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Israel/Palestine

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6. The incident that supposedly happened 9 months ago was reported in August by the crack investigative journalists

Tue Feb 18, 2025, 05:52 PM

Feb 18

at a website called The Hottest Place in Hell.

I think +972 decided to publish the horribly misleading headline (the old man was killed later by a different division as he was evacuating south) and nine month old story because the bodies of the Bibas children and their mother are being released on Thursday.

Even Haaretz is skeptical.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-16/ty-article/idf-reportedly-used-elderly-gazan-as-human-shield-tied-explosive-around-his-neck/00000195-0e56-d1b4-a7fd-cf7742bf0000