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Israelis doing damage control after false children beheading claims

  • By Al Mayadeen English
  • Source: News outlets + Social Media
  • 12 Oct 2023 23:38
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According to Sulaiman Ahmed, an investigative journalist, "Israel" is yet to provide evidence surrounding its unsubstantiated claims of beheaded babies by Hamas.

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    British printed media headlines spreading fake news regarding Hamas allegedly "beheading children" (Source: Socialistworker.co.uk)

According to Sulaiman Ahmed, an investigative journalist, "Israel" is now attempting to do damage control following their false claims of Hamas beheading babies. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a post showing several pictures of what seems to be dead children that these were the photos he showed to US State Secretary Antony Blinken.

An Israeli official told CNN today that the Israeli government has not verified the particular claim that Hamas gunmen severed the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday. This goes against a previous public declaration made by the Prime Minister's office.

The White House clarified on Thursday that US President Joe Biden and other American officials have neither witnessed nor independently confirmed that Palestinian Resistance fighters beheaded Israeli children, hours after Biden blindly adopted the false Israeli claims that were widely circulated by Western media in an attempt to defame and satanize the Resistance.

Factcheck: 'Israel' has no information on Hamas murdering babies

The White House statement comes after Biden told Jewish leaders at the White House, "It is important for Americans to see what is happening. I have been doing this for a long time. I never thought that I would see, or have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children."

Even Western media outlets such as NBC, CBS, CTV,  and CNN, have reported on the false claims and have been forced to admit that no such evidence has been released by Israeli officials. NBC even acknowledges that "Unverified and false information spreads quickly on social media."

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Ahmed writes on X that the images released by Netanyahu do nothing to prove the circumstances of the alleged "beheadings," nor do they provide any evidence of how such children were targeted.

Check: Journalist from "Kfar Aza" media tour denies 'beheading' narrative

He speculates they may be targets of rockets that have been fired, and emphasizes that "Israel" is no champion of child protection as it has killed over 300 Palestinian children since Saturday.

Ahmed remarks "If any deceased baby implies deliberate targeting and killing, the same principle applies to Palestinian infants. However, they do not view Palestinian children and infants as human beings."

FAKE NEWS: DEAD BABY PROPAGANDA BY THE MEDIA AND SHAPIRO

The story about the 40 beheaded babies has been thoroughly debunked. The Israelis are now engaged in damage control.

They stated that they couldn't release footage of the beheaded baby due to respect, yet they released… pic.twitter.com/6Zymun0ltU

— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) October 12, 2023

It is noteworthy that the false claims about Palestinian Resistance fighters allegedly killing and beheading babies were issued by an Israeli occupation reserve soldier named David Ben Zion, who The Grayzone news website earlier identified as an extremist settler leader who had previously incited riots by calling for the Palestinian town of Huwara to be "wiped out".

Although the Israeli occupation military spokesperson denied information regarding "Hamas beheading babies," the unverified claims reached top-level leadership, with Netanyahu's spokesperson and Biden marginally alluding to the reports of babies and toddlers' "heads decapitated".

In the same context, some reporters who initially supported the Israeli allegations began reporting on their own observations that showed otherwise.

Oren Ziv, an Israeli reporter who was present during the Israeli occupation military's official tour in "Kfar Azza", posted on X that "during the tour, we didn’t see any evidence of this, and the army spokesperson or commanders also didn’t mention any such incidents."

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