Posted on 10/12/2023 9:32:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s amazing the degree to which this story which only became news on Tuesday has become central to news about the Israel-Hamas war. As I pointed out yesterday, the IDF confirmed the story of some babies/children being beheaded and CBS reported on another named source outside the IDF who also claimed to have seen the proof.
By the end of the day yesterday, even President Joe Biden even referenced the claim in his remarks, though as I said at the time his statement wasn’t very clear. Shortly after Biden’s comments, officials in the administration clarified that he had no inside information and was merely referring to published reports.
Earlier today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed images of dead babies to Sec. of State Anthony Blinken and that led to a report from the Jerusalem Post saying the story had been confirmed.
The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas’s assault on Kfar Aza are correct. May their memory be a blessing.
The photos were shown to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Israel on Thursday by the Public Diplomacy Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office. Later in the day, the photos were published by the Prime Minister’s Office on Twitter. The photos are graphic and have a content warning covering them until a button reading “show” is pressed.
All of this is becoming a bit confused with claims and counter-claims online that sometimes don’t seem to connect to what anyone has actually said. The initial report from i24 News reporter Nicole Zedek was that the bodies of 40 babies had been taken out on gurneys from the kibbutz. She said she’d heard that from soldiers who arrived first at the scene. Other reporters at the scene heard the same thing but none of them actually saw the bodies. Zedek posted a video of one of the commanders at the scene who said of Hamas, “they cut heads of children, cut heads off women.”
"They chopped heads of children and women," says David Ben Zion, Deputy Commandee of Unit 71 to our @Nicole_Zedek, while reporting from the massacre in Kfar Aza in southern Israel pic.twitter.com/IHSB0ywMbF
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 10, 2023
Somehow the social media telephone game turned this into the claim that 40 babies had been beheaded which no one had ever said was the case. In any case, after the Prime Minister showed the photos and released them, CNN spoke to a spokesman for the Israeli government who said reports of beheaded children couldn’t be confirmed (though they maintained Hamas had beheaded some people).
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.
“There have been cases of Hamas militants carrying out beheadings and other ISIS-style atrocities. However, we cannot confirm if the victims were men or women, soldiers or civilians, adults or children,” the official said…
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. But CNN has not seen anything that would appear to confirm the claims of decapitated children.
CNN also visited the ransacked ruins of Kfar Aza on Tuesday and saw no evidence of beheaded youths. Israeli officials have not released any photographs of the incident either.
As for the photos released by the Prime Minister, they do show murdered children two of whom burned to death. I’m not posting them here but you can find them on X. There have been multiple reports saying that Hamas terrorists lit people’s homes on fire to force them to turn out where they would be shot.
Deborah Mintz told Sky News how fighters had attempted to break into a concrete-reinforced shelter where she had taken cover with her daughter, son-in-law and their 10-day-old baby…
While the reinforced room had steel doors to shield against rocket attacks, it wasn’t equipped with locks – prompting an hours-long battle…
“When Hamas saw my daughter and her husband were stronger than they were, they set fire to the house and tried to smoke us out.”
So burned Israeli children almost certainly are children murdered by Hamas who set their homes on fire. The third image released today shows a dead infant covered in blood. You can’t tell from the image if the baby was shot or killed in some other way. CNN doesn’t really address it at all.
All of this is horrible but, again, this really has become one of the central arguments about the whole attack on Israel, at least online. If it’s true that Israel can’t confirm the specific claims about beheadings at Kfar Aza then it’s best to get the truth out. But this may not be the last word.
The network that first reported this still isn’t backing away from it. They interviewed Yossi Landau, the southern region head of operations for ZAKA, which is a civilian emergency response group who help collect the remains of the dead after terror attacks. Yossi was cited by CBS News as someone who was an eyewitness to some of this. This interview is just audio but what he describes seeing in these homes is extremely gruesome.
So Yes,
you are posting that hamas didn’t behead babies, then.
for informational purposes....
Jerusalem times “confirmed it.”
The Hamas savages posted their exploits to the jihad gore sites the night they did it.
But FJB said he saw the photos...
How many babies did Democrats kill today?
People around here are smart enough to know that CNN publishes liberal disinformation. We don't need to become a cancel culture.
It seems that this is the act they fear the most, meaning, in their minds, it politically provides the justification for Israel to do anything.
Usually, Israel is held to unusually high standards in protecting civilians and pressure in this regard is used to keep them from pressing forward and actually defeating these groups, thereby creating the never ending conflict.
But now they have something to justify blowing off such insanity.
What's going on in the ME is one story, but what liberals in America reveal about themselves by their reactions to it is an entirely different story.
I, for one, am very curious about how American Jews are being affected both by the Hamas attack and by what is being said about it by American liberals and the media.
Its incredible folks at CNN are trying so hard to save the reputation of these scumbags. Theyre savages. Havent you seen enough? CNN will dig deep for news when Hamas terrorists are being blamed for decapitating babies.
Nice to know they may have only been murdered in some other fashion.
Btw, there were also reports that young children were locked in rooms and burning tires rolled in to incinerate them alive. Let’s hope CNN investigates that too.
>The newspaper there confirmed it.<
Much of this is a stunt. By that I mean:
Hamas cuts off babies’ heads.
Witnesses come upon the gruesome scene and report what they saw.
Some J-school flunky asks an IDF soldier in some other part of the country if he saw any dead babies.
The soldier says no.
The flunky reports that an unnamed IDF soldier denies seeing any dead babies.
....and the propaganda machine gets spun up to full speed.
EC
Holocaust deniers use the same tactic: deny, deny, deny. Anyone who denies or minimizes Hamas murders is a terrorist sympathizer.
CNN: Israeli government can't confirm beheading of babies at Kfar Aza
I do not trust CNN... Check out Ezra Cohen for Israel news. (He worked under Trump).
https://twitter.com/EzraACohen
Leaked video of interrogation with Hamas terrorist. Watch how he nonchalantly says "we raped them" and "we cut off their heads". pic.twitter.com/jjMrcGMTwe— The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 13, 2023
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