âThe 40 Dead Babies of Kfar Azaâ
Special âOy Vey Shut it Downâ Edition
by Lestrade aka Unpopular Opinion
First published: October 12, 2023
My unpopular opinion, from internet research anyone can do.
Hello folks. Lestrade here, shockingly not talking about Japan for once and instead hoping to
contribute to Milesâs excellent work on the Hamas paragliding competition last weekend.
Youâve probably heard about the recent news of Mossad-funded Palestinians causing havoc at
music festivals. Thousands dead. Mass chaos. Sex dolls were lugged around in pickup trucks and so
on. Very grim business. A particular âshrieking hysteriaâ beat I couldnât avoid was the press talking
about babies being beheaded and I thought Iâd prod this to see what it amounted to.
To get it out of the way: babies being beheaded immediately echoes atrocity propaganda seen in the
past to paint an enemy as not deserving of any sympathy whatsoever. Itâs a psychological tactic.
One famous example is the Iraq war âbabies-thrown-from-incubatorsâ claim, aka the Nayirah
Testimony.
The site of the âIsraeli babies beheaded by Palestinian gunmenâ plot line is the Kibbutz Kfar Aza.
Here is the initial lore collated on Wikipedia.
If we read this gem of an article the Kibbutz/commune is supposed to have secure rooms, like panic
rooms, in the buildings to let the occupants hide from bombings (and presumably attacks from
gunmen). As per MSN, hilariously the panic rooms are apparently designed with doors that easily
open from the outside:
âKfar Aza, which was home to 750 people, lies just 3km from the Gaza Strip. It was one of the first
Israeli settlements to be attacked during Hamasâ multi-pronged surprise offensive that has left at
least 1,000 Israelis dead.
âWe ran into the security roomâ, says Michal, a common feature of houses in the area. The room
is equipped with a specialist door that is designed to be opened from the outside, to rescue
inhabitants who are trapped inside a bombed-out building.â
Because thatâs what you want from a security room / panic room. So then the occupants had to
(checks notes) hold the door shut⦠to stop the Hamas troops getting in. By the way, MSN is saying
750 people lived in Kfar Aza but Wikipedia says 400 occupants. A bit of a difference.
âFor the first seven hours of the ordeal, Michalâs husband and son took 15-minute shifts holding
the door shut with their hands as gunshots and screams rang out across the Kibbutz.â
The idea of having safe rooms that can be easily accessed from the outside is absurd on the face of
it. If you knew this why would you even get in the room? Or not attempt to barricade the door with
furniture or something? The Hamas troops would then have to make an effort attempting to crack
each room, buying time for the army to arrive.
This paragraph is interesting:
âAs they sheltered in total silence, up to 70 Hamas gunmen entered Kfar Aza, breaking through
fences, pulling up on motorbikes, and landing in paragliders, before stalking the streets with
Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, according to members of the Israeli military.
âWe heard people getting shot from inside their homes, our neighbours crying for help, and
nobody came,â says Michal.â
Up to 70 troops, with rifles, versus 750 Israeli occupants, who would (given IDF conscription)
likely have military training and (due to proximity to Gaza) have their own weapons caches. Also
note that Hamas are turning up on motorbikes, i.e. they have made a land crossing from Gaza not
just paragliders. How did they get past the troops guarding the strip?
And:
âAt around midday, after several hours of waiting in silence, they decided to take a risk. âWe ran
out into the kitchen and grabbed some rope, two knives, a bottle of water, and a phone chargerâ â
and ran back in, barricading the door shut with rope.â
I thought they were holding the door shut, i.e. the people outside are pushing to get in? How do you
secure that with a rope? What, the door swung outwards the whole time? So theyâre holding the
handle from the inside and the Hamas guerillas are pulling on it to open in a tug of war? But donât
shoot the doors hinges off or use explosives?
âThe phone charger was essential. Across the community WhatsApp groups of Kfar Aza, residents
were keeping each other up to date with what was happening.â
Again, they are sitting in their individual domestic bunker/panic rooms. I love how nobody called
the police. Or the army. Theyâre going on WhatsApp and bitching about the terrorists ruining their
weekend.
