assault. The available evidence supports the core claim, though not every video circulating that day can be attributed to Hamas itself.
Sources
- 1How Telegram Became a Terrifying Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War↗
Supports
Benjakob, who viewed scores of violent videos released by Hamas on Telegram on October 7, spent the rest of the morning trying to ground himself in his local community.
- 2Distortion by design↗
Supports
On October 7, at 7:14 a.m. local time, Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades used its Telegram channel to announce the beginning of a coordinated terror attack against Israel.
- 3Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified↗
Supports
The Digital Investigations Lab used this information, analyzing satellite imagery and open source data as well as the shadows in each video, to verify the location and timing.
- 1How Telegram Became a Terrifying Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War↗
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Claim 34
“We have no instruction to do that. We never planned to take civilian.”
The speaker said Hamas had no instruction to kidnap civilians and never planned to take civilians.
The UN Commission concluded that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups deliberately killed, injured, mistreated and took civilians hostage. That finding contradicts the categorical assertion that there was no instruction or plan involving civilians.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
In relation to the attack of 7 October in Israel, the Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that members of the military wings of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups, as well as Palestinian civilians who were directly participating in the hostilities, deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages and committed SGBV against: civilians, including Israeli citizens and foreign nationals; and members of the ISF, including soldiers considered hors de combat, in many locations in southern Israel.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 35
“We are ready to free all civilians all civilians in the beginning of war but Israel refused that”
Hamas proposed releasing all civilian hostages at the beginning of the war, but Israel refused.
There were public Hamas claims about releasing some hostages and later statements expressing willingness to release civilian hostages under conditions, but the specific assertion that Hamas offered all civilians at the beginning of the war and that Israel refused that exact offer is not established by the cited evidence.
Sources
- 1Hamas says Israel refused to receive 2 hostages; Israel calls it propaganda↗
Background
Hamas said it offered to release two Israelis captured during its deadly raid but Israel’s government refused to take them.
- 2Hamas expresses willingness to release some captive women and children↗
Background
A senior Hamas official told NBC News that the group is willing to immediately release all civilian hostages — foreign and Israeli — if Israel stops its airstrikes on Gaza.
- 1Hamas says Israel refused to receive 2 hostages; Israel calls it propaganda↗
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Claim 36
“Our goal in this war or in seven October is to uh what's called to to lift the siege on Gaza to take soldiers hostage. That's right. In order to free about 6,000 Palestinians”
The stated goal of the October 7 attack was to lift the siege and take soldiers hostage in order to free about 6,000 Palestinian prisoners.
Hamas publicly framed hostage-taking as a means of securing Palestinian-prisoner releases, but this statement makes a specific claim about the operational goal of October 7 and an approximate figure of 6,000 prisoners. The available investigations establish that both soldiers and civilians were abducted, but do not conclusively verify that the operation's goal was limited to soldiers or that the number was specifically about 6,000.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
Background
On 7 October 2023, a total of 251 people (226 civilians and 25 members of the Israeli security forces) were abducted in Israel and taken to Gaza as hostages.
- 1Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
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Claim 37
“along the the history of Hamas, we never used terrorist against anyone.”
Hamas has never used terrorism against anyone.
Regardless of disputes over the legal label 'terrorism,' Hamas's record includes deliberate attacks on civilians and hostage-taking. The October 7 attack alone falsifies the absolute claim that Hamas has never used terrorism against anyone.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
The Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, and taking hostages.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 38
“There is no one evidence that Hamas is using or committing crimes against civilians.”
There is no evidence that Hamas committed crimes against civilians.
This categorical claim is directly contradicted by extensive investigations. The UN Commission found reasonable grounds for multiple war-crime findings involving attacks on civilians and hostage-taking.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
The Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, and taking hostages.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 39
“Hamas terrorists go to a music festival full of young people and massacre hundreds of those young people at a music festival.”
Hundreds of young people were massacred by Hamas at the Nova music festival.
The UN Commission found that 364 attendees at the Nova music festival were killed by members of Hamas's military wing and other Palestinian armed groups, which supports the claim that hundreds of young festivalgoers were massacred.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
Of 3,000 young people at the Nova music festival in Re’im, 364 attendees (including 215 men and 136 women) were killed by members of the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups, while around 40 others were abducted to Gaza.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 40
“Many people killed by the Israeli forces. Many Israeli citizen killed by the Israeli forces. Many of them with Hamas fighters entered inside the green line. the Israeli tanks and helicopters and all military weapons they they directed their fire to the Israeli citizen”
Many Israeli citizens were killed by Israeli forces during the October 7 attack, including by tanks and helicopters firing on civilians.
Some Israeli fire may have caused Israeli casualties during chaotic fighting, and investigations have examined possible friendly-fire incidents. However, the broad claim that many Israeli citizens were killed by Israeli forces, including through tank and helicopter fire, is not established as stated and omits the documented primary responsibility of Hamas-led fighters for deliberate civilian killings.
Omits: The claim omits that the UN Commission found Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups deliberately killed civilians, while stating it could not confirm that Israeli attack helicopters fired on civilians or civilian cars at the Nova festival; evidence of some Israeli friendly-fire incidents does not establish that Israeli forces killed 'many' civilians overall.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
The Commission confirmed the presence of at least eight attack helicopters in various locations on 7 October, but it could not confirm that they shot at civilians or civilian cars, including in the area of the festival.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Background
The Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, and taking hostages.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 41
“Hamas is not d was not directing its action against the civilians. Our goal is very clear. I don't deny that there some mistakes happened at that time. But this is not our policy.”
Hamas did not direct its actions against civilians and any civilian harm on October 7 was merely the result of mistakes rather than policy.
The claim denies deliberate civilian targeting and characterizes civilian harm as mistakes, but the UN investigation found intentional attacks against civilians and multiple related war crimes. That evidence directly contradicts the claim as stated.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Refutes
The Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, and taking hostages.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 42
“This was a coordinated plan of a terrorist attack.”
The October 7 attack was a coordinated plan in which Hamas fighters went from home to home killing families and setting fire to or shooting civilians.
The UN Commission described October 7 as a coordinated attack and found that Hamas's military wing and other Palestinian armed groups deliberately killed civilians in homes and communities. The quoted sentence is therefore supported, although it does not by itself verify every detail in the preceding description.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
On 7 October, a coordinated attack by more than 1,000 members of the Hamas-led military wing and other Palestinian armed groups was launched against Israel.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
The Commission finds on reasonable grounds that the military wing of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed the war crimes of intentionally directing attacks against civilians, murder or wilful killing, torture, inhuman or cruel treatment, and taking hostages.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 43
“because the Hamas terrorists posted what they were doing onto social media platforms in real time because they were so proud of what they were doing.”
Hamas posted footage or claims about its October 7 actions on social-media platforms in real time.
Independent investigations verified that footage of the October 7 attacks was posted or shared online, but the claim attributes a specific motive—pride—to Hamas as a whole. That motive is not objectively established by the cited evidence, and “in real time” is not precisely defined here.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified↗
Supports
As part of this work, the research team has verified a series of videos dashcam and security camera footage from October 7 shared on Telegram by The South First Responders.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
The Commission reviewed and verified digital evidence of the attack showing five teenagers crouching while shooting is heard in the background.
- 1Israel/Palestine: Videos of Hamas-Led Attacks Verified↗
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Claim 44
“The Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that members of the military wings of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups, as well as Palestinian civilians who were directly participating in the hostilities, deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages and committed SGBV against: civilians, including Israeli citizens and foreign nationals”
The Hamas-led October 7 attack deliberately killed civilians.
The transcript contains a denial or minimization of deliberate killings, but the independently checkable factual issue is whether Hamas-led forces deliberately killed civilians. The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded on reasonable grounds that they did, and Human Rights Watch separately documented deliberate killings and attacks targeting civilians.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
The Commission concludes on reasonable grounds that members of the military wings of Hamas and of other Palestinian armed groups, as well as Palestinian civilians who were directly participating in the hostilities, deliberately killed, injured, mistreated, took hostages and committed SGBV against: civilians, including Israeli citizens and foreign nationals;
- 2October 7 Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes by Hamas-led Groups↗
Supports
The armed groups committed numerous violations of the laws of war that amount to war crimes, including attacks targeting civilians and civilian objects; willful killing of people in custody; cruel and other inhumane treatment; crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence; hostage-taking; mutilation and despoiling bodies; use of human shields; and pillage and looting.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 45
“I I'm so confident that we as Hamas that we we we did October 7 as I told you in order to lift the siege on Gaza”
Hamas's October 7 attack was carried out in order to lift the siege on Gaza.
This is a claim about Hamas's internal purpose or motivation. The transcript provides the interviewee's assertion, but the stated evidence does not establish that lifting the siege was the organization's actual operative motive for the attack.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 46
“the siege imposed in on Gaza for more than 15 years.”
The blockade or siege imposed on Gaza had lasted more than 15 years by October 7, 2023.
The United Nations reported that Israel's blockade of Gaza had been imposed since 2007 and described Gaza as having experienced 16 years of blockade in October 2023. Thus, "more than 15 years" was accurate at the time of the October 7 attack.
Sources
- 1Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (October 2023 Monthly Bulletin)↗
Supports
This fate befell a population which has already experienced five major wars since 2008 in the context of an unlawful blockade imposed by Israel since 2007, as collective punishment.
- 2War on Gaza 2023↗
Supports
The blockade imposed on Gaza since June 2007 has led to social and economic de-development, and an unliveable place.
- 1Action by UN System and Intergovernmental Organizations Relevant to the Question of Palestine (October 2023 Monthly Bulletin)↗
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Claim 47
“killing Palestinian taking their lands building more settlements expanding settlements.”
Israel has killed Palestinians, taken Palestinian land, and expanded Israeli settlements.
UN and OHCHR reporting documents Israeli settlement construction and expansion, land-related restrictions and confiscations, and Palestinian deaths caused by Israeli forces and settlers. However, the bundled wording and attribution to a single effort to “destroy the Palestinian identity” go beyond what those sources establish and omit substantial context about time, place, and causation.
Omits: The statement presents these actions as an undifferentiated, continuous policy without specifying the period, location, or legal and factual distinctions between killings, land confiscation, settlement construction, and settlement expansion.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan↗
Supports
Settlement consolidation and expansion ... All of these Israeli settlements are illegal under international law, because they amount to the transfer by Israel of its population into an occupied territory.
- 2Report of the Secretary-General: Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Occupied Syrian Golan↗
Supports
the maintenance and expansion of Israeli settlements advance the integration of Palestinian territory into Israel, forming part of the policies and practices that amount to annexation of large parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- 3Humanitarian Situation Report | 10 July 2026↗
Supports
Israeli forces' operations, expanding movement restrictions, demolitions, settlement expansion and settler violence continue to drive displacement, heighten protection risks and restrict Palestinians' access to housing, livelihoods and essential services across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
- 1Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan↗
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Claim 48
“they destroy the peace process. They destroy everything and the world is watching.”
Israeli settlement activity has undermined or obstructed the peace process.
“The peace process” is not defined in the statement, and responsibility for its failure is disputed among governments, historians, and analysts. UN reporting supports the narrower claim that settlement expansion and other unilateral actions undermine prospects for negotiations, but it does not establish that Israel alone “destroyed” the peace process.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1UN report: Thirty Years since the Oslo Accords, the Legacy of Palestinian Statehood is at Risk↗
Background
Unprecedented settlement advancement, Israeli access and movement restrictions, including restrictions on land use by Palestinians in Area C, and the persistent Palestinian divide are deepening the fragmentation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- 1UN report: Thirty Years since the Oslo Accords, the Legacy of Palestinian Statehood is at Risk↗
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Claim 49
“Palestinian are killed every day and”
Palestinians are killed every day.
UN OCHA reported that Palestinians continued to be killed in Gaza during the period covered by its April and June 2026 situation reports, including 18 killed in one week and 39 in another. The statement is general rather than a precise numerical claim, but it is supported by the documented ongoing fatalities.
Sources
- 1Humanitarian Situation Report | 23 April 2026↗
Supports
Data by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza indicates that between 15 and 21 April, 18 Palestinians were killed, three died of wounds, one body was retrieved, and 79 people were injured.
- 2Humanitarian Situation Report | 12 June 2026↗
Supports
According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, which operates under the de facto authorities, 39 Palestinians were killed, two bodies were retrieved, four died of wounds, and 199 people were injured between 3 and 10 June.
- 1Humanitarian Situation Report | 23 April 2026↗
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Claim 50
“their lands they are are taken by by these crazy gangs”
Palestinian lands have been taken by Israeli actors.
UN reporting documents Israeli settlement activity, land confiscation orders, demolitions, and seizures of Palestinian-owned structures. However, the wording’s attribution to “gangs” is imprecise and omits the significant role of Israeli government and military authorities.
Omits: The statement attributes the land seizures specifically to unspecified “crazy gangs,” while documented cases involve Israeli state authorities, settlement activity, military orders, and sometimes settlers; it also does not distinguish disputed land claims from unlawful confiscation.
Sources
- 1Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)↗
Background
The bills did not advance beyond preliminary readings during the reporting period, and neither received government support.
- 2Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)↗
Supports
On 22 October, the Land Authority of Israel reportedly handed Palestinian residents of the village of Qalandiyah, north of East Jerusalem, land confiscation orders initiated in the 1970s and 1980s concerning hundreds of dunams of privately owned Palestinian land in the village.
- 3Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)↗
Supports
Demolitions and seizures of Palestinian-owned structures continued across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, throughout the reporting period.
- 1Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)↗
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Claim 51
“They destroyed the Palestinian authority.”
The Palestinian Authority was destroyed.
The claim does not identify who “they” refers to, what “destroyed” means, or which period and institutions are meant. Sources document severe Israeli military attacks on and weakening of Palestinian governing institutions, but not the complete destruction of the Palestinian Authority as an institution.
Sources
- 1Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People↗
Background
In late March 2002, Israel further scaled up its military actions ... the target of the military offensive was the Palestinian Authority ... further destruction in September 2002 and the threat these actions posed to
- 2Situation in the Middle East - Secretary-General’s final report↗
Background
For its part, Israel resorted to heavy force, increased extrajudicial killings, reoccupation of areas under Palestinian self-rule, and the confinement of the Palestinian President to his compound for two years.
- 1Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People↗
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Claim 52
“because nearly 80,000 people at least, probably many more have been slaughtered by the IDF in response.”
Nearly 80,000 people have been killed by the IDF in response to October 7.
By mid-to-late 2025, reported Palestinian deaths in Gaza were approaching or exceeding 80,000, so the magnitude was plausible in context. But the attribution of the entire number to the IDF is not established by the cited casualty reporting, making the framing misleading.
Omits: The statement presents the Gaza Health Ministry’s overall reported death toll as a verified count of people killed by the IDF, without clarifying that the total includes civilians and combatants, relies on Gaza authorities’ reporting, and does not establish that every death was directly caused by the IDF or occurred solely in response to October 7.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Gaza Reported Impact Snapshot | 2 July 2025↗
Supports
80000
- 2Humanitarian Situation Report | 12 June 2026↗
Background
According to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza, which operates under the de facto authorities, 39 Palestinians were killed, two bodies were retrieved, four died of wounds, and 199 people were injured between 3 and 10 June.
- 1Gaza Reported Impact Snapshot | 2 July 2025↗
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Claim 53
“75 80% of Gaza has been flattened.”
Seventy-five to eighty percent of Gaza has been flattened.
UN and other assessments reported that roughly 68–78 percent of Gaza’s structures had been damaged or destroyed during relevant periods, and later estimates reached about 84 percent of overall destruction. Those figures concern buildings or structures, not 75–80 percent of the territory itself being flattened.
Omits: The statement conflates the percentage of buildings or structures damaged or destroyed with the percentage of Gaza’s land area that has been physically flattened.
Sources
- 1Humanitarian Situation Update #290 | Gaza Strip↗
Background
The latest UNOSAT satellite imagery-based analysis, conducted in early April 2025, showed that a total of 174,526 structures were damaged in the Gaza Strip, including 68 per cent destroyed or severely damaged.
