Claims Database
Common claims — searchable without knowing the verdict. Each claim links to the evidence behind the rating.
“A leaked memo shows the BBC's Nasser Hospital mass-graves story was completely fabricated — and the BBC knew it”
Not supported. The graves and the bodies in them were real; open-source analysis indicates the graves were dug by Palestinians during the siege, so coverage implying Israel buried the bodies was misleading. But the leaked Prescott memo criticized the BBC's Gaza coverage broadly; no evidence was found that it showed the BBC "knew" the story was fabricated.
“Al-Shifa hospital was not used as a Hamas command center”
US intelligence formally confirmed that Hamas operated command-and-control infrastructure beneath Al-Shifa hospital; a second IDF raid in March 2024 found roughly 200 militants and a large weapons cache.
“Hamas admitted that 80% of Gaza's dead were combatants, through its payments to fighters' widows”
False. In February 2026 Hamas's Ministry of Social Development paid NIS 500 each to 19,306 widows — but the program is for widows of Gazans killed in the war, not only fighters' widows, and Hamas made no such admission. Even analysts at HonestReporting, a pro-Israel media watchdog, call the "80% / 50,000 fighters" claim a misreading; their own best estimate is about 25,000 fighters killed. The widows' payments are not the Palestinian Authority's "pay-for-slay" program.
“Israel bombed Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people”
The explosion was caused by a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch, not an Israeli airstrike; the widely reported death toll of 500 was also a severe overcount.
“The UN Human Rights Council works by the principles of "universality, impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity"”
Not supported. The Council's founding resolution promises "non-selectivity", yet its permanent agenda has one item (Item 7) devoted to a single situation, Israel and the Palestinian territories, and no other. By UN Watch's count it has condemned Israel more often than the rest of the world combined. Then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan criticized its focus in its first year. The Council does also investigate Syria, North Korea, Eritrea and others, and in 2026 its Gaza inquiry documented abuses by Hamas.
“UNRWA had no institutional ties to Hamas or the October 7 attacks”
Independent reviews found that UNRWA staff participated in or had prior knowledge of the October 7 attack, and that more than 1,000 UNRWA employees were members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.