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A year After October 7: Israel-Palestine war: How unverified reports of Hamas 'beheading babies' filled front pages (Published date: 11 October 2023 19:00 BST | Last update: 12 months 23 hours ago )

Newspaper headlines in the UK on Wednesday were dominated by reports of a massacre committed by Hamas fighters at a kibbutz in southern Israel in which the attackers were widely alleged to have beheaded babies.

But the reports – which a number of newspapers themselves acknowledged were unverified and which have been disputed and denounced by other journalists – have led to complaints that the publications could have been reporting “fake news”, “acting as a proxy for Israeli propaganda” and stoking Islamophobia.

Concerns about the accuracy of details in the stories were raised by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, who called for journalists to show caution in their reporting.

“Divulging unverified information risks to escalate tensions & endanger lives in a volative [volatile] context,” Albanese wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.

It took almost months for the western media to retract the lies they spread, no apologies were made. They just moved on to broadcast new lies and cover up new atrocities.

But the lies are still there and the ones exposing them don't get republished:

#October7 #NeverForget #StopTheLies #Genocide #Hamas #IDF #IIsrael #Occupation #Politics #SaveGaza #SavePalestine #SaveLebanon StopIsrael
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