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Thanks for joining us on Friday’s Verify Live.

Earlier we were tracking the major attack on Ukraine’s capital and brought you images from verified videos showing the damage caused.

We also covered an attack inside Russia after a Ukrainian drone strike caused a fire at a substation outside Moscow.

Misinformation has been a key theme this afternoon as we explained why you can trust that a video from Tehran showing two blasts, filmed during the 12-day Iran-Israel conflict, is authentic.

The Israel Defence Forces said it had no comment to make about the strikes on 15 June and has not yet responded to a request for comment on reports in Israel that it is investigating the attack shown in the video.

Our journalist on the late shift will be monitoring internet sources for further developments in Gaza, Ukraine and Russia and will be on hand to respond to potential requests to verify material for other parts of the BBC.

We have verified footage showing the aftermath of an Israeli air strike that hit the Mustafa Hafez School in Gaza City in the early hours of 3 July. At least 15 people were reportedly killed and around 20 injured, according to local sources. The school was being used as a shelter by displaced Palestinians.

Night-time footage published by Al Jazeera, external, which was filmed shortly after the strike, shows fires burning throughout the building. Men can be seen carrying out charred bodies, including those of children, and passing buckets of water as they attempt to extinguish the flames and search for survivors. Several of the responders and onlookers appear extremely distressed.

Additional videos filmed after dawn show the scale of the damage with residents sifting through burnt debris and rubble inside and around the school.

We geolocated the incident to the Mustafa Hafez School by matching structural features seen in the videos to satellite imagery. By comparing the night and morning footage, we confirmed they were filmed at the same location. The earliest versions of this footage we’ve found were posted online on the day of the strike.

Israel says its air strikes target Hamas operatives, who it claims hide among the civilian population.