Children in the Gaza Strip are facing a lethal, hidden threat from the remnants of war, including unexploded ordnance and devices intentionally disguised as toys, according to Gaza’s Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr. Muneer Alboursh.
Alboursh issued a powerful condemnation of the practice, stating that the deliberate placement of these devices poses an acute and ongoing danger to the youngest residents of the territory.
According to the Ministry of Health, items such as dolls, teddy bears, and colorful balls are being used to lure and injure children.
“When a child reaches for the ‘pretty toy,’ the horrific truth explodes in their face,” he wrote.
I believe that Israel soldiers are perfectly capable of this atrocities, as they have shown in the past and also reported by several humanitary organisations. But we have to take this news with a grain of salt, since there is no other news that confirms it.
Probably because Israel kills more journalists than any other country
Oh, it’s the same map
The World Press Freedom Index only uses safety as one part of their score. It’s not a refutation of the statement you’re replying to.
But since you brought them up, here’s their breakdown of:
- the Zionist Regime https://rsf.org/en/country/israel
- and occupied West Bank + Gaza https://rsf.org/en/country/palestine
"In 2024, Palestine became the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. Close to 200 reporters were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza in the first 18 months of war, including at least 42 slain while doing their job, and dozens more detained in Israeli prisons. Trapped in the enclave, journalists in Gaza have no shelter and lack everything, including food and water. In the West Bank, journalists are routinely harassed and attacked by both settlers and Israeli forces, but repression reached new heights with a wave of arrests after 7 October, when impunity for crimes committed against journalists became a new rule. "
I don’t doubt it, this why I sais, that I believe the Israel solders capable to do any atrocity, even capable to leve bomb traps to childrens. But I also don’t like fake news, even not from Palestine, these are damage more than it helps, because Israel can use it against them. Because of this is specally in this notice to prove that it is true, only believing it isn’t enough.
Literally more journalists died in Gaza after October 7 than in 4 years of war in Ukraine. Israel has been intentionally targeting any journalists they can find in Palestine.
All in a span of two years in a city-state of now well below 2 million people and an area formerly the size of Johannesburg’s Inner City (130-140km², down from 365km²)
The source is the Gazan health ministry. They are so careful on what information they publish that they have been massively underreporting the death count of Israel’s atrocities. Very weird to put their data into question like this.
The Director General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, has revealed that Israeli forces left behind booby-trapped dolls and toys designed to attract children. He said this shows a new face of the ongoing genocide, despite the ceasefire that has been in place for more than three weeks.
In a post on Facebook on Sunday, Al-Bursh wrote: “Bombs in the form of dolls – the Israeli army did not only leave behind destroyed houses, but also left time bombs in the hands of children.”
He added: “In the narrow alleys and among the ruins of homes, the remains of rockets and unexploded shells are scattered, as if they continue their killing mission even after the soldiers have gone.” He confirmed that “every day, hospitals receive the torn bodies of small children, severed limbs, and faces disfigured due to childhood curiosity and innocence.”
Al-Bursh explained that “the most dangerous of all remnants of war are those that resemble the devil in the face of an angel – booby-trapped toys: dolls, birds, and small teddy bears left to tempt the little ones. When a child reaches for the ‘beautiful toy’, the horrifying truth explodes in their face – that the army claiming morality has planted death in the heart of childhood itself.”
He concluded, “The ‘doll’ has turned into a landmine, the ‘small teddy bear’ into a tool of amputation and disfigurement, and the ‘coloured ball’ into a trap that steals an entire childhood.”
Maybe someone who still uses facebook can check the Directer General’s facebook to confirm.
Occasionally I come across a headline that makes me start crying. This is one of them.
Well luckily this is a fake propoganda article. That never happened.
Both sides are trying to make each other look as bad as possible. Happens in every conflict.
I believe it when I see reuters or AP on this.
Israel killed all the reporters. But you demand a report.
Let’s see your source that there are zero reporters in Palestine.
Here’s a quote from Wikipedia about the group that put out this article:
Roya TV is strongly anti-Zionist and, unlike the Jordanian government, does not recognize Israel as a real country. In written pieces, the network often puts Israel’s name in quotation marks, or refers to the entire country as “occupied Palestine”.