- 2Environmental damage in Gaza Strip harming human health, threatening long-term food and water security↗
Supports
Some 78 per cent of Gaza’s estimated 250,000 buildings have been damaged or destroyed.
- 3Gaza: $70 billion needed to rebuild shattered enclave, says UN↗
Background
destruction across the enclave “is now in the region of 84 per cent.In certain parts of Gaza, like in Gaza City, it's even up to 92 per cent.”
- 1Humanitarian Situation Update #290 | Gaza Strip↗
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Claim 54
“You the people that have been left uh in a tiny area of Gaza are living in the most appalling conditions.”
People remaining in Gaza are living in extremely bad conditions and have been concentrated in a very small area.
UN humanitarian reporting describes most people in Gaza as displaced and living amid dire conditions, severe public-health risks, inadequate shelter, and restricted access to essential services. “Tiny area” and “most appalling” are broad descriptors, but the underlying factual assertion is supported.
Sources
- 1Humanitarian Situation Report | 23 April 2026↗
Supports
Living conditions across the Gaza Strip remain dire, with most people still displaced, exposed to rising public health risks and ongoing strikes that cause civilian harm.
- 2OCHA Humanitarian Situation Update #271 | Gaza Strip↗
Background
The extensive destruction of buildings and infrastructure in Gaza has resulted in vast amounts of debris, estimated to be between 41 to 47 million tons, primarily from the residential and road sectors.
- 1Humanitarian Situation Report | 23 April 2026↗
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Claim 55
“you've now got Israeli ministers openly talking about an ethnic cleansing of both Gaza and the West Bank.”
Israeli ministers have openly discussed ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank.
Public statements and reported plans by senior Israeli officials have called for or supported the forcible displacement of Gaza’s population, while UN reporting has also documented settlement expansion, displacement, and annexation-related measures in the West Bank. Whether those actions legally constitute “ethnic cleansing” is a separate legal characterization, but ministers openly discussing mass displacement is supported.
Sources
- 1Communication from UN Special Procedures concerning Israel↗
Supports
has reportedly supported plans to forcibly displace Gaza’s population outside of
- 2Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016)↗
Background
The Security Council reaffirmed that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity and constituted a flagrant violation under international law.
- 1Communication from UN Special Procedures concerning Israel↗
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Claim 56
“Since 1948, we paid more than 100 thousands of people murdered by Israelis”
More than 100,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israelis since 1948.
There is no universally accepted, independently documented cumulative tally matching this exact claim, and the statement does not define whether it includes Palestinians killed by Israeli state forces, settlers, allied forces, or deaths in all locations and conflicts. Palestinian official estimates have reported totals above 100,000, but the methodology and category do not establish the narrower wording “murdered by Israelis.”
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics↗
Background
The number of the Palestinian and Arab martyrs killed since the Nakba in 1948 and until this day (inside and outside Palestine) reached more than 154 thousand martyrs.
- 2How Many Palestinians Have Been Killed Since 1948?↗
Supports
No single, universally accepted tally exists for how many Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces from 1948 to the present.
- 1Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics↗
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Claim 57
“the Palestinian tragedy continued for more than 80 years.”
The Palestinian tragedy has continued for more than 80 years.
The speaker is referring to the modern Palestinian displacement and conflict beginning around the 1948 war. As of the transcript’s apparent period, that history spans more than 80 years; the statement is a broad historical characterization rather than a precisely bounded event claim.
Sources
- 1History of the Question of Palestine↗
Supports
Over half of the Palestinian Arab population fled or were expelled.
- 2About the Nakba↗
Supports
The Nakba, which means “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
- 1History of the Question of Palestine↗
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Claim 58
“the essence of Israel that is a state of genocide a state of mass killing state of ethnic cleansing”
Israel is a state characterized by genocide, mass killing, and ethnic cleansing.
A UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces committed genocide in Gaza and identified genocidal acts, while Israel formally rejected that conclusion. The broader labels “state of mass killing” and “state of ethnic cleansing” are not a single settled legal determination applying to Israel as a whole, so the composite assertion is contested rather than established as an undisputed fact.
The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.
Sources
- 1Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission of Inquiry finds↗
Supports
Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.
- 2Israel categorically rejects the libelous rant published today by the Commission of Inquiry↗
Refutes
Israel categorically rejects the libelous rant published today by the Commission of Inquiry, spreading the malicious “genocide” narrative, in attempt to delegitimize and demonize the State of Israel.
- 3Application of the Genocide Convention in the Gaza Strip: ICJ indicates provisional measures↗
Background
The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention.
- 1Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission of Inquiry finds↗
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Claim 59
“and a prime minister of Israel now is that is wanted by ICC”
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, was wanted by the International Criminal Court.
On 21 November 2024, the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu, who was Israel’s prime minister at the relevant time. The warrant alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity; it was not a conviction.
Sources
- 1Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects Israel’s challenges and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant↗
Supports
It also issued warrants of arrest for Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant.
- 1Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects Israel’s challenges and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant↗
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Claim 60
“Now Israel is completely isolated. No, all the world they hate Israel.”
Israel is completely isolated and hated by the entire world.
International votes show substantial diplomatic opposition to Israeli policies—for example, a 2024 UN General Assembly resolution passed 124–14 with 43 abstentions—but Israel retains diplomatic relations and support from some states. The terms “completely isolated” and “all the world they hate Israel” are not sufficiently defined for a definitive factual verdict.
The intensifiers “completely” and “all the world” are judged as stated. “Hate” and “isolated” lack agreed operational definitions, so the universal claim cannot be objectively confirmed or refuted.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory↗
Background
With a recorded vote of 124 nations in favour, 14 against, and 43 abstentions, the resolution calls for Israel to comply with international law and withdraw its military forces.
- 1UN General Assembly demands Israel end ‘unlawful presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory↗
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Claim 61
“They are now to end the occupation.”
The world is now seeking to end Israel’s occupation.
Major international bodies have adopted measures calling for an end to Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The ICJ said Israel’s continued presence there is unlawful, and the UN General Assembly subsequently demanded that Israel end it.
Sources
- 1ICJ Advisory Opinion: Legal Consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory↗
Supports
Is of the opinion that the State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful;
- 2UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts text demanding Israel end its unlawful presence↗
Supports
Adopting a historic text demanding that Israel brings to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, no later than 12 months from the adoption of the resolution,
- 1ICJ Advisory Opinion: Legal Consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory↗
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Claim 62
“I think that the world should understand the essence of Israel and they should understand this a state of occupation, genocide aparttheide state of settlements.”
The speaker describes Israel as an occupying, genocidal, apartheid state based on settlements.
The occupation and settlement components are supported by international institutions, and major human-rights organizations have concluded that Israeli policies meet the legal definition of apartheid. However, “genocide” remains a disputed legal allegation rather than a final adjudicated finding, so the combined assertion is contested as stated.
The checker returned Contested but could not quote a source on each side of the dispute, so this is recorded as unverifiable.
Sources
- 1A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution↗
Supports
Israeli authorities are committing the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
- 2Israel/OPT: Israel is committing apartheid, says UN Special Rapporteur↗
Supports
The Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories(OPT), Michael Lynk, has submitted a report to the Human Rights Council, concluding that the situation in the OPT amounts to apartheid.
- 3Summary of the Order of 26 January 2024↗
Background
The Court concludes, prima facie, that South Africa has standing to submit to it the dispute with Israel concerning alleged violations of obligations under the Genocide Convention.
- 4Israel’s ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities↗
Supports
In July 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion declaring that Israel’s occupation of the OPT is unlawful and that its discriminatory laws and policies against Palestinians in the OPT violate the prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.
- 1A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution↗
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Claim 63
“They're telling the United Nation resolution all the time. They're killing the the the security council resolution”
Israel has created settlements in occupied Palestinian territory that the UN Security Council considers legally invalid and contrary to international law.
The wording is imprecise, but the underlying assertion that Israel’s settlement activity violates Security Council resolutions is supported by Resolution 2334, which says the settlements have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of international law. The transcript does not specify particular resolutions or violations.
Sources
- 1Illegality of Israeli Settlements in Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967 — Security Council Resolution 2334↗
Supports
Reaffirms that the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law
- 2Implementation of Security Council resolution 2334 (2016) — Report of the Secretary-General↗
Supports
All Israeli settlements and related infrastructure have no legal validity, constitute a flagrant violation of international law and must cease immediately.
- 1Illegality of Israeli Settlements in Palestinian Territory Occupied Since 1967 — Security Council Resolution 2334↗
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Claim 64
“why there is kind of democracy when they now describe Hamas as terrorist organization”
Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.
The United States designated Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in October 1997. The designation is a legal classification by the U.S. government, not a universally shared classification by every government.
Sources
- 1National Counterterrorism Center — Hamas↗
Supports
The US State Department designated HAMAS as an FTO in October 1997.
- 2What is Hamas? The group that rules the Gaza Strip has fought several rounds of war with Israel↗
Supports
State Department has designated Hamas a terrorist group in 1997.
- 1National Counterterrorism Center — Hamas↗
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Claim 65
“I think the existence of Israel is very dangerous for the Middle East for the whole world.”
Israel is dangerous for the Middle East and the whole world.
“Dangerous” and “for the whole world” are not defined in a way that permits a clear, objective test. The statement could refer to military conflict, regional instability, or broader global effects, each of which would require different evidence.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 66
“This is the guy who became infamous very quickly after October the 7th for saying publicly, "We want to do this again and again and again and calling for the annihilation of Israel."”
A Hamas official said after October 7 that Hamas wanted to repeat the attack again and again and called for Israel’s annihilation.
Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas political official, was reported as saying that Hamas would repeat the October 7 attack again and again until Israel was annihilated. The transcript’s wording is a paraphrase of that reported statement.
Sources
- 1Hamas Official: We Will Repeat October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated↗
Supports
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat The October 7 Attack Time And Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified
- 2Turkish man arrested in UK on US charges accusing him of aiding Hamas↗
Background
The U.S. government has designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization.
- 1Hamas Official: We Will Repeat October 7 Attack, Time And Again, Until Israel Is Annihilated↗
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Claim 67
“Unfortunately, what we have done by funding the state of Israel is we've essentially put our name on everything that the Israelis have done to the Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank now for decades.”
The United States has funded Israel for decades.
The United States has provided Israel with bilateral assistance and missile-defense funding for decades, including a $38 billion military-aid memorandum covering fiscal years 2019–2028. The additional assertion that this places the U.S. name on everything Israel has done is rhetorical and not independently measurable, but the checkable funding claim is supported.
Sources
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Supports
Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II.
- 2U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Supports
In 2016, the U.S. and Israeli governments signed their third 10-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on military aid, covering FY2019 to FY2028.
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
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Claim 68
“And that's come back to cost us in a very very big way in terms of blowback terrorism in terms of the way the whole region views us.”
U.S. support for Israel has caused blowback terrorism against the United States.
The claim asserts a causal relationship but does not define which terrorist attacks constitute the alleged blowback or establish how much U.S. support for Israel caused them. Research and official assessments discuss anti-American sentiment and terrorism risks in the region, but they do not provide a definitive, generally accepted causal finding matching this broad formulation.
Sources
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Background
Successive Administrations, working with Congress, have provided Israel with assistance reflective of robust domestic U.S. support for Israel and its security; shared strategic goals in the Middle East; and historical ties dating from U.S. support for the creation of Israel in 1948.
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
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Claim 69
“And to say that there weren't atrocities committed, I mean, it's”
Atrocities were committed during the October 7, 2023 attacks.
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry found that Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups committed serious violations on October 7, 2023, including acts amounting to war crimes. Thus, the speaker's assertion that atrocities occurred is supported, although the excerpt does not specify which acts he means.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
On 7 October, a coordinated attack by more than 1,000 members of Hamas military wing and other Palestinian armed groups, accompanied by Palestinian civilians, was launched against Israeli civilian targets and military bases in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza.
- 2OHCHR report on practices and policies affecting human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem↗
Supports
Palestinian armed groups committed serious violations on 7 October 2023, some of which amounted to war crimes and potentially other crimes under international law.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 70
“But the moment you start taking children as prisoners and then taking them across borders, that's a big problem.”
Children were abducted from Israel and taken across the border to Gaza as hostages during the October 7, 2023 attacks.
United Nations investigations verified that children were abducted in southern Israel on October 7, 2023 and taken to Gaza. The sources describe them as hostages rather than ordinary prisoners, but that terminology difference does not change the underlying factual assertion that children were taken across an international boundary and held captive.
Sources
- 1Children and armed conflict, Report of the Secretary-General covering the period from January to December 2023↗
Supports
A total of 47 Israeli children (20 boys, 27 girls) were abducted by Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel, 36 of whom were held hostage and subjected to ill-treatment in the Gaza Strip by Hamas’ Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades, the Palestinian Mujahidin Movement Mujahidin Brigades and other Palestinian armed groups.
- 2Treatment of detainees and hostages and attacks on medical facilities and personnel↗
Supports
On 7 October 2023, a total of 251 people (226 civilians and 25 members of the Israeli security forces) were abducted in Israel and taken to Gaza as hostages.
- 1Children and armed conflict, Report of the Secretary-General covering the period from January to December 2023↗
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Claim 71
“Israel and Egypt have had a peace deal for decades.”
Israel and Egypt have maintained a peace deal for decades.
The Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty was signed on March 26, 1979, and remains the basis of relations between the two countries. As of 2026, that is more than 47 years.
Sources
- 1Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty↗
Supports
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
- 2Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel↗
Supports
The Treaty of Peace between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel was signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on the North Lawn of the White House on the afternoon of March 26, 1979.
- 1Camp David Accords and the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty↗
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Claim 72
“it's Hamas has agreed to give up its weapons. That's of the deal.”
Hamas agreed to give up its weapons as part of the referenced deal.
The transcript does not identify the deal, its date, or its text, and the available record does not establish which specific agreement the speaker means. Without that identification, the assertion cannot be checked as stated.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 73
“Now, Israel says, "No, we don't want the deal and we're going to keep 70% of Gaza." So, peers, you know that I said on this show that this was never about self-defense. It was about land acquisition. And here they are sitting on 70% of Gaza. They basically forced over 2 million Palestinians into 30% of Gaza”
Israel controls 70% of Gaza and has forced more than two million Palestinians into the remaining 30%.
The claim depends on an unspecified deal, an unspecified date, and undefined measurements of territorial control and population concentration. Although UN sources document mass displacement and an increasingly restricted area for civilians, they do not verify these precise 70%-30% figures for the referenced moment.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment↗
Background
Over 1.9 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been internally displaced to locations inside of the Gaza Strip, many of them multiple times over; and over 1.2 million people —almost 60 percent of Gaza Strip’s population—have lost their homes.
- 2OHCHR: Intensified Israeli attacks in Gaza↗
Background
Meanwhile, the Palestinian population in Gaza remains trapped in an ever-shrinking area, with the “yellow line” constantly being moved westwards by the Israeli occupying power.
- 1Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment↗
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Claim 74
“Now, Israel takes thousands upon thousands of hostages. They never charge them with any crime.”
Israel holds thousands of Palestinians without charging them with crimes.
UN reporting supports that thousands of Palestinians have been detained, many without charge or trial. However, calling all such detainees “hostages” and saying they are never charged with any crime conflates distinct categories and overstates the evidence.
Omits: The statement omits that these people are generally described by authorities and human-rights bodies as detainees or prisoners, not uniformly as hostages, and that some are held under administrative or security-detention laws rather than being entirely outside a legal framework.
Sources
- 1UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment↗
Supports
The staggering number of men, women, children, doctors, journalists and human rights defenders detained since 7 October, most of them without charge or trial and held in deplorable conditions, along with reports of ill-treatment and torture and violation of due process guarantees, raises serious concerns regarding the arbitrariness and the fundamentally punitive nature of such arrests and detention, said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk.
