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Investigative journalist David Collier fact checks claims made about an image by corporate media saying the child pictured is proof of famine in Gaza.
“This isn’t the face of famine. It’s the face of a medically vulnerable child whose suffering was hijacked and weaponised – first by Hamas, then by global media,” he writes.
“I shouldn’t have to do this. It shouldn’t fall on me to call out the world’s biggest media outlets for their failure to act like journalists. Why are almost all of them functioning as Hamas’ useful idiots, amplifying propaganda with no effort to verify the facts? Is it really too much to expect them to do their jobs?”
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This Image Went Viral, The Truth Did Not: The Truth Behind The Viral Gazan Famine Photo
By David Collier, 27 July 2025
This isn’t the face of famine. It’s the face of a medically vulnerable child whose suffering was hijacked and weaponised – first by Hamas, then by global media.
The Image that Lied
Unless you have been hiding under a rock all week, you would have seen the viral images of Mohammed, the child victim of the Gazan “famine.” The image used by most of these outlets was licensed to Anadolu, a Turkish state-run news agency headquartered in Ankara. The photos were taken by the Gaza-based photographer, Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini, and uploaded to his Instagram account on 22 July – a day before the Express splashed it across their front page. But in fact, another Gaza-based account, Saeed Mohammed, had shared similar images even earlier.
The global frenzy began on 23 July 2025, when the Daily Express ran the image of Mohammed on its front page. The article uses the image of Mohammed to promote the narrative of a mass famine in Gaza.
Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story. Sky News, CNN, The Guardian, Daily Mail, New York Times, and The Times (UK) – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation, and this image is the proof:
Except this image proves none of it. Wider and unpublished pictures show Mohammed’s healthy brother Joud, who was born on 18 April 2022 and is 3 years old. Mohammed was born on 23 December 2023, just two months after 7 October.
What we can see from the pictures is that both Mohammed’s mother and his older brother look healthy and are not suffering from any type of starvation that would be necessary to cause the thinness suffered by Mohammed. This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession. The published images in all the various news broadcasts and publications have either been deliberately cropped to remove the image of the healthy brother, blurred him into obscurity, or the journalists have only chosen to use photos in which the brother is not visible at all.
The Truth about Mohammed
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq /Mutawwaq was born with serious genetic disorders. He has needed specialist medical supplements since birth. Like previous examples of the media using “starving children” going back to summer 2024 – the image is of a child suffering underlying (and hidden) health issues.
A medical report issued in May 2025 by the Basma Association for Relief in Gaza states that Mohammed has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy (“CP”) – a group of neurological disorders affecting movement, muscle tone and posture. The report notes that Mohammed suffers from hypoxemia (low oxygen in the blood), possibly linked to a suspected genetic disorder inherited in an “autosomal recessive pattern.”
There is no argument here. I have seen a copy of this report (but obviously won’t produce in full here a child’s medical diagnosis). It was signed by Dr. Saeed Mohammed Al Nassan on 20 May 2025:
This revelation raises serious issues of media integrity. The Daily Express picked up a viral image circulating online and published it without verification or context – a textbook example of clickbait journalism, where emotional impact is prioritised over everything else.
The BBC, as per usual, went a step further. The BBC *spoke* to his mother, Huda Yassin Al-Matouq / Mutawwaq – and produced a 64-second interview that somehow failed to disclose that Mohammed was a child born with genetic problems and complex medical dependencies. Even in the BBC video, the mother alludes to this – referencing a prolonged struggle, including physiotherapy sessions that had helped him stand. The curvature of the spine is another key clue tying the child to a CP diagnosis. But the BBC narrator never addresses this – leaving the audience to believe the heartbreaking physical condition we are seeing is the result of widespread famine.
This is not journalism. This is the UK’s state media deliberately pushing a deceptive narrative that only serves to benefit Hamas and create fake news.
How Mohammed’s Father Was Used to Paint a Narrative
The story being told through legacy media outlets such as The New York Times is that Mohammed’s father was killed while going out to collect food. Again, to underline the Gaza hunger tragedy narrative.
This has been reported without any attempt at verification. From the death certificate I can see the father, Zakaria Ayoub Al-Matouq / Mutawwaq (زكريا أيوب المطوق), was killed on 28 October 2024:
From online sources, it turns out that Mohammed’s father was killed in Jabalia, in what appears to be a targetedstrike on ‘al Qassabeeb’ street.
We can also see that Hamas were attacking the IDF in precisely that spot at the time (posts from 26 and 27 October).
Between 25 October and 29 October, Israel lost six soldiers in the area. In this Hamas footage, which shows wide-angle views of part of the same “street” on 26 October, it is not possible to see exactly where Mohammed’s father would have been looking for food:
Whether or not he was armed, Mohammed’s father died on a battlefield where Hamas was actively attacking Israeli forces. Whatever the truth about “looking for food,” Hamas bears responsibility for bringing the conflict to that street and the media ignored this context entirely.
A Personal Note
Digging for the truth behind images like this is not easy. We’re dealing with a live war zone – real people, real pain and tragic situations like Mohammed’s. These kinds of personal tragedies happen in every war, in every era.
What is unique – and toxic – is how images of the tragic consequences of urban warfare are being weaponised to build false global narratives. In this case, the lie is of a Gaza gripped by mass famine and children dying from hunger.
