The US-Israel war on Iran:Crimes against Humanity and roots of the Middle East conflict - Opinion | Daily Mirror

Daily Mirror LK · 🇱🇰 public Sri Lanka · Jun 08, 2026 · 1763 words · By DM Editorial

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Reply To: Name - Reply Comment A building in Teheran destroyed by US-Israeli missile attacks Palestinians inspect a site where medics said two Israeli missiles hit a building inside al-Ahli Hospital The Middle East has today turned into a global tinder box.

Claims checked 22

Techniques found 5

Topics 3

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What happened

Why it matters

It could explode at any time, engulfing not only countries of the region, but also dragging the whole world into a nuclear inferno.

Common ground

Israel, carved out of what was once undivided Palestine, is central to the crisis.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

Follow-up questions

What terms are actually in the Iran proposal, and which side would have to compromise first?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Anadolu Agensi reported that Iranian retaliatory strikes caused at least $800 million in direct damage to base infrastructure alone, with overall repair and replacement costs expected to exceed $5 billion?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence

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Appeal to Fear 90% confidence

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Causal Oversimplification 85% confidence

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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 80% confidence

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Claim 1: “Anadolu Agensi reported that Iranian retaliatory strikes caused at least $800 million in direct damage to base infrastructure alone, with overall repair and replacement costs expected to exceed $5 billion.”

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Claim 2: “President Donald Trump sent an official letter to Congress on May 1, 2026, formally declaring that Iranian hostilities were “terminated”.”

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Claim 3: “UNICEF reported: “Since the signing of a ceasefire in April this year, more than 1,309 Palestinian children have reportedly been killed and 3,738 injured”.”

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Claim 4: “The state of Israel itself was carved out of the undivided State of Palestine by the United Nations (UN) in 1948”

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Wikipedia and UN sources confirm the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 following the UN partition of Mandate Palestine.

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web search NEUTRAL — This triggered the 1947–1949 Palestine war and led, in 1948, to the establishment of the state of Israel on a part of Mandate Palestine as the Mandate came to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestinian_stateho…

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 24, 2026 ... One of the two envisaged States proclaimed its independence as Israel and in the 1948 war involving neighbouring Arab States expanded to 77 ...
https://www.un.org/unispal/history/

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web search NEUTRAL — Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish ...
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-isra…

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Claim 5: “During the course of that war Israel occupied large sections of a number of Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq.”

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Claim 6: “The strikes targeted the Iranian head of state, a Montessori girls school, nuclear facilities and military infrastructure.”

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Wikipedia confirms strikes killed Iranian officials including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (head of state). Web search results specifically mention a Tomahawk missile striking the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School (a girls school).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of pro-Palestinian protests in the Netherlands including demonstrations, marches, sit-ins, direct actions, and campus encampments in support of Palestinian rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pro-Palestinian_protes…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Giorgia Meloni (Italian: [ˈdʒordʒa meˈloːni]; born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy since October 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office and…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Meloni government is the 68th and current government of the Italian Republic, the first headed by Giorgia Meloni, leader of Brothers of Italy, who is also the first woman to hold the office of Pri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meloni_government

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Claim 7: “Iran, in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution (11.02.79)”

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Claim 8: “co-ordinated incursions and attacks on Israeli border communities on 7 October 2023”

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Claim 9: “The recent genocidal attack on unarmed Palestinians in Gaza which began on October 2023 has left over 72,000 Palestinians dead, including at least 21,289 children, according to UNICEF.”

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Claim 10: “Iran closed down the Straits of Hormuz, through which over 20 percent of Middle East oil flows to the rest of the world.”

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Claim 11: “armed Jewish militias carried out brazen war crimes against unarmed Palestinian people, one example being the massacre at Deir Yassin. Over 600 Palestinian men, women and children were brutally killed”

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No evidence was provided in the gathered results to verify or disprove the specific numbers or events regarding the Deir Yassin massacre.

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Claim 12: “At the time of the UN Partition Plan in 1947, the Jewish population in Palestine was roughly 630,000 -approximately 33% (one-third) of the total population. The Arab majority accounted for the remaining 67%.”

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Web search results from GSpedia and other sources explicitly state that in 1947, Jews represented approximately 33% of the population in Palestine.

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web search NEUTRAL — In 1947, Jews represented 33% of the population in Palestine but only owned 6% of the land. The United Nations passed Resolution 181, proposing the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
https://upscgspedia.com/history-of-israel-palestine-conflict…

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web search NEUTRAL — In 1967, the ethnic distribution of Jerusalem's population was 74% Jewish, 26% Arab. Today it is 67% Jewish and 33% Arab (680,000 inhabitants).
https://scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S018…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Jewish population in the revised Jewish State would be about half a million, compared to 450,000 Arabs.[89]. The proposed boundaries would also have placed 54 Arab villages on the opposite side of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_…

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Claim 13: “Trump also ordered Israel to sign a ceasefire declaration with Hamas – a militant Palestinian organisation - in April 2023.”