âWhen voices speaking Hebrew could be heard outside, which they believed to be those of Israeli
soldiers who had arrived to fight the gunmen, âthe WhatsApp groups went mad. âHelp us, help us,
theyâre here, theyâre in the house, weâre holding the door, weâre holding the doorâ¦ââ
But was only the start of the fighting in the area, which continued for over three days.â
The men outside were speaking Hebrew? Eh?
âIt was only 20 hours after their ordeal began that Michal and her family were rounded up by
Israeli troops and escorted on foot to safety. They walked for two kilometres past dead bodies,
shot-up vehicles, and eventually to an Israeli army truck which evacuated them.â
The army rescue truck (singular?) could not be driven to the commune... they instead made civilians
march two kilometres past corpses to reach the truck for evacuation. Sure. Sure.
âThe next day, they made it to the Shefayim Hotel in northern Tel Aviv, which has become a
temporary home to over 300 former residents of Kfar Aza, who are unsure of where they will head
next.â
So there were 400 people there⦠I think? And over 300 are at the hotel? So⦠how many died? A
couple dozen? Already we find the tale of the kibbutz very weird to begin with.
Now letâs turn to the source of the âHamas decapitated 40-odd babies at the kibbutzâ claim. This
stems from i24 journalist Nicole Zedek. Or possibly Zedeck, the media canât decide. Accuracy
don't matter, obviously.
She sure does love the news.
Her news clip can be viewed here. Itâs 3:24 long and itâs worth watching once to listen to her prattle
on (admitting in the process sheâs going on second hand information relayed by an IDF commander
so no, she hasnât seen 40 beheaded infants) and a second time to focus entirely on the background
as she walks around giving her speech. For the site of what is supposed to be an extremely brutal
raid, with mass execution of civilians many of whom died defending the site, who were then
dismembered or beheaded, houses burned, etc. etc. you can see the location looks rather clean and
tidy.
Destroyed property:
A building destroyed by rockets/artillery, she says. Meanwhile, just across the (clean, undamaged)
lawn we see these properties:
She walks past a bunch of IDF troops standing around posing for the camera. Note the clean,
undamaged parked cars in the background. Brought in by the production crew? But Ms. Zedek is
only with a small team. They canât be for the IDF surely, so that leaves the residents. The residents
who had to walk out, for kilometres, having suffered massive devastation. Right.
The camera does a nice little 360 pan around the 1 minute mark, check out how completely normal
and undamaged the area looks. Try and find a spent shell casing, or artillery impact crater, or bullet
holes on walls, or anything broken/busted. Let alone corpses or blood stains on the lawn.
Ah wait, at 2:50 we are shown some devastation. Behold: a lamp-post has been knocked over (a
large military truck parked nearby presumably being the cause of this) and some pavement has been
damaged. Hilariously she points at the pavement and claims this is caused by artillery:
This was the best she could do? There was nothing more to show the audience back home? What
about all the body bags?
Fun fact: Zedek means ârighteousnessâ, from the Phoenician name Sydyk. Of course itâs
Phoenician. Righteousness can be said to be âan attribute that implies that a person's actions are
justified, and can have the connotation that the person has been "judged" or "reckoned" as leading
a life that is pleasing to Godâ, which is the whole point of this accusation of infanticide â to justify
the upcoming Israeli slaughter of civilians in the Gaza strip in revenge for their misdeeds.
Therefore making her name⦠a pun. How very Phoenician!
People have already suspected this was a fake story (or at least exaggerated). This has led to articles
such as this one which decries people who dare to doubt a journalist:
âHowever, that didnât stop some on social media from claiming it was a hoax. Idiots desperate to
run cover for Hamas took to social media to claim that there was simply no way a terrorist
organization would ever behead babies. Weâre supposed to believe Hamas has no problem burning
people alive, gunning down innocent civilians, massacring families but draws the line at
murdering babies.â
I mean Iâm sceptical of the whole event, to be honest. The paragliding jihadi thing seems pretty
dumb on the face of it, let alone when you read up on what Miles has already covered about Hamas
and the PLO being fronts for western intelligence. Also these allegations are easily shown to be
emotive hearsay. But no, do go on.
