Girl’s Entire Doll Collection Starring In Rubble Photos All Over Gaza

Dolls-lying-in-airstrike-rubble-as-if-the IDF-caused-the-scene-but-in-fact-the-whole-picture-is-contrived has proved a public relations boon to terrorist groups.

Khan Yunis, June 8 – A six-year-old in this Hamas-controlled coastal territory woke up today to discover that her father and older brothers had removed every single stuffed animal and plush toy from her bedroom for purposes of posing them amid the bombed-out ruins of buildings and taking staged pictured of the destruction that resulted from retaliatory and preventive airstrikes by Israel against militant positions and weapons last month.

First-grader Ahlam Djimli disclosed to playmates Tuesday that all but one of her dolls went missing overnight, and that inquiries of her mother revealed that her father Hamad, and her older brothers Faisal, Sami, and Yusef, all Hamas personnel, had taken the toys and will spend the next four or five days locating rubble sites where they can pose a suitable stuffed character and use the resulting photo in anti-Israel propaganda efforts.

According to friends, Ahlam remains circumspect about the development, but harbors particular worries about five of her dolls. “It would be six, but she was holding too tightly to her favorite penguin and they didn’t want to wake her,” explained Wafa, a classmate at an UNRWA school that currently has no sessions because of IDF bomb damage done to a Hamas tunnel that ran underneath the facility.

Ahlam’s anxiety pertains specifically to a purple unicorn with a rainbow tail; a Minnie Mouse in hijab, the only kind her parents would allow in the house; a monkey that her brother Sami named Yahud; a life-size plush hand grenade; a knockoff Barbie, also in hijab; and a baby that used to say “Mama” when squeezed just so but whose battery has run low and now simply grunts.

Her brothers will join a larger team of fighters and activists taking staged propaganda photos throughout the Gaza Strip, some of which they will release immediately on social media and some of which will serve as fundraising materials for “charities” that fund lavish lifestyles for Hamas leaders and never reach those whom the fundraisers purport to benefit. Dolls-lying-in-airstrike-rubble-as-if-the IDF-caused-the-scene-but-in-fact-the-whole-picture-is-contrived has proved a public relations boon to terrorist groups ever since Hezbollah broke open the genre in a 2006 war with Israel. Hamad intends to strew his daughters’ toys all over several different ruins, regardless of the sites’ connection to any IDF strikes.

“Perhaps after the next war we will be able to display her corpse for the cameras,” he mused. “Now that would be really something. In the meantime, this will do.”

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