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#Israel-Hamas conflict
Mostly True: As of mid-2023, 50% of all people in Palestine were children.
Defining children as all those under the age of 18, in mid-2023 children were estimated to represent about 44% of the total population in Palestine (41% in the West Bank and 47% in Gaza Strip), according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. (Source: Snopes)
False: “The U.S. is sending $8 billion worth of military aid to Israel.”
A document claiming to show President Joe Biden authorizing the drawdown of $8 billion worth of military aid to Israel is altered.
The real memo was posted on the White House website in July, and it showed a drawdown of up to $400 million to provide assistance to Ukraine. (Source: PolitiFact)
True: Video recorded on Oct. 11, 2023, shows at least two people holding Taliban flags during a pro-Palestine demonstration on the campus of Florida Atlantic University.
It's true that at least two people were holding and waving the same kind of flags used by the Taliban. (Source: Snopes)
#Health
False: The Indian Parliament kicked the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation out of India.
This is false. The Gates Foundation is still working in India and has an office in Delhi. (Source: Full Fact)
Half True: One in three female surgeons have been assaulted by a colleague in the past five years.
This comes from a survey of surgical workers (not just surgeons) that may not be representative, because the responses came from those who chose to participate. However, one survey of almost all the residents in accredited general surgery programmes in the US in 2018 found that about 20% of women and 4% of men had experienced sexual harassment. (Source: Full Fact)
#Nordics
Ikke Dokumenteret: De fleste mennesker vil hellere blive på deres arbejdsplads end at gå på folkepension, hvis de kan
Det findes der ikke nogen dokumentation for. I de undersøgelser, der er lavet, er der nemlig ikke taget hensyn til, om folk rent faktisk kan fortsætte, når de bliver spurgt, om de vil fortsætte. (Source: Tjekdet)
Ikke Dokumenteret: Hamas har halshugget 40 babyer i israelsk kibbutz
Nyheden kom ud, efter det israelske militær havde befriet en kibbutz nær grænsen til Gazastriben og fundet lig af mange israelere. Men der blev hurtigt sået tvivl om påstanden, og hvor tallet 40 kom fra. (Source: Tjekdet)
#Other
True: South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was on the U.S. terrorism watch list until 2008.
The Reagan administration placed Mandela on the list due to the African National Congress’ ties to communist parties. Decades later, U.S. President George W. Bush signed a bill to remove him. (Source: Snopes)
True: A NASA study predicted the future probability that a large asteroid named "Bennu" could collide with Earth.
A 2021 NASA study did indeed determine the probability of Bennu, a large asteroid heavily studied that year, coming into contact with Earth by the year 2300. The report said the likelihood was “very low,” adding that chances equate to 1 in 1,750, or .057% (Source: Snopes)
#WTF?! What The Fact?! of the week
Missing Context: In the UK you can go to prison for not having a TV licence and then watch television in prison without a TV licence.
You can’t be sent to prison for failing to pay your TV licence, though if you fail to pay the fine this can ultimately lead to a custodial sentence. TVs in cells or communal areas within prison grounds do not need to be licensed but prisoners usually have to pay to rent in-cell TVs. (Source: Full Fact)
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