Whatâs funny is that people arenât even buying it in their own comments section:
Nicole Zedek gave a speech on why sheâs telling the truth:
âZedek appeared Wednesday on the âThe Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Showâ and came out
swinging against the deniers stating the following:
âItâs sickening, really, people are asking, âWhere are the babies? Why arenât you showing the
babies?â Is that anything anyone would want to see, personally, with their own eyes because after
the graphic images I saw of childrenâs beds covered in blood, I donât think I would be able to
stomach those atrocities as well. I think if people actually listened to the full clip because I think
people are often just using cuts from the different clips, so 40 babies, 40 children were carried out
on gurneys. Forty dead children were found. and a lot of people are saying, âForty babies? Well,
how does she know this number? How old are they?â I think thatâ¦The fact people are focusing
on that, does it matter if theyâre three months, three years old, six months old, six years old? A
six-year-old is someoneâs baby. The fact people are still questioning this and we have a clip. We
have these soldiers confirming what theyâve seen of the mutilation of these children.â
Yeah so her mic drop moment to refute the tinfoil hat crowd here is interesting as originally she said
the dead baby thing was based on what a commander in the IDF told her when she turned up to the
scene, i.e. second hand hearsay. Then it was that she saw the evidence âwith her own eyesâ i.e.
bodies on gurneys (which weâve seen no footage/photographs of), then itâs actually that sheâs seen
photographs taken by the IDF of childrenâs beds covered in blood.
So, think about that: the beds are empty, covered in blood. OK. So what happened? Were the
children all in bed asleep when they were executed? Hamas burst into the individual bedrooms and
opened fire? But there was forewarning, what with the motorbikes and the paragliders and the gun
battle with the kibbutz defenders prior to them being overrun. Surely the kids would have been
moved to the panic rooms or tried to run away or something? Or if Hamas took a specific house
wouldnât all the occupants have been marched outside the buildings to be shot on the lawn, cartel
execution style?
Point being: keep talking Nicole because the more you tell me the less it hangs together.
Iâll also quote this Sky News article which pretty firmly establishes sheâs bullshitting:
âIn an interview with Sky's Mark Austin on Tuesday evening, Israeli economy minister Nir Barkat
echoed a similar claim: "We've seen just now... we've heard of 40 young boys. Some of them were
burned alive. Some were beheaded. Some were shot in the head." CBS News in the US said on
Wednesday that Yossi Landau, head of operations at Zaka, Israel's volunteer civilian emergency
response organisation, confirmed to them he had "personally seen" adults, children and babies
beheaded.
But when asked directly whether "40 babies were beheaded", an IDF spokesman said children
were killed - but that reports of beheadings were "unconfirmed".
It was later reported by at least one major TV news network that the reports of babies being
beheaded had been "confirmed" by a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office.
This was subsequently attributed to Tal Heinrich, a freelance news anchor who appears to have
been drafted in by Benjamin Netanyahu's office on 8 October to assist with media relations in the
wake of Hamas's attacks a day earlier.â
8/10. 18.
âThe only available public statement on the matter from Ms Heinrich at the time of writing was an
interview she conducted with LBC on Wednesday, in which she was asked about the claims.
Ms Heinrich, who was quoted by LBC as a spokesperson for Mr Netanyahu's office, said:
"Toddlers, babies, I can tell you some of them... yes, heads were cut off. This is what we are
hearing from... soldiers on the ground who dealt with the bodies."
Replying to a later post on X linking to a story citing her comments, she said on Wednesday
evening: "Please note: We said that these reports are based on testimonies of soldiers."
'Important to separate facts from speculation'
Ramsay interviewed two IDF majors â one of whom was a spokesman.
Ramsay said: "At no point did either he, or the other major I spoke to, ever mention that Hamas
had beheaded or killed 40 babies or children. I believe that if it were the case, they would have
told me and others there.
