The French Minister of Solidarity and Family, Aurore Bergé, was forced to delete a post on her account on the “X” platform in which she adopted an Israeli account of an alleged story “about Hamas slaughtering a child,” despite the denial of this account.
Bergé wrote in the deleted post, “This is Hamas. This is what Israel experienced on October 7.”
The French minister’s post came in response to another blog post, viewed by 15 million people, by an American journalist named David Elfon, in which he claimed that “Hamas burned an infant inside an oven.”
A baby was found in an oven, baked to death by Hamas terrorists, leading Israeli first responder @EliBeerUH recounted to an @RJC gathering last night.
His group was among the first to respond to and witness the Oct 7 atrocities.
— Dovid Efune (@Efune) October 29, 2023
The French Minister deleted what she wrote directly, after the intervention of the “Check News” agency, affiliated with the “Liberation” newspaper, which said that all the allegations reported by the journalist were baseless and were not mentioned in any reliable source. The agency contacted one of the Israeli relief organizations that confirmed it. The news is “fabricated.”
The information has not been confirmed by any official source. It was denied to CheckNews by an official from Zaka, the Israeli emergency relief organization. ⤵️https://t.co/ppXAC9r8wk https://t.co/hxuSDnocbY
— CheckNews (@CheckNewsfr) October 30, 2023
Hamas attack: where does the claim that an Israeli baby was put to death in an oven come from? https://t.co/nHLkl2XKsA
— CheckNews (@CheckNewsfr) October 31, 2023
This was not the first time that Bergé revealed its adoption of false and misleading Israeli narratives regarding “Hamas” and what happened in the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation launched by the Palestinian resistance on the seventh of this October.
On the 23rd of this month, Bergé commented on a post by leftist politician Jean-Luc Melenchon about a pro-Palestine demonstration in the country, saying, “The massacre is the one committed by Hamas against children, the elderly, women and men who were beheaded and burned in their homes.”
The massacre is that perpetrated by Hamas on babies, old people, women and men who were beheaded and burned in their homes.
No one will be able to support, ally or vote for LFI by saying they didn’t know.
We know and we are fighting you. https://t.co/EKu1lqjfHn
— Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) October 23, 2023
On October 17, the French minister wrote a post on the “X” platform in which she said, “They slaughtered children. They disemboweled pregnant women. They beheaded the elderly. They slaughtered families. They are terrorists. Islamic terrorists. It is the same scourge that we are fighting.” In all democracies.
They slaughtered babies.
They disemboweled pregnant women.
They beheaded old men.
They massacred families.They are terrorists.
Islamist terrorists.
It is the same scourge that we are fighting, in all democracies.You are nothing but a disgrace. https://t.co/3lQGgJlxqU
— Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) October 17, 2023
Activists denounced the French minister’s adoption of false and misleading narratives, as activist of Palestinian origin, Rima Hassan, wrote, saying, “The level of some of our elected officials is miserable. There is, for example, Aurore Bergé, who transmits false news.”
Frankly the level of some of our elected officials is desperate @auroreberge who relays fake news pic.twitter.com/cqqx9rFUwS
– Rima Hassan (@RimaHas) October 30, 2023
Blogger Zuhair said, through his account on X, “A false story of a child in the oven moves them. While true stories about the massacres of children in front of the eyes of the world do not interest them.”
A false story of a baby in an oven moves them.
Whereas the real stories of children massacred before the eyes of the world do not interest them. https://t.co/6HIHcsCtpy
— Oncle Zouhair (@Oncle_Zouhair) October 31, 2023
Blogger Pierre Taraoui called on Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne to blame her minister, writing, “The French deserve ministers of the required level, not those who spread fake news.”
@gouvernmentFR @DeputesRE @Elisabeth_Borne So it’s people like that that you blamed?
So it’s not the skill that takes you to the top. The French deserve ministers up to the task. Not FakeNews relays. https://t.co/mARUGKHPVD
— Pierre Taraoui (@Taarbz) October 30, 2023
It is noteworthy that the White House retracted statements by President Joe Biden in which he expressed that he did not believe that he would “see pictures of terrorists beheading children.”
Later, the Washington Post quoted a White House spokesman as saying, “Neither President Biden nor any American official has seen any pictures or independently confirmed the accuracy of reports about this.”
Source : Al Jazeera + French press + social media sites