- 2Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody↗
Supports
Thousands more have been detained in the West Bank and Israel.
- 1UN report: Palestinian detainees held arbitrarily and secretly, subjected to torture and mistreatment↗
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Claim 75
“Then, they systematically torture and rape them.”
Israeli authorities systematically torture and rape Palestinian detainees.
UN investigations have reported systematic or routine torture, sexual violence, and some rape allegations in Israeli detention facilities. But the wording “torture and rape them” generalizes from documented patterns and cases to the entire group, which the cited evidence does not establish.
Omits: The statement leaves out that the documented evidence concerns patterns, allegations, and specific incidents involving some detainees; it does not establish that every person in the referenced group was raped or that rape was inflicted on all detainees.
Sources
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on detainees and hostages↗
Supports
Taken together, other acts of sexual violence committed for the purpose of humiliation or degradation, such as being photographed fully or partially naked and subjected to verbal and physical sexual abuse and threats of rape, the aforementioned acts constitute the war crimes of inhuman treatment and outrages upon personal dignity and the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts.
- 2UN Human Rights Office report on Palestinian detainees↗
Supports
The report also covers allegations of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, including sexual abuse of women and men.
- 3UN Geneva report on violations in the occupied Palestinian territory↗
Supports
Torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody is all too routine, including sexual violence, even cases of rape, as well as denial of sufficient sustenance and medical care.
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on detainees and hostages↗
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Claim 76
“in terms of 70 times the civilians killed, we all know why we don't have peace.”
Israel has killed 70 times as many civilians as Hamas.
The comparison lacks a time period, geographic scope, and a reliable definition and count of civilians killed by each side. Available UN reporting documents very high Palestinian civilian casualties and crimes by Palestinian armed groups, but does not substantiate this exact 70-to-1 civilian ratio.
Sources
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on violations in Gaza and Israel↗
Background
On and after 7 October 2023, Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity when they horrifically attacked civilians in Israel, killed at least 1,124, took and kept hostages, and fired thousands of unguided missiles into Israel for over a year.
- 2Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment↗
Background
Over two years of conflict has resulted in more than 71,000 Palestinian fatalities and over 171,000 injured, and many are missing under the rubble.
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on violations in Gaza and Israel↗
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Claim 77
“There's only one reason and it's Israel.”
Israel is the only reason there is no peace between Israel and Hamas.
This is a sweeping causal claim about a complex conflict, but “only reason” has no agreed operational test. The historical record documents actions and stated objectives by multiple parties, so the exclusive causal attribution cannot be established from verifiable evidence.
Sources
- 1UN report on the October 7 attacks and Gaza conflict↗
Background
On and after 7 October 2023, Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity when they horrifically attacked civilians in Israel, killed at least 1,124, took and kept hostages, and fired thousands of unguided missiles into Israel for over a year.
- 1UN report on the October 7 attacks and Gaza conflict↗
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Claim 78
“Now 18 Americans have died and apparently they owed Israel their lives and over 400 Americans injured all for Israel.”
The United States has suffered 18 deaths and more than 400 injuries in actions undertaken for Israel.
The numerical claim does not identify the conflict, dates, or whether it refers to military personnel, civilians, or both, while “all for Israel” is an unbounded causal attribution. The transcript therefore does not provide a sufficiently defined claim for reliable verification.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 79
“They have a worse civilian kill ratio”
Israel has a worse civilian kill ratio than Hamas.
The claim does not define what “civilian kill ratio” means—civilian deaths divided by total deaths, civilian-to-combatant deaths, or another measure—or specify the time period and dataset. Without those terms, the comparison cannot be tested consistently.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 80
“they've killed at a bare minimum 70 times the number of civilians.”
Israel has killed at least 70 times as many civilians as Hamas.
The comparison is not well-posed because the speaker does not identify the time period, whether the comparison concerns Israeli versus Palestinian civilians, or how civilian status and deaths are counted. Available casualty reporting does not by itself verify the precise “70 times” ratio.
Sources
- 1Humanitarian Situation Update #259 | Gaza Strip↗
Background
Between 7 October 2023 and 28 January 2025, at least 47,354 Palestinians were killed and 111,563 were injured, according to MoH in Gaza.
- 1Humanitarian Situation Update #259 | Gaza Strip↗
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Claim 81
“They incinerated 23,000 children.”
The number of Palestinian children killed in Gaza was 23,000, and they were incinerated by Israel.
UNICEF and UN reporting document thousands of Palestinian children reportedly killed in Gaza, but the claim's wording changes that into the more specific assertion that Israel incinerated them. The evidence cited by humanitarian agencies does not support that characterization.
Omits: The available humanitarian reporting describes children as reportedly killed, not as all having been incinerated; it also does not establish that every child death resulted from direct burning or incineration.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1UNICEF: Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children↗
Background
Over the past 21 months of war, more than 17,000 children have reportedly been killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza.
- 2State of Palestine Humanitarian Situation Update and Humanitarian Response, 5 February 2026↗
Background
Since 7 October 2023 until 3 February 2026, 71,803 Palestinians have been reported killed in the Gaza Strip.
- 1UNICEF: Two years of hellish war have devastated Gaza’s children↗
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Claim 82
“the land of Palestine. Palestine which it extends from the river Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Raz al- Nakura in the north to um Al Shash in the south is an integral territorial unit.”
The 2017 Hamas policy document defines Palestine as extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and from Ras al-Nakura in the north to Umm al-Rashrash in the south.
The quoted geographic description matches the territory described in paragraph 2 of Hamas’s 2017 Document of General Principles and Policies, notwithstanding transcription and transliteration errors in the video.
Sources
- 12017 Hamas charter↗
Supports
Under the heading 'The Land of Palestine' (paragraph 2), the document names the geographical borders of Palestine, 'which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south'.
- 2Hamas’s new political document: Full text↗
Supports
Palestine, which extends from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean in the west and from Ras Al-Naqurah in the north to Umm Al-Rashrash in the south, is an integral territorial unit.
- 12017 Hamas charter↗
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Claim 83
“there were zero Israeli troops inside of Gaza on October 7th.”
There were no Israeli troops inside Gaza on October 7, 2023.
Contemporary accounts describe the October 7 attack as Hamas-led forces crossing from Gaza into Israel, while Israel’s ground entry into Gaza began later, on October 27, 2023. The claim is therefore accurate for October 7 itself.
Sources
- 1What happened in Israel? A breakdown of how Hamas attack unfolded↗
Supports
Palestinian fighters had crossed into Israel.
- 2Israel-Hamas War: Gaza↗
Supports
On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a brutal invasion of southern Israel.
- 1What happened in Israel? A breakdown of how Hamas attack unfolded↗
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Claim 84
“the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of the these lie armed resistance”
The occupation and armed resistance by all means and methods are legitimate rights guaranteed by divine and international law.
International law recognizes rules concerning occupation and, in some contexts, peoples' self-determination, but it does not make every form of armed resistance lawful. The claim's categorical phrase 'all means and methods' is contradicted by binding rules limiting conduct in war.
Omits: International humanitarian law does not grant an unrestricted right to use all means and methods: it prohibits deliberate attacks on civilians, indiscriminate attacks, hostage-taking, rape and other war crimes.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Frequently asked questions: Rules of war↗
Refutes
For example, the following acts would constitute war crimes in all armed conflicts: Deliberately targeting civilians which are not directly taking part in hostilities; Pillage; Hostage-taking; Making religious or cultural objects the object of attack, provided that they are not military objectives; Torture and other forms of inhumane treatment; Child recruitment; Rape and other forms of sexual violence.
- 2What is IHL?↗
Refutes
Parties to a conflict do not have an unrestricted right to choose methods or means of warfare.
- 3Occupation and international humanitarian law: Questions and answers↗
Background
The legality of any particular occupation is regulated by the UN Charter and the law known as jus ad bellum.
- 1Frequently asked questions: Rules of war↗
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Claim 85
“Hamas killed a Hers Goldberg. He was taken hostage.”
Hamas killed Hersh Goldberg-Polin after taking him hostage.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin was taken hostage during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack and was later reported killed by Hamas along with five other hostages.
Sources
- 1Budd Statement on Murder of American Hostage by Hamas↗
Supports
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American citizen who was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023, was murdered by Hamas terrorists in Gaza along with five other Israeli hostages.
- 2Statement on the Death of Hersh Goldberg-Polin↗
Supports
Goldberg-Polin; and Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, and Carmel Gat, who were taken hostage during the Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023.
- 1Budd Statement on Murder of American Hostage by Hamas↗
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Claim 86
“Israel has killed 10 US citizens in the last three years. No one has been arrested.”
Israel killed 10 U.S. citizens in the last three years and no one was arrested for those killings.
The claim does not define whether 'Israel' includes Israeli soldiers, police, settlers or other actors, nor which three-year period is intended. Available reporting documents several U.S. citizens killed by Israeli forces or settlers and investigations in some cases, but does not establish the precise total of 10 or the universal claim that nobody was arrested.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1American Deaths in Gaza Letter↗
Background
journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, or any of the other five American citizens – Omar Assad, Tawfic AbdelJabbar, Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, and Amer Mohammad Saada
- 2Initial Inquiry into the Death of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi↗
Background
Following the incident, an investigation was launched by the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division (MPCID).
- 1American Deaths in Gaza Letter↗
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Claim 87
“They take our money. They've taken over $300 billion.”
The United States has provided Israel more than $300 billion in aid.
The underlying figure is close to some inflation-adjusted estimates, but the statement omits that qualifier and frames the amount as an unqualified nominal total. Congressional Research Service data previously estimated about $260 billion in constant 2021 dollars through 2023, while later estimates approach $300 billion in constant 2024 dollars.
Omits: The more-than-$300-billion figure is an inflation-adjusted estimate, while nominal U.S. aid totals are substantially lower; the claim also presents aid as money Israel simply 'took' rather than appropriated assistance.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Background
According to USAID Data Services as of January 2023, in constant 2021 U.S. dollars (inflation-adjusted), totalU.S. aid to Israel obligated from 1946-2023 is an estimated $260 billion.
- 2U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Background
According to State Department/USAID Data Services as of January 2025, in constant 2024 U.S. dollars (inflation-adjusted), total U.S. aid to Israel obligated from 1946-2024 is an estimated $298 billion.
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
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Claim 88
“We haven't sent a dime to the Palestinians.”
The United States has provided no money to Palestinians.
The United States has provided billions of dollars in assistance to Palestinians, including humanitarian and development aid to the West Bank and Gaza and contributions to UNRWA.
Sources
- 1West Bank and Gaza Aid: USAID Generally Ensured Compliance with Anti-terrorism Policies and Addressed Instances of Noncompliance↗
Refutes
Since 1993, the U.S. government has provided more than $7.6 billion in assistance to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza—primarily through the U.S.
- 2The United States Contributes US$ 153.7 Million to UNRWA in Support of Palestine Refugees↗
Refutes
The United States announced today a contribution of US$ 153.7 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East in support of humanitarian assistance, human development and protection of Palestine Refugees.
- 1West Bank and Gaza Aid: USAID Generally Ensured Compliance with Anti-terrorism Policies and Addressed Instances of Noncompliance↗
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Claim 89
“All we do is fund the endless genocides and wars of Israel because they bribe 94% of our Congress. They bribe people like you and people in media”
Israel funds wars and genocides because it bribes 94% of the U.S. Congress and media figures.
The statement combines a causal allegation with a precise '94%' statistic but provides no definition of bribery, population, time period, methodology or evidence. Public campaign-finance and lobbying records cannot by themselves verify the claimed bribery of 94% of Congress or establish the asserted causal link.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 90
“Netanyahu has said Israel is going to take from the river to the sea.”
Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would control the area from the river to the sea.
In January 2024, Netanyahu said that Israel must control the entire area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The exact wording is sometimes translated as security control rather than territorial annexation, but the attribution of the statement is supported.
Sources
- 1NSC's John Kirby: 'From The River To The Sea' Is 'Not A Phrase We Recommend' Netanyahu Use↗
Supports
Netanyahu: "In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea."
- 2Netanyahu, pushing back against U.S., rejects two-state solution↗
Background
Likud’s original party platform insists that 'between the Sea and the Jordan there will be only Israeli sovereignty.'
- 1NSC's John Kirby: 'From The River To The Sea' Is 'Not A Phrase We Recommend' Netanyahu Use↗
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Claim 91
“genocide and they murdered over 76,000 people to do that”
More than 76,000 people were killed in the Gaza war.
By mid-2026, reported Palestinian deaths in Gaza had surpassed 73,000, and independent research indicated that official counts likely underreported the total. Thus, by the apparent August 2026 context, “over 76,000” is supported, though the figure includes deaths reported by Gaza authorities and is not independently verified case by case.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 73,000 as Israel launches strikes despite ceasefire↗
Supports
The Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has surpassed 73,000, Gaza's Health Ministry said Sunday
- 2Gaza's local authorities massively underreported deaths, says international research team↗
Supports
The Gaza Ministry of Health (MoH) ... actually omitted a significant portion of the total human deaths in the Palestinian enclave in its reports.
- 1Palestinian death toll in Gaza tops 73,000 as Israel launches strikes despite ceasefire↗
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Claim 92
“When they murder 23,000 children, no big deal.”
More than 23,000 children were killed in Gaza.
The available UNICEF figure reported at least 21,289 children killed through February 3, 2026, while later UN reporting did not provide a comparable updated cumulative child total. The precise claim that the number had exceeded 23,000 by the time of the video cannot be confirmed from the sources located.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1UNICEF in the State of Palestine Humanitarian Situation Update↗
Background
Since 7 October 2023 until 3 February 2026, 71,803 Palestinians have been reported killed in the Gaza Strip, including at least 21,289 children.
- 2Gaza Reported Impact Snapshot, 6 May 2026↗
Background
Casualty numbers have been provided by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Israeli authorities.
- 1UNICEF in the State of Palestine Humanitarian Situation Update↗
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Claim 93
“right now Israel has a worse civilian ratio than Hamas.”
Israel has a worse civilian casualty ratio than Hamas.
The claim does not define the relevant period, whether “ratio” means civilian-to-combatant deaths or the proportion of civilian casualties, or what Hamas denominator is being used. Available sources explicitly note that Gaza casualty data do not distinguish civilians from combatants and that methodologies produce differing estimates.
Sources
- 1How AP analyzed Gaza Health Ministry's death toll data↗
Background
The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government in Gaza, does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths
- 2Civilian casualty ratio↗
Background
Differing methodologies have resulted in varied reports of the overall death toll and the civilian casualty ratio.
- 1How AP analyzed Gaza Health Ministry's death toll data↗
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Claim 94
“the United States would have unleashed the biggest bombardment against Iran that the world has seen since World War II.”
Trump said the United States was planning the biggest attack against Iran since World War II.
Contemporaneous reporting confirms that Trump said a plan was in place for what he called “the biggest attack since World War II” against Iran. The transcript presents this as Trump’s own statement, rather than as an independently established comparison of bombardment size.
Sources
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
Trump added that a plan was in place for U.S. forces to carry out "the biggest attack since World War II" on Sunday.
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
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Claim 95
“And it was yanked at the last minute after direct appeals to the president by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and other allies.”
Trump canceled the planned Iran bombardment at the last minute after direct appeals from Saudi Arabia's crown prince and other allies.
Associated Press reporting says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily on Trump’s decision to halt the planned strikes and specifically describes the Saudi crown prince’s appeal and concerns about regional and economic escalation.
Sources
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
The crown prince conveyed that an escalation in fighting could have a severe impact on the global economy if Tehran responded to a new U.S. bombardment by targeting some of the United States' Gulf allies.
- 2Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran↗
Supports
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
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Claim 96
“we're nearly what five or six months into this war that was supposed to be over in 2 to 3 weeks.”
The Iran war was expected to end within two or three weeks.
