Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

It’s been a busy day at BBC Verify Live as we continued to investigate the aid situation in Gaza.

The team found multiple instances of aid falling into areas designated a “dangerous combat zone” by the Israeli military. Our analysis of recent satellite images showed thousands of Palestinians crowding aid trucks.

Elsewhere, we showed how X’s AI chatbot appeared to have misidentified the source of an image of a young girl trying to access food in Gaza.

Later this evening, we’ll be publishing a fact-check video of President Trump’s claim from earlier this week about wind turbines killing whales. You’ll be able watch it on the BBC’s social media platforms

And our late shift team will monitor the aid situation in Gaza after the pause in military activity in the region is lifted.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

Earlier this morning we heard reports that al-Awda hospital in the central Nuseirat area said at least 30 people, including 14 women and 12 children, were killed in attacks on homes overnight and this morning.

Whenever we hear about incidents like this, we check different social media platforms for footage to help corroborate details.

There were a couple of graphic videos on Instagram and Telegram, which showed widespread destruction and multiple bodies - some in body bags, others lying amid rubble - and a man holding a bloodied, motionless baby.

From the footage alone, we can't confirm the number of strikes, what munitions were used, or how many people were killed. But, we have geolocated the clips, published first thing this morning, to the outskirts north of Nuseirat, near Wadi Gaza river.

While this location is in the area covered by the Israeli military’s recently announced “tactical humanitarian pause”, the strikes were carried out in the early hours, prior to the pause taking effect.

Image source, Instagram

Israel has responded to intense international criticism and allowed aid airdrops in Gaza - but we've found that in several cases aid has fallen into areas the Israeli military has declared as a “dangerous combat zone”.

Watch the report here from Merlyn Thomas at the BBC Verify studio:

This video report has replaced an earlier version which incorrectly described the day an aid video was published.

Simran Sohal
BBC Verify

Image source, Reuters

As part of President Trump’s four-day visit to Scotland he has been meeting with First Minister John Swinney to discuss, among other things, the tariffs on Scotch whisky.

A 10% tax was imposed on most UK exports to the US in April and the First Minister wants whisky to be exempted from this.

Swinney previously told the BBC that “the application of tariffs is increasing the costs for the Scotch whisky industry”.

Before the 10% tariff was imposed there had been a zero tariff since March 2021. Between October 2019 and March 2021 there was a 25% tariff.

Trump has said he “didn’t know whisky was a problem”.

Shayan Sardarizadeh
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, AP

X’s AI chatbot Grok appears to have misidentified the source of an image of a young girl trying to access food in Gaza.

The image - captured by AP photographer Abdel Kareem Hana in Gaza City - shows a girl among a crowd of people holding out food bowls.

In response to a query about the source, Grok claimed the image “is not from Gaza. It depicts a Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS violence in Iraq/Syria, taken on August 13, 2014 at the border crossing in Fishkhabour."

Several users then re-shared the photograph, accusing it of being a “lie” or “propaganda” and accumulating millions of views in the process.

Grok’s mistake - or hallucination - may stem from images taken in 2014 of a Yazidi girl in Fishkhabour who bears a resemblance to the one in the Gaza photo.

While the two images are clearly different to human eyes, the visual similarities seem to have led Grok to conflate them.

When challenged, Grok doubled down on its conclusion. But in a later post, which received significantly fewer views, the chatbot correctly acknowledged the , externalsource , externalof the photograph, external. Yet the misleading posts about the origin of the photograph remain on the platform.

We’ve contacted X for comment but have not yet received a response.

Yi Ma
BBC Verify

Heavy rainfall is sweeping across northern China, triggering floods and landslides that have now reached the capital, Beijing. According to Chinese state media, at least 30 people have died and over 80,000 residents evacuated.

Videos of the flooding are circulating on social media. We're working to verify them.

