The information intoxication regarding the beheading of 40 Israeli babies by Hamas fighters has been denied by the Israeli army and a White House spokesperson.

Each war gives rise to its share of media lies which always burst onto the media scene, to justify an imminent invasion and legitimize subsequent crimes.

The Kuwait incubators affair to justify the first Gulf War and the supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq are blatant examples of disinformation in recent history.

Since the resurgence of tensions after the Hamas operation on Israeli territory, players in the media and political scene have been sharing false information, garnering millions of views on the internet.

“Beheaded Babies”

Through its correspondent Nicole Zedeck, the Israeli television channel i24News - founded by Frenchman Patrick Drahi - reported disinformation regarding the beheading of 40 Israeli babies by Hamas fighters during their intrusion into Israeli territory.

The information immediately aroused indignation on social networks, and was relayed by numerous news channels, so much so that even American President Joe Biden claimed to have seen these photos in which "terrorists decapitate children'', commenting that he never thought he would see such horror.

However, this false information was first denied by the Israeli army itself, which told Anadolu that it had no information confirming the Israeli journalist's allegations that Hamas had beheaded babies. The same allegation was contradicted by a White House spokesperson who told the Washington Post that President Joe Biden has never seen photos of decapitated children, but was simply relying on the claims of Israeli media.

“Children in cages”

Another disinformation, garnering millions of views and widely relayed by journalists in the Hebrew state, consisted of showing Israeli children taken hostage and put in cages by Hamas.

However, the situation is quite the opposite. As revealed by the fact-checking site fakereporter.net, the children presented as Israeli are in reality Palestinian children put in cages by the Israeli army in Hebron, in occupied Palestine, 6 years ago.

Justin Bieber

Canadian singer Justin Bieber shared a story on social media that read “Praying for Israel” with an image of the damage allegedly caused by Hamas in Israel. However, this background image on which the American singer included his wishful thinking actually showed the destruction caused by the bombings of the Israeli army in Gaza.

Source: TRTFrançais