Gaza health officials claimed Israel left booby trapped bombs in toys. The Western media didn't report the obvious lies. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, January 02, 2026

Gaza health officials claimed Israel left booby trapped bombs in toys. The Western media didn't report the obvious lies.

Middle East Monitor "reported" two months ago:

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.”

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.”

This allegation by health officials was largely ignored in Western media. The previous month when a viral tweet made the same claim, France24 debunked it.

Throughout the war, the Gaza health officials were treated as reliable witnesses by Western media - unless they said something so patently insane that no one could possibly believe it, like weapons that vaporize bodies fully, or weapons that reduce entire blocks to tiny pebbles.

Which proves that the Western media knows quite well that Gaza health officials are unreliable at best and liars at worst - but refuse to tell that to their readers and viewers.

And when they don't expose the lies, they allow anti-Israel slanders to multiply not only in social media but also among Arab media.

Here is a Yemeni cartoon comparing the supposed Israeli soldier leaving a booby trapped doll to Santa Claus.

Media bias is more often seen in what is not reported than what is reported. The fact that Gaza health officials spread absolute lies is never reported. And as a result, they can lie with impunity, knowing that the media will continue to treat them with deference no matter what they say.