Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’re about to close this live page, but there’s more to come from the team.

Earlier today we tracked air drop operations in Gaza - including some aid that landed in an area declared a “dangerous combat zone”.

We verified a video showing a man, apparently carrying a weapon, near the scene of a shooting in BangkokAnd we debunked misinformation about a job advertisement for a “Sharia Law Administrator”, which has been shared by several MPs

Later, we will be publishing Ben Chu’s analysis of what the trade deal between the US and the EU means for the UK.And we will be looking out for footage of aid entering Gaza.

BBC Verify Live will be back on Tuesday.

We’ve been investigating footage of aid drops into Gaza, following Israel’s announcement to pause military operations in parts of Gaza for 10 hours each day to allow access to aid.

It comes as the UN warns Gaza faces “man-made mass starvation”. Accusations which Israel rejects.BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas has more

Alex Murray
BBC Verify journalist

Yesterday, Jordan reported that, along with the UAE, it had airdropped a total of 25 tonnes of food into Gaza.

Since the resumption of aid deliveries in May, the average food aid truck has carried about 21 tonnes of supplies, based on data from the Israeli military’s Cogat department.

The total aid dropped into Gaza by parachute yesterday was therefore only slightly more than a single truck of food aid entering by land.

On the same day, 120 trucks of aid were collected and distributed within Gaza by the UN and other international organisations, according to Cogat.

Dropping aid from planes has made up only a very small proportion of the overall total reaching Gaza since the conflict began.

Prior to this weekend’s airdrops, just 3% of the total had come in this way - most of this in March and April 2024.

Lucy Gilder
BBC Verify journalist

Image source, Reuters

A job advertisement for a “Sharia Law Administrator” has gone viral on X and has been shared by several MPs.

Reform UK MP leader Nigel Farage and his deputy Richard Tice have alleged the UK government is hiring for the position.

Tice asked on X why the government is recruiting for the post, external and Farage said during a press conference this morning that “the British government is applying online on find a job for a sharia law coordinator.”

Farage also commented on X - in a post that’s been viewed four million times, external - “our country and its values are being destroyed.”

The job ad is no longer available but an archived version can be accessed by using an internet archiving tool, external.

While the ad was posted on a job search website, run by the government, it was an Islamic charity called Manchester Community Centre that was hiring for the role - not the government itself.

Sharia councils have existed in the UK since the 1980s and have no official legal or constitutional role in the country. , external

Most of their work deals with religious marriage arbitration and they may also rule on financial matters.

Image source, Gov.uk

Thomas Spencer and Sherie Ryder
BBC Verify

This morning we have been verifying footage and photos that show the aftermath of a reported Russian attack that hit an apartment block in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

At least eight people were reported to have been wounded in the attack.

By using both Google Map’s Street View and other archive imagery, we have matched this to social media posts that show distinctive features of the building and surrounding area in Kyiv’s Darnytskyi District.

Image source, Google Maps

In one clip we spotted a florist and an interior design shop with debris in front, which helped us to geolocate the incident to a residential complex.

We carried out reverse image searches to confirm the material was from today.

BBC Verify continues to monitor the waves of Russian drone and missile attacks that hit Ukraine’s towns and cities.

Ben Chu
BBC Verify policy and analysis correspondent

Image source, Reuters

President Trump is meeting UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Scotland today to discuss trade, among other things.

Over the weekend, Trump agreed a deal on tariffs with the EU, having agreed one with the UK in May - so what's the difference between the two agreements?

When it comes to headline tariff rates on goods, the UK's 10% agreed with Washington is lower than the EU’s 15%.On the face of it, that difference in the tariff rate could advantage UK-based firms that are competing with EU based companies for sales into the US.

However, there a complexities in the agreements that make it tricky to compare.

For instance, in the case of car exports, the UK-US agreement says that exports of cars from the UK to the US will face a 10% tariff, which is lower than, external the 15% rate that will be faced by EU manufacturers selling cars in the US.

However, the UK's 10% rate only applies to a quota of 100,000 vehicles a year, which is roughly, external what the UK sells into the US at the moment.

