The story lives on.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/inbar-lieberman-nir-am-kibbutz-hamas-attackers-dead/
The Israeli Defence Forces said up to 40 babies were killed, with some ‘burned alive’ and others ‘beheaded,’ it has been claimed by Israel.
Local security are said to have fought against Hamas for 17 hours before backup arrived.
"We have heard of 40 young boys, some of them were burnt alive, some were beheaded, some were shot in the head," Israel's economics minister Nir Barkat said.
And even if that exact number were not found at a single location, the massacre was rather intense and widespread.
We should not doubt children were among the dead, even if there are questions on specific numbers.
CNN: Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz in an ISIS style of killing, IDF says, as horror of Hamas’ attacks emerge
again, Israel says....all other savage atrocities have been publicly shown, by Hamas themselves. If they are the savages that we already know them to be, why wouldn't they also happily show these things?
It's why it is important to actually verify this stuff. The "murder of babies" is an eons-long message to justify genocide, especially in that region of the world. This isn't really anything new, and we of course "know that it happens" because thousand+ year old historians documenting their armies victories have always claimed this to be the case about the savage people that they have exterminated, time and time again.
Thankfully, we're at a part of human history and culture, social development, where most of us appreciate that there are now actual standards in information vetting. There are very real consequences, intentionally so, for creating stories like this.
It baffles me that Hamas would happily share all of the other savage things that they absolutely did, except for this one thing. People here have already defended the unverified reporting on this with "well, why would it make a difference whether or not they did do that? look at what they've already done!" Exactly, I say. Why wouldn't they share that, considering everything else.
It's very tough, of course, but claw your way through serious emotions right now and try to think clearly. Much depends on collective rationality in moments like this.