The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public statement by the Prime Minister’s office.
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.
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
Just like "communist" states don't actually practice communism, the term "Zionist" has become conflated with Israeli colonialism in Palestine. The dictionary definition no longer matches the common usage of the word.
Pretty much. Zionist believe that Jews should have their own homeland, and that homeland should be Israel. Anti-zionists would argue they either shouldn't have Israel, or shouldn't have a homeland at all depending on how far down the rabbit hole they've gone.
"Antizionism" is a made-up term to mask one's antisemitism. An antisemite cannot today say that they want Jewish people to cease to exist, they'd love to be able to say it but they just can't, so he/she will instead adopt another banner that's being made more and more acceptable by mainstream media: "antizionism". It's technically less "extreme" (in the sense that it doesn't target an entire ethnicity anymore, at least on paper), but it's still evil and it's basically saying that either 1- Israel should be destroyed or 2- Israel should cease to exist by making all Israelis leave their country. It's the tankies' favorite term too.
It's one of many disgusting play with words that mainstream media is feeding us with. Just like we are made to say "pro-life" instead of simply "antiabortionist", because words have power. When those people are saying that they're "pro-life" they start feeling good about themselves, and they don't feel like they are taking something away from someone, unlike "antiabortionist", while both actually mean the same. That's exactly the same with "antizionism" and antisemitism.
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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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.
White House retracted President Joe Biden's statement in which he claimed to have seen images of beheaded children in the aftermath of a Hamas attack on Israel.