{"id":41103,"date":"2025-05-06T12:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=41103"},"modified":"2025-05-06T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:19:18","slug":"inhumanity-idf-soldiers-drop-blue-bomb-in-gaza-as-part-of-gender-reveal-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/06\/inhumanity-idf-soldiers-drop-blue-bomb-in-gaza-as-part-of-gender-reveal-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Inhumanity’: IDF Soldiers Drop Blue Bomb in Gaza as Part of Gender Reveal Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Blue smoke rises up from a bombing carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in a video posted on social media on May 5, 2025. Soldiers allegedly rigged the bombs to ensure the smoke would be blue for a “gender reveal” for the expected baby of one of the IDF members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Instagram\/Eye On Palestine)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>One advocacy group said the act “clearly demonstrates once again the brutal nature of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and on the Palestinian people,” said one advocacy group.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 05, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As thousands of Palestinian children across Gaza<\/a> face starvation two months into Israel’s most recent complete blockade on humanitarian aid into the enclave, members of the Israel<\/a> Defense Forces allegedly used one recent attack on a residential area as a prop in their celebration of one soldier’s impending fatherhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a video posted to social media on May 5\u2014with the soldiers reportedly<\/a> sharing it on their own accounts\u2014the IDF members can be heard cheering and laughing as a building in a civilian area is leveled by an Israeli bombing, leaving blue smoke rising from the rubble in the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smoke signified that the soldier’s expected child is a boy\u2014and the troops, members of the military that’s often called<\/a> by Israel and its allies “the most moral army in the world,” gave no indication that they were thinking of any civilians who could have been in the bombed area as they laughed loudly at the “gender reveal.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza for a \u2018gender reveal\u2019, having rigged it with explosives that give off blue smoke to indicate a fetus is male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We have reached the stage of genocidal fervor where new Israeli life is literally celebrated through the destruction of Palestinian life,” said<\/a> Heidi Matthews, a law professor at York University in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another observer, Daniel Lambert\u2014manager of the outspoken Irish hip hop trio Kneecap, which has condemned Israel’s bombardment of Gaza\u2014called<\/a> the video “the most depraved thing you’ll ever see.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As other babies starve they welcome their kid with a war crime and cheers,” Lambert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the death toll in Gaza has surged past 52,000<\/a> since Israel began attacking the enclave\u2014and blocking the entry of nearly all humanitarian aid\u2014in October 2023 in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel and its top international military funder, the U.S., have repeatedly insisted that the IDF is targeting Hamas\u2014even as reporting has revealed<\/a> mass graves filled with women and children, some of whom appeared to have been buried alive or with their hands tied behind their backs; and attacks like those that killed 15 paramedics<\/a> who were in clearly marked vehicles and seven World Central Kitchen workers<\/a> who were distributing food to Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has killed more than 17,400 children in Gaza\u2014and many more are presumed dead and buried under rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five out of every 100 children in the enclave have been orphaned<\/a>, and Israel’s bombardment has left Gaza with the highest number<\/a> of child amputees in the world\u2014and with dwindling capacity to care for them as repeated bombings and the blockade have led to the near-total collapse of the healthcare system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the growing consensus among international rights groups that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, just 94<\/a> out of 535 voting members of the U.S. Congress have demanded a permanent cease-fire in the enclave\u2014and speaking out against Israel’s attacks has proven dangerous in the U.S., with numerous foreign students detained and threatened with deportation for organizing protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“While the Israeli government slaughters and starves Palestinian babies in Gaza\u2014with the full support of our own government\u2014its occupation forces are now blowing up buildings to stage ‘gender reveal’ events in celebration of the birth of their own children,”\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0the Council on American Islamic Relations. “The inhumanity of such acts clearly demonstrates once again the brutal nature of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and on the Palestinian people. The Israeli government must be stopped.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our work is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Feel free to republish and share widely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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