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Claim 14: “In March this year, the New York Times reported it had verified damage to 22 schools and 17 health care facilities in Iran”

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Two separate web search results (one from a Times analysis and one from the NYT Instagram) explicitly state the New York Times verified damage to 22 schools and 17 health care facilities in Iran in April 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times (NYT) is a newspaper based in Manhattan, New York City. The New York Times covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces and reviews. One of the lo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Times Company is an American mass media corporation that publishes The New York Times and its associated publications such as The New York Times International Edition and other media prop…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Connections is a daily category-matching puzzle developed and published by The New York Times as part of The New York Times Games. It was released on June 12, 2023, during its beta phase. It is the se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Connections

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Claim 15: “On February 28 2026, the US and Israel carried out sneak attacks on Iran”

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Multiple independent sources, including Wikipedia and Britannica, confirm that the US and Israel initiated a war/attacks on Iran on February 28, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In 2024, the Iran–Israel proxy conflict escalated to a series of direct confrontations between the two countries in April, July, and October that year. On 1 April, Israel bombed an Iranian consulate c…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Iran–Israel_conflict

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been at war with Iran and its regional allies. Hostilities broke out after US–Israeli airstrikes killed several Iranian officials, including S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict

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Claim 16: “Despite being a minority, the Jews were apportioned 55% of the land in Palestine.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that the UN partition plan allocated 55% of the land to the Jewish state.

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web search NEUTRAL — Under the UN partition plan, immigrating Jews were allocated 55% of the land, encompassing many of the main cities with Palestinian Arab majorities and the important coastline from Haifa to Jaffa.
https://www.welcometopalestine.com/article/palestine-history…

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web search NEUTRAL — In November 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the newly-created United Nations approved a plan to divide Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, against the will of the majority indigenou…
https://imeu.org/resources/resources/quick-facts-the-palesti…

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web search NEUTRAL — The plan allocated 55% of the land to the Jewish state, despite Jews making up only about one-third of the population and owning less than 10% of the land.The Partition of Palestine in 1947 and the cr…
https://scientiaeducare.com/study-notes-on-partition-of-pale…

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Claim 17: “During this same period (Since October 2023 – May 2026) Israel conducted military operations in at least four other sovereign Arab countries -- Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Tunisia.”

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Claim 18: “The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has maintained that Iran has not reached a position to develop nuclear weapons in the near future.”

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Web search results and Wikipedia confirm that the IAEA does not assert Iran has an ongoing nuclear weapons program and that Iran denies seeking such weapons.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran's nuclear program began under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the 1950s as part of the U.S. Atoms for Peace initiative. In 1967, Iran established the Tehran Nuclear Research Center with a U.S.-supp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_nuclear_program…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction and has signed treaties repudiating the development and possession of WMD including the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Biological Weapons …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_weapons_of_mass_destr…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; Persian: برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک, romanized: barnāmeye jāme'e eqdāme moshtarak (برجام, BARJAM)), more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran dea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal

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Claim 19: “Both the US and Israel have in their arsenals nuclear weapons.”

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The US possession of nuclear weapons is a matter of global record. While Israel maintains a policy of ambiguity, the claim is corroborated by cross-references and general knowledge of military relations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Israel lobby in the United States comprises individuals and groups who seek to promote policies favorable to the State of Israel and oppose those they see as hostile to Israel's interests or Zioni…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_lobby_in_the_United_Sta…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Military relations between Israel and the United States have been extremely close, reflecting shared security interests in the Middle East. Israel is designated as a major non-NATO ally by the U.S. go…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_military_…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the 1960s, the relationship between Israel and the United States has grown into a close alliance in economic, strategic and military aspects. The U.S. has provided strong support for Israel; it …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–United_States_relations

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Claim 20: “Thirteen US personnel also died during the conflict.”

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Claim 21: “In 1948, the UN recognised the State of Israel in what was earlier the undivided state of Palestine.”

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Wikipedia and official government press releases confirm the UN and US recognition of the State of Israel in 1948.

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web search NEUTRAL — As of February 2026, the State of Israel is recognized as a sovereign state by 163 of the other 192 member states of the United Nations, or approximately ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_I…

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web search NEUTRAL — Truman recognized the new nation on the same day. Eliahu Elath presenting ark to President Truman. Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration ...
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-isra…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 30, 2025 ... On that same date, the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as de facto authority of ...
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/press-release-a…

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Claim 22: “The Middle East Monitor reported Israel’s Finance Ministry as estimating the cost of 40 days of war on Iran had cost his country around $17.5 billion!”

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