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Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza for ‘gender reveal’ party (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by JoMiran@lemmy.ml to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.

It seems they were not blowing it up for a 'gender reveal', but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not a good look for Al Jazeera.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Al Jazeera is always extremely anti Israel. The Arabic version even more so than the English one.

[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That’s like saying science is anti-conservative

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You'd expect them to be factually accurate though.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 4 points 15 hours ago

Updating the article to provide more correct information as soon as it's uncovered is part of that

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

OK, that's somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation's soldiers would make that same joke.