News reports described the conflict as a five-month-old war, supporting the duration. However, the two-to-three-week expected end date is an unattributed characterization and is not established by the cited reporting.
Omits: The five-month duration is supported, but the claim gives no source for the assertion that the war was officially expected to end in two or three weeks.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Trump says he will order halt to Iran strikes after parameters reached for deal to end war↗
Supports
President Donald Trump said in a Saturday evening social media post he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast allies had reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month old war.
- 1Trump says he will order halt to Iran strikes after parameters reached for deal to end war↗
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Claim 97
“The Iranians appear to have a tight control of Australia formoose.”
Iran had tight control over the Strait of Hormuz.
“Australia formoose” is evidently a transcription of “Strait of Hormuz.” Iran did assert substantial practical control by disrupting or closing shipping, but describing this as “tight control” overstates the extent because the strait remained contested and U.S. forces continued operations there.
Omits: The statement omits that Iran's control was coercive and partial rather than uncontested legal or military control: shipping was heavily disrupted or blocked, while U.S. and allied forces continued operating and transiting the strait.
Sources
- 1The Strait of Hormuz: A U.S.-Iran Maritime Flash Point↗
Background
The Strait of Hormuz remains a focal point of U.S.-Iran conflict following the collapse of a sixty-day ceasefire negotiated in mid-June 2026.
- 2CENTCOM Protects U.S. Warships Transiting Strait of Hormuz↗
Refutes
Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz to the Gulf of Oman, May 7.
- 3Iran launches attacks on Gulf states amid heaviest U.S. strikes in months↗
Supports
Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and disabled a civilian container ship.
- 1The Strait of Hormuz: A U.S.-Iran Maritime Flash Point↗
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Claim 98
“That is the asymmetric war the Iranians have been waging, and they've been waging it very successfully, it has to be said.”
Iran has been waging an asymmetric war against Gulf states and doing so very successfully.
The existence of Iranian or Iran-linked attacks across Gulf states is documented, but “very successfully” has no defined measure or threshold. Without specifying whether success means military damage, political coercion, economic disruption, or another outcome, the evaluative claim cannot be objectively judged.
Sources
- 1The Arab Gulf States, the Iran Conflict, and ...↗
Supports
Iran also targeted desalination facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait following an Israeli attack on an Iranian desalination plant.
- 2Iran launches attacks on Gulf states amid heaviest U.S. strikes in months↗
Supports
Iran’s armed forces fired at least three waves of missiles and drones at U.S. military bases across the Persian Gulf — in Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman
- 1The Arab Gulf States, the Iran Conflict, and ...↗
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Claim 99
“we are up against the tight timeline of major economic shock coming from what's taking place in the streets of Bermoose, Baba Alam with the Houthis.”
The war has created a major economic shock affecting the global economy.
Reporting supports that the Iran war has jolted energy markets and the world economy, but the transcript’s wording attributes the shock to unclear or apparently garbled locations and events. Because the specific causal description is not intelligible enough to verify as stated, it creates a misleading impression of a precisely identified economic mechanism.
Omits: The quote appears to conflate events involving the Strait of Hormuz, Iran, and the Houthis, and does not identify a measurable economic shock or clarify what “Bermoose, Baba Alam” refers to.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war↗
Supports
The stakes for continued U.S. military action are high for Trump and his party, whose conflict, unpopular among many Americans, has jolted the world economy just months before critical midterm elections in November.
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war↗
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Claim 100
“Iran has agreed that they aren't going to have a nuclear weapon because the Iranians agreed with that before the foolish war.”
Iran had agreed before the war not to possess a nuclear weapon.
The speaker presents Iran's alleged prewar nuclear commitment as an established component of the agreement. Reporting on the initial 2026 agreement said the nuclear issue had not yet been resolved, while the White House circulated the claim that Iran had agreed never to possess a nuclear weapon as a political talking point.
Omits: The initial U.S.-Iran agreement did not include a new Iranian nuclear commitment; negotiations on the nuclear issue were left for a later final agreement.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1White House talking points claim victories in initial Iran deal but often don’t meet reality↗
Refutes
The White House has informed supporters that President Donald Trump has accomplished his goals in the war with Iran despite the details of an initial agreement remaining unclear and negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program still to be held.
- 2US waives Iran sanctions after talks; Lebanon fighting abates↗
Refutes
However, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told the official IRNA news agency that Iran had not yet discussed nuclear issues or made new commitments.
- 1White House talking points claim victories in initial Iran deal but often don’t meet reality↗
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Claim 101
“the Israelis were the ones that got President Trump into this. They're the ones that got us on board with killing the Ayatollah”
The United States and Israel killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Reporting states that U.S. and Israeli forces launched the February 28, 2026 attack and that Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation. The quote also contains a separate causal assertion about Israel’s influence over Trump, which is evaluated separately below.
Sources
- 1Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran↗
Supports
Israeli and U.S. forces teamed to topple Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after nearly four decades in power.
- 2US-Iran ceasefire and nuclear talks in 2026↗
Supports
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, was killed in the strikes.
- 1Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran↗
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Claim 102
“the Israelis were the ones that got President Trump into this”
Israel was the party that caused President Trump to bring the United States into the war.
Reliable reporting supports the narrower claim that Israel lobbied Trump and influenced the decision, but the stronger claim that Israel was the party that got the United States into the war is disputed because Trump and other officials have described the decision and sequence differently.
The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.
Sources
- 1Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran↗
Supports
President Donald Trump launched Saturday’s wide-ranging attack on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East — Israel and Saudi Arabia.
- 2Deepening Iran conflict exposes cracks in U.S., Israel objectives↗
Supports
Netanyahu’s months-long campaign to convince Trump to attack Iran
- 3Trump claims he ‘forced’ Israel into Iran war, contradicting Rubio’s account↗
Refutes
President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered a much different explanation for how the United States and Israel opted to launch a surprise war with Iran, contending he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the conflict.
- 1Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran↗
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Claim 103
“Trump has the imperative of the midterm elections coming”
The U.S. midterm elections are approaching.
The 2026 U.S. federal midterm elections are scheduled for November 3, 2026, making them upcoming as of the transcript’s apparent August 2026 date.
Sources
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war↗
Supports
The stakes for continued U.S. military action are high for Trump and his party, whose conflict, unpopular among many Americans, has jolted the world economy just months before critical midterm elections in November.
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war↗
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Claim 104
“it happened even back in 1978 with Carter and uh what we did with Egypt there”
The 1978 Carter-Egypt initiative refers to the Camp David Accords involving Egypt and Israel.
In September 1978, President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords, which established a framework for an Egypt-Israel peace treaty.
Sources
- 1Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process↗
Supports
The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979.
- 1Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process↗
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Claim 105
“on my birthday, April 10th, 1998, something about the Good Friday up in uh in um North Ireland with England”
The Good Friday Agreement was signed on April 10, 1998.
April 10, 1998, is the correct date for the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. However, the description of the parties as Northern Ireland and England is materially incomplete and inaccurate.
Omits: The agreement was between the British and Irish governments and most major political parties in Northern Ireland; describing it simply as an agreement involving “North Ireland with England” omits Ireland’s role and the multiparty character of the settlement.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1The Belfast Agreement↗
Supports
The Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement, was signed on 10 April 1998.
- 2Belfast Good Friday Agreement 1998↗
Refutes
It was an agreement between the British and Irish governments, and most of the political parties in Northern Ireland, on how Northern Ireland should be governed.
- 1The Belfast Agreement↗
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Claim 106
“That only took 12 years with people who wanted to”
The Good Friday peace process took 12 years for the parties involved.
The statement does not identify the starting event or define what the 12-year period measures. The agreement was signed in 1998, but the asserted duration cannot be judged without knowing which earlier point the speaker is using as the beginning.
Sources
- 1The Belfast Agreement↗
Background
The Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement, was signed on 10 April 1998.
- 1The Belfast Agreement↗
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Claim 107
“the Ayatollah's son who is almost certainly from all reports more hardline and radical than his father”
Mojtaba Khamenei is almost certainly more hardline and radical than his father, Ali Khamenei.
Some credible reporting characterizes Mojtaba Khamenei as hardline and expects him to be more hardline than his father, while the Associated Press reported that his views are not well known and that some observers see the possibility of moderation. The specific comparative conclusion remains unresolved.
The intensifiers “almost certainly” and “more hardline and radical” were judged as stated; available reporting supports the general characterization but also records credible uncertainty and opposing assessments.
The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.
Sources
- 1Iran's next supreme leader: Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba↗
Supports
Iran's next supreme leader: Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba
- 2Iran's leaders show a united front over the war but are divided over what the goal is↗
Refutes
Mojtaba Khamenei's real views are still not known, so while some believe he could be more radical than his father, others see the potential for him to bring moderate change.
- 1Iran's next supreme leader: Khamenei's hardline son Mojtaba↗
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Claim 108
“We uh claimed that it was for a nuclear weapons program which they didn't have, right?”
Iran did not have a nuclear-weapons program when the war began.
The statement is defensible only if “nuclear weapons program” means an active, coordinated weaponization effort at that time. Taken literally, it creates the false impression that Iran had no nuclear-related enrichment program or history of weapons-relevant work.
Omits: The IAEA found no credible indications of continuing weaponization activities after 2009, but Iran did have a substantial nuclear program involving uranium enrichment and had conducted activities relevant to possible weapons development in the past.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1IAEA Annual Report 2015↗
Supports
had no credible indications of activities in Iran relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device after 2009.
- 2Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status↗
Refutes
Iran and the IAEA agreed in 2007 on a work plan to clarify outstanding questions regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, most of which concerned possible Iranian procurement activities and research directly applicable to nuclear weapons development.
- 1IAEA Annual Report 2015↗
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Claim 109
“we had ended their nuclear weapons program under the Obama deal to begin with, right? They were shipping out all of their uranium. They had no chance of enrichment at that point.”
The Obama-era nuclear deal ended Iran’s nuclear-weapons program by shipping out all its uranium and eliminating its ability to enrich uranium.
The JCPOA sharply restricted Iran’s enrichment program and required most of its enriched-uranium stockpile to be removed or reduced, but it did not end enrichment or eliminate Iran’s remaining nuclear material and centrifuges. The agreement therefore does not support the transcript’s absolute wording.
Sources
- 1Key Excerpts of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action↗
Refutes
Iran will keep its enrichment capacity at Natanz at up to a total installed uranium enrichment capacity of 5060 IR-1 centrifuges.
- 2The Iran Nuclear Deal: What You Need to Know↗
Refutes
Iran will reduce its stockpile of up-to-5 percent enriched uranium hexafluoride,which is equivalent now to almost 12,000 kg, by nearly 98 percent to only 300kilograms of low (3.67 percent) enriched uranium hexafluoride
- 1Key Excerpts of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action↗
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Claim 110
“The Israelis demanded that we get out of that deal so they would have an excuse for this war.”
Israel demanded that the United States withdraw from the Obama-era nuclear deal in order to create an excuse for war.
Israel publicly opposed the JCPOA and urged the United States to abandon it, but the specific causal and intentional claim that this was done to create an excuse for a later war is not established by the cited historical record.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 111
“because that's what the war created, that it being blocked.”
The war caused the Strait of Hormuz to become blocked.
Contemporary reporting describes Iran effectively closing or choking the Strait of Hormuz after the war began. The wording simplifies the sequence of events, but the substantive claim that the war produced the blockage is supported.
Sources
- 1US thwarts an Iranian missile attack and launches strikes with Saudi Arabia against militias in Iraq↗
Supports
Iran had effectively closed the strait when the war began by firing at freighters and tankers off its coast or threatening them.
- 2Trump optimistic Iran talks will reopen strait, and other developments in the Middle East↗
Supports
Talks between the U.S. and Iran are critical to ending the monthslong conflict and reviving stalled cargo traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway through which about a fifth of all traded oil and natural gas passed before the war.
- 1US thwarts an Iranian missile attack and launches strikes with Saudi Arabia against militias in Iraq↗
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Claim 112
“No nuclear weapons program”
A deal would result in Iran having no nuclear-weapons program.
The available evidence supports major damage to Iranian nuclear facilities, not proof that Iran would have no nuclear program at all. The IAEA reported that the on-site condition required further investigation, so the categorical formulation overstates what was established.
Omits: The statement omits that U.S. officials described the strikes as severely degrading or delaying Iran's nuclear program, while the IAEA said it lacked information about the facilities' condition and the whereabouts of Iran's nuclear material.
Sources
- 1Verification and Monitoring in Iran↗
Supports
Further investigation is still ongoing.
- 2Attacks on Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow Nuclear Facilities by the criminal United States of America↗
Refutes
Because of the sensitivity of information that may be used by the enemies, no information can be provided about the on-site condition.
- 3'Historically Successful' Strike on Iranian Nuclear Site Was 15 Years in the Making↗
Refutes
setting back Iranian nuclear efforts by years.
- 1Verification and Monitoring in Iran↗
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Claim 113
“that they can block the straight of Hormuz whenever we wanted.”
Iran can block the Strait of Hormuz whenever it wants.
Iran has demonstrated the ability to close or severely disrupt shipping through the strait, but "whenever" has no agreed operational meaning and cannot be established as an unlimited capability. Physical, military, legal and political constraints make the absolute wording untestable as stated.
The intensifier "whenever" makes this an absolute claim about Iran's ability to close the waterway under any circumstances. I judged that reading; a narrower claim that Iran can seriously disrupt shipping is supported.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1The Strait of Hormuz has a long history of disruption↗
Background
The Strait of Hormuz has a long history of disruption.
- 2Will the Strait of Hormuz reopen after the US-Iran deal?↗
Supports
Iran has withstood the U.S. military barrage and controls the Strait of Hormuz, putting Tehran in a stronger position than before the war.
- 1The Strait of Hormuz has a long history of disruption↗
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Claim 114
“They're the terror literally the worst civilian kill ratio of any terrorist group in the world.”
Israel has the worst civilian-kill ratio of any terrorist group in the world.
The claim lacks agreed definitions for both "civilian kill ratio" and the comparison class "terrorist group," and it treats Israel as a terrorist group without specifying a recognized classification. Available sources also show that casualty-ratio calculations vary by methodology, so the global superlative cannot be verified as stated.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Civilian casualty ratio↗
Background
Differing methodologies have resulted in varied reports of the overall death toll and the civilian casualty ratio.
- 2The deadliest terror groups in 2024↗
Background
Islamic State remains the world's deadliest terror group, despite the October 7th attack by Hamas in Israel.
- 1Civilian casualty ratio↗
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Claim 115
“The American people are very clear, 60% and rising, saying, "End our relationship with Israel."”
Sixty percent and rising of Americans want to end the U.S. relationship with Israel.
A 2026 Pew survey found that 60% of Americans viewed Israel unfavorably, but that is not equivalent to wanting to end the U.S.-Israel relationship. Other 2026 polling found substantial opposition to some forms of support while still measuring the relationship separately, so the transcript conflates distinct questions.
Omits: The relevant polling measures unfavorable views of Israel or opposition to particular policies, not support for ending diplomatic relations altogether.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1US views of Israel, Netanyahu more negative in 2026, especially among young adults↗
Background
Spring 2026 | 37 | 60 | 27 | 59
- 2National Release – June 24, 2026↗
Refutes
When it comes to the relationship between the United States and Israel, nearly half of voters (48 percent) ...
- 1US views of Israel, Netanyahu more negative in 2026, especially among young adults↗
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Claim 116
“I think that's the legal excuse for the United States to go in there because in June he said that we had completely and totally obliterated their nuclear weapons program after operation midnight hammer set them back”
U.S. officials said after Operation Midnight Hammer that Iran's nuclear-weapons program had been completely or totally obliterated.
The speaker accurately reports what was said by the U.S. president, but the underlying assertion that the entire nuclear weapons program was “completely and totally obliterated” is not supported. Expert assessments describe major damage to enrichment facilities while noting that important nuclear material and reconstruction capability remained.
