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A displaced Palestinian girl holds a doll while playing outside her family\u2019s tent at a displacement camp near the port in Gaza City, on October 19, 2025. [Photo by Majdi Fathi\/NurPhoto via Getty Images]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
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The Director General of Health Affairs in the Gaza Strip, Munir Al-Bursh, has revealed that Israeli forces left behind booby-trapped dolls and toys designed to attract children. He said this shows a new face of the ongoing genocide, despite the ceasefire that has been in place for more than three weeks.<\/p>\n
In a post on Facebook on Sunday, Al-Bursh wrote: \u201cBombs in the form of dolls \u2013 the Israeli army did not only leave behind destroyed houses, but also left time bombs in the hands of children.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIn the narrow alleys and among the ruins of homes, the remains of rockets and unexploded shells are scattered, as if they continue their killing mission even after the soldiers have gone.\u201d He confirmed that \u201cevery day, hospitals receive the torn bodies of small children, severed limbs, and faces disfigured due to childhood curiosity and innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Al-Bursh explained that \u201cthe most dangerous of all remnants of war are those that resemble the devil in the face of an angel \u2013 booby-trapped toys: dolls, birds, and small teddy bears left to tempt the little ones. When a child reaches for the \u2018beautiful toy\u2019, the horrifying truth explodes in their face \u2013 that the army claiming morality has planted death in the heart of childhood itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
He concluded, \u201cThe \u2018doll\u2019 has turned into a landmine, the \u2018small teddy bear\u2019 into a tool of amputation and disfigurement, and the \u2018coloured ball\u2019 into a trap that steals an entire childhood.\u201d<\/p>\n