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“Beheaded Babies” Report Spread Wide and Fast — but Israel Military Won’t Confirm It (theintercept.com)

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 35 points 1 year ago

It does sound rather lurid, a bit like Saddam Hussein’s troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators (which turned out to have been made up for selling Operation Desert Storm).

Of course, that’s not ruling it out, though it does feel like someone at some stage may have over-egged the pudding.

[-] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Preying on parental instinct is stupidly easy.

[-] jayrhacker@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, blood libel never gets old, sadly.

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

The Australian Government also had a "children being thrown overboard by asylum seekers coming by boat" scandal. I wonder how many others there have been.

[-] PupBiru@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair

basically asylum seekers were passing their babies off a sinking boat to border patrol authorises and the government cropped it to make it look like they were throwing their kids overboard to shed weight and save themselves