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Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

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CNN By Matthew Chance, Richard Allen Greene and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public st…

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  1. Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz: report

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    Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

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  1. Fox News

    At least 40 babies, some beheaded, found by Israel soldiers in Hamas-attacked village (opens Fox News)

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    Israeli soldiers clearing the remains of a village overrun by a surprise attack led by Hamas, a terror group that governs Gaza, discovered dozens of dead babies, some of whom were decapitated.

  2. New York Post

    Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz: report (opens New York Post)

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    “It’s hard to even explain exactly, just the mass casualties that happened right here,” visibly shaken i24 News correspondent Nicole Zedek said during a broadcast from Kibbutz Kfar Aza …

  3. The Daily Signal

    Beheaded Babies Found in Wake of Hamas Attack on Israel (opens The Daily Signal)

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    Hamas terrorists left beheaded babies behind in their attack on Israel, IDF commander reports. Soldiers showed journalists the devastation.

  4. NewsBusters

    LA Times Reporter Erroneously Claims Hamas Never Beheaded Babies (opens NewsBusters)

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    On Tuesday, a disturbing trend of misinformation spread around social media asserting that the Hamas terrorists – the same ones who killed women, children, and the elderly, raped women, and abducted those same groups back to Gaza – for some reason wouldn’t behead babies and that any report of such a…

  5. The Daily Caller

    Dozens Of Israeli Babies Killed By Hamas, Some Beheaded, In One Neighborhood: REPORT (opens The Daily Caller)

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    Hamas slaughtered approximately 40 babies, beheading some of them, i24NEWS reported Tuesday.

  6. KTVZ Bend

    Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack (opens KTVZ Bend)

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    CNN By Matthew Chance, Richard Allen Greene and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public st…

  7. NBC News

    Unverified reports of ‘40 babies beheaded’ in Israel-Hamas war inflame social media (opens NBC News)

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    No photo evidence had been made public as of Thursday morning corroborating claims that babies had been beheaded.

  8. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    By Matthew Chance, Richard Allen Greene and Joshua Berlinger, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that

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