Freed by Palestine | Daily FT
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15 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“Faris Odeh (13) throwing stones at an Israeli tank in the Gaza strip on October 29, 2000. He was killed ten days later.”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm Faris Odeh was photographed throwing stones at a tank on October 29, 2000, and was killed ten days later on November 8, 2000.
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— Ten days later, on 8 November, Odeh was again throwing stones at the Karni crossing when he was fatally wounded by Israeli troops.
https://www.palestinianhistorytapestry.org/tapestry/0660-sta…
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— Ten days later, on 8 November, Odeh was again throwing stones at Karni when he was shot in the neck by Israeli troops.
https://all4palestine.org/ModelDetails.aspx?gid=13&mid=5317&…
https://all4palestine.org/ModelDetails.aspx?gid=13&mid=5317&…
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— Photograph of Odeh throwing a stone at an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada, 29 October 2000.Ten days later, on 8 November, Odeh was again throwing stones at Karni when he was …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faris_Odeh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faris_Odeh
“On 14 May, 1948, the state of Israel was established.”
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The establishment of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948, is a widely documented historical fact confirmed by Wikipedia, Jpost, and other historical records.
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— Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.Further information: Israeli Declaration of Independence. David Ben-Gurion declaring the establishment o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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— On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of Israel, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.On May 14, Britain withdrew with the expiration …
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/14/this-day-in-hi…
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/05/14/this-day-in-hi…
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— To understand the current war in Gaza, you have learn about the founding of the state of Israel and what that meant for the Palestinians who had been living ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6foH3Zc82ZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6foH3Zc82ZQ
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“Mohammed El-Kurd points out in his brilliant work, ‘Perfect Victims’ (Haymarket Books, 2025)”
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Multiple sources, including the publisher Haymarket Books and Middle East Monitor, confirm Mohammed El-Kurd authored 'Perfect Victims' published by Haymarket Books in 2025.
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— Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet who has gained prominence for his description of Palestinians' lives under occupation in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_el-Kurd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_el-Kurd
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— “Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.” —Robin D. G. Kelley. Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and…
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims?pu…
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims?pu…
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— Book Author(s) : Mohammed El-Kurd. Published Date : 2025. Publisher : Haymarket Books.July 22, 2025. PBA 2025: Longlist announced in a landmark year for Palestinian voices. We are honoured to announce…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250630-perfect-victims-a…
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250630-perfect-victims-a…
“Many of them, more than 20,000 of them in fact, have given up their lives in the Gaza genocide alone”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'more' and does not provide any statistics on child casualties in Gaza.
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— 3 days ago · Examples of more in a Sentence Adjective I felt more pain after the procedure, not less. The new engine has even more power. You like more sugar in your tea than I do.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more
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— MORE definition: in greater quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number. See examples of more used in a sentence.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/more
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/more
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— More or less means ‘mostly’, ‘nearly’ or ‘approximately’. We use it in mid position (between the subject and main verb, or after the modal verb or first auxiliary verb, or after be as a main verb).
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/more
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/more
“17,000 that lost both their parents, 4,000 who lost limbs”
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There is a contradiction in the meaning of '17,000'. One source states 17,000 children lost both parents, while a Guardian report citing UNICEF states 17,000 children are 'unaccompanied and separated', which is a different metric. Evidence for the 4,000 limbs is not explicitly quantified in the provided snippets, only that 'more than 10 children a day' lose legs.
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— Injured Palestinian children are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. It is estimated that more than 10 children a day lose one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted [File: Ali Jadallah…
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/15/he-was-nameless…
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/2/15/he-was-nameless…
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— Beyond losing both parents, the young boy also lost his three siblings during the conflict, leaving him in the care of his aunt in Gaza City. His case represents not just individual tragedy, but a dem…
https://laera.mx/en/international/gazas-orphan-crisis-17000-…
https://laera.mx/en/international/gazas-orphan-crisis-17000-…
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— According to Unicef, 17,000 children are now unaccompanied and separated in Gaza, and vulnerable to myriad threats including physical and sexual abuse and exploitation.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/22/they-cant-sl…
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/22/they-cant-sl…
“The car her family was traveling in was attacked by the Israeli forces, killing everyone but her [Hind Rajab].”
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Wikipedia, CNN, and Forensic Architecture all report that Hind Rajab's family was killed by Israeli forces and that she was the sole survivor of the initial attack.
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— Hind Rami Iyad Rajab was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza war, which also killed six of her family members and two paramed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
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— CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports on the story of Hind, a 6-year-old Palestinian girl trapped in a car for days after her family came under Israeli fire while t...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKIg-UkHEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKIg-UkHEE
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— Investigation reveals Rajab's car was hit with 335 bullets and finds it 'not plausible' that Israeli tank couldn't see children inside car. Five-year-old Hind Rajab's mother said she was injured and t…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/forensic-architecture-pro…
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/forensic-architecture-pro…
“When help finally arrived, IOF obliterated even that ambulance, killing the first responders.”
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Wikipedia and other reports confirm that the ambulance sent to rescue Hind Rajab was attacked, resulting in the deaths of the paramedics/first responders.
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— Hind Rami Iyad Rajab was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza war, which also killed six of her family members and two paramed…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab
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— The Israeli army gave no warning before attacking the ambulance, previous investigations have found. ‘I have taken the investigations done by a number of independent journalistic outfits.
https://wrp.org.uk/features/clear-evidence-that-the-killing-…
https://wrp.org.uk/features/clear-evidence-that-the-killing-…
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— Israel denies responsibility for Hind Rajab's death.The PRCS said they coordinated with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) when they sent the ambulance to rescue Hind.
https://abcnews.com/International/killing-5-year-girl-gaza-s…
https://abcnews.com/International/killing-5-year-girl-gaza-s…
“Forensic analysis determined that 335 bullets had been fired at Hind’s car from a tank positioned some dozen metres away”
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The specific figure of 335 bullets is mentioned in one Forensic Architecture probe result. The other evidence provided for this claim are general dictionary definitions of 'forensic' and 'forensic science', which do not corroborate the specific number.
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— Apr 29, 2026 · forensic science, the application of the methods of the natural and physical sciences to matters of criminal and civil law.
https://www.britannica.com/science/forensic-science
https://www.britannica.com/science/forensic-science
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— Forensic scientists collect, preserve, and analyze evidence during the course of an investigation. While some forensic scientists travel to the scene of the crime to collect the evidence themselves, o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_science
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— 2 days ago · The noun forensic, meaning “an argumentative exercise” derives from the adjective forensic, whose earliest meaning in English is “belonging to, used in, or suitable to courts or to public…
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forensic
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forensic
“Fatima Khamees Alyaan Abu-Shammala, a 90-year-old survivor of the original Nakba of 1948, who was again displaced in the current genocide.”
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“Bisan Owda and Plestia Alaqad. Both young journalists in their twenties survived the genocide”
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No evidence was found for these specific journalists in the provided search results.
“Bisan from Gaza, I’m still alive [show on Al Jazeera]”
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“Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered in 2022 while she was covering an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp.”
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“Just last month, 9-year-old Ritaj Rihan was killed by gunfire while she was studying in a makeshift classroom in Beit Lahia”
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“Intifada of Stones, 1987–1993”
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“Mahmoud Darwish, the national poet of Palestine.”
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