Omits: The strikes severely damaged key facilities but did not establish that Iran's entire nuclear weapons capability, including its stockpile, knowledge, personnel, and ability to rebuild, was eliminated.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1What Operation Midnight Hammer Means for the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions↗
Refutes
However, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently assessed that Iran had stockpiled enough uranium to construct nine nuclear bombs.
- 2Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild?↗
Refutes
Iran could rebuild its nuclear facilities, and the strikes did not eliminate Iran’s nuclear knowledge or expertise.
- 3Assessing the Effect of the U.S. Strikes on Iran↗
Background
At a minimum, it’s reasonable to assume that Iran’s capacity to build a nuclear weapon was materially impacted by Operation Midnight Hammer.
- 1What Operation Midnight Hammer Means for the Future of Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions↗
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Claim 117
“only two countries in the world might be able to get it out which is going to be either the USA or China in reference to their highlyenriched uranium that was buried.”
Only the United States or China might be able to extract the buried highly enriched uranium.
The transcript does not identify the site, material, technical method, or the person being quoted. Without those details, the claim that only the United States or China could retrieve it cannot be independently tested.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 118
“International law clearly lays the strmuz out as international waters.”
The Strait of Hormuz is international waters under international law.
UNCLOS states that transit passage applies through international straits but does not alter the legal status of the waters forming those straits. Thus ships generally have a transit-passage right, but the speaker's categorical description of the strait as international waters is misleading.
Omits: The Strait of Hormuz includes waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Iran and Oman; international law provides ships a right of transit passage through the strait, which is different from classifying all of it as international waters.
Sources
- 1United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
Refutes
The regime of passage through straits used for international navigation established in this Part shall not in other respects affect the legal status of the waters forming such straits or the exercise by the States bordering the straits of their sovereignty or jurisdiction over such waters and their air space, bed and subsoil.
- 2United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
Background
In straits referred to in article 37, all ships and aircraft enjoy the right of transit passage, which shall not be impeded.
- 1United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
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Claim 119
“Ships are allowed to pass through that water in accordance with international law without Iran say so.”
Ships may transit the Strait of Hormuz without Iran's permission under international law.
UNCLOS provides ships and aircraft a right of transit passage through qualifying international straits, and says that such passage shall not be impeded. That right is subject to the convention's conditions and does not mean the waters are outside coastal-state jurisdiction.
Sources
- 1United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
Supports
In straits referred to in article 37, all ships and aircraft enjoy the right of transit passage, which shall not be impeded.
- 2United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
Background
Every ship and aircraft, during its exercise of the right of transit passage, shall refrain from any threat or use of force against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of States bordering the strait.
- 1United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part III↗
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Claim 120
“Even Israel agreed to withdraw troops in a phased withdrawal. They're going to retrograde and be replaced by the Lebanese armed forces”
A US-mediated framework provides for a phased Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon and Lebanese forces taking over areas Israel leaves.
Reporting on the June 2026 framework says Israel is to gradually withdraw from occupied areas in southern Lebanon and that the Lebanese Armed Forces will assume security in areas vacated by Israel. The arrangement's implementation and timetable remained subject to conditions and negotiation.
Sources
- 1Lebanon and Israel sign framework agreement in Washington↗
Supports
While the framework agreement states that the Israeli government has 'no territorial ambitions in Lebanon,' the Lebanese authorities did not secure, after what were described as difficult negotiations, their key demands: a reference to a permanent ceasefire and a clear timetable for Israeli withdrawal.
- 2Lebanon's military starts 'pilot zone' takeover in south↗
Supports
Under the US-mediated framework agreement, the Israeli military is set to perform a phased retreat from the locations it occupies in southern Lebanon.
- 3Lebanon's military starts 'pilot zone' takeover in south↗
Supports
The deal would see the Lebanese Armed Forces assume security over areas that Israel has left
- 1Lebanon and Israel sign framework agreement in Washington↗
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Claim 121
“the Lebanese armed forces, which are only about 80,000 strong”
The Lebanese Armed Forces number about 80,000 personnel.
An EU Agency for Asylum country report estimates the Lebanese Armed Forces at approximately 80,000 personnel. Other estimates differ, so the figure is best understood as an approximation rather than an exact count.
Sources
- 1Security institutions: Lebanon country focus↗
Supports
The LAF is estimated to number approximately 80 000 personnel
- 2Lebanon 2025: Plans to disarm Hezbollah↗
Background
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ annual study of armed forces globally, as of 2025 the LAF has around 60,000 personnel.
- 1Security institutions: Lebanon country focus↗
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Claim 122
“They control southern Lebanon, southern Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank as we speak. They have 70% of Gaza.”
Israel controls southern Lebanon, southern Syria, Gaza, and the West Bank, including 70% of Gaza.
UN reporting and other coverage support that Israeli authorities sought or exercised control over up to 70% of Gaza. But the sentence presents that figure alongside an unqualified claim of control over several larger regions, which overstates the geographic scope and ignores distinctions between military presence, occupation, security control, and administrative control.
Omits: The 70% figure referred to areas under Israeli control inside Gaza, while Israel did not control all of southern Lebanon, all of southern Syria, or the entire West Bank; the extent and type of control varied by area.
Sources
- 1OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report - 26 June 2026↗
Supports
In late May, the Israeli leadership reportedly ordered an expansion of areas under direct Israeli control within the Gaza Strip, to cover up to 70 per cent of the land.
- 2Israel now controls up to 70% of the Gaza Strip↗
Supports
Israel now controls up to 70% of Gaza, Security Cabinet told amid expanded IDF offensive
- 3World Report 2026: Israel and Palestine↗
Refutes
Israeli forces withdrew from most of southern Lebanon in early 2025 following a November 2024 ceasefire with Lebanese armed groups, but its forces remained in Lebanon in at least five locations along the border.
- 1OCHA Humanitarian Situation Report - 26 June 2026↗
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Claim 123
“they agreed to store their weapons and the Hamas spokesperson just said that they're going to continue to resist the occupation”
The Gaza agreement required Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw, while Hamas officials said weapons would be collected and stored and resistance would continue.
The published deal text describes decommissioning and storing Hamas weapons and provides for a phased Israeli withdrawal. AP also reported that Hamas officials said arms would be collected and stored rather than surrendered to Israel, while Hamas's founding position continues to endorse armed resistance.
Sources
- 1Read the full text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza↗
Supports
A process to decommission and store heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons, and tunnels, shall begin after completing the remaining commitments under Sharm Sheikh Protocol, the entry of NCAG and deployment of ISF.
- 2Hamas says it will disarm if Israel halts strikes and withdraws from Gaza, but obstacles remain↗
Supports
A Hamas official and a regional official involved in the process said that Hamas and other groups agreed to 'collect and store' arms inside Gaza under the supervision of the Palestinian technocratic committee and that weapons won't be handed to Israel or non-Palestinian parties.
- 3Hamas says it will disarm if Israel halts strikes and withdraws from Gaza, but obstacles remain↗
Supports
Disarming would represent a sea change for Hamas, whose founding charter calls for armed resistance against Israel
- 1Read the full text of the deal for Hamas to disarm and Israel to leave Gaza↗
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Claim 124
“it was at Tucker Carlson's home. Uh, you're in there with Marjorie Taylor Green, Thomas Massie, Tucker. Um, what was this? There is word that you're all planning, uh, as Marjorie Taylor Green put it, a new political movement.”
A photo taken at Tucker Carlson's home included Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Tucker Carlson, and Greene described the gathering as connected to a new political movement.
Contemporary reporting described a gathering at Tucker Carlson's Maine home involving Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, and reported Greene's suggestion that a new movement was forming.
Sources
- 1MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: 'He Betrayed Us All'↗
Supports
Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted on X Saturday, alongside a photo of the newly organized Trump opposition team meeting in Tucker Carlson's hunting lodge-like Maine home.
- 1MAGA Exiles Declare War on Trump: 'He Betrayed Us All'↗
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Claim 125
“there is a growing consensus on, I think, both the right and the left of people who are sick and tired of the Republican party. They're sick and tired of the Democrat party.”
There is a growing consensus among people on both the political right and left who are dissatisfied with the Republican and Democratic parties.
The claim does not define “growing consensus,” “the right and the left,” or how dissatisfaction is to be measured. Available polling can measure party approval or support for alternatives, but cannot confirm this precise assertion without operational criteria.
Sources
- 1Americans Divided Over U.S. Involvement in Middle East↗
Background
There is no clear mandate from the American public when it comes to the United States’ involvement in resolving the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.
- 1Americans Divided Over U.S. Involvement in Middle East↗
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Claim 126
“Most Americans have no idea what we're talking about. They don't know about Gaza. They don't know about the Straits of Hormuz.”
Most Americans have no idea what the speaker is discussing, including Gaza and the Strait of Hormuz.
“Have no idea” and “don’t know” are not operationally defined, and no survey is cited for awareness of both Gaza and the Strait of Hormuz. A Pew survey found limited attention to the Israel-Hamas war, but also found that 80% correctly identified Hamas as the group that attacked Israel, so the available evidence does not directly test the claim as phrased.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Americans’ feelings, knowledge about the Israel-Hamas war↗
Background
Most people are not paying close attention to the Israel-Hamas war.
- 2Americans’ feelings, knowledge about the Israel-Hamas war↗
Background
A solid majority of respondents (80%) correctly chose Hamas as the group that attacked Israel; alternative choices included Hezbollah, Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
- 1Americans’ feelings, knowledge about the Israel-Hamas war↗
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Claim 127
“They just know that billions of their taxpayer dollars, their blood, their treasure, their sons and their daughters continue to get sent overseas.”
Billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars continue to be spent overseas, including on assistance related to Israel and regional military operations.
Congressional Research Service records show multibillion-dollar U.S. appropriations for Israel and related defense programs, while the Defense Department documents substantial overseas military costs. The sentence is broad but its core assertion that billions in U.S. public funds are spent overseas is supported.
Sources
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
Supports
The act also included $5.2 billion in defense appropriations for missile defense ($4 billion) and Israel's new laser defense system, Iron Beam ($1.2 billion).
- 2FY 2026 Overseas Cost Summary↗
Supports
OVERSEAS COST SUMMARY FY 2026 Overseas Cost Summary
- 1U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel: Overview and Developments since October 7, 2023↗
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Claim 128
“their sons and their daughters continue to get sent overseas. Our best and brightest get killed.”
U.S. service members are being sent overseas and some are being killed in overseas operations.
Department of Defense casualty records list deaths in overseas operations, including recent U.S. military deaths, and official budget documents account for overseas military personnel and operations. “Best and brightest” is rhetorical, but the underlying claim about service members being deployed and killed overseas is supported.
Sources
- 1Military Casualties — Overseas Operations Casualty Summary↗
Supports
TOTAL DEATHS
- 2Pentagon ties new casualty category for renewed US-Iran fighting to the end of 'Operation Epic Fury'↗
Supports
the Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, has removed the four soldiers killed and dozens of troops wounded in the latest exchange of fire from its official Iran war tally and placed them in a new category called 'Overseas Operations.'
- 1Military Casualties — Overseas Operations Casualty Summary↗
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Claim 129
“The images of 60,000 male migrants rushing into Seut are shocking and terrifying, no matter what your political views may be.”
An estimated 60,000 male migrants rushed into Ceuta.
Spanish officials estimated that about 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta, so the number is broadly supported. However, describing them as male migrants omits the documented presence of women, children and families, creating a misleading impression about the group’s composition.
Omits: The crossing involved tens of thousands of people, including women and children; AP reported that more than 800 minors remained in Ceuta and described families among those crossing.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Supports
Some 60,000 migrants entered Ceuta from Morocco on Thursday and Friday, local Spanish officials have said, equivalent to 70% of the city’s regular population.
- 2Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing↗
Refutes
The teenage girl made it through the waves to Spanish territory.
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
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Claim 130
“Spain says that almost all of the men have now been sent back across the small border its exclave shares with Morocco.”
Almost all of the migrants were sent back across the Ceuta-Morocco border.
Spain did report that most people who crossed had returned to Morocco. However, reporting described many of those returns as voluntary and estimated that roughly 3,000–5,000 migrants remained, so “almost all ... sent back” gives an overly coercive and overly complete impression.
Omits: The large majority reportedly returned voluntarily to Morocco, while thousands remained in Ceuta; the statement omits both the voluntary nature of most returns and the substantial number who had not been returned.
Sources
- 1Tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily leave after crossing into Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain's tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday, a day after the influx triggered chaos in the North African city and reignited the immigration debate in Europe and beyond.
- 2Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain's Ceuta after mass crossing↗
Refutes
Those minors now make up a large part of the 3,000-5,000 migrants who have avoided expulsion from Ceuta of the original 60,000 who came across.
- 1Tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily leave after crossing into Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
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Claim 131
“Now to be clear, Suta is on the North African coast. It's a Spanish territory.”
Ceuta is on the North African coast and is Spanish territory.
Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city and exclave on the North African coast, bordering Morocco.
Sources
- 1Ceuta↗
Supports
Ceuta, Spanish exclave, military post, and free port on the coast of Morocco, at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1Ceuta↗
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Claim 132
“Has been for almost 500 years.”
Ceuta has been Spanish territory for almost 500 years.
Ceuta remained under the Spanish crown when Portugal separated from Spain in 1640, and Spanish control was formally recognized in 1668. Counting from 1580, when Portugal entered the Iberian Union under the Spanish monarchy, makes “almost 500 years” a reasonable broad description, though uninterrupted formal Spanish sovereignty is closer to 386 years as of 2026.
Sources
- 1Ceuta↗
Supports
During the Union with Spain, 1580 to 1640, Ceuta attracted many residents of Spanish origin and became the only city of the Portuguese Empire that sided with Spain when Portugal regained its independence in the Portuguese Restoration War of 1640.
- 2Spanish Empire↗
Background
The formal allegiance of Ceuta to Spain was recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.
- 1Ceuta↗
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Claim 133
“But migrants have to claim asylum or they're sent back.”
Migrants in Ceuta must claim asylum or they are sent back.
Migrants who enter irregularly may seek asylum, but Spanish authorities also process people through immigration and humanitarian-reception systems, and returns require applicable legal procedures. The claim incorrectly presents asylum as the only alternative to being sent back.
Sources
- 1Humanitarian Care Program - Migrations↗
Refutes
The Humanitarian Care Programme is aimed at meeting the basic needs of immigrants in situations of vulnerability due to physical deterioration and lack of social, family and economic support, who arrive on the Spanish coast or enter our country by land, through the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
- 2Seeking Asylum in Spain - UNHCR Spain↗
Background
If you are at a port, airport or the land borders of Ceuta or Melilla, inform the National Police or Civil Guard that you want to apply for asylum.
- 1Humanitarian Care Program - Migrations↗
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Claim 134
“Very few make it onto the mainland, but it doesn't stop them trying.”
Very few migrants from Ceuta make it to mainland Spain.
The claim correctly conveys that mainland Spain is not automatically accessible from Ceuta and that asylum and expulsion procedures are relevant. But it oversimplifies the legal pathways, especially for minors and people subject to due-process protections, and presents “claim asylum or be sent back” as an exhaustive rule.
Omits: Spanish law also provides different procedures for adults and unaccompanied minors, and AP reported that none had crossed into mainland EU during the crisis rather than establishing a general rule that migrants must claim asylum or be immediately returned.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing↗
Background
Spanish law says that adult migrants can apply for asylum. If rejected, they will face expulsion procedures.
- 2FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Supports
EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner posted on X that “not a single person has crossed to mainland EU” and that the Schengen Borders Code already includes special border checks for people traveling from Ceuta and Melilla.
- 1Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain’s Ceuta after mass crossing↗
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Claim 135
“Similar smaller crushes happen every couple of years.”
Similar smaller surges into Ceuta happen every couple of years.
There have been previous surges, including a major crossing of more than 8,000 people in 2021, but “every couple of years” is an imprecise frequency claim that the reliable sources located did not establish.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Background
In 2021, more than 8,000 people crossed the Ceuta border when Moroccan border officials dropped their guard, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the neighbors.
