What do you think is going on in this video of IDF soldiers in Hebron?
Israeli occupation forces detained a child setting in front of his home in the south of Hebron, the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/omqbkTsCEB
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) January 3, 2026
To me – and dare I say to any objective, reasonable observer – the soldiers speak to a child before moving away from him. The child then casually walks in their direction as they look at something in the distance, before they walk away. We do not know what they said to the child. Perhaps they asked him if he was lost. Whatever it was, the child did not seem too fussed.
Quite a mundane scene if you ask me.
But if you ask an anti-Israel propagandist, they’ll make some sh*t up about what just occurred.
Video footage shared by Voice of Palestine Radio shows a two-and-a-half-year-old boy standing pressed against a wall beside a stairway leading to a residential building in the Makbarat Al-Ras neighborhood. The child appears visibly distressed as a male and a female Israeli soldier stand a short distance away in a firing stance, aiming their weapons in his direction.
Areej al-Jaabari, a Palestinian human rights activist who recorded the incident, told Anadolu news agency that the child was held in place for more than 15 minutes.
According to al-Jaabari, the toddler had stepped out of his home to cross the street to a nearby shop, unaware that strict security measures were in force in the area.
She said the neighborhood had been placed under a full curfew from Friday evening through Saturday, the weekly day off for Israeli settlers, a practice imposed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023.
Because the child crossed the street in violation of these restrictions, he was detained and intimidated “like any other resident would be, including the elderly or the sick,” al-Jaabari said.
She added that the toddler suffered severe fear and emotional distress, continuing to cry even after the soldiers left the scene, and eventually falling asleep from exhaustion.
Including Dr. Mohammad Mustafa, the current PM of “Palestine,” who claims he was “terrorized”:
Others claim he was “abducted,” and “arrested.”
This is so clearly not what occurred, but this is the state of anti-Israel propaganda. The haters feel so emboldened by people swallowing their ridiculous lies, they feel free to lie about even what the naked eye can see.
And that is the real scandal here. Not a child “terrorized,” “abducted,” or “arrested,” but a propaganda machine so shameless it will invent abuse where none exists, confident that headlines and outrage will do the work while facts are ignored. When even the Prime Minister of “Palestine” is willing to misrepresent a banal, uneventful interaction caught clearly on camera, it tells you everything you need to know: the narrative comes first, the truth be damned.
It is a blatant attempt to gaslight the entire world. And as long as people keep buying these lies, the liars will keep telling them – even when reality is standing right there in plain sight.