And here’s the bitter truth: I shouldn’t have to do this. It shouldn’t fall on me to call out the world’s biggest media outlets for their failure to act like journalists. Why are almost all of them functioning as Hamas’ useful idiots, amplifying propaganda with no effort to verify the facts? Is it really too much to expect them to do their jobs?
There’s another layer of cynicism here. From everything I’ve learned, Mohammed’s mother is simply trying to find help for her child. She’s not hiding the truth. She tells the full story to anyone who asks. Yet every journalist who has spoken to her has made the same cynical decision: ignore the medical reality, strip the context and turn her child into a propaganda weapon. No one is trying to help. No one is interested in telling the truth. All they seem to ask is: “How can this image hurt Israel?” – and they build their coverage around that.
Hamas, the UN and the Aid Deception
Which brings us to the famine narrative.
Time and again, the most widely circulated images of “starving children” in Gaza have turned out to involve children with serious underlying medical conditions. The images are heartbreaking, yes – but we must stay grounded. This is a war zone, and Hamas is actively using the civilian population as pawns in a global propaganda campaign.
Let’s be clear: Hamas cannot afford to lose control over aid distribution – not if it intends to remain the ruling power in post-war Gaza. Channelling or controlling aid has always been one of the terrorist group’s most reliable sources of income. That’s why it has been essential for Hamas to discredit the US-Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (“GHF”) aid programme and portray it as a failure. This has included an almost daily pantomime of unverified claims that hundreds have been killed in Israeli attacks while queuing for aid. Yet in the most documented conflict zone in history, credible video evidence remains conspicuously absent – despite claims of daily occurrences.
Worse still, UN agencies and international non-governmental organisations (“NGOs”) operating in Gaza are riddled with staff affiliated with terrorist groups. Whenever Hamas comes under pressure, these agencies issue carefully timed statements and take actions that conveniently align with Hamas’s strategic goals. These are then amplified by the army of anti-Israel activists embedded in legacy media. We saw this during the ‘All Eyes on Rafah‘ campaign in early 2024 when the IDF closed in on key leadership and hostages located there. The famine narrative is just the latest act in the play.
There is plenty of publicly available information showing that significant quantities of food are entering Gaza. But with local media firmly under the control of Hamas, none of this gets reported.
Instead of helping facilitate aid delivery, UN agencies have imposed impossible conditions, stalling convoys and leaving hundreds of trucks abandoned – their contents rotting just a short distance from those in need. At times, the UN has even insisted that Hamas be allowed to protect aid workers, effectively demanding that the terror group retain access to and control over humanitarian supplies. Only recently, under mounting international scrutiny, has the UN begun to slightly shift course.
Let’s call this what it is: The UN, UNRWA and other NGOs are not prioritising the safety of Palestinian civilians or indeed getting aid to a population they maintain are in desperate and immediate need of food. Instead, it seems, they are prioritising a political agenda that aligns with – and thus ensures – the survival of Hamas. They’re not neutral. They’re enablers
Media Failing and a Moral Collapse
The UN aid agencies won’t deliver aid – the journalists won’t do their jobs.
In a propaganda war this calculated and brutal, it was vital that our media act as a check on the lies. Not just for Israel’s sake, but for the Palestinian civilians caught in the middle.
When legacy media outlets become mouthpieces for radical Islamist groups – out of ideology, ignorance or cowardice – it isn’t just a journalistic collapse, it’s a moral disgrace.
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Zionist sympathising author? ✔️
Hi Paul Cardin, if you read his biography he readily admits his stance. He is being transparent.
On the flip side, does your comment indicate anything about you that you may not be admitting?
On the flip side, Rhoda Wilson, are you admitting about yourself that you deny the ongoing holocaust in Gaza?
Rippon, the article above is exposing corporate media lies. As an activist you will try to make it about something else. Sadly, that is what you have allowed them to train you to do: deny the truth and follow a narrative, no matter the damage and destruction that follows.
Corporate media lies about covid, climate change and more. So why do you think the BBC, for example, will suddenly change and tell the truth about events in the Middle East? If you have been blindly following corporate media on these events, without questioning why their words and images do not match, for example, then is it really me or the author of the article that has the problem?
You don’t need to answer the following questions. They are rhetorical.
Are you a left-wing activist? If so I encourage you to heed Younes Sadaghiani’s warning:
https://expose-news.com/2025/07/26/islamo-communism-is-used-by-islamists/
Do you work for the BBC, the UN or any other organisation that is part of the propaganda machine? If so, I encourage you to think long and hard if the money is worth it and, if not, then see if there is another way you can earn a living.
Are you an Islamist or neo-Nazi activist? Then I encourage you to save yourself (and those you love): pull out of these radical ideologies and deprogramme yourself, and then look at the what is being reported again with a clear mind, a mind that is not cluttered with propaganda.
Note: Islamist does not equate to Muslim. And Islamism does not equate to Islam. Islamists are indoctrinated extremists/radicals. Islamism is a political ideology that uses the religion of Islam to radicalise people, and in some cases turn them into terrorists.
Awesome response!
I most certainly agree with the general gist of what you say-your comment makes much sense; apart from how do you separate Islamism from Muslimism? Islam means submission, and Muslