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.

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    Occasionally I come across a headline that makes me start crying. This is one of them.

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      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.

      You guys always get so mad instead of realizing things aren’t as simple as good vs evil.

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        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.

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          Clearly he’s challenging this particular article. Don’t strawman or move goalposts - it weakens your argument.

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        I legitly don’t know if bit or lib

        EDIT: aw shit, lib after all, but this line of “I believe it when I see reuters or AP on this.” was way too on the nose for me to believe it at first :(

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        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.