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In another question, the topic of whether babies were beheaded in the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel is addressed.

Putting aside the specific claims of beheadings, allegedly some accounts are saying no babies were killed by Hamas at all. (This BBC article quotes some anonymously, but suggests they are false.]

Did Hamas kill babies during their rampage?

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    Can you please define what exactly you mean by murder? Are babies killed due to Hamas rockets included, or do you mean specifically killing a baby (such as with a bullet from a short range)?
    – gerrit
    Oct 16 at 8:25
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    I'm sure that there's some denialism from the Hamas side (there was one official who said something like that, but I can't find that right now), but the Hinkle link you gave isn't that, explicitly. He just claims there that one photo was doctored or was showing something else than claimed. So I think you need some better examples, with quotes, to meet the Skeptics standards for questions. (Hinkle is an Assad apologist, by the way.)
    – Fizz
    Oct 16 at 8:38
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    More direct link to the their "analysis" defensepoliticsasia.com/…
    – Fizz
    Oct 16 at 10:05
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    @TheAsh: Neither of your links made the claim that no Israeli children were killed by Hamas. Please give an example of such a claim.
    – Oddthinking ♦
    Oct 16 at 15:10
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    @Fizz: The second interview (which was chronologically first) consisted of the Hamas spokesperson denying civilians had been killed, and then clarified that he was using an unconventional definition of "civilians" to exclude settlers (presumably including babies). So there is no claim that there were no babies killed.
    – Oddthinking ♦
    Oct 17 at 4:10

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Yes.

Edit: As of Oct. 28th, the youngest victim whos name was released is 10 months old Mila Cohen who was murdered in her home.

At this time, not all the bodies have been identified, and of those that were not all names were released to the public. Of those whose names were released the youngest are Omer kedem siman tov, aged 4, who was massacred with his entire family. And Yazan Zakaria Abu Jama, an Arab Bedouin boy aged 5, who was killed when a Hamas missile hit near his home.

Beside these we have photographic evidence of Babies bodies from the attacks released by the IsraelPM twitter (X) account. Warning, graphic images

https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1712471782303867144?s=20

And finally we have first hand accounts of Zaka volunteers who collected and treated the bodies and remains of the murdered. Just one example from an interview with a Zaka volunteer depicting what he personally witnessed in Be'eri:

We found families that were simply shot to death. Some of them burned to death after they murdered them. We had to care for bodies of children and babies. They didn't distinguish between anyone they just went around and killed anybody they saw in front of them. We saw children, we saw small bags with babies inside.

As time will pass, more bodies will be identified and their names will be released to the public we will have a clear picture of the exact number of babies that were killed. But the proofs that babies were killed are irrefutable.

In addition to murdering babies, Hamas has also taken several kids and babies hostages. The youngest is Kfir Bibs, only 9 mounth old.

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    Is there any truth to the rumors of the nursery?
    – TheAsh
    Oct 16 at 2:34
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    @TheAsh, what exactly? Is the picture real? I believe so. There are many pictures and video footage made by the terrorist themselves in real time of the murders there is no need for fakery. Is the blood in the picture of a baby? I don't know, maybe, it can also be an older kid, a parent, a soldier that died liberating that house. Even the blood of a Hamas terrorist who was killed in the house by IDF. After all, we all bleed the same color, except for Hinkle, as a Nazi, his veins are filled with sewage. But the message of the picture, that kids and babies were murdered is absolutely true.
    – SIMEL
    Oct 16 at 2:48
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    I am referring to the rumors that hamas killed 40 babies in one nursery.
    – TheAsh
    Oct 16 at 4:27
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    When people are killed without premeditation of getting them killed, e.g. by a bomb being dropped somewhere populated, or by inaccurate artillery fire into some region, that's not a murder. So, Israel is (for the most part) not murdering civilians in Gaza, it is killing them. Gazan fighters indeed have killed quite a number of Israelis by means of rockets etc. The question is whether they murdered babies. That would typically mean fighters who encounter a baby, specifically decide to kill them, and do so. That is not to say that this didn't happen, because it may very well have.
    – einpoklum
    Oct 16 at 8:06
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    @einpoklum, This is exactly what happened to 4 years old Omer and his family. Terrorists entered their house and murdered them.
    – SIMEL
    Oct 16 at 12:13

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