The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers beheaded babies during the attack on Saturday, contradicting an earlier statement by the Prime Minister’s office. An Israeli official stated that while there have been cases of Hamas militants committing brutal acts, they cannot confirm the identity of the victims, such as whether they were children, soldiers, or civilians. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had indicated the beheadings occurred, but his office later released photos showing burned bodies without specifying their ages. Explosive allegations about decapitated children emerged earlier in Israeli media, and the Israel Defense Forces described the scene as a “massacre.” However, Hamas denied the allegations, and CNN could not independently verify the claims.
That’s because it was just something said by an angry soldier who’d just finished clearing out his area. It didn’t actually pick up steam right away, however gradually it did. Really didn’t help when Biden repeated it.
This despicably evil person “Nicole Zedeck of Israeli i24 news” is the one that spread the false propaganda of 40 baby beheading.
A lot of people are arguing over specifics of who said what, which random social media post included what, what might have happened, etc.
The point that’s being missed is that spreading unconfirmed information as fact is wrong, and it’s not ok to use it to justify other atrocities.
All the innocent people harmed in this conflict deserve justice, and that information will only come with time and proper investigation. There’s no benefit in running with a report right off the bat, and we should be cautious about any leader / news agency doing that because there ARE groups here trying to take advantage of a crisis.
This isn’t specific to any side with this conflict, nor is it with this conflict in particular
and that will only come with time and proper investigation
I’m not gonna hold my breath.
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We’ll likely know what happened with time and proper investigation and while I hope for justice, I agree that there’s a precedent of that not happening.
Well, well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that people had been beheaded by Hamas in an appearance beside Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday, but did not specify if they were children.
In a roundtable with Jewish community leaders on Wednesday, he said: “I have been doing this a long time, I never really thought that I would see… have confirmed pictures of terrorist beheading children.”
They instead likened Hamas’ brutality to that of ISIS, the Sunni terror group that beheaded captives and burned prisoners alive.
Videos posted online verified by CNN show women who were attending the music festival targeted by the group’s gunmen being kidnapped.
CNN has pored through hundreds of hours of media posted online attempting to corroborate accounts of atrocities committed by Hamas.
In one video, which CNN determined to be authentic but has not been able to geolocate, an assailant attacks an injured man with a garden tool in an attempt to behead him.
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phew, they just shoot and burn the babies, i was scared for a sec
This is just a third hand hearsay by me - but someone claimed in the comments of another posts that he had a friend that had to experience the terror attack in the Bataclan. He explained that the first information that came out, was about certain atrocities that were committed. Later official sources denied that those atrocities happened. His first hand source on the other hand however confirmed that the first Informations were correct and didn’t even scratch the surface.
Why did the Government change the story? I don’t know exactly, but I personally think that they might have done it to limit psychological damage.
Those first person murder movies by Hamas are released for this exact reason - to inflict the maximum possible psychological damage and make peace impossible for generations to come.
Ya. My parents swore up and down that they knew someone from the next town over who worked at a school district where they were installing litter boxes for furries. Surprise, they didn’t because it never happened. Outrageous claims need real proof. Something so inflammatory to influence opinion like this needs 100% verifiable proof.
cool story, bro.
I said that I got it from someone else’s comment- what is so hard to understand about that?
Feeling edgy in general, huh? Maybe you should masturbate more to get a hold of your obvious anger problems.
Oh I get it you support Israeli genocide, noted.
Everyone outside of your narrow mind can see that you are spreading only things that fit your agenda and prejudices.
You are so busy pretending that Israelis are Demons, that you cannot see what a sad and unempathetic Person you are, while doing so. Demonizing other people, demonizes yourself. You have no soul anymore. You have lost your empathy for ANYONE outside your narrow peer group.
Either the Mossad’s competence is under a serious question, which we know is not the case, or the deliberate neglect of a billion-dollar prison fence, leading to multiple breaches by Hamas, and uninterpreted, suggests a premeditated action by the Israeli Mossad.
At this juncture, it’s becoming increasingly plausible that there might be a strategy to cause further destruction in Gaza, followed by a calculated humanitarian agreement allowing Palestinians temporary access to enter Egypt from Rafah, ultimately resulting in the appropriation of Gaza’s land by Israel, as true to tradition.
The extensive military support sent by the U.S. in response to Israel’s actions in Gaza appears highly unusual, given the frequency of such incidents in the past without a similar level of support.
