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.
What a filthy excuse for humans. Where is God when you need one?
God’s hard at work. It ain’t a nice god though
Occasionally I come across a headline that makes me start crying. This is one of them.
Well luckily this is a fake propoganda article. That never happened.
Both sides are trying to make each other look as bad as possible. Happens in every conflict.
I believe it when I see reuters or AP on this.
You guys always get so mad instead of realizing things aren’t as simple as good vs evil.
Israel killed all the reporters. But you demand a report.
I legitly don’t know if bit or lib
EDIT: aw shit, lib after all, but this line of “I believe it when I see reuters or AP on this.” was way too on the nose for me to believe it at first :(
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Are you arguing that Israel didn’t booby-trap toys, or that they didn’t kill children?
Because you are right to question the integrity of the news source. I’ve personally never heard of royanews.tv… However, it is pretty well documented that Israel has been killing children.
Even if this story is false, the reality is still horrific. Whether or not Israel booby-traps toys doesn’t change the fact that they’re already killing children.
Clearly he’s challenging this particular article. Don’t strawman or move goalposts - it weakens your argument.
You guys always get so mad instead of realizing things aren’t as simple as good vs evil.
I disagree with you, based on the content of the original comment (quoted). They are clearly trying to challenge the notion that Israel is killing children in general.
No, they can challenge the notion that things aren’t as simple as good vs evil - it’s usually more like evil vs evil and bystanders get fucked. In this case, challenging the notion that Israel booby-traps kids toys, doesn’t mean challenging that Israeli bombs civilians including children.
Here’s a quote from Wikipedia about the group that put out this article:
Roya TV is strongly anti-Zionist and, unlike the Jordanian government, does not recognize Israel as a real country. In written pieces, the network often puts Israel’s name in quotation marks, or refers to the entire country as “occupied Palestine”.
Unless there are alternate sources that verify the authenticity of this story, it should be assumed to be propaganda. They even do the quotation marks thing in this very headline.
…and they’re right to do so? The land didn’t stop being Palestine just because a bunch of Western-backed Zionists decided to occupy it and commit genocide against the natives.
That’s irrelevant to the fact that Israel is a real country with a government, citizens, and international recognition. Your argument applies equally to refusing to recognize the validity or existence of the United States of America, which should show you how ridiculous it is.
I believe that Israel soldiers are perfectly capable of this atrocities, as they have shown in the past and also reported by several humanitary organisations. But we have to take this news with a grain of salt, since there is no other news that confirms it.
The Director General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, has revealed that Israeli forces left behind booby-trapped dolls and toys designed to attract children. He said this shows a new face of the ongoing genocide, despite the ceasefire that has been in place for more than three weeks.
In a post on Facebook on Sunday, Al-Bursh wrote: “Bombs in the form of dolls – the Israeli army did not only leave behind destroyed houses, but also left time bombs in the hands of children.”
He added: “In the narrow alleys and among the ruins of homes, the remains of rockets and unexploded shells are scattered, as if they continue their killing mission even after the soldiers have gone.” He confirmed that “every day, hospitals receive the torn bodies of small children, severed limbs, and faces disfigured due to childhood curiosity and innocence.”
Al-Bursh explained that “the most dangerous of all remnants of war are those that resemble the devil in the face of an angel – booby-trapped toys: dolls, birds, and small teddy bears left to tempt the little ones. When a child reaches for the ‘beautiful toy’, the horrifying truth explodes in their face – that the army claiming morality has planted death in the heart of childhood itself.”
He concluded, “The ‘doll’ has turned into a landmine, the ‘small teddy bear’ into a tool of amputation and disfigurement, and the ‘coloured ball’ into a trap that steals an entire childhood.”
Maybe someone who still uses facebook can check the Directer General’s facebook to confirm.
Anyway, between all the, even worse, atrocities by Israel soldiers against the Palestinian people and even childs, this information add nothing new to the fact that the gov of Israel is a criminal and terroristic nazi regime. Enough to search images of Gaza for the last 50 years, it’s not since yesterday, there are “Free Palestina” movements since 1970 and before.
That’s a literal war crime.
Add it to the list.
Israel can do no wrong because their imaginary friend told them that they’re special, and everyone else sucks.
Israel can do no wrong because
their imaginary friend told them that they’re special, and everyone else sucks.the world can’t get over their guilt over letting Germany murder 6 million Jews. And besides, brown people’s lives are inconsequential, especially if they pray to the wrong imaginary friend.Valid.
I wonder what they claim the reason for this is. What just reason can they possibly claim? At some point the world needs to stand up and stop them.
Cruelty is the point. They want the Palestinians to leave “voluntarily”. Israel will torture them as much as possible to do so.
im reading 2 different stories here. one saying that toys were rigged deliberately, and another saying its unexploded bombs that kids have touched while digging through the rubble to find belongings. while this is fucking heartbreaking to hear these kids now have life changing injuries, both stories set very different stories, with one being very gruesome, if true.
Not at all it’s one consistent story. Also IDF terrorists intentionally snipe children through the head this is extremely on point for them.
yes ive seen that sadly. fucked up shit
LoL how FUNNY!
-Jews According to Rich People!
This reminds me of how Islamic terrorists trained in Pakistan were doing the same for decades… to India.
Jews are finally catching up
The Russians also did it when they were pulling out of Afghanistan. I wish I believed in Hell, so that I could take some pleasure in knowing these people are going there.
Really not sure if this is a reputable news source. Never heard of this website and as others mentioned here, there seem to be no reports on this topic in the bigger general press outlets.
With reputable sources I don’t necessarily mean western media, but also e.g. Al Jazeera doesn’t seem to report on this topic. Which would be huge if true.
ABC Australia reported that children mistook unexploded bombs for toys: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/unexploded-ordinance-israel-ibombs-gaza-clearance-war-remnants/105937500
That’s still heartbreaking and horrible, but quite a different story than Israel explicitly placing ecplosives disguised as toys.
If one of you found further proofs, I’d be happy if you could share some links.
Lot of libs showing up here doing more work to sourcebro than actually check the claim.
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.
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The source is strongly anti-Israel to the point of not recognizing it as a country. Given this bias you should look for other sources to support the claims made here.
In other words, the source is reasonably neutral.
A neutral source isn’t calling Israel “Palestine”. An extremely biased source would use that terminology. In absence of a better quality source backing this claim it makes no sense to cede it credibility.
You mean Palestine, the country that existed where Israel is before European Zionist colonized and genocided it. Yeah, Israel is stolen land just like the US, you are feeding into narrative legitimising their claims which they use to further their genocide. The land IS Palestine.
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Which countries exiled Jewish people except the French colonies? The vast majority of them left voluntarily from threats created by Israel.
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“I’m fleeing from religious persecution.”
“I will now religiously persecute the Indigenous people of the land I moved to.”
Even if every single Israeli fled Islamic states, they’ve been pretty eager to do the exact same things they fled from. So why should I give them any more sympathy than the supposed evil Islamic regimes they escaped? They’re just as hateful and intolerant of other people existing. You cease being the victim the instant you inflict the same abuse on others when the power dynamic flips.
not recognizing [Israel] as a country.
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All the land Israel sits on is Palestine. All of it. Stealing it and exterminating the people already there does not make it not Palestine.
That is completely immaterial to the question at hand though. Im sorry that you are having this much trouble grasping the actual question.
Are people supposed to be okay with genocide for them to “impartial” to you? I bet you watch molestiny unironically.
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any sources that aren’t strongly anti-israel is a shit source anyways.
I don’t like genociders to read me the news.
