Claims Database
Common claims — searchable without knowing the verdict. Each claim links to the evidence behind the rating.
“A water company supplying nearly half of Gaza shut down because Hamas detained one of its employees”
True. In November 2025 the company that runs desalination plants serving about a million Gazans halted operations to protest Hamas's detention of a staff member without explanation, then resumed about a day later once he was freed. "Hamas is blocking water" is a framing: the company stopped service itself, in protest.
“Hamas deliberately targeted Israeli civilians during the October 7 attack”
Hamas operatives went door-to-door in civilian kibbutzim and attacked a music festival — killing over 1,200 civilians including children. This is documented by GoPro footage, survivor testimony, and Hamas's own statements.
“The ICJ did NOT find that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — not even a "plausible" one”
True. The ICJ's then-president, Joan Donoghue, said in April 2024 that the court did not decide the genocide claim was plausible; it found that Palestinians have plausible rights to protection from genocide, and ordered provisional measures. The case (South Africa v. Israel) has not been decided on the merits.
“The UN formally acknowledged that Hamas carried out executions, torture, misuse of medical facilities and abuses against women and children in Gaza”
True. A UN Commission of Inquiry report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/62/22, May 2026) documented 249 cases of executions and severe violence in Gaza (Aug 2024–Jan 2026), with Hamas-affiliated forces involved in at least 60; found that Hamas's Sahm Unit interrogated and mistreated civilians inside the Nasser Medical Complex; documented violence against children and sexual violence; and found that 11 executions amounted to the war crime of murder.