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Israel Blasts ‘Perverse Exploitation of Innocent Lives’ After Story About Babies Found Dead in Gaza Hospital Circulates
An Israeli soldier helps to provide incubators to Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Photo: Screenshot
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has strongly denied reports that it was responsible for five premature Palestinian babies being left to die at a hospital in Gaza, lambasting the accusation as “dangerous misinformation” and a “perverse exploitation” of innocent lives.
Earlier this week, the Arabic-language news channel Al Mashhad shared footage of five beds filled with what were allegedly the bodies of dead infants in Al-Nasr Hospital. The hospital room appeared to be abandoned, with equipment out of service. The Emirati TV channel accused the Israeli army of forcibly evacuating the hospital and not letting anyone take the babies, leaving them to die.
The Switzerland-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said it was able to “confirm that it documented the discovery of five infants dead and in a state of decomposition.” The organization — headed by Richard Falk, the former UN special rapporteur with a long record of anti-Israel statements — said the babies were left to die three weeks ago and called for an investigation into what happened.
News of the alleged discovered quickly gained traction and was reported by Al Jazeera and several English-language outlets known to produce anti-Israel content. The story also spread on social media, with anti-Israel voices decrying the Jewish state as responsible for the deaths of the infants.
However, Israel never operated inside Al-Nasr hospital, according to the IDF, which called the reports false and misleading.
“Given that the IDF did not operate inside the Al-Nasr hospital, these allegations are not only false but also a perverse exploitation of innocent lives, used as tools to spread dangerous misinformation,” an IDF spokesperson told The Algemeiner. “This is more evident when taking into account that the IDF assisted in moving newborns from the pediatric ward of the Shifa hospital to safety, as well as provide Israeli incubators in the process.”
The IDF helped facilitate the safe evacuation of babies from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza and also offered incubators, other medical supplies, and baby food.
Israel has not been the only one accused of being responsible for the deaths of premature babies at Al-Nasr hospital. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which has been involved in providing humanitarian assistance during the Israel-Hamas war, released a statement on Thursday saying it was not involved in the evacuation of the hospital and that suggestions it left or abandoned the babies are false.
We have seen the footage circulating of deceased newborn babies and claims suggesting that ICRC left or abandoned these babies at the Al Nasr Hospital in northern Gaza.
This is false.
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— ICRC (@ICRC) November 30, 2023
Reports of the dead babies emerged during a temporary ceasefire and hostage-prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian terror group that rules Gaza.
During Hamas’ Oct. 7 onslaught across southern Israel — the massacre that launched the current conflict in Gaza — Palestinian terrorists murdered babies and other young children, according to copious documentation including videos, eyewitness accounts, press reports, and investigations by Israeli authorities.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
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Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.