The Baby Beheading Lie Was the License to Kill
The October 7 baby‑beheading story was pushed as fact before anyone checked a thing, and it became the emotional trigger that let governments and media justify Israel’s mass killing of civilians. While that lie spread worldwide, the testimonies showing Hamas fighters sparing civilians — including twenty‑six cases where fighters explicitly cited orders not to harm them — were ignored or buried.
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