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Did the IDF use armored personnel carriers as remote-controlled bombs during the Gaza War?
In a video for Al Jazeera (at 6:16), Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda explained that the IDF was able to cause massive destruction by stuffing armored personnel carriers (APCs) with bombs and using ...
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How much aid did the World Food Programme deliver to Gaza from January to March 2025?
On 5 February 2025, United Nations News wrote about World Food Programme aid deliveries to Gaza: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159796
Over the past two weeks, the World Food Programme (WFP) ...
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Has the war in Gaza killed more journalists than the US Civil War, WW1, WW2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Yugoslav wars, and Afghanistan war combined?
Nick Turse (in a 2025 paper published by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University):
The war in Gaza has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U....
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Has the Gaza population increased in 2024, and if so, by how much?
An X account of visegrad24 made a post citing The World Factbook claiming that
Gaza population increased by 2.02% or 43,000 people since October 7th 2023.
(an archived version if the site doesn't ...
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Do Israeli quadcopters play sounds to lure people out of their homes?
According to this report by Middle East Eye, "War on Gaza: Israeli drones lure Palestinians with crying children recordings then shoot them
", drones are playing sounds of babies crying and ...
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How many food trucks entered Gaza during the war compared to before the war?
IPC's current report on Gaza says:
From a pre-escalation average of 500 trucks a day of which 150 carrying food, in the period between 7 October 2023 to 24 February 2024, only 90 trucks per day, of ...
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Did some White House staffers organize themselves to call for ceasefire in Gaza?
This TikTok post claims some WH staffers organized themselves to protest the US administration's handling of the Gaza war and published a statement to that effect. The alleged statement mentions Aaron ...
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Does Israel (the IDF or Israeli Intelligence) now use the Gaza Ministry of Health's casualty numbers?
According to Ryan Grim on Counter Points, "LIVE TV: CNN Catches IDF War Crime"
+972, an Israeli news organization is reporting, Israeli intelligence is now using the Gaza Ministry of Health ...
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Did a Hamas officer killing a boy result in the boy's family burning down a police station in Rafah, Gaza?
According to The Messenger News, a Hamas police officer reportedly shot and killed a young Gazan boy who was approaching a humanitarian aid truck, prompting crowds to set fire to the police station on ...
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Does Hamas have 500 km of tunnels under Gaza?
In 2021, Hamas leader said "We have 500 km of tunnels in Gaza".
The reason I find it dubious is due to speed of digging.
Accodring to Wikipedia, a tunnel boring machine can dig in rock in a ...
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Were the weapons shown in Gaza hospitals really left there by Hamas? [closed]
The IDF has released videos of weapons they claim were left in Gaza hospitals Rantisi and al-Shifa by Hamas members, to prove Hamas used these protected institutions for military purposes, rendering ...
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Are the death toll numbers from Gaza's Health Ministry reliable?
MEE reports:
Biden told reporters at the White House that he has "no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth" about the number of people killed by Israel so far. "I'm sure ...