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How it Began

Eli Beer, President of United Hatzala said, "We saw a little baby in an oven. They put them in, these bastards put these babies in an oven and put on the oven. We found the baby a few hours later”

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The claim is repeated in US media

Beer ran a broad media circuit.

Eli Beer featured in several major news outlets

Eli Beer featured in several major news outlets

The story was covered in several large US media outlets:

Hamas 'b******s' cooked babies alive in ovens during massacre, medics reveal

Eli Beer on Hamas: 'These bastards put babies in an oven'

Israeli journalists cast doubt on the claim

Two journalists, Chaim Levinson of Ha’aretz and Yishai Cohen, a journalist with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) website Kikar Hashabbat, posted on October 30 after the case was made public that they had looked into it. Cohen said that he had contacted officials in the IDF, Shura army base and Zaka (a volunteer organization that also deals with bodies where they are found), who said they were not familiar with the incident.

Controversy surrounds reports of Israeli baby found burned alive in oven

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Eli Beer doubles down on the claim

Eli Beer continued to double down on the claim, although this time clarifying that he saw nothing but was relying on accounts from two other Zaka workers:

Beer said that in addition to Moskowitz, another volunteer told him about the baby.

“I believe the testimony I received, not Ha’aretz,” Beer said. “A lot of people don’t believe the Holocaust happened.  Zaka took care of a few places after Shabbat; they don’t work on Shabbat. We picked up 250 bodies before Zaka was there. Our volunteers are mostly Orthodox and did not have videos, they didn’t know what time it was; we lost sense of time, it happened so quickly. There is a lot of fake [news] but this is so not fake news.”