Each vehicle sold above that quota would be hit with the US’s 25% global tariff on car imports, which would be higher than the 15% tariff apparently facing all EU car exports.

No text of the EU-US agreement has yet been published.

Shruti Menon and Kumar Malhotra
BBC Verify

Image source, X

We’ve verified a video showing a man, apparently carrying a weapon, near the scene of a mass shooting in Bangkok that has left six people dead, including the gunman.

The footage shows the man with what looks like a gun in his right hand, walking away from two motionless figures lying on the road.

We’ve checked that the video is from today, and located it to a street near the popular Or Tor Kor market in Bangkok by comparing it to images on Google Earth, and other footage.

The man in the video is wearing a black shirt, camouflage shorts, a cap and a backpack, similar to a description of the suspected gunman reported in Thai media.

We’ve seen another video which shows the armed man on the same street, turning a corner with the two bodies in the foreground.

Thai police have told our colleagues at BBC Thai that the gunman opened fire at security guards due to a personal conflict.

We’ll continue to verify more footage from the incident as it emerges.

Daniel Wainwright
Senior BBC Verify data journalist

The European Union has agreed a trade deal with Donald Trump that will see a blanket tariff of 15% on most EU goods imported into the US, rather than the 30% that was threatened.

Tariffs on imports from around the world have seen US customs revenue reach record highs since they were introduced in April.

Since 2020, monthly “customs and certain excise taxes” reported by the US government would typically bring in between $7bn and $10bn.

But in April 2025, income jumped to over $17bn and rose again to $28bn in June.

Data up to last Thursday, external saw July’s current total stand at $27.3bn and counting.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said earlier this month that tariff income could reach $300 billion by the end of 2025.

Kevin Nguyen and Alex Murray
BBC Verify

While the air-dropped aid packages in Gaza are our main focus today, we’ve also looked at the separate packages that have been delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The GHF, a group backed by Israel and the US, has been operating in Gaza since late May. It says that by the end of last week it had distributed 91 million meals, in the form of food boxes.

We asked nutritional experts to examine the contents of a “benchmark” box, which contains mainly dried goods, similar to those posted by GHF on X.

"In essence, this basket provides a full stomach but an empty diet," according to Stuart Gordon, Professor of Humanitarian Aid at the London School of Economics.

"A diet like this over weeks would lead to 'hidden hunger', increasing the risk of diseases like anaemia and scurvy" he said.

If you missed it, you can read more of our analysis of GHF food aid box contents here.

Benedict Garman
BBC Verify senior journalist

We’re continuing to track air-dropped aid packages in Gaza - including whether they are landing in areas which are safely accessible.

Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared videos, external of the resumption of air drops of aid packages into Gaza, which it said contained flour, sugar, and canned food.

But we’ve geolocated video of seven packages falling to the ground, showing them landing nearly 1km (0.6 miles) inside a part of north Gaza the IDF has explicitly declared a “dangerous combat zone” according to its own map, which it shared multiple times yesterday, external and which it had warned Gazans not to enter.

The map was released alongside an announcement about a humanitarian pause in military operations in specific areas. It features areas shaded red and white.

The white areas indicate where military activity is to be suspended during certain hours. However, the Israeli military has explicitly warned people not to return to the areas marked in red, saying it would put their lives at risk.

We asked the IDF why it dropped aid into a “dangerous combat zone” zone. It said it had “no comment on this matter”.

Tom Edgington
BBC Verify live editor

Hello and thank you for joining us for today’s BBC Verify Live.

Israel has begun a 10-hour pause in military activity in parts of Gaza to allow more aid to be distributed. We’re tracking air drop operations, including some that landed in an area that was declared a “dangerous combat zone”.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will meet US President Donald Trump in Scotland later. Trade is one of the topics up for discussion as Starmer seeks to reduce the US-imposed 25% tariff on British steel. We’ll be unpicking the US-UK trading relationship in light of the deal Trump struck with the EU at the weekend.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is due to give a press conference later this morning on crime and policing. Our fact-checkers will be following it.