The White House was forced to walk back on president Joe Biden’s claim to have seen “confirmed pictures” of “terrorists beheading children” in Israel.

The Israel Defence Force previously claimed that at least 40 babies were killed in the Kfar Aza kibbutz over the weekend when the Hamas militant group launched an attack on Israel.

The army later clarified to Anadolu news agency that there was “no information confirming” allegations that “Hamas beheaded babies”.

  • ???@lemmy.worldOP
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    I saw the same report from what you described, and noticed the second time I watched it that no bodies were shown and the journalists specifically said “we heard them say that there were children among the casualties”.

    In the meantime we have pictures of real dead and confirmed children in Gaza. It’s chilling for me to see how the “potential” unproven news of a Israeli children being beheaded is apparently worth (two) million times more than all the Palestinian children shot point blank in the head by Israeli soldiers which has become far too common an occurrence.

    Here’s some confirmed and documented numbers of what Israel does to Palestinian children:

    In the past 23 years, 2293 Palestinian children were killed by Israeli forces.

    And yet despite everything done by these NGOs and human rights groups, Israel did not budge and did not try to improve the conditions for these children in an open air prison

    In the end I do sincerely hope that no child was injured during those attacks (but like I pointed out earlier, this is unlikely… any attack on any civilian area will leave children at huge risk given how vulnerable they are).

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      1 year ago

      Israel has bent over backwards for the people in Gaza, including offering multiple peace deals and land that was literally never “Palestinian” as their own country.

      When terrorists hide in civilian areas, the civilian deaths are the fault of the terrorists, full stop.

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        When terrorists hide in civilian areas, the civilian deaths are the fault of the terrorists, full stop.

        “Look at what you made me do!” - abusers, the world over.