Unless there are alternate sources that verify the authenticity of this story, it should be assumed to be propaganda. They even do the quotation marks thing in this very headline.
…and they’re right to do so? The land didn’t stop being Palestine just because a bunch of Western-backed Zionists decided to occupy it and commit genocide against the natives.
I legitly don’t know if bit or lib
Are you smoking meth? Wtf are you talking about?
Are you arguing that Israel didn’t booby-trap toys, or that they didn’t kill children?
Because you are right to question the integrity of the news source. I’ve personally never heard of royanews.tv… However, it is pretty well documented that Israel has been killing children.
Even if this story is false, the reality is still horrific. Whether or not Israel booby-traps toys doesn’t change the fact that they’re already killing children.
Clearly he’s challenging this particular article. Don’t strawman or move goalposts - it weakens your argument.
You guys always get so mad instead of realizing things aren’t as simple as good vs evil.
I disagree with you, based on the content of the original comment (quoted). They are clearly trying to challenge the notion that Israel is killing children in general.
No, they can challenge the notion that things aren’t as simple as good vs evil - it’s usually more like evil vs evil and bystanders get fucked. In this case, challenging the notion that Israel booby-traps kids toys, doesn’t mean challenging that Israeli bombs civilians including children.
hell is fucking empty and all the demons are in Israel
good fucking god. I thought I wasn’t naive. I still was
The source is strongly anti-Israel to the point of not recognizing it as a country. Given this bias you should look for other sources to support the claims made here.
any sources that aren’t strongly anti-israel is a shit source anyways.
I don’t like genociders to read me the news.
not recognizing [Israel] as a country.
This has nothing to do with whether you see Israel as a legitimate state or not. This is about whether you have the logical skills to understand why a source that considers Israel to be “Palestine” might not be a great primary source on Israel.
Using this source as a primary source makes as much sense as using JPost as a source about Palestine.
All the land Israel sits on is Palestine. All of it. Stealing it and exterminating the people already there does not make it not Palestine.
That is completely immaterial to the question at hand though. Im sorry that you are having this much trouble grasping the actual question.
Are people supposed to be okay with genocide for them to “impartial” to you? I bet you watch molestiny unironically.
Are people supposed to be okay with genocide for them to “impartial” to you?
AGAIN that is completely immaterial to the question as to whether they are a good source as to Israel. They are so biased AGAINST Israel that they are a fucking clownish source to rely upon for news about things like this. Do you not see how a biased source making claims no one else is backing means they aren’t likely telling the truth? Is critical analysis that hard?
I bet you watch molestiny unironically.
As Im an adult, I have no idea what you are talking about, child.
Well, is Israel denying it? If they are, that verifies this source as accurate.
That makes zero sense logically speaking.
Well, when a government is currently engaged in a genocide, logic kind of goes out the window.
Just today, they imprisoned the Israeli general who leaked the video rape of a Palestinian prisoner not accused of any actual crimes. One of the rapists has gone public and is vying for public support of Israeli citizens. One of the rapists is showing his face on the streets, while the general who leaked the video is being held.
Quite frankly sir, STFU
LoL, maybe you need to check your algorithm?
Again a statement that makes zero sense in the context of this conversation.
No one is denying my allegation that RFK JR stole my KitKat, does that make my claim true or does the lack of a refutal not mean anything (it’s the latter).
What makes you sound ridiculous is your old arguments that will no longer work. Thankfully the people (both US republicans and democrats) are aware of the terrorist state that Israel has become. Go do your propaganda somewhere else, bot.
In other words, the source is reasonably neutral.
A neutral source isn’t calling Israel “Palestine”. An extremely biased source would use that terminology. In absence of a better quality source backing this claim it makes no sense to cede it credibility.
You mean Palestine, the country that existed where Israel is before European Zionist colonized and genocided it. Yeah, Israel is stolen land just like the US, you are feeding into narrative legitimising their claims which they use to further their genocide. The land IS Palestine.
