Activists hang Palestinian flag on the Eiffel Tower for Nakba Day

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · May 15, 2026 · 60 words

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Claim 1: “on the 78th anniversary of the Nakba”

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Multiple independent web search results (IMEMC News and other news reports) explicitly mention the commemoration of the 78th anniversary of the Nakba.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Ongoing Nakba" (Arabic: النکبة المستمرة, romanized: al-nakba al-mustamirra) is a historiographical framework and term that interprets the Palestinian "Nakba" or "catastrophe" as a still emerging and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ongoing_Nakba

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Nakba (Arabic: النَّكْبَة, romanized: an-Nakba, lit. 'the catastrophe') is the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs by Israel through their violent displacement and dispossession of land, propert…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nakba Day (Arabic: ذكرى النكبة, romanized: Ḏikrā an-Nakba, lit. 'Memory of the Catastrophe') is the day of commemoration for the Nakba, also known as the Palestinian Catastrophe, when the Palestinian …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day

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Claim 2: “Activists hang Palestinian flag on the Eiffel Tower for Nakba Day”

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While the evidence confirms that Nakba Day protests occurred globally and that activists have scaled the Eiffel Tower in the past, there is no specific evidence in the provided results confirming that a Palestinian flag was hung on the Eiffel Tower for Nakba Day.

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web search NEUTRAL — Palestinians have marked Nakba Day, when the State of Israel was founded in a war in 1948.Demonstrations and marches have been held to commemorate the 67th a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnUsr5KmG48

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web search NEUTRAL — Palestinians mark Nakba Day. Live updates ended.Protesters carried the Iraqi and Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against Israel, witnesses said. Some demonstrators set fire to the Israeli and US…
https://www.dw.com/en/pro-palestinian-protesters-march-in-ma…

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web search NEUTRAL — Protesters march during a Free Palestine Nakba Day rally in Melbourne, Australia. [James Ross/EPA]. Protests held against Israel's attacks on Gaza on the anniversary of the Nakba in Stockholm, Sweden.…
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/5/18/pro-palestinian-…

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Claim 3: “Members of Extinction Rebellion France, an environmental and social activism group, scaled the Eiffel Tower”

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The Independent explicitly reports that Extinction Rebellion activists scaled the Eiffel Tower, and Wikipedia confirms the nature of the group.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is also the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh-largest by population, with over 213…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Citizens Convention for Climate is a citizens' assembly held in 2019 and 2020 which discussed reducing France's carbon emissions by 40% from its 1990 levels in a spirit of social justice. It was i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — France, officially the French Republic, is a country primarily located in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

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