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By Srijit Das
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By Ritika Jain Israel told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the United Nations' (UN) top court, that South Africa “grossly distorted” the story of genocide against the Palestinians while defending its military actions in Gaza. “If there were acts of genocide, it has been perpetrated against Israel,” Becker, the legal advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said. The ICJ—the UN's judicial arm—was hearing South Africa’s case against Israeli actions in Gaza. South Africa on January 11 said Israel had “genocidal intent” against the Palestinians living in Gaza. The hearing com...
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By Ritika Jain South Africa on December 28, 2023, moved United Nations top court - The International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing Israel of committing genocide on Palestine. Pretoria's plea for an urgent hearing seeking interim measures for relief in Gaza begins today. The hearing before the United Nations’ top court is significant amid the rising death toll in the Israel-Palestine war. Parallelly, South Africa also moved the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging it to probe Israel for “war crimes”. The Israeli Defense Force said its war was against Hamas and not the people of Gaza ahe...
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By Swasti Chatterjee The year 2023 has been a remarkable year for India with the country launching its first successful lunar mission and hosting the G-20 Summit with guests descending in New Delhi from across the world. The year also witnessed a prolonged ethnic clash in the North East state of Manipur that claimed more than 180 lives and displaced thousands and a horrific triple train accident in Odisha. Internationally, the Israel-Hamas conflict and the rift in the Indo-Canadian relationship impacted the Indian news cycle massively. Among the major events of 2023, what remained constant was...
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By Archis Chowdhury The current spate of violence between Israel and Palestine precipitated one of the biggest fake news cycles in recent times, often marked by disturbing images and videos of graphic violence. BOOM fact-checked 100 false claims between October 7 to December 22, 2023, out of which 24 were found to be made with unrelated graphic videos and images, showing anything between scenes of beheading of children, to execution of prisoners, and falsely linking them to the violence. Remarkably, verified users on X (formerly Twitter), mostly from India, were found to consistently lead the ...
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By Srijit Das A dated video of bulldozers demolishing tents and clearing bodies has now been shared online with a false claim that the visuals show Israeli armed forces using bulldozers to attack patients at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. BOOM found that the video is from 2013 and unrelated to the Israel-Palestine conflict. The footage captures a bulldozer clearing the bodies of numerous individuals who fell victim to the Rabaa massacre in Egypt at that time. Amid Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Health Minister Mai al-Kaila has accused Israeli armed forces of targeting...
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By Shrey Banerjee An old image of a Norwegian cargo ship in flames and a cloud of smoke engulfing it is circulating on social media with false claims that an Israeli billionaire's ship was hit by a drone in the Indian Ocean. BOOM found that the image is from 2019 when a Norwegian-owned oil tanker was attacked in the Gulf of Oman allegedly by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The image has been shared with the caption, "An ISRAELI BILLIONAIRE'S cargo ship was just hit by a drone in the Indian Ocean." The post can be viewed here. An archive of the post can be seen here. According toreports, the US Na...
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By Hazel Gandhi
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By Nivedita Niranjankumar For more than a month now, a team of five fact checkers in a small office in occupied West Bank has been working 24x7 debunking hundreds of fake claims being shared about the Israel-Palestine war. “Determination, pride and anger” is what is driving them, says Riham AbuAita, co-founder, Kashif Fact Check even as the team ensures they and their loved ones remain safe. AbuAita explains that their work, is no longer about debunking fake news connected to Palestine but has become so much more. “It is about reclaiming the constant dehumanising of Palestinians that so many o...
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By Archis Chowdhury Social media is rife with posts claiming that Israel has changed its barcode number from 729 to 871, and urging people to boycott Israeli products by avoiding purchasing products with this barcode number. BOOM found these posts to be misleading; we found that the prefix 729 continues to be issued by GS1 Israel, while 871 is one of the prefixes issued by GS1 Netherlands. Furthermore, according to the GS1, the not-for-profit company in-charge of allotting company prefixes for barcodes, the prefix in itself does not reveal where the product was manufactured. Also Read:India ha...
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