Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

That’s nearly all from Verify live today, but there’s more to come from the team here in the London newsroom.

Look out for a BBC Verify piece on the BBC News website digging into the numbers behind the UK government’s changes to disability benefits. The proposals have been discussed in the House of Commons this afternoon and will be voted on on Tuesday.

Our late team will be continuing to check footage from Gaza following a wave of Israeli air strikes and looking out for evidence from Iran about the state of its nuclear facilities after Israeli and US attacks.

You can also catch up with all our published work on the BBC Verify pages of the BBC website.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Planet Labs

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said it will "temporarily" close the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation-run Tal al-Sultan aid site and "establish a new distribution center nearby". The IDF says the move is "based on lessons previously learned”.

Having analysed recent satellite imagery - both high resolution from 26 June and lower resolution captured today - and cross-referenced it with photographs from the IDF, we believe the new distribution site is located less than 1km due north of the Tal al-Sultan site, directly adjacent to al-Rashid coastal road.

However, in the most recently available satellite imagery, the site does not yet look complete.

An image captured by Planet Labs today appears to show construction vehicles like bulldozers preparing an area of about 3 acres (1.2 hectares).

The same image also shows concrete blocks spread across the coastal road to prevent vehicle access. This looks to be the same roadblock shown in a photo in the IDF press release, external. Armoured vehicles appear to be stationed nearby.

Until recently, this area - a junction leading away from the coast towards the existing aid site - saw hundreds of Palestinians gather ahead of collecting supplies.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

In the last few hours several very graphic videos have been published online alongside reports of a strike in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City.

One video, which we've geolocated to Wehda Street by cross-referencing the scene with pre-war dashcam footage posted on the internet, shows paramedics putting a body covered with a sheet into an ambulance.

Another video, verified by matching elements in it with the first footage we checked, shows at least six people lying bloodied and motionless on the floor.

A third video is filmed nearby and shows people being removed from the same scene on a red trailer.

This strike location is outside any of the areas described in evacuation notices issued by the Israel Defense Forces since the ceasefire in March.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has been outlining the concessions she has agreed to after criticism by Labour backbenchers of the government’s plans to change disability benefits.

It comes ahead of a vote in the House of Commons tomorrow.

BBC Verify’s Ben Chu has been looking at the background to these changes.

Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify journalist

We have verified footage of the aftermath of what appears to be an air strike on a beachside cafe in Gaza City in which, according to local medics and eyewitnesses, at least 20 people were killed.

The videos we’ve seen show motionless and bloodied bodies as well as severely injured people being carried from the cafe. Among the casualties seen in the footage are several elderly people and women with at least one child being carried out.

The cafe is located in a busy part of the city and is frequently crowded with families. It is not inside one of the evacuation zones published by the Israel Defense Forces.

Image source, X

Joshua Cheetham, Benedict Garman, Richard Irvine-Brown and Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify

We’re investigating reports from earlier today of an air strike hitting the grounds of a hospital in central Gaza where people displaced by the war have been living in tents.

We’ve verified two videos showing people rushing towards structures to the north-west of the main buildings at al-Aqsa Martyr’s Hospital. One video also shows smoke or dust coming from the same location.

Image source, Instagram

Israel has not yet confirmed it carried out a strike on this hospital in Deir al-Balah today.

Thousands of people have sought safety at the hospital during the conflict, but satellite images indicate that in recent months the number of tents has greatly reduced, indicating many people may have relocated elsewhere.

The hospital grounds have been struck repeatedly during the conflict and we have verified at least 10 previous strikes and one on a mosque directly opposite.

We’re continuing to verify footage said to show other incidents in Gaza today.

Ben Chu and Tom Edgington
BBC Verify

We’ll get more details of the UK government’s amended plans to change welfare later when Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall gives a statement to the House of Commons at about 15:30 BST.

The government says reform is necessary to deal with an increase in the number of people claiming health-related benefits.

In 2019 almost three million working-age adults in England and Wales claimed either disability or incapacity benefit - that's one in 13 of the population.

As of March 2025, this had grown to about four million, or one in 10 of the population, according to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).

The rise in claims for disability benefits since 2019 looks to have been largely driven by claimants citing a mental or behavioural condition as their main reason for applying.

According to data from the IFS, claims in the “mental and behavioural disorders” category now account for 7.5% of all claims - up from around 4% in 2002.

Yi Ma
BBC Verify researcher

Image source, Reuters

New figures released by Beijing today show that by the end of 2024, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had passed 100 million members for the first time - meaning roughly one in every 14 people in China is a party member.