One clip we have authenticated, external shows a residential area of Miyun District - one of Beijing's hardest-hit northeastern areas. Filmed from a high-rise, the clip shows the ground floor of apartment buildings submerged and cars overturned.

We verified the footage by matching building layouts and street features using Chinese mapping service Baidu Map. Reverse image searches confirmed these videos hadn't appeared on social media prior to yesterday.

Beijing has shut down major tourist attractions for the day. While rainfall is said to continue, state media reports that it is beginning to weaken.

Image source, X

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

Image source, Telegram

We have verified social media footage of the moment a drone struck a railway station in Russia’s southern Rostov region. The attack caused damage to trains and infrastructure.

In two video clips filmed from different locations, we hear explosions and see a huge fire erupting and lighting up the night sky. In two other clips, filmed from near a footbridge, a huge fire can be seen burning and a cargo train on fire.

By comparing the buildings and structures visible in the clips with Google Street View, we've confirmed the footage was filmed in and around the Salsk railway station in the Rostov region. This matches local media reports that the station was hit overnight.

Regional authorities say there were no injuries or deaths.

Russian Railways, the state-owned railway operator, earlier said two carriages of a passenger train had been damaged and services had been disrupted.

An update from the operator on social media platform Telegram says transport has since resumed “using a temporary route bypassing the damaged section.”

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

The desperation of Palestinians in Gaza is visible from space as newly-published satellite imagery showed thousands of people surrounding lorries carrying aid on Saturday.

The image, released by Planet Labs, shows dense crowds gathered around 15 aid trucks. We can’t confirm the exact number of trucks because they are barely visible through the mass of bodies.

It was taken about 200m north of the Israeli military partition known as the Morag corridor, which runs across the Gaza Strip and separates the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah. The queue of people stretches for 2km (1.25 miles) north of the trucks towards Khan Younis.

Context: We don't usually get access to satellite imagery in real time. There is often a delay of a few days before imagery is available for us to analyse.

The scene matches several videos we’ve verified from the ground - like the one below - which was published on Sunday afternoon around the same time of day as the satellite image was taken. Our team geolocated it to the same area.

Image source, Instagram

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’ve been monitoring evacuation notices and areas the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has designated military zones since the ceasefire ended in March. This allows us to assess which areas of Gaza are effectively inaccessible to people living there.

The most recent official evacuation notice was issued just over a week ago for parts of Deir al Balah.

However, a map released on Sunday by the IDF designated a new section of central Gaza as a “dangerous combat zone,” without providing an evacuation notice for the area.

The map divides areas into white and red zones, indicating whether they are covered by the recently announced “tactical” humanitarian pause or remain permanent danger zones. It warns people inside the Strip that entering a red zone “is dangerous and puts your life at risk.”

The newly-affected area is called Al Mughraqa, north east of Nuseirat - highlighted in dark red on the map below. It covers about 3.7 sq kms and is now marked as a red “dangerous” zone.

Gazans had already been displaced from this area, which served as part of an Israeli-controlled military corridor before the ceasefire. It has likely remained uninhabited, as satellite imagery shows that nearly every building has been completely demolished.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify live editor

Good morning and welcome to Tuesday’s BBC Verify Live.

We’re continuing to investigate the aid situation in Gaza, where aid distribution is ongoing following Israel’s announcement of a “local tactical pause in military activity”. The pause was announced on Sunday after aid groups warned of mass starvation.

Overnight, one of our open-source reporters obtained a new satellite image which shows what appears to be aid trucks surrounded by crowds - we’ll bring you that shortly. We’re also verifying footage of overnight strikes in Gaza which reportedly killed 30 people.

Elsewhere, people on X appear to have been misled by the AI chatbot Grok over an image of a young girl trying to access food in Gaza. Our disinformation team will have more on that soon.

And while Gaza remains our main focus today, we’re also verifying footage of Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia’s southern Rostov region that hit a railway station. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, a Russian airstrike hit a prison in Zaporizhzhia.