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☆ Fact Check: Video of explosion in Gaza predates Israel's bombardment after Hamas Oct. 7 rampage
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A video of an explosion in Gaza from May has been falsely claimed online to have been filmed in October. Users on Facebook and messaging platform X, suggested the video showed an Israeli airstrike responding to Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. Reuters confirmed the location of the video as Al Karameh street in Gaza by comparing trees, lamp posts, and buildings with satellite images found on Google Maps. But the video was filmed at least five months before the Hamas attack. Video of Gaza explosion was filmed at least five months before Hamas’ October attack.

Persons: Read Organizations: Facebook, Reuters, Google, Islamic, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel, Karameh

☆ Israeli military orders Gazans to leave northern half of territory
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Map of the Gaza Strip showing the Israeli ordered evacuation zone in the north. Map of the population density in the Gaza Strip, showing the population density in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, Khan Yunis and Rafah. There are two refugee camps within the evacuation zone, and a cluster of camps just south of the zone, near Deir al-Balah. That's why we're asking them to move.” There are only two major roads leading from northern Gaza to the evacuation zone. Map showing that most of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip are in the north, within the evacuation zone.

Persons: Israel, Khan, Martin Griffiths, Gazans, Salah Al Deen, Al Organizations: United Nations, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Israeli Defense Forces, Israel, World Health Organization, WHO Locations: Gaza, Israel, Gaza City, Deir, Khan Yunis, Rafah, Deir al

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