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
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Claim 136
“And critics of Spain's Liberal government say a recent amnesty for illegal immigrants drove this extraordinary crush.”
A recent Spanish amnesty for illegal immigrants drove the mass crossing into Ceuta.
The claim is presented as the critics’ conclusion rather than as an undisputed fact. U.S. officials blamed Spain’s amnesty, while Spain rejected that premise and AP said the cause of the surge remained unclear, making the causal attribution contested.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Supports
Critics, including U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration, say that the amnesty sparked the rush to the Ceuta border by sending the message that Spain is lenient on migrants.
- 2FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Refutes
Spain’s government strongly rejects that premise, saying that criminal gangs were behind the border crisis.
- 3FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
Background
Still, it isn’t fully clear what caused the sudden surge in crossings at Ceuta.
- 1FACT FOCUS: Migrant crossing in Spain’s Ceuta breeds unsubstantiated claims↗
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Claim 137
“The Moroccan king has just named a major road after Trump. The Donald J. Trump highway stretches into Western Sahara, a massive disputed territory which the US says belongs to Morocco.”
The Moroccan king named a major highway after Donald Trump, and the highway extends into Western Sahara.
Reporting in late July 2026 described Morocco’s naming of a major highway after Trump and identified the route as extending through Western Sahara. The United States recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the territory in 2020, while Western Sahara remains internationally disputed.
Sources
- 1Newest Trump Landmark Is A Highway In Sahara Desert, Apparently↗
Supports
President Donald Trump on Sunday indicated Morocco was naming a 655-mile highway after him, thanking the African nation’s king and calling it “such an honor” in a post on Truth Social accompanied by an announcement video for the new roadway.
- 2Proclamation on Recognizing The Sovereignty Of The Kingdom Of Morocco Over The Western Sahara↗
Supports
The United States recognizes that the entire Western Sahara territory is part of the Kingdom of Morocco.
- 3Trump’s Lesser-Known Deal of the Century? Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict↗
Background
Western Sahara, a disputed territory claimed by Morocco as well as by the native Sahrawi people.
- 1Newest Trump Landmark Is A Highway In Sahara Desert, Apparently↗
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Claim 138
“they were deported.”
Migrants who arrived in Ceuta were deported or returned.
Reports and Spanish government statements confirm that many of the people who entered Ceuta were returned to Morocco, although the process and legal status varied and some people, including minors, were not immediately returned.
Sources
- 1Government of Spain is taking the necessary measures to protect the integrity of its borders↗
Supports
Return of 2,700 migrants
- 2Spain/Morocco: People ‘being used as pawns’ as political games turn violent↗
Supports
more than 8,000 people, including about 2,000 unaccompanied children, entered Ceuta from Morocco irregularly before being subjected to collective expulsions.
- 1Government of Spain is taking the necessary measures to protect the integrity of its borders↗
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Claim 139
“more importantly actually orchestrating the moving of almost 50,000 people from one place to the other.”
Israel and the United States orchestrated the movement of almost 50,000 people to Spain.
Reliable reporting documents a mass arrival of roughly 50,000–60,000 migrants in Ceuta, but attributes the event to movement from Morocco and does not provide evidence that Israel or the United States organized it. The specific allegation of U.S.-Israeli orchestration cannot be confirmed or refuted from the available evidence.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67↗
Background
The sudden arrival of 50,000 to 60,000 migrants in the territory on Thursday and Friday sparked a humanitarian crisis and reignited the immigration debate in Europe and beyond, though most of the migrants soon went back.
- 2Institutional declaration by the President of the Government of Spain in view of the arrival of irregular migrants in Ceuta↗
Background
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared at Moncloa Palace in response to the sudden arrival of irregular migrants from Morocco to the Spanish city of Ceuta, which, the president said, represents a serious crisis for Spain and for Europe.
- 1Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67↗
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Claim 140
“Spain, which never misses an opportunity to lecture Israel, has declared a state of emergency in Seut following the crisis over its immigration policy.”
Spain declared a state of emergency in Ceuta because of the immigration crisis.
Spain did mobilize security forces and described the sudden arrivals as a grave crisis, but the cited official accounts do not show that Spain declared a formal state of emergency specifically in Ceuta over immigration. The wording conflates an emergency-like crisis with a legal state-of-emergency declaration.
Omits: The statement omits that Spanish authorities described the event as a serious migration and humanitarian crisis, but the documented declaration of a formal state of emergency concerned the COVID-19 pandemic nationally, not this Ceuta migration episode.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Institutional declaration by the President of the Government of Spain in view of the arrival of irregular migrants in Ceuta↗
Refutes
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has appeared at Moncloa Palace in response to the sudden arrival of irregular migrants from Morocco to the Spanish city of Ceuta, which, the president said, represents a serious crisis for Spain and for Europe.
- 2Order establishing transport measures between mainland Spain and Ceuta↗
Background
the Government, under Royal Decree 463/2020, of 14 March, has declared a state of alarm throughout the national territory in order to deal with the health crisis.
- 1Institutional declaration by the President of the Government of Spain in view of the arrival of irregular migrants in Ceuta↗
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Claim 141
“continues lecturing us, it's time it explain to the world why it still maintains colonial enclaves in Africa.”
Spain maintains two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, Ceuta and Melilla.
Spain does administer Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa. However, Spain officially treats them as autonomous Spanish cities, while Morocco disputes that status; the characterization "colonial" is therefore a live political and legal dispute rather than an uncontested fact.
The intensifier "colonial" is judged as stated. The existence of Spanish enclaves in Africa is established, but whether they are properly classified as colonial enclaves is disputed.
The checker returned Contested but could not quote a source on each side of the dispute, so this is recorded as unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Situación geográfica de España | Instituto Geográfico Nacional↗
Supports
España ocupa la mayor parte de la península ibérica, dos enclaves del norte de África (Ceuta y Melilla) y dos archipiélagos: las islas Baleares en el mar Mediterráneo y las islas Canarias en el océano Atlántico.
- 2Tax Agency: Ceuta and Melilla↗
Background
Ceuta and Melilla are part of the national territory and, therefore, of the European Union, but they have certain peculiarities from the customs and excise tax point of view:
- 3Spain - Defending Overseas Territory and Interests in Africa↗
Background
In the eyes of Spain, Ceuta and Melilla were not considered colonial territoriesbut simply part of the wider Spanish territory.
- 1Situación geográfica de España | Instituto Geográfico Nacional↗
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Claim 142
“Well, first of all, they are a terrorist organization. They've been designated that way. The United States certainly has designated them that.”
The United States has designated Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization.
Hamas has been designated a U.S. Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997. Israel and numerous other governments also classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, although the exact list varies by jurisdiction.
Sources
- 1National Counterterrorism Center: Hamas↗
Supports
The US State Department designated HAMAS as an FTO in October 1997.
- 2Hamas: Background, Current Status, and U.S. Policy | Congressional Research Service↗
Supports
Hamas (or the Islamic Resistance Movement) is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist military and sociopolitical movement, and a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
- 1National Counterterrorism Center: Hamas↗
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Claim 143
“they strapped GoPro cameras to their heads and they videotaped themselves raping, slaughtering beheading butchering massacring women, children, and elderly people.”
Hamas members recorded themselves with GoPro cameras while committing rape and other killings during the October 7 attack.
Hamas and other attackers did use body cameras and other recording devices, and UN investigations found reasonable grounds to believe that sexual violence and deliberate killings occurred. The statement misleadingly presents the GoPro footage as direct documentation of all the specified crimes, which the cited investigations do not establish.
Omits: The available international investigations establish reasonable grounds for sexual violence and deliberate killings, but do not establish that GoPro footage recorded Hamas members carrying out every listed act, especially rape, beheading, and attacks on women, children, and elderly people.
Sources
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Supports
The Commission found that acts of sexual violence were committed on 7 October in Israel, including at the Nova festival, on road 232, at Nahal Oz military base and kibbutzim Re’im, Nir Oz and Kfar Aza.
- 2Briefing by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict↗
Supports
With regard to the 7 October attacks, we found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence, including rape and gang-rape occurred in at least three locations, namely the Nova music festival site and its surroundings, Road 232, and Kibbutz Re’im.
- 1Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
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Claim 144
“And they boasted about it. They boasted about it online. They boasted about it in phone calls. They boasted about it on the videotape that they shot.”
Hamas publicly boasted about its October 7 actions through online material, phone calls, and video recordings.
Hamas and affiliated channels did publish statements and footage concerning the October 7 attack, including material that celebrated or justified it. The categorical addition that Hamas boasted about the crimes in phone calls is not adequately supported by the available independent evidence.
Omits: The evidence clearly documents Hamas-produced videos and public statements celebrating or justifying the attack, but the specific assertion about boasting in phone calls is not established by the cited UN findings.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on the October 7 attacks↗
Background
Based on testimonies and verified video footage and photographs, the Commission finds that sexual violence has been perpetrated throughout the OPT during evacuation processes, prior to or during arrest, at civilian homes and at a shelter for women and girls.
- 2UN detailed findings on the October 7 attacks↗
Supports
Statements made by Hamas leaders during and after the attack contained ...
- 1UN Commission of Inquiry report on the October 7 attacks↗
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Claim 145
“the naked bodies of young women who had been kidnapped from the Nova Music Festival and paraded them down the streets of Gaza uh beating their dead bodies.”
A young woman abducted from the Nova festival was taken to Gaza and her dead body was publicly paraded there.
A widely documented video showed the body of Shani Louk, a Nova festival attendee, being paraded in Gaza. The transcript expands that documented case into a plural claim about naked bodies and beating, which is not established by the cited evidence.
Omits: The documented case involved Shani Louk, whose body was shown being paraded in Gaza; the evidence does not establish the plural claim that multiple naked bodies of Nova attendees were paraded or that the bodies were beaten during the parade.
The plural intensifier "bodies" is judged as stated; the evidence supports a singular documented case, not the broader plural formulation.
Sources
- 1Killing of Shani Louk↗
Supports
Hours later that day, a video emerged showing Louk's body, partially clothed, with a significant head injury and blood-matted hair, being paraded in the streets of Gaza City by Hamas militants in the back of a pickup truck; they were exclaiming "Allahu Akbar" and were joined in the cheers by people in the crowd surrounding the vehicle, some of whom spat on the body.
- 2Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel↗
Background
The Commission documented the desecration of both male and female bodies, including sexual acts such as undressing the body and/or displaying it partially undressed in public.
- 1Killing of Shani Louk↗
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Claim 146
“and that's they're going to disarm and demilitarize. They haven't done it yet.”
Hamas had not disarmed or demilitarized by the time of the interview.
The claim depends on the unspecified time of the interview and on what the speaker means by "disarm" and "demilitarize." The transcript does not identify the agreement or deadline being referenced, so the assertion cannot be reliably judged from the available evidence.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 147
“President Trump said repeatedly that Hamas has no future in Gaza.”
President Trump has repeatedly said that Hamas has no future in Gaza.
Trump and senior U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that Hamas should have no future governing Gaza. Independent reporting records the administration making this position explicit.
Sources
- 1Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says possible takeover of Gaza is a decision "only the Israelis can make"↗
Supports
And President Trump has repeatedly said Hamas has no future in Gaza and they can't lead it.
- 2Trump backslaps Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he says Hamas has ‘no part in future governance’ of Palestine↗
Supports
Trump said Hamas had ‘no part in the future governance’ of Gaza.
- 1Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says possible takeover of Gaza is a decision "only the Israelis can make"↗
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Claim 148
“he reiterated to me what he was saying publicly that you know he was ready locked and loaded to launch the biggest bombardment of Iran that the world had seen since World War II.”
Trump said that a planned U.S. attack on Iran would be the biggest attack since World War II.
Trump did publicly describe a planned operation as the biggest attack since World War II. The transcript adds the narrower formulation "of Iran" and presents it as a bombardment, while the historical comparison was Trump's own claim rather than an independently verified ranking.
Omits: The cited reporting describes Trump's wording as the "biggest attack since World War II," not specifically the biggest bombardment of Iran; it also records this as Trump's characterization of a planned attack, not an independently established historical comparison.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
Trump added that a plan was in place for U.S. forces to carry out "the biggest attack since World War II" on Sunday.
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
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Claim 149
“in having talked to many people in the Gulf countries and they urged him to give, as John Linen would so brilliantly say, give peace a chance to give one more round of negotiations an opportunity. And he made that decision.”
Gulf-country leaders urged Trump to give negotiations another chance, and Trump decided to delay the military option.
Reporting confirms that Gulf and other Middle Eastern leaders urged de-escalation and negotiations, after which Trump announced that planned strikes would be held off to allow diplomacy more time.
Sources
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
Supports
The crown prince conveyed that an escalation in fighting could have a severe impact on the global economy if Tehran responded to a new U.S. bombardment by targeting some of the United States' Gulf allies.
- 2Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes↗
Supports
Saudi Arabia earlier this week joined the U.S. in striking multiple logistics and weapons sites used by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, but has been urging the U.S. and Iran to get back to the negotiating table.
- 1Trump says Gulf leaders' input weighed heavily in decision to hold off on ordering new Iran strikes↗
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Claim 150
“the president has also made it very clear that there is the military option. It's on the table and if he takes it, it's not going to be a mild tap. It is going to be overwhelming.”
Trump said that the military option against Iran remained available and that any attack would be overwhelming rather than limited.
Public statements and reporting described U.S. military action against Iran as still available and threatened force on a scale far beyond a limited strike.
Sources
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes↗
Supports
Trump himself in his social media post said the U.S. military was "locked and loaded" and prepared to display "levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II."
- 2Trump to Axios: Iran bombing pause won't last if talks fail↗
Supports
If they don't work out, we will go back to very strong military action," Trump said in the interview.
- 1Trump says Mideast allies have reached outlines of deal to end Iran war, says US to stop new strikes↗
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Claim 151
“It was based on the fact that for over 47 years Iran has been saying death to America.”
Iran has used the slogan “death to America” for roughly 47 years since the 1979 revolution.
The slogan was prominent after Iran’s 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, so by 2026 it had been used for approximately 47 years. The statement is broadly accurate as a description of recurring Iranian revolutionary rhetoric, though it does not establish that every Iranian or every government action expressed that view.
The checker returned Accurate but could not show evidence for that verdict, so this is recorded as unverifiable.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1The Iranian Hostage Crisis - Short History↗
Background
On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans, ranging from the Chargé d’Affaires to the most junior members of the staff, as hostages.
- 2Statement by the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, 27 October 2005↗
Background
He added, “the establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world” and “the Islamic umma (nation) will not allow its historic enemy to live in its heartland”.
- 1The Iranian Hostage Crisis - Short History↗
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Claim 152
“They've begged, pleaded, worked, strived to build a nuclear weapon.”
Iran has worked for decades to build a nuclear weapon.
Iran has conducted nuclear activities that generated serious proliferation concerns, including undeclared activities and enrichment, but the categorical assertion that it has been striving to build a weapon is stronger than what the cited IAEA record establishes. The IAEA has also reported no evidence, at the time of its assessment, that previously undeclared material and activities were related to a nuclear-weapons program.
Omits: The claim omits that the IAEA has documented safeguards violations and unresolved concerns but has not established that Iran built or definitively pursued a nuclear weapon; Iran’s declared program includes civilian nuclear activities.
Sources
- 1Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran↗
Refutes
To put things into perspective, let me emphasize that the Agency currently has no information - apart from the uranium metal document - on the actual design or manufacture by Iran of nuclear material components, or of other key components, of a nuclear weapon.
- 2Country Nuclear Power Profiles: Iran↗
Background
The Islamic Republic of Iran ... is steadily moving ahead with plans to expand its peaceful nuclear power programme to a total capacity of 20 000 MW(e) over the coming decades.
- 1Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran↗
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Claim 153
“And for what purpose? To first destroy Israel. That's always been their goal. That's the appetizer. But ultimately, they've said this for 47 years. Their goal is to annihilate America.”
