The White House was forced to walk back on president Joe Biden’s claim to have seen “confirmed pictures” of “terrorists beheading children” in Israel.
The Israel Defence Force previously claimed that at least 40 babies were killed in the Kfar Aza kibbutz over the weekend when the Hamas militant group launched an attack on Israel.
The army later clarified to Anadolu news agency that there was “no information confirming” allegations that “Hamas beheaded babies”.
The first casualty of war is Truth. Remember to be scheduled off all information pumped from any side during war time
From what I can tell, lemmy’s on par with other social media sites (reddit, twitter, fb) wrt disinfo rates. That is to say not worse, not better, but still fucking horrible.
Makes me realize that people are just as big a driver of this bs as any state or corpo driven propaganda bot.
The accusation of killing babies must be first in the list when you look up “Casus Belli” in the CIA handbook …
Babies were definitely killed. The psychopathic terrorist supporters latched onto beheadings because that’s tougher to confirm and they don’t consider just murdering children in their beds to be a problem.
I agree with the first sentence. Everyone can become a victim in that kind of war and on the scale that we have seen the probability that no children and babies were killed is close to zero. However - what I was referring to was the tactic of accusing the enemy of systematic baby killing to steer the public opinion towards support of a war, like when the US had decided to invade Iraq and had Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ lie about alleged baby killing by Iraqi soldiers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Your second sentence is pure framing and off topic but anyway. I honestly don´t care if the countless victims of all ages were killed by shooting, bombing or beheading. What matters is that they were killed and each death is one too much. Both sides have to stop their violence and develop a sustainable solution which both peoples can live with, instead of staying in a never ending war.
Fake news just at the right time for Israel…
Shocking!
Uh ohh Biden got caught laundering Israeli propaganda.
Seems like the media is the one twisting stuff. I’ve been searching for the actual quote from the White House official that said they cannot confirm the pictures. I’ve been looking for nearly an hour, no media website has provided a source at all. However, I found it. The official said that he was referring to Israeli media, but it seems that was because he did not realize the pictures were not public.
However:
The Israeli PM just posted some of those pictures on X(Twitter) due to claims they were lying about it.
I saw a few different sources showing it, as I don’t have an account with x, but it seems the one I linked is the only one that shows multiple images rather than just one. It seems that the actual truth is that there were some beheadings, but the majority were “just” murdered.
I’m not trying to claim that Israel is in the right here, I’m just saying it seems Biden was not lying.
So the babies weren’t beheaded, but shot or burnt. Still horrible, as expected 😔
The US is the biggest mouthpiece of Israeli propaganda anyway. The fact that Joe Biden is just parroting their lies should be shocking news to nobody
This is literally just “theyre pulling babies out of the incubator” 2.0
