- The IDF said it won’t investigate its claim that Hamas killed and decapitated babies at a kibbutz.
- A spokesperson said that testimonies provided by soldiers were sufficient evidence.
- He said that it would be “disrespectful for the dead” to comment on the conditions of the corpses.
A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces told Insider that the military won’t seek further evidence for its claim that Hamas decapitated babies in Israel.
He said it would be “disrespectful for the dead” to do so.
The spokesperson, Major Nir Dinar, was responding to widespread criticism that the IDF had spread a sickening claim about its enemies without demonstrating that it was true.
On Tuesday, Dinar told Insider that babies’ bodies had been found at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, and that some had been decapitated.