Babies were killed in Israel by Hamas at the kibbutz Kfar Aza, and some of them were beheaded during the surprise attack on the residential community, according to a reporter on the ground for i24 News.
The written i24 news report, by journalist Nicole Zedek says, “About 40 babies and young children have been taken out on gurneys — so far.”
The Jewish Chronicle reported that the reports emanated from Kfar Aza kibbutz near the Gaza border.
You can watch the i24 reporter’s original report, which was shared on X, below. In it, she said that babies were beheaded. i24News is a 24-hour television news channel based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
What you have there is BBC quoting an Israeli military commander. Not BBC verifying beheaded infants. Despite the reporter being on site with corpses around (including dead Hamas), they did not witness beheaded infants. In fact beheading is not even mentioned in connection to babies. Just elsewhere in the quotes.
So yeah, this heavy.com post is a loosey-goosey hype piece.
This is also obviously a horrible attack and indiscriminate with regard to families. I don’t doubt it. I also don’t doubt that any Israeli authority will play it up to the absolute maximum effect, including fabrications.
There was a lot of this around the music festival too. Reported rapes happening amid piles of dead bodies. Really? And who exactly was around long enough to witness that who then got out alive?
Fog of war is a thing. We can’t believe much with 100% confidence right now. Except that Hamas attacked Israel, as they exist to do and have promised repeatedly to do. And that Israel will play for international sympathy to cover the militaristic slaughter of civilians they are about to perpetrate. The military commander literally said as much:
“ … there is a right side and all the world needs to be behind us.”
Plainly a partisan source playing the media for maximum effect and saying it out loud. I’d be very careful about swallowing anything that might be a horror story designed to dehumanize one side. Like so, from the same article.
Animals. Subhumans. But, a short time later, this:
So both sides are “aggressive,” but one side are animals while the other are moral. Yyyyyyyep.
10 hours ago you guys were literally cumming over the amount of blood spilled, now we have something that even basement dwelling neckbeard leninists sqirm at, reported in MULTIPLE sources (of course you are just disputing all of them!) and you are like ‘nuh uh, the peaceful kind hamas would never do such a thing!’
Honestly you are giving Russia a run for its money when it comes to who can be the biggest clown this year
Dude I’m speaking very rationally to you and you are lumping me in with some group of people you think you are arguing with. I had to nag you to just to get you to post a single link.
Try speaking rationally yourself and focusing on sources and what they actually say. You will get further than this pissing and crying you’re doing.
i posted 2 links, you whined about the first so i posted another ‘more reputable’ one and you whined about it too. you can go to literally any news source online right now and see the same story. In fact the only source I couldnt immediately find on the front page was Al Jazeera, but make of that what you will
You are confusing me with someone else. I asked you for a link, you posted BBC. That’s it.
You understand that news sources report what spokespeople say, and not always with any verification of it, right? It doesn’t matter how many news sources report this commander’s statements, that is not “verification.”
I’m in neither side of the Israel/ Palestine conflict and understand both sides better than most. I also understand how news works. You guessed it - I was also a reporter.