• avater@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    would wait until this is independently verified before you drawing this card. Because this is coming from Hamas directly and at the moment there is also speculation that it was a rocket from them itself. But I would hold my conclusion back before more informations are available.

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          Was it? Or is this the babies that were burned to death news? Neither is good, but technically the later still isn't evidence of the former nor does it prove intent (beheading 40 babies is pretty hard to do accidentally, and uncontrolled fire burning two babies can very much be an accident).

          Either way, Hamas did kill civilians, including babies (pretty sure there was one that was shot in addition to the two burned), which is terrible and in no way should they be given any sort of pass just because Israel has previously committed acts of violence. But its still fair to call out fabricated news meant to push for mass killings of civilians, including children and babies.

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        That was already confirmed, including photos. Only, at least some of the photos were originally only shown to selected politicians, diplomats and journalists. Our (czech) ambassador confirmed seeing them, and seeing photos of burned babies as well.

        Some people claimed that these photos were later (officially) made public, but I sure as hell am not going to go looking for them.

        edit: actual sources in a message below

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          That was already confirmed, including photos.

          [Citation needed]

          I went looking and there isn’t much being returned short of 5-6 days ago, but I’ve seen no proof that it happened, only people walking back that they never really saw photos and were taking Israeli spokes-heads at face value. Here’s a Boston globe opinion piece from today that still claims the information is/was unverified.

          Edit: from 5 days ago: Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

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            Our ambassador said this in an interview (machine translated, I’m too lazy):

            There is even talk of beheading children.
            Unfortunately, this is confirmed information, the Israeli government and military have pictures of this, which are really horrible, really horrible.
            Have you seen them yourself?
            Yes, I have seen the pictures.

            The same was said by Jerusalem Post.

            And Here is a tweet by Margot Haddad, a french journalist, editor of La Chaîne Info TV station, who also claims to have seen and cross-checked the photos.

            For me personally this is enough to say “confirmed”.

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          Isn't that three three babies, two of which burned and one was shot? Now don't get me wrong that's still horrible, but "forty babies were beheaded" is… yeah.

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            1 year ago

            I know nothing about the “40 babies” claim, but our ambassador, who to me is a completely trustworthy person, explicitly said that she was shown photos of beheaded babies by Israeli officials.

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            I linked sources in a comment below the one you’re replying to. It is possible that all 3 are mistaken, but since 2 of them are non-israeli and as I know not particularly biased, and you’re still accusing me of being a propagandist, kindly take a walk and stop posting.