Iran’s purpose in pursuing a nuclear weapon is first to destroy Israel, and its ultimate goal is to annihilate America.
Iranian officials and state representatives have made statements calling for Israel’s destruction and using anti-American slogans, but those statements do not prove that annihilating America is the Iranian government’s established ultimate goal or the purpose of its nuclear program. The transcript presents an attributed political interpretation as settled fact.
Omits: The claim omits the distinction between hostile statements by some Iranian leaders or institutions and a demonstrated, official operational objective to annihilate the United States, as well as the lack of established evidence that Iran’s nuclear program was intended for that purpose.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Statement by the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, 27 October 2005↗
Supports
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in which he declared, “Israel must be ... wiped off the map of the world ... and God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.”
- 2Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran↗
Refutes
Likewise, the Agency has not seen indications of the actual use of nuclear material in connection with the alleged studies.
- 3Situation in Gaza and Israel – 14 May 2021 Daily Press Briefing↗
Supports
the senior official of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran was quoted just very recently as saying: “We have a religious duty to act against Israel and annihilate it.”
- 1Statement by the Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, 27 October 2005↗
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Claim 154
“held them hostage, 51 of them for 444 days.”
Iranian students held 51 U.S. embassy employees hostage for 444 days in 1979–1981.
Khomeini assumed control of the revolution in February 1979, and the embassy hostage crisis lasted 444 days. However, authoritative U.S. historical records identify 52 hostages, so the quoted numerical claim is wrong and the overall statement is misleading.
Omits: The hostage count was 52 U.S. citizens, not 51; the episode began on November 4, 1979, and lasted 444 days. The source also describes the captives as Americans, not simply embassy employees.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Historical Documents: Iran Hostage Crisis↗
Refutes
The Iran hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979, when 52 U.S. citizens were taken hostage by Iranian students and militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
- 2The Iranian Hostage Crisis - Short History↗
Supports
On November 4, 1979, Iranian students seized the embassy and detained more than 50 Americans, ranging from the Chargé d’Affaires to the most junior members of the staff, as hostages.
- 3Iran (07/23/10)↗
Supports
On February 1, 1979, exiled religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from France to assume control of the revolution and establish himself as Supreme Leader of a new, theocratic republic guided by Islamic principles.
- 1Historical Documents: Iran Hostage Crisis↗
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Claim 155
“Hezbollah alone is in 12 Western Hemisphere countries.”
Hezbollah is present in 12 Western Hemisphere countries.
Reliable sources confirm Hezbollah activity or networks in parts of the Western Hemisphere, especially the Tri-Border Area, and older congressional testimony cited estimates involving at least 12 countries. However, “is in” is undefined—whether it means operatives, supporters, financiers, cells, or documented organizational infrastructure—and no authoritative source located here establishes exactly 12 countries under a clear definition.
Sources
- 1Hizballah Financial Network in the Tri-Border Area↗
Supports
Based in Lebanon, Hizballah has maintained a presence in the Western Hemisphere since the 1980s, particularly in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.
- 2Hezbollah in Latin America—Implications for U.S. Homeland Security↗
Supports
than 80 operatives in at least 12 countries throughout the
- 3Country Reports on Terrorism 2019 - Western Hemisphere↗
Background
Hizballah continued its long history of activity in the Western Hemisphere, including its use of supporters and financiers who operate in the Tri-Border Area (TBA) of South America, where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet.
- 1Hizballah Financial Network in the Tri-Border Area↗
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Claim 156
“this Iranian regime brutalize its own people, murdering tens of thousands of them for simply protesting”
The Iranian regime murdered tens of thousands of people for protesting.
Human-rights investigations have documented unlawful killings by Iranian security forces, including more than 100 people killed on one day during the 2022 protests, and later reports describe thousands killed in subsequent crackdowns. However, the evidence does not establish the speaker's unqualified formulation that the regime murdered tens of thousands specifically for simply protesting.
Omits: The statement omits that credible investigations have documented thousands of deaths, while estimates in the tens of thousands are disputed and may refer to broader or later protest waves; it also presents all of those killed as people murdered simply for protesting.
Sources
- 1UN Geneva: Fact-Finding Mission Report on Iran↗
Supports
On just one day, 30 September 2022, in Zahedan city, Sistan and Baluchistan province, credible information indicates that security forces killed 104 protesters and bystanders, mostly of men and boys.
- 2Human Rights Watch: Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres↗
Background
Thousands of protesters and bystanders are believed to have been killed, while the government’s severe restrictions on communications have concealed the true scale of atrocities.
- 3Amnesty International: What happened at the protests in Iran?↗
Background
However, on 16 January 2026, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, Mai Sato, said in a media interview that at least 5,000 people had been killed, noting that according to information she received from medical sources, the death toll might be as high as 20,000.
- 1UN Geneva: Fact-Finding Mission Report on Iran↗
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Claim 157
“notably in the United States where now nearly twothirds of Americans have a negative view of Israel”
Nearly two-thirds of Americans have a negative view of Israel.
Recent polling shows that negative views of Israel are widespread and have increased, but the available Pew figure is 60%, which is closer to three-fifths than nearly two-thirds. The direction of the claim is supported, but its numerical characterization is overstated.
Omits: The claim omits the survey date and rounds 60% up to “nearly two-thirds”; the cited current Pew result reports 60% unfavorable, not approximately 66%.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Americans’ views of the Israeli people, government have grown more negative in recent years↗
Supports
Americans’ views of the Israeli people, government have grown more negative in recent years
- 260% of Americans harbor 'unfavorable' views toward Israel: Pew↗
Refutes
60% of U.S. adults have an unfavorable view of Israel
- 1Americans’ views of the Israeli people, government have grown more negative in recent years↗
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Claim 158
“where half the country thinks Netanyahu should be arrested when he comes to the United States”
Half of Americans think Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to the United States.
A late-July 2026 Economist/YouGov poll reported that 49% of Americans said U.S. authorities should arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country, which supports the speaker's rounded “half” characterization.
Sources
- 1YouGov: Half of Americans think Netanyahu should be arrested↗
Supports
When asked if the U.S. should enforce an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Netanyahu, 49% of respondents in the poll said “yes,” while 27% said “no” and 23% were unsure.
- 1YouGov: Half of Americans think Netanyahu should be arrested↗
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Claim 159
“the entirety of the number of Jews on the entire face of the earth is 16 million. Half of whom live in Israel. The other half mostly live in the US”
The global Jewish population is 16 million, with half living in Israel and most of the remainder living in the United States.
The total is broadly rounded correctly: the 2024 estimate was 15.74 million. But the geographic breakdown is materially inaccurate: approximately 7.15 million lived in Israel and 6.3 million in the United States, not half in each.
Omits: The statement omits that Israel contains about 45% of world Jewry and the United States about 40%, rather than half in Israel and half in the United States.
Sources
- 1World Jewish Population 2024, Jewish DataBank↗
Refutes
As of January 1, 2024, the world’s Jewish population is estimated at 15.74 million, reflecting an increase of approximately 78,800 people (0.5%) over 2023. Israel is home to the world’s largest Jewish population, with 7.15 million Jews, accounting for approximately 45% of world Jewry, followed by the United States with 6.3 million.
- 1World Jewish Population 2024, Jewish DataBank↗
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Claim 160
“a very small minority of 0.05% 05% of the population of the world”
Jews make up 0.05% of the world's population.
Using the cited Jewish-population estimate and the UN's 2025 world-population estimate of 8.2 billion, Jews comprise approximately 0.19% of the global population. A share of 0.05% would correspond to about 4.1 million people.
Sources
- 1World Jewish Population 2024, Jewish DataBank↗
Refutes
As of January 1, 2024, the world’s Jewish population is estimated at 15.74 million
- 2United Nations: World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results↗
Background
cities now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion
- 1World Jewish Population 2024, Jewish DataBank↗
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Claim 161
“But they are up against a multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign and lot of money being spent in the United States on university campuses, on social media.”
A multi-billion-dollar propaganda campaign is operating in the United States across universities and social media.
The statement does not identify the campaign, its sponsors, the spending period, or what counts toward the claimed “multi-billion dollar” total. Without those defined terms, the quantitative assertion cannot be reliably confirmed or refuted.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 162
“the bots are everywhere painting a picture of the Jewish people as a whole and the Israelis specifically that is simply absolutely unfounded.”
Bots are widespread and are portraying Jewish people generally and Israelis specifically in a way that is absolutely unfounded.
“Bots are everywhere” and “absolutely unfounded” are not operationally defined, and the statement names no particular claims, networks, or dataset. The broad assertion therefore cannot be tested as stated.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 163
“I say that as somebody who's been coming to this country for 53 years since 1973, who lives here now as the US ambassador”
Mike Huckabee was serving as the U.S. ambassador to Israel and first visited Israel in 1973.
Mike Huckabee was nominated and confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Israel, and his Senate testimony states that he first visited Israel in 1973. The precise “53 years” wording depends on the interview date and inclusive counting, but the underlying biographical claim is supported.
Sources
- 1PN25-20 — Nomination of Mike Huckabee for Department of State↗
Supports
Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the State of Israel.
- 2Opening Statement of Mike Huckabee, Nominee to be Ambassador to Israel↗
Supports
I first visited Israel almost 52 years ago in the summer of 1973, just 3 months before the ...
- 1PN25-20 — Nomination of Mike Huckabee for Department of State↗
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Claim 164
“one moment you had 60,000 people pouring over a border in an apparent invasion inarguably and the next minute most of them 58 59,000 had been sent right back where they came from.”
About 60,000 people crossed into Ceuta, and roughly 58,000–59,000 were subsequently sent back to Morocco.
Contemporary reporting supports an extraordinary influx estimated at roughly 50,000–60,000 people and confirms that many returned to Morocco. However, the precise assertion that 58,000–59,000 had already been sent back is not supported by the cited reporting and presents disputed estimates as settled fact.
Omits: The statement omits that the 60,000 figure was an estimate and that reports differed substantially on both the number who crossed and the number who returned; some reports described roughly 50,000 crossings and about 37,500 returns at one stage.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says↗
Supports
Authorities estimate that around 60,000 migrants had crossed into the enclave of Ceuta in North Africa over the past 24 hours, as they rushed by sea and land from Morocco.
- 2Spain says migrants are returning from Ceuta after 57 die in border rush↗
Background
Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.
- 3Spain returned about 37,500 of the roughly 60,000 migrants who entered Ceuta back to Morocco.↗
Refutes
Spain returned about 37,500 of the roughly 60,000 migrants who entered Ceuta back to Morocco.
- 1About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says↗
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Claim 165
“there are still thousands of people in the city and Italy still has controls on on Spaniard. So, it's not over.”
Thousands of people remained in Ceuta after the mass crossing, while Italy imposed controls affecting travel with Spain.
Reporting confirms that hundreds of unaccompanied minors and other migrants remained in Ceuta after the initial returns, but the cited account does not support the speaker’s exact wording that thousands remained at that time. The separate reference to Italy imposing controls on Spain is also unclear in the transcript.
Omits: The statement does not distinguish between all migrants who crossed and the smaller group of people still present, including unaccompanied minors and migrants from other countries.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain's Ceuta after mass crossing↗
Background
She is one of some 860 minors who remained in Ceuta on Monday after crossing over, according to local officials.
- 2Tens of thousands of migrants voluntarily leave after crossing into Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Supports
Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain's tiny Ceuta territory returned voluntarily to Morocco on Friday
- 1Hundreds of migrant children are stranded in Spain's Ceuta after mass crossing↗
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Claim 166
“Morocco sold itself to Washington and to our friends of Israel as their wall in North Africa against Iran, against Algeria, against Russia. That's the deal.”
Morocco exchanged closer relations with Washington and Israel for strategic benefits involving Western Sahara and regional security.
Sources support strengthened U.S.–Morocco and Israel–Morocco relations, including Western Sahara and shared concern about Iran. They do not establish the speaker’s comprehensive “that’s the deal” formulation or prove that Morocco was literally positioned as a unified regional wall against all three named adversaries.
Omits: The statement presents a complex set of diplomatic relationships as a single confirmed bargain and omits that the documented U.S.–Morocco normalization arrangement specifically included U.S. recognition of Morocco’s position on Western Sahara, while the broader “wall” and anti-Russia/anti-Algeria characterization is an interpretation.
Sources
- 1Balancing U.S. Relations in North Africa Without Undermining the Abraham Accords↗
Supports
The Biden administration needs to tread carefully in engaging Algeria, since preserving UN negotiations on Western Sahara and protecting Morocco’s crucial relations with Washington and Israel are paramount to U.S. regional interests.
- 2Israel–Morocco normalization agreement↗
Supports
Kushner and Berkowitz had been speaking with the Moroccan government for over two years, suggesting normalization of relations with Israel in exchange for US recognition of Morocco's claim to Western Sahara.
- 1Balancing U.S. Relations in North Africa Without Undermining the Abraham Accords↗
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Claim 167
“60,000 people are in the water.”
Approximately 60,000 people were in the water during the migration episode described.
The claim gives the impression that 60,000 people were simultaneously in the water. European Parliament records approximately 9,000 crossings in the 2021 Ceuta crisis, while AP describes 60,000 as reaching Ceuta over several days, so the wording conflates a cumulative arrival figure with people being in the water at once.
Omits: The documented 2021 Ceuta episode involved around 9,000 people entering over a period of days, not 60,000 people simultaneously in the water; estimates of 60,000 refer to people reaching Ceuta over several days in a later episode.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Texts adopted - Breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and the use of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
Refutes
from 17 May 2021, an unprecedented surge of crossings to Spanish territory occurred with around 9 000 people entering, swimming or walking into the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
By the time authorities reacted, an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days, the largest migration surge between Morocco and Spain in years.
- 1Texts adopted - Breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and the use of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
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Claim 168
“I think nobody can mobilize 50,000 people, 60,000 people without the the permission of the king of Morocco.”
Mobilizing 50,000 or 60,000 people would require permission from Morocco’s king.
The claim asserts a specific requirement for royal permission, but the available evidence does not establish that every movement of this size requires such permission. Evidence shows Moroccan authorities eased border controls during the 2021 crisis, but that does not prove the king personally authorized it.
Sources
- 1Texts adopted - Breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and the use of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
Background
the Moroccan police temporarily eased border controls, opened the gates of their border fence and did not take action to stop illegal entrance
- 1Texts adopted - Breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and the use of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
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Claim 169
“I'm sure the MOSAD knew what what was going to happen. I'm sure the CIA knew what was going to happen.”
Mossad and the CIA knew what was going to happen.
No reliable public evidence was found establishing that either Mossad or the CIA knew in advance about the migration episode. The statement is presented as certainty, but the transcript provides no verifiable evidence for it.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 170
“whenever there's there's something they don't like in the Spanish position, they tend to use migration to to pressure and or to blackmail Spain.”
Morocco has used migration to pressure Spain, including during the Ceuta crisis.
This is supported by European Parliament statements describing Morocco’s use of border controls and migration, including minors, as political pressure against Spain. The broader word “whenever” is rhetorical, but the substantive assertion that Morocco used migration pressure in the Ceuta episode is documented.
Sources
- 1Human rights breaches at the Spanish/Moroccan border, in Russia and in Sri Lanka↗
Supports
Parliament rejects Morocco’s use of border control and migration, and unaccompanied minors in particular, as political pressure against Spain.
- 2Parliamentary question | Ceuta migrant crisis↗
Supports
This interesting use of migration to put pressure on Spain seriously violates these responsibilities, as well as the good faith that must prevail in neighbourly relations, especially by a privileged EU partner.
- 1Human rights breaches at the Spanish/Moroccan border, in Russia and in Sri Lanka↗
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Claim 171
“the Spanish government has been quite the only one in Europe that has denounced genocide in Palestine in Gaza”
Spain was nearly the only European government to denounce genocide in Gaza.
