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.
Lot of libs showing up here doing more work to sourcebro than actually check the claim.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251103-israel-accused-of-planting-booby-trapped-toys-to-kill-children-in-gaza/
Looking at… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Monitor … that source also doesn’t seem too objective to me TBH.
Again: I’m not saying that the original article is wrong. I just say that claims by any news outlet that a) isn’t too popular or b) that has a strong and well-documented bias in one direction must be questioned until proven right.
And MEMO, according to Wikipedia, has a long history of pro Hamas propaganda back until 2009, long before the current war even started.
I could very easily say that Wikipedia has a long history of pro-western propaganda…
No source will be ever completely free of a bias, but Wikipedia is still way more reputable than the two sources linked here.
Wikipedia has plenty of critical articles on what Israel is doing / has been doing in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_war_crimes
And yet it denigrates the resistance to Israel’s crimes as terrorists, any outlet that reports on that resistance in a supportive light as untrustworthy, and neglects to hold Israel themselves to the same standard that all of that clearly demonstrates.