The number of CCP members has grown by nearly 15% over the past decade from 87.8 million in 2014 to 100.3 million.

One of the reasons why more people are joining is that membership is seen as a career asset - especially as party affiliation is often a requirement for government jobs.

In recent years the growth in party membership has been presented as a sign of the CCP’s legitimacy and popularity. That shift in tone coincided with political pressures at home - including the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the COVID-19 pandemic - and Beijing’s desire to promote messages of public unity and loyalty. In 2021, for example, CCP membership jumped by 3.7% in a single year - a sharp rise compared with other years.

Once accepted, members are expected to contribute dues and may be mobilised in times of need. During the pandemic, for example, many were deployed to support lockdowns and community controls.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

BBC Verify is dedicated to examining the facts and claims behind a story to try to determine whether or not it is true - whether that’s a political statement, a video shared on social media, or images from a war zone.

And we’re also keen to hear from you - is there something you think we should investigate? We're particularly interested in claims you have heard or seen that maybe don’t seem right.

Or perhaps you’ve come across something online and want to know if it was created using AI or even a deepfake.

You can send your suggestions to the team here.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

In the UK we’re expecting a statement in the House of Commons later from Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall setting out changes the government is making to its planned overhaul of benefits in the face of a significant backbench rebellion.

This comes ahead of a vote tomorrow that could potentially still see dozens of Labour MPs rebel against the government - even after Kendall agreed to make concessions.

We know the government has agreed to protect existing claimants from changes to Personal Independence Payments (Pip) and the health-related element of universal credit.

But questions about the concessions remain, such as how long someone can be off the benefits to be counted as a new claimant.

There is also expected to be a review of the assessment process for Pip carried out by Disability Minister Sir Stephen Timms, although it is not clear exactly what he will be looking at or who will be affected.

Paul Brown, Benedict Garman, Sherie Ryder and Sebastian Vandermeersch
BBC Verify

Image source, INSTAGRAM

Across the past two days BBC Verify has continued to monitor events around Gaza City, verifying images for other BBC teams to use in their coverage.

We have verified the aftermath of incidents at three locations:

• At the corner of Salah al-Din road, the main north-south route through the strip, we’ve footage on Saturday showing at least two motionless, bloodied bodies, damage and a small fire
• A mile and a half (2.5km) to the west, further into the city, we could see people digging with their hands as emergency vehicles arrived following a reported air strike. We know from satellite imagery taken the previous day there were tents in this area
• On Sunday, we’ve identified video showing smoke and dust following a reported air strike in Jabalia to the north of the city. There are at least three more videos from that day said to be from Jabalia and we are checking whether they match what we know already

Elsewhere, video filmed at al-Ahli Hospital in the heart of Gaza City showed hundreds of leaflets being dropped. A close-up image, said to be from one of the leaflets, showed the latest evacuation orders for people in the area.

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

As we mentioned in the previous post - the latest satellite images from Maxar show signs of some work under way at the Fordo facility where the Iranian government has been enriching uranium.

This image shows activity at another part of the complex damaged in Israeli strikes that followed the American bombing.

Kayleen Devlin and Benedict Garman
BBC Verify

Satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies shows heavy construction equipment operating at the Fordo nuclear facility in Iran - one of the sites targeted by the US military.

Images from 29 June show an excavator and crane at the top of a newly constructed access road close to an area targeted by the American bunker-busting bombs. Further down the mountainside, a bulldozer and lorry are visible.

Construction vehicles are also working at the entrance to the site and at a bombed building on the east side of the complex - both of which were damaged in Israeli strikes the day after the US attacks.

According to nuclear weapons expert David Albright, who analysed imagery of the same site taken on 28 June, the construction work may include backfilling the craters, carrying out engineering damage assessments and radiological sampling.

Following the US strikes President Donald Trump said they had “obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities.

Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Friday that Iran could resume uranium enrichment “in a matter of months.”

Rob Corp
BBC Verify Live editor

Good morning from BBC Verify Live - our daily updates on the work of our fact-checkers, video verifiers, disinformation debunkers and data journalists.

Following our morning meeting this is what we're going to be looking at today:

• Newly released satellite imagery of the Fordo uranium enrichment site in Iran appears to show signs of activity following US and Israeli air attacks
• We'll also pull together verified video we've gathered from Gaza after the Israel Defense Forces issued evacuation notices for parts of the northern strip
• We're also investigating how many people are likely to be affected by the government's planned changes to benefits ahead of tomorrow's Commons vote - which could see a sizeable Labour rebellion

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