Gaza children are being killed by exploding toys — a horror Israel has been perfecting for over 30 years now and counting
Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/03/israel-bombs-toys/
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 296d
I have never seen a religious group try so hard to get into their own hell.
krigo666@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 296d
Zionists aren't very religious, they use and abuse religion to scare other with a supposed "anti-semitism" when in reality they are the biggest anti-semits, as they will actively persecute any jew that dares criticise them.
Israel is a rogue terrorist state, and the IDF one of the biggest terrorist groups in the world.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 295d
That concept is highly unsettled & quite different in their religion.
TheGoldenFox64@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d
you don't have to be good to go to heaven in their religion, just jewish or really really dedicated to being jewish. also, according to the religious texts, israel is to be bestowed upon the jews by god and not man, so the orthodox jews are AGAINST israel
minnism@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 296d
Hmm, the state that has committed genocide for the last year, deliberately targeted children, journalists and aid workers has enacted a novel way to kill more children... sounds about right.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 296d
It's not even that novel. They've been doing it since 1997.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-kind-booby-traps-has-israel-used-lebanon
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
Goes back at least as far as the American-Vietnam war.
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · 11 pts · 296d
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one · 15 pts · 296d
Terrorist scum. Through and through.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 296d
That is positively fucked up
zaugofficial@lemmings.world · 11 pts · 296d
Israel needs to go.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 295d
Just in time for the holidays.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 296d
BrikoX@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 296d
This is not the first time Israel was caught doing this. It has been going on for decades.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 296d
It's not hard to believe, not in the slightest. OP's merely saying this is thin sauce (so far) and the article's only further evidence, outside of this one incident, is the link you posted.
But, as I commented just now, how much evidence is getting out when the genocide machine includes journalists?
minnism@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 296d
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 296d
It's not about me having a problem to call Israel a terror state, but a piece of text that pretends to be or is at least presented as a journalistic piece obviously not even trying to be neutral at all.
If someone tells you there exists a ring of sadists torturing kids to drink their blood, are we expected to refute the claims?
I know I have not posted my criticism in the most adequate manner, but come on, don't you have any demand in journalistic standards?
I could claim the IDF is eating babies alive and people would still up vote it.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 295d
Journalism shouldn't "try to be neutral" they should pursue the truth. The truth is that the IDF is a genocidal force. To try to frame that in a neutral way is to give aid to the genocide.
The truth isn't neutral.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 296d
perhaps some more contex on why they may have been thought to be toys (but from Lebanon not Gaza)
https://www.reddit.com/r/lebanon/comments/1g6lxc6/is_it_true_in_2006_israel_throwed_booby_traped/
What is described here is no less despicable though
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 296d
Right in the OP:
Lemmy: No.
I've given up on journalism digging deep and so much as pretending to be neutral. Anyway, not sure I'd count this as journalism. It's a thinly covered editorial.
We got one reported incident and claims of systemic abuse. If they have all this and not one bit of backup?
They did bring evidence for Israel pulling this in Lebanon 30 years ago, and it's not difficult to believe, but can a brother get a link or three?
OTOH, how much evidence can we expect from a genocidal regime that systemically kills journalists? For all we know there are 500 such incidents as of today.
Threeme2189@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 295d
The first sane comment I've read on this thread.
markko@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 295d
Yeah you're probably not going to see this story on CNN, BBC, NYT et al. for some time (if ever) because all the big news corps are doing their best to keep things like this as quiet as possible. Just compare the difference in quantity and detail of stories about the released captives from each side as an example.
It's hard to get quality photo and video evidence of anything in Gaza when Israel has blocked any outside journalists from entering and continues to target and kill local journalists.
You're right that this isn't high quality journalism, but we may not get to see this otherwise. There's no need to fabricate the atrocities committed by Israel because the reality is bad enough. I don't like the amount of effort I have to go to to gather information to make up my mind about a story, but that's exactly what Israel and its backers want. There probably are better-written articles in other languages available, but I don't think anything that isn't in English can be posted here.
That said, there are several other sources that quote the Director General of Gaza’s Health Ministry as saying they have found bombs disguised as toys:
https://www.telesurenglish.net/gaza-officials-warn-of-explosive-toys-allegedly-left-by-israeli-forces/
https://en.royanews.tv/news/64653
https://en.safa.news/post/5891/Children-in-Gaza-Face-a-New-Level-of-Horror-as-Toys-Turn-Into-Traps
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251103-israel-accused-of-planting-booby-trapped-toys-to-kill-children-in-gaza/
https://wrp.org.uk/editorials/zionist-troops-leave-bombs-disguised-as-toys-to-kill-children-in-gaza/
https://en.abna24.com/news/1746394/Gaza-Health-Ministry-Israeli-forces-plant-explosives-in-children-s
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 295d
DancingBear@midwest.social · -2 pts · 295d
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 295d
Which has literally nothing to do with this article being unprofessional.
DancingBear@midwest.social · -2 pts · 294d
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 294d
I know you probably only mean this as insult, but it's a very dangerous way to deal with opinions that don't match your narrative.
DancingBear@midwest.social · 1 pts · 294d
gigachad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 294d
beep boop I am a bot
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 295d
Do you deny the genocide in Gaza?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 295d
Devils advocate here. Shady journalism is shady regardless of what side of our bias it lands on.
Yeller_king@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 296d
Are we sure it isn't because Toyman relocated from Metropolis?
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 294d
I think this is might be propaganda. Research the sources.
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 295d
There has hardly been a more sensational headline than this.
SpankyDoodle@eviltoast.org · 2 pts · 294d
Can we stop supporting the terrorists please.
tobogganablaze@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 295d
When this is the standard for journalism that is promoted by the mods here then it's time leave this one.