Fact-checking online misinformation on Israel, Hamas conflict

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A Local Culinary Adventure: inspired by Halifax's Seaport Market | SaltWire #cooking #cookingtips - Misinformation has spread online following Hamas' surprise attack on Israel from Gaza and Israel’s response with air strikes, as the two sides continued to battle.

When Hamas launched the Oct. 7 surprise attack, militants backed by rocket fire flew into Israel on paragliders. But thousands of people on social media wound up watching unrelated footage of Egyptian paratroopers skydiving over the Egyptian Military Academy in Cairo. However, Biden has not authorized $8 billion in military aid for Israel, as some people online have falsely claimed. The claim is pinned to an altered image of a White House memorandum from July, in which Biden approved $400 million of aid to Ukraine.A music festival attended by thousands in the Israeli kibbutz of Reim was one of the gunmen’s first targets after breaching the Gaza border fence.

The video of first appeared online at least four days before Oct. 7. A person speaking in the clip in Hebrew describes the scene as showing Orthodox Jews leaving the Western Wall after prayers.A video of a young girl with a man speaking in Arabic has been shared online with the false description that it shows Hamas militants with a kidnapped girl in the aftermath of the shock offensive.

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