"There is no doubt that a horrific attack took place at Kfar Aza, and it needed to be reported, and
we did see the bodies of the dead from the community in their houses, in the back of a truck, and
on the basketball court.
"But it's important to separate the facts from speculation in a situation like this.
"To reiterate â the IDF had every opportunity to inform the world's media of any story that had
become apparent as the military continue to clear up the kibbutz. The murder and beheading of
40 children was never mentioned to me or my team."
And another journalist, Oren Ziv, who works for independent news outlet 972 mag, was also
present and given the opportunity to speak to "hundreds of soldiers on site".
In a post on X, he said of the baby claims: "During the tour we didn't see any evidence of this,
and the army spokesperson or commanders also didn't mention any such incidents."
Whoops. Sorry Nicole. Tell you what, come back with actual evidence and Iâll update this article
with a retraction. I wonât hold my breath.
A trip to her facebook page shows she is the consummate professional journalist, leading with a
bikini photo of herself in college with her sorority sisters. There we find she is only two years out
of college, so about 24, and she has been a professional journalist for only eight months. So of
course they choose her for this headline-leading story.
In the meantime: photography!
âPersonal belongings including a child's stroller are seen on the road next to a car near Kibbutz
Kfar Aza, in southern Israel October 10â - REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Oh wow, so Hamas shot the car and its occupants.
No wait, hang on. No bullet holes no broken windows no blood no corpses. Erm. So⦠er⦠they
stopped the car and ordered them all out and the Israeliâs parked up and also opened the car boot to
get the pram out. And then another family did the exact same thing with a white car. Then everyone
vanished. 
âA rucksack bearing the emblem of Hamas' militant wing is seen on the ground following a mass
infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel, October
11.â - REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
I love the idea that Hamas were wearing rucksacks with their logo printed on it. Makes it easier to
spot your buddies I guess.
This next one is interesting:
âIsraeli soldiers carry the body of a victim of Saturday's Hamas attack at Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in
southern Israel, October 10.â REUTERS/Ronen Zvulu
Again note the complete lack of any visible damage/carnage at this kibbutz. Two sets of running
gun battles (Hamas vs. residents and later Hamas vs. IDF) culminating in hundreds of residents
dead, up to 70 Hamas dead and an unknown number of IDF (youâd think at least one or two IDF
would get killed or wounded in the process of retaking the site). 
âThe body of a man lies amongst rubble on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10.â -
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
So now Iâm thinking these are abandoned buildings. This isnât a normal apartment with a corpse,
thatâs an abandoned building with a bloke lying on the ground pretending to be dead. No visible
wounds or blood.
âThe body of a man lies next to destroyed buildings on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel,
October 10.â - REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
These very much look like abandoned buildings, torched, possibly torched in the past given that the
grass and foliage around the property is not unaffected by the fire. Weird how the roofing is
charcoal black and yet completely intact (i.e. these properties were burned to crisp but stayed
structurally sound). No sign of a gun battle (e.g. bullet holes, casings, indication of explosions,
blood spatter). No blood under the corpse or sign of bullet entry wounds, burned right arm and
either no head or the corpse is at an angle. The corpse has been placed at that spot there as heâs not
run out of the building on fire (male clothing so I assume a he) as heâs side on to the properties, nor
has he been shot to death if running out on fire (no blood or visible entry wounds). If heâs meant to
be decapitated thereâs no head nearby. Or blood trail from the neck stump. The clothing choice is
interesting as the invasion was supposed to start around 6:30am according to the Reuters article:
âSchwartzman told Reuters he was woken at about 6.30 am on Saturday by the booming sounds of
rockets and that he and his family moved to their safe room an hour later after receiving a kibbutz-
wide text telling them it was dangerous to be outside. "We heard shootings and we were basically
barricaded in for 21 hours until the army rescued us," his wife, Keren Flash, took up the account.
"We kept hearing shootings and gunfire and bombs and alarms, and we just didn't know what was
happening. Our worst nightmares." Soldiers were still securing the streets of the kibbutz, once
neatly lined with palm trees, banana plants and single-storey houses with verandas.â
I donât see why someone would be dressed like they were ready for a night out (i.e. shiny leather
leggings and leather biker jacket) at 6 or 7 in the morning. Are we looking at a bike/car accident
victim reallocated from a morgue, perhaps?
âThe body of a man lies amongst rubble on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10.â -
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
No dropped weapon, no bullet wounds no blood no gore. No bullet impact on the wall behind him. 
âThe body of a man lies amongst debris on Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in southern Israel, October 10.â -
REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
This one is interesting â the caption implies heâs a civilian who died in the shoot-out and not a
Hamas soldier. If heâs the latter and Reuters is wrong, why is he dressed like that and where is his
weapon? If he is a civilian, why in Godâs name are all these soldiers walking around ignoring a
corpse? Why is he left out in the sun, not in a body bag or being taken back to a hospital/morgue for
processing and identification?
âIsraeli soldiers inspect burnt cars that are abandoned in a carpark near where a music festival
was held before an attack by Hamas gunmen, by Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel,
October 10.â - REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Photo from the music festival car park. Funny how thereâs only like one or two models of car here.
Or how many of them have the hood or boot open. No bullet holes mind. Why are the centre white
car and the black car on the right hand side crushed at the front from a vehicle impact? Is it
because⦠these are junk cars from a scrapyard, placed at the scene? Or is this a paste up? Every car
is in focus, despite a different range for the lens. Plus the trees in the distance. Plus the wreckage in
the foreground. And again, no color in these cars at all: either white or some shade of gray. Don't
they sell colored cars in Israel?
âIsraeli soldiers inspect abandoned cars in a carpark near where a music festival was held before
an attack by Hamas gunmen, by Israel's border with Gaza in southern Israel, October 10.â -
REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
Iâm thinking this image is not only a paste-up, but appears to be AI generated. That car on the right!
Whatâs going on there!? Look at how crisp the number plate is and yet how blurred the main car is.
Or how the car is a 2D flat object! The whole thing is a series of flat sections of car slapped on top
of each other with some high-res soldiers in the distance floating above the ground.
To round it off, you should watch this video from Sky News, showing us the CCTV footage of the
Hamas fighters breaking into the kibbutz. Follow the link and scroll down until you see this:
In it you see not 70, not a dozen, but two guys: one on point who canât crawl under a gate (for some
reason) and the other keeping watch. Sky tells us they hide in a booth at the entrance to the kibbutz.
When a residents car pulls up to go in the Hamas troops jump out and kill everyone in the vehicle.
Except they donât â watch it yourself. They donât open fire and instead run inside, with the vehicle
and its occupants unharmed. The car even starts to drive in after them!
Anyway, I could go on but you get the picture.
This is all nonsense.
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Addendum:
I wrote this because itâs a current event rather than historical and I hope it does more damage to the
Empireâs story-of-the-month narrative as a result. Iâm actually pretty salty about being de-listed
from major search engines, blacklisted on the YouTube algorithm and having a complete radio
silence from the internet about what Iâve demonstrated in the Pacific Theatre. Itâs like⦠the most
Iâve ever written on a single topic. I proved Pearl Harbour was fake for goodness sake! Yet:
crickets. Youâd think an American would care. Other than Miles I mean, chad that he is. Iâm going
to take it as a compliment that American Intel community frat bros couldnât come up with a single
coherent counterpoint to anything Iâve raised. If Iâd made an actual academic error they could flay
me over it. But seriously. Honestly. You guys. Thank God Miles exists and his site allows me to say
stuff or else itâs like pissing in a hurricane.
Update 13/10:
Fake conservative propagandist Benjamin Shapiro tried to do some damage control for the â40
Dead Babiesâ plot line and posted this on X (formerly Twitter):
Drat, my theory is undone. None can contest this gruesomeness. Wait. Hang on: the glorious idiots
of 4chan already found the original photo that the AI-generated charcoal-baby was shopped into,
thus disproving it:
They also ran it through "Aiornot.com" and found the image was computer generated:
Whatâs funnier is that people are posting this on Shapiroâs feed and heâs got absolutely no
comeback whatsoever. Remember: they lie about awful things to control your perspective.