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“Beheaded Babies” Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It

theintercept.com “Beheaded Babies” Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It

The Israel Defense Forces could not confirm a horrific claim that Hamas beheaded babies during a weekend assault, a spokesperson for the military told The Intercept.

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It does sound rather lurid, a bit like Saddam Hussein’s troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators (which turned out to have been made up for selling Operation Desert Storm).

Of course, that’s not ruling it out, though it does feel like someone at some stage may have over-egged the pudding.

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- It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Preying on parental instinct is stupidly easy.
  
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People who believe the baby beheading story would've 100% fallen for the Nariyah testimony about the baby incubators

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I’d say 20% chance the babies never even existed and, if they did, 70% they weren’t beheaded.

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- 100% certain they weren't beheaded or it would have been confirmed by now.
  
  Inevitable that children, including babies, died. And also inevitable that Israelis get much more media attention than Palestinians, before and after they are killed by this wickedness.
  
  Predictable that the media are, often uncritically, publishing calls for the massacre of Palestinians in response, while condemning Hamas for doing exactly what they're demanding Israel do.
  
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  Inevitable that Israel has killed more babies than Palestine in this war. It happens every time.
  
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Yeah if it was real they'd be trumpeting the evidence. It's bullshit of course.

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It has now been confirmed by the IDF and a senior coroner. It was not widespread luckily and only happened in one village. I didn't believe it at first either, and had assumed it was misinformation.

Sad news for sure.

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I read that various journalists had confirmed it with their own eyes, I think French ones.

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- Which ones?
  
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  Must have been either TinTin or Fantasio!
  
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  I dunno, it was some random Twitter post I saw at some point, I can't find it in my history. However I suspect it might've been one of the journalists spreading falsehoods that the article mentioned.
  
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- Well wherever you read that was lying; there has been no first hand confirmation.
  
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  Since when do Hexbears care about facts?
  
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- Well I'm convinced! /s
  
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