{"id":308997,"date":"2025-08-01T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308997\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T10:27:14","slug":"bbc-verify-live-analysing-blast-in-ukraine-and-india-fighter-jet-losses-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/308997\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Analysing blast in Ukraine and India fighter jet losses disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring US special envoy&#8217;s Gaza trippublished at 10:40 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/b6b4f027-1d45-450c-b3d4-f4e9cdd82ebd.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Paul Brown<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Throughout the day we&#8217;ll be watching US special envoy Steve Witkoff, who is expected to be visiting a US and Israeli-backed aid distribution site in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Footage being widely shared online this morning shows a convoy of vehicles arriving at a site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among those sharing the footage was Itay Blumental, the military correspondent of Israel&#8217;s national broadcaster, who said it shows Witkoff&#8217;s arrival at the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, because it\u2019s been taken from a distance, it isn\u2019t possible for us to confirm Witkoff&#8217;s presence from this footage alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have identified the location as SDS3, which is located between the southern cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis. This was done by matching certain features such as the gate, tent and astroturf to recent satellite imagery from the site. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">SDS3 and the route leading to it have witnessed a series of deadly incidents since GHF operations began in May. These include the deaths of at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg4rwrkdlzxo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 people during a crush at the site on 16 July<\/a>, as confirmed by the GHF itself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A BBC Graphic showing the locations of aid site sin Gaza.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/543d1eb9-4111-435f-987b-44f033cafefd.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"1424\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monitoring US special envoy&#8217;s Gaza trippublished at 10:40 British Summer Time 10:40 BST Paul BrownBBC Verify senior journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-308997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114953037047255598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}