Spain was a prominent European critic of Israel and joined South Africa’s ICJ case, but it was not the only European government expressing such condemnation. Ireland and other European governments also publicly described Israel’s actions in Gaza in strongly condemnatory terms, so the exclusivity claim is false.
Sources
- 1Spain submits its intervention statement to the International Court of Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel↗
Supports
Spain has today submitted an intervention statement to the International Court of Justice in the proceedings brought by South Africa against Israel regarding the "Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip".
- 2Joint statement on Gaza↗
Refutes
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Portugal and Slovenia strongly condemn the recent announcement of the Government of Israel to intensify the occupation and the military offensive, including in Gaza city.
- 1Spain submits its intervention statement to the International Court of Justice in the case of South Africa v. Israel↗
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Claim 172
“who was one of the first that recognized this the Palestinian state”
Spain was one of the first European countries to recognize the State of Palestine.
Spain did recognize Palestine on May 28, 2024, and was among the earliest European states to do so in that diplomatic wave. However, describing Spain as 'quite the only one in Europe' to denounce genocide creates a false impression because Ireland, Norway, and other European governments also criticized Israel's conduct and supported Palestinian statehood.
Omits: Ireland and Norway recognized the State of Palestine on the same date as Spain, May 28, 2024; several other European states had recognized it earlier.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1Government of Spain approves recognition of the State of Palestine↗
Supports
The Government of Spain approves the recognition of the State of Palestine
- 2Pedro Sánchez: For justice, coherence and peace, Spain will recognise the existence of a Palestinian state↗
Background
Spain thus joins the more than 140 countries that already recognise the Palestinian state
- 3Spain welcomes Slovenia's recognition of Palestine↗
Refutes
This latest decision joins a growing international consensus on recognition as an indispensable step towards making the two-state solution possible
- 1Government of Spain approves recognition of the State of Palestine↗
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Claim 173
“Trump is very upset with with Sanchez. We know that and he he has been threatening Spain with cutting all”
Donald Trump has threatened Spain with ending trade with the country.
The transcript ends before specifying what Trump allegedly threatened to cut, making the claim incomplete. Public reporting may document tensions or threats concerning trade, but the quoted fragment does not identify the threatened measure precisely enough to verify as stated.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.
No supporting links were returned for this claim.
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Claim 174
“Morocco is is now a new ali ally for with Israel and and America. They they have supported the Sahara plan for for the king of of Morocco”
Morocco is a new ally of Israel and the United States and has supported Morocco's Western Sahara autonomy plan.
Morocco has strengthened diplomatic and security relations with Israel and maintains a close strategic relationship with the United States. Spain, Israel and the United States have supported Morocco's autonomy proposal for Western Sahara, though describing Morocco as a wholly 'new ally' is broad political characterization.
Sources
- 1Morocco, Israel establish diplomatic ties in US-brokered deal↗
Supports
Morocco agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel on Thursday in a deal brokered by the United States.
- 2Spain and Algeria turn the page: Sánchez travels to Algiers to seal normalization of relations and increase gas imports↗
Supports
la carta que envió Sánchez al rey Mohamed VI en marzo de 2022 respaldando el plan de autonomía marroquí para la antigua colonia española como 'la base más sólida, creíble y realista' para resolver el conflicto
- 1Morocco, Israel establish diplomatic ties in US-brokered deal↗
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Claim 175
“Sanchez went to Alier like two weeks ago and he signed a new increment on the exportations of gas in the in the importations.”
Pedro Sánchez recently signed an agreement in Algeria to increase gas imports into Spain.
Reports from July 2026 state that Sánchez traveled to Algeria and reached a political agreement intended to increase Algerian gas supplies to Spain. The transcript's wording is grammatically unclear but its substantive assertion is supported.
Sources
- 1Spain Announces Deal With Algeria to Increase Gas Imports↗
Supports
Spain announced a deal with Algeria to increase gas imports.
- 2Sánchez viaja a Argelia para pasar página al desencuentro e incrementar el suministro del gas↗
Supports
El principal objetivo es reducir la cantidad de GNL ... e incrementar el suministro por tubo
- 1Spain Announces Deal With Algeria to Increase Gas Imports↗
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Claim 176
“Trump called it a catastrophe that looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people.”
Donald Trump described the Ceuta migration crisis as a catastrophe resembling an invasion by hundreds of thousands of people.
The quoted wording accurately reports Trump's public characterization of the Spain-related migration event. The claim concerns what Trump said, not whether his description of the scale was accurate.
Sources
- 1Trump hails a 'unique' Cabinet meeting at Camp David as he seizes on Spain's migration crisis↗
Supports
It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people," Trump said.
- 1Trump hails a 'unique' Cabinet meeting at Camp David as he seizes on Spain's migration crisis↗
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Claim 177
“We know now it was about 60,000.”
Approximately 60,000 migrants reached Ceuta during the crisis.
Contemporary reporting placed the number of people who reached Ceuta at approximately 50,000 to 60,000, with some reports using an estimate of about 60,000. The figure is an estimate rather than a definitive census.
Sources
- 1Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67↗
Supports
The sudden arrival of 50,000 to 60,000 migrants in the territory on Thursday and Friday sparked a humanitarian crisis
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Supports
an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days
- 1Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67↗
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Claim 178
“More than 70 people, some were kids. I saw the picture of their bodies. They drowned at night”
More than 70 people died in the crisis, including children, and some drowned while attempting the crossing.
Reports describe a death toll above 70 in the immediate aftermath, with children among those affected and migrants drowning during the attempt to reach Ceuta. The precise total varied by source and changed as bodies were recovered.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Supports
More than 80 migrants died on both sides of the border, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede
- 2The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta↗
Supports
at least 70 people died in the water, including some children
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
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Claim 179
“They drowned at night because somebody told them the doors open, go swim.”
Migrants drowned because they were told that the border was open and to swim.
Social-media posts did reportedly claim that Spain's border was open, and people attempted to swim to Ceuta. However, available reporting does not support the more specific causal framing that the deaths occurred simply because someone gave the instruction 'go swim.'
Omits: The reports identify social-media rumors that the border was open as a contributing factor, but do not establish that a single person told the migrants to swim or that this alone caused the drownings; the crossings also involved a stampede, dangerous conditions and other misinformation.
Sources
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Supports
It started with Instagram posts that suggested Spain's border with Morocco was opening up.
- 2Spain installs sea barrier on Ceuta's border with Morocco after frontier rush that killed 67↗
Background
At least 67 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
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Claim 180
“It's Muhammad the 6th. It's his government. His police look away. His influencers made the videos.”
Morocco's king and government deliberately allowed the crossing, with police looking away and influencers creating the videos that prompted it.
Reporting confirms that social-media videos and apparent failures of Moroccan border control were relevant to the mass crossing, and one expert suggested Moroccan complicity was likely. But the specific allegations that the king ordered it, police intentionally looked away, and Moroccan influencers produced the videos have not been established by reliable evidence.
Sources
- 1Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez fends off blistering criticism within the EU over Ceuta crisis↗
Background
Morocco not only knew of, but was likely directly or indirectly complicit in the Ceuta crisis.
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Refutes
It's unclear who was behind the claims that the border was open or who operated many of the social media accounts
- 1Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez fends off blistering criticism within the EU over Ceuta crisis↗
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Claim 181
“And they're also Madrid and Brussels because they know who this man is. And they keep sending money and kissing his hand.”
Madrid and Brussels knew what Morocco's king was doing but continued sending him money and engaging diplomatically with him.
The underlying existence of EU-Spain financial and diplomatic cooperation with Morocco is documented. The claim becomes misleading by linking that cooperation to asserted knowledge of a specific royal operation that reporting has not established.
Omits: Spain and the EU do provide Morocco with funding and cooperate with its authorities on migration, but the transcript supplies no evidence that Madrid or Brussels knew the king had ordered this specific crisis or that the payments constituted approval of the alleged conduct.
Sources
- 1Morocco/Spain: Horrific Migrant Deaths at Melilla Border↗
Supports
Spain and Morocco renewed their migration cooperation commitments following a period of diplomatic tension between the two countries.
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
It's unclear who was behind the claims that the border was open or who operated many of the social media accounts
- 1Morocco/Spain: Horrific Migrant Deaths at Melilla Border↗
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Claim 182
“has maybe you know this a national holiday celebrating the green march the day they pushed 350,000 civilian over a border and took or sahara the Sahara”
Morocco has a national holiday commemorating the Green March, a 1975 march of about 350,000 civilians into Western Sahara.
Morocco officially observes November 6 as the anniversary of the Green March, and sources commonly give the participation figure as about 350,000. However, the wording creates a misleading impression that the march straightforwardly transferred sovereign ownership of Western Sahara, whose status remains disputed.
Omits: The Green March was a 1975 mass demonstration into Spanish-controlled Western Sahara; describing it simply as civilians crossing a border and 'taking' the territory omits that Western Sahara remains disputed and that the march did not legally establish Moroccan sovereignty.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.
Sources
- 1National and religious holidays and their meanings↗
Supports
6th November | Anniversary of the Green March
- 2War and Insurgency in the Western Sahara↗
Supports
announced what would become known as the “GreenMarch,” in which about 350,000 unarmed people wereto walk across the border from Morocco into West
- 3Moroccans mark 50 years on from Green March which led to Spain's handover of Western Sahara↗
Background
Today, the region remains disputed, claimed both by Morocco and the Polisario Front, which operates from refugee camps in southwestern Algeria and says it represents the Sahrawi people native to the area.
- 1National and religious holidays and their meanings↗
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Claim 183
“in 2021 they did in theta and the European parliament condemned them for using migrants even children as pressure”
The European Parliament condemned Morocco in 2021 for using migrants, including minors, to exert political pressure during the Ceuta crisis.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on June 10, 2021, concerning the use of minors by Moroccan authorities in the Ceuta migration crisis. Contemporary analysis summarizes the resolution as condemning the use of migrants, particularly unaccompanied minors, as political pressure on Spain.
Sources
- 1European Parliament resolution of 10 June 2021↗
Supports
Resolution of 10 June 2021 on the breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the use of minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta
- 2Morocco–Europe relations reach an inflection point↗
Supports
In June 2021, the European Parliament passed a resolution against Morocco, condemning it for using migrants, in particular unaccompanied minors, as a means of applying political pressure on Spain.
- 1European Parliament resolution of 10 June 2021↗
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Claim 184
“they did it again five times bigger and this week our war detected Moran intelligence agents inside the cross and gender moving people in trucks 60,000 people in today's pier”
Around 60,000 people recently crossed from Morocco into Ceuta.
The transcript appears to assert that intelligence agents were identified among the migrants and that people were transported in trucks, but the available evidence does not provide a reliable, independently verifiable source confirming both allegations. The relevant terms and purported detection are not sufficiently documented to judge the claim.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Supports
By the time authorities reacted, an estimated 60,000 people had reached Ceuta in just a few days, the largest migration surge between Morocco and Spain in years.
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
Packed buses rolled into the neighboring Moroccan city of Fnideq. Regional trains filled up. Taxis did too.
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
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Claim 185
“they did it again five times bigger and this week our war detected Moran intelligence agents inside the cross and gender moving people in trucks”
Morocco deliberately repeated the 2021 migration tactic on a scale five times larger, using intelligence agents and trucks to move people.
The claim combines several distinct assertions that are not adequately established: deliberate Moroccan state direction, a comparison that is exactly “five times” larger than 2021, intelligence agents inside the crossing, and truck-based movement. Reporting confirms a roughly 60,000-person surge but describes online rumors and packed buses, trains, and taxis, while noting that alleged Moroccan complicity lacked publicly offered evidence.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Misleading. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
Moroccan authorities said the migration wave was not spontaneous. The Interior Ministry blamed the “exploitation of the digital sphere” and “the spread of misinformation.” Officials offered no evidence but said an investigation had been opened.
- 2Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Background
It’s unclear who was behind the claims that the border was open or who operated many of the social media accounts, several of which were deleted soon after the crossings.
- 3Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
Refutes
Packed buses rolled into the neighboring Moroccan city of Fnideq. Regional trains filled up. Taxis did too.
- 1Runaway online rumors sparked frantic rush by migrants to the Spanish territory of Ceuta↗
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Claim 186
“SP Spain is is receiving less people from from their borders than than Italy, like half of it.”
Spain was receiving fewer migrants at its borders than Italy, at roughly half Italy’s number.
No time period, border category, or measurement is specified. Available official and research data vary by year and by whether the comparison concerns sea arrivals, all irregular entries, asylum applicants, or detected crossings, so the quantitative claim cannot be judged as stated.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned False and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1NACIONAL – FLUJOS MIGRATORIOS IRREGULARES↗
Background
Entre el 1 de enero y el 31 de diciembre de 2024, un total de 63.970 migrantes entraron en España de forma irregular, un 12,5% más que en 2023 (56.852).
- 2Quarterly Mixed Migration Updates, Quarter 4, 2024↗
Background
In 2024, Spain recorded 63,970 irregular arrivals, including 46,843 to the Canary Islands (+17%), while Italy saw 65,474 total
- 1NACIONAL – FLUJOS MIGRATORIOS IRREGULARES↗
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Claim 187
“And that's the the the the deportations are are bigger in Spain than in Italy.”
Spain carried out more deportations or returns of migrants than Italy.
The claim gives no year, definition of deportation, or source population. Return statistics differ depending on whether they count forced returns, voluntary departures, orders to leave, or all third-country nationals, so the comparison is not well-posed.
Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.
Sources
- 1Migration Key↗
Background
Country Italy | Orders to leave 26 035 | Returns 4 520 | Return rate (%) 17.4% ... Country Spain | Orders to leave 44 065 | Returns 4 275 | Return rate (%) 9.7%
- 2Migration and asylum in Europe – 2024 edition↗
Background
Among the EU countries, France issued the most return decisions (138 000 or 28% of all orders to leave issued in the EU), followed by Spain (64 000 or 13%) and Germany (45 000 or 9%).
- 1Migration Key↗
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Claim 188
“Miguel 2021 European parliament 397 votes Morocco condemned for using immigrants including children has political pressure”
The European Parliament adopted a 2021 resolution condemning Morocco for using migrants, including children, as political pressure, with 397 votes in favor.
The European Parliament adopted the resolution on June 10, 2021, by 397 votes in favor. The resolution criticized Morocco for using border control and migration, especially unaccompanied minors, as political pressure against an EU member state.
Sources
- 1European Parliament resolution on the breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the use of Moroccan minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
Supports
Regrets that Morocco has used border control as political pressure against a Member State of the European Union, and that this has translated into irregular arrivals of migrants, especially unaccompanied minors;
- 2El Parlamento Europeo rechaza el uso de menores no acompañados por parte de Marruecos como método de presión a España↗
Supports
El texto, que ha sido aprobado con 397 votos a favor, 85 en contra y 196 abstenciones (de un total de 678 votos emitidos),
- 1European Parliament resolution on the breach of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the use of Moroccan minors by the Moroccan authorities in the migratory crisis in Ceuta↗
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Claim 189
“the socialist vote just two”
The Socialist group’s support for the 2021 European Parliament resolution amounted to only two votes.
Contemporary reporting states that the resolution was agreed by the main center-right, socialist, liberal, and green groups. That contradicts the assertion that only two Socialist votes supported it.
Sources
- 1El Parlamento Europeo condena a Marruecos por usar menores para generar la crisis en Ceuta↗
Refutes
La Eurocámara ha aprobado con 397 votos a favor, 85 en contra y 196 abstenciones una resolución acordada por los cuatro grupos principales del PE (populares, socialistas, liberales y verdes)
- 2El Parlamento Europeo rechaza el uso de menores no acompañados por parte de Marruecos como método de presión a España↗
Refutes
El texto, que ha sido aprobado con 397 votos a favor, 85 en contra y 196 abstenciones (de un total de 678 votos emitidos),
- 1El Parlamento Europeo condena a Marruecos por usar menores para generar la crisis en Ceuta↗