Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’
www.aljazeera.com
‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke.

I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1084·
    22 hours ago

    Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.

    It seems they were not blowing it up for a ‘gender reveal’, but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      421·
      22 hours ago

      Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.

        • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          911·
          16 hours ago

          Al Jazeera is always extremely anti Israel. The Arabic version even more so than the English one.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
            31·
            5 hours ago

            You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              23·
              4 hours ago

              You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing

              …and yet, being anti-Israel was considered a far-right neo-Nazi position not that long ago. It became acceptable again from the start of the current flare up (the current fighting isn’t something new, it’s been going on and off for decades). Before that, anti-Israel meant anti-Jew meant obviously Nazi. It’s wild how when things change so many people will just quietly drop the old narrative and pretend it never existed. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia and all that.

              The reality is that the US supports Israel, has for a long time and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s not because of being pro-Jew or wanting to ethnically cleanse Arabs, it’s because they’re our only real ally in the Middle East and thus we’ll remain safely on their good side unless and until we get a strategically more useful ally in the Middle East. Then keeping them happy becomes less important.

              • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
                4·
                4 hours ago

                Updating the article to provide more correct information as soon as it’s uncovered is part of that

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      264·
      20 hours ago

      OK, that’s somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation’s soldiers would make that same joke.