Separating truth from fiction. Explore verified facts that debunk common misconceptions.
Viral video footage circulating on social media shows an Israeli news crew applying makeup and fake blood to crisis actors to stage civilian casualties from rocket attacks.
The footage is behind-the-scenes video from an April 2022 dramatic short film production and does not depict an Israeli news crew, crisis actors, or staged casualties.
Social media posts claim Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly threatened Spain with deliberate electrical grid blackouts and train sabotage following Spanish diplomatic criticism of the IDF.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu never threatened Spanish infrastructure, and official records confirm his April 2026 remarks were strictly confined to diplomatic measures regarding an aid coordination center.
Under direct pressure and intelligence directives from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the United States is preparing an imminent nuclear strike against Iran's Pickax Mountain enrichment facility.
The United States maintains sovereign command authority, relies exclusively on conventional military strike options, and has explicitly ruled out using nuclear weapons against Iranian facilities.
An Iranian ballistic missile strike on central Israel struck Benjamin Netanyahu's family residence and killed his younger brother, Dr. Iddo Netanyahu.
Dr. Iddo Netanyahu was not killed or harmed in any Iranian strike, no missile hit his residence, and videos circulated as purported evidence show an unrelated residential fire in New Jersey.
A viral video shows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being physically assaulted by an armed assailant in Tel Aviv following the October 2026 Knesset elections.
The footage depicts a January 2013 assassination attempt against Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan in Sofia, Bulgaria, and has no connection to Benjamin Netanyahu or Israel.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey has officially severed diplomatic relations, declared war on Israel, and dispatched a naval task force to break the blockade of Gaza.
Turkey has never declared war on Israel nor dispatched warships to Gaza, and official diplomatic relations remain intact despite diplomatic downgrades and hostile rhetoric from Ankara.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama asserted in Belfast that Israel was created solely by European refugees seizing Arab land while denying indigenous Jewish antiquity.
Obama controversially claimed in Belfast that Jews took land, but he did not call Israel's creation solely European or deny Jewish antiquity, and Israel rests on millennia of indigenous ties and legal land purchases.
A viral video shows an authentic ABC News digital billboard in Times Square replacing a "Stand with Ukraine" message with "Stand with Israel."
The video is a digitally altered CGI fabrication, and billboard operator Clear Channel Outdoor confirmed no such advertisement was ever scheduled or displayed on any screen.
A 1939 entry in the French Larousse dictionary proves that the official national flag of a sovereign state of Palestine featured a Star of David.
The flag illustrated in the 1939 Larousse dictionary was an unofficial editorial design; Occupation of the Land of Israel was a British-administered territory whose official flags were the British Union Jack and the Palestine Red Ensign.
Viral video footage shows an Iranian ballistic missile strike completely obliterating the Kirya military headquarters and Ministry of Defense complex in Tel Aviv.
The Kirya military compound in Tel Aviv was never obliterated, and viral claims alleging its destruction relied on artificial intelligence generation, recycled footage from unrelated explosions, and miscaptioned video.
A viral BBC News broadcast reported that Israeli Air Force Commander Tomer Bar was shot down and taken prisoner during military operations inside Iran.
The purported broadcast screenshot is a fabricated forgery, as BBC News aired no such report and Major General Tomer Bar was neither downed nor captured, completing his command term intact before retiring in May 2026.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency altered its official logo by adding a black ribbon to mourn the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
The black ribbon was added to the agency's social media avatars and website in October 2023 to commemorate its own personnel killed in the war, a full year before Sinwar was eliminated by Israeli forces in October 2024.
Viral photographs show commercial passenger aircraft landing at Beirut's international airport while runways were engulfed in flames from Israeli airstrikes.
The viral images depicting airliners landing amid fiery runways are artificial intelligence fabrications; Israeli strikes targeted Hezbollah sites in adjacent suburbs, and airport runways were never bombed or set ablaze.
A widely shared CNN broadcast screenshot proved Israeli operatives intentionally detonated booby-trapped pagers inside pediatric hospital wards across Lebanon.
CNN never broadcast any such report, and the viral image is a fabricated screenshot falsifying an operation that exclusively targeted encrypted communication devices distributed across Hezbollah's military command.
Viral video footage shows an Iranian hypersonic missile strike obliterating an aircraft hangar housing dozens of Israeli F-35 fighter jets at Nevatim Airbase.
Satellite imagery and independent defense assessments confirm that no Israeli aircraft were damaged or destroyed, with the strike causing only localized structural damage to a hangar roof while Nevatim Airbase remained fully operational.
