Overview

• Israeli and Jewish-news outlets published Raichel’s interview in which he recounts receiving a photo from an IDF soldier in Khan Yunis.
• Raichel says the soldier identified the infant’s father as a Hamas activist and claimed the child later died as a “martyr.”
• He ties the image to his volunteer work with Save A Child’s Heart, which brought children from Gaza to Israel for cardiac care.
• Raichel places the alleged trajectory roughly seventeen years after he first met the infant and describes the discovery as deeply disturbing.
• The reporting corroborates that Raichel made the claim, while the assertion about the child’s later militancy has not been independently verified.