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Claims that a dead baby in Gaza is actually a doll are proven false

Some people online accused Gazans of faking the death of an infant using a doll. These claims however have no basis in reality. © Observers

A mother was filmed in Gaza on December 1, holding the body of her dead son in her arms after he was killed in the latest wave of Israeli bombardments. However, once the footage was uploaded online, several people and a prominent Israeli paper claimed that the dead infant was just a doll. They were wrong – we learned details about the child’s identity and spoke to forensic specialists who confirmed the images did show the remains of a human infant. This is part of a trend among pro-Israeli users to claim that images from Gaza have been staged.

Warning: some of the images and descriptions in this article may be distressing for some readers.

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