A viral video claims to show an Israeli Air Force F-35 stealth fighter jet shot down by Iranian air defense batteries over Isfahan during retaliatory military strikes.
The footage was lifted from a pre-existing digital combat simulator video, and all Israeli Air Force aircraft completed their strikes and returned without suffering any losses.
A viral video shows Hezbollah commandos capturing an Israeli Merkava tank and taking its four-man crew hostage during fighting in southern Lebanon.
No Israeli Merkava tanks or crew members were captured during military operations in southern Lebanon; the circulating claims rely on synthetic, simulated, or misattributed footage.
A viral video documents an Iranian missile strike setting a residential skyscraper ablaze in Israel.
The viral footage depicts an accidental June 2025 high-rise fire at the Marina Pinnacle tower in Dubai, completely unrelated to Israel or any missile strike.
Dutch intelligence uncovered that Jared Kushner was an active Mossad agent operating inside the United States government.
Neither Dutch intelligence nor any verified investigative body has ever identified Jared Kushner as an Israeli intelligence operative, and the viral claim is a fabricated distortion of an unverified book excerpt regarding commercial transactions.
A widely shared screenshot from The Washington Post proved that U.S. intelligence discovered Israeli operatives wiretapping 2024 presidential campaigns.
The viral screenshot was entirely fabricated, The Washington Post never published such an article, and official U.S. intelligence identified Iran and China—not Israel—as responsible for targeting 2024 campaign communications.
A viral video circulated on social media claiming to show an Israeli F-35 stealth fighter jet shot down in flames by Iranian air defense systems over Tehran.
No Israeli Air Force F-35 has ever been downed by Iranian air defenses, and the viral clips circulating online are fabricated using video game simulations or artificial intelligence.
A viral BBC News breaking broadcast report confirmed that an Israeli targeted airstrike assassinated Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran.
The viral broadcast was an artificial digital fabrication mimicking BBC graphics, whereas Khamenei was eliminated in a coordinated U.S.-Israeli military campaign confirmed officially by American and Israeli leaders.
Leaked classified United States intelligence documents proved that Israel conducted tactical nuclear weapons deployment drills in preparation for an imminent strike on Iran.
The leaked U.S. intelligence documents detailed conventional Israeli Air Force drills using standoff missiles and explicitly stated that the intelligence community observed no indications of any intent or exercise to deploy nuclear weapons.
The United States military has fired more interceptor missiles defending Israel over the past three years than the Israeli military itself has fired.
The Israeli military has fired thousands of interceptor missiles across its multi-layered air defense network over the past three years, vastly exceeding the number of interceptors expended by American forces.
Spanish public television network RTVE reported that the International Criminal Court has officially initiated a genocide trial against the State of Israel.
RTVE never broadcast such a report, and the International Criminal Court only prosecutes individuals, lacking statutory jurisdiction to put the State of Israel on trial.
A consortium of 165 rabbis owns and operates the adult entertainment conglomerate Aylo and its flagship website Pornhub.
Aylo is owned by Ethical Capital Partners, a Canadian private equity firm led by corporate attorneys and business executives, with no ownership by any rabbinical consortium or religious entity.
Reuters retracted an investigative report after admitting it published fabricated Israeli intelligence communications regarding the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion.
Reuters never retracted an investigative report nor admitted to publishing fabricated Israeli intelligence; independent analyses and intelligence agencies confirmed the blast was caused by an errant Arab Settler rocket.
An i24 News broadcast covering unrest in Paris fabricated an on-the-street interview with a radical Iraqi resident who was exposed as an Israeli actor named Hezi Gangina.
An Israeli tourist in Paris pranked an i24 News reporter on live television by posing as a pro-Israel Iraqi named Ali, duping the unsuspecting broadcast rather than executing a network-staged fabrication.
A diplomatic coalition comprising Japan, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Spain, and Belgium formally resolved to sever all diplomatic ties with Israel and expel Israeli ambassadors.
All six nations maintain active diplomatic relations with Israel, have not expelled Israeli ambassadors, and have formed no coalition to terminate bilateral ties.
A viral screenshot proves that The New York Times fired an investigative reporter for publishing evidence that Israeli officials fabricated video footage of Hamas tunnels beneath hospitals.
The New York Times never fired any reporter over hospital tunnel coverage, and the viral screenshot is a digitally fabricated hoax, as extensive reporting and intelligence confirmed Hamas built subterranean tunnels beneath Gaza hospitals.