Alert! Israel develops special rats to "attack children and the sick"!
- PA libel: Israel has "developed rats of a special kind, large in size, that especially attack children and the sick"
- The supernatural rats join other Israeli "inventions" the PA has imagined in the past, such as "trained cattle" to spy and giant rats designed to chase Palestinians out of Jerusalem
According to the PA, Israel has yet again excelled in technology and development!
The newest Israeli invention, according to a PBC (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation) Director Rafat Al-Qudra, is a genetically engineered "special kind of rodent" that specifically "attacks children and the sick" in the Gaza Strip:
Fatah-run Awdah TV host: "Considering the warnings about the spread of epidemics, how do you describe the current health situation in the Gaza Strip?"
Palestine Broadcasting Corporation Director in the Gaza Strip Rafat Al-Qudra: "All indicators point to there being a type of rodent – rats and mice, to be precise... These rodents - mice and rats - are of a special kind, they are large in size, and they particularly attack children and the sick... It is believed that these rodents were developed and experimented on specifically by the Israeli occupation."
[Fatah-run Awdah TV, Facebook page, April 15, 2026;
Fatah-run Radio Mawtini, Facebook page, April 15, 2026]
These supernatural rats join other Israeli "inventions" that the PA has warned Palestinians about, such as cattle trained to spy. As Palestinian Media Watch reported in 2022:
"These are recruited and trained cattle, ason the neck of each cow they hang a medallion with an eavesdropping and recording device on it, and sometimes cameras, in order to monitor every detail in Khirbet Yanun large and small."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 27, 2022]
The new rats in the Gaza Strip are perhaps a later version of other Israeli genetically engineered rats that the PA "exposed" in 2008, designed to chase away Jerusalem's Arabs. PMW reported then on the PA's wild accusations, which claimed that the giant rats were:
- Immune to rat poison;
- Aggressive and larger than usual;
- Unafraid of cats and able to scare them away;
- Highly fertile -- female rat gives birth to 140 babies a year, four times the normal average;
- Highly selective -- Jewish residents of Jerusalem are not affected by these rats
The libelous PA accusation then claimed that Israel's goal was "to turn the [Arab] residents' life into a living hell, forcing them to leave." Interestingly, it was not mentioned how the rats were trained to differentiate between Jewish and Arab residents of Jerusalem:
"One of the most amazing things that we've read during this month is that [Israeli] settlers have been bringing chests filled with rats and releasing them in the Old City's [Arab] neighborhoods; they breed and have become a major curse... the [Arab] residents' efforts to counter this infestation have failed, especially since cats run away from these rats because of their size and ferocity... All of the conventional efforts to kill them have not succeeded, because they seem to be immune to poison and they breed in the sewers. It is known that this female rat gives birth seven times a year, each time giving birth to 20 babies; which compels Jerusalem's [Arabs] today to face the dangers of settlement and the infestation of rats."
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 18, 2008]
"Large numbers of [Israeli] settlers have been bringing huge cages full of rats and releasing them onto the streets and alleys of the Old City [of Jerusalem]... in order to turn the [Arab] residents' life into a living hell, forcing them to leave."[Al-Ayyam, July 17, 2008]
Palestinian Media Watch will be contacting the Israeli scientists for information on how they skillfully engineered the rats to recognize and attack, specifically Palestinian "children and the sick." PMW will update our readers if and when the remarkable Israeli scientists are willing to share their secrets. Stay tuned!