First the majority population of Israel cones from Islamic nations that exiled Jewish people when Israel was created so suggesting they are Europeans is incorrect. The majority are ancestrally Middle Eastern.
Israel is a soverign nation that exists on the land it controls. Most nations recognize Israel so it is in fact a nation despite of your views.
Regardless a source that calls Israel “Palestine” is a biased source and when they make a claim no other source us making a rational person should question that source. This is called critical thinking.
Which countries exiled Jewish people except the French colonies? The vast majority of them left voluntarily from threats created by Israel.
You think Israel was threatening all of the nations of the Middle East to release their Jewish populations vs them being pushed out or willingly migrating to a place that wouldn’t punish them for not being Muslims?
“I’m fleeing from religious persecution.”
“I will now religiously persecute the Indigenous people of the land I moved to.”
Even if true, they’ve been pretty eager to do the exact same things they fled from. So why should I give them any more sympathy than the supposed evil Islamic regimes they escapes?
How will they spin it this time? Last time with the pagers it was the most ingenious James Bond spy maneuver most of the western MSM had ever seen, while in reality it’s just terrorism.
“israel kills future leaders of hamas”
Idek that they try to spin it anymore. Yeah, corporate media spun the pagers, but iirc Zionists were just like “we did this cool thing, like James Bond!”
I’m no fan of the IDF but I can’t find any sources on this other than that add riddled link and a couple of Instagram posts with no real info.
The Gaza Health Office said it and they didn’t cite your claims, so it’s 100% confirmed and true.
If anyone wants to claim otherwise, Israel should let journalists into Gaza to prove otherwise.
Israel doesn’t get the luxury of banning journalists and then claiming that there is no way of asserting the truth.
Yeah its not super clear if the link you shared is in anyway a trustable source. People can just make posts and websites saying whatever they want. they included no links or anything to substantiate their claim. The website of the Palestinian Ministry of Health has no statement regarding booby traps but it is not updated regularly
After a lot of searching I have found the quotes from the health minister on what looks like his personal Facebook page, so I am happy (or sad) to believe the claims but its not good practice for the news sites to provide no source, especially in this day and age.
So basically like any Western outlet.
Stop being obtuse. Reporters should include sources with their claims. This is not a radical view to have. I’ve called out plenty of idf bs. It would be wrong to not hold everyone to the same standard.
Source on the Gaza Health office making this claim from a better quality source than the one linked here?
They’re in Gaza.
This is like linking Xinhua to report on New York and saying they are more credible than the official New York city news.
The only sane comment so far.
Aren’t they barring journalists from entering Gaza, or has that changed? Because then I’d be very inclined to believe anything against the oppressors.
You don’t think the gaza ministry for health is a reliable source? Why?
i could find no proof of them ever making that statement. I eventually found the quotes statement on the health ministers Facebook page. But the linked article has no sources.
im reading 2 different stories here. one saying that toys were rigged deliberately, and another saying its unexploded bombs that kids have touched while digging through the rubble to find belongings. while this is fucking heartbreaking to hear these kids now have life changing injuries, both stories set very different stories, with one being very gruesome, if true.
Not at all it’s one consistent story. Also IDF terrorists intentionally snipe children through the head this is extremely on point for them.
yes ive seen that sadly. fucked up shit
I guess the Gaza strip folks need to invent a lethal dreidel?
That’s a literal war crime.
Add it to the list.
I don’t even think comic book villains are this cartoonishly evil
Not even this guy would do it
LoL how FUNNY!
-Jews According to Rich People!
I wonder what they claim the reason for this is. What just reason can they possibly claim? At some point the world needs to stand up and stop them.
Cruelty is the point. They want the Palestinians to leave “voluntarily”. Israel will torture them as much as possible to do so.
Israel can do no wrong because their imaginary friend told them that they’re special, and everyone else sucks.
Israel can do no wrong because
their imaginary friend told them that they’re special, and everyone else sucks.the world can’t get over their guilt over letting Germany murder 6 million Jews. And besides, brown people’s lives are inconsequential, especially if they pray to the wrong imaginary friend.
Come on Iran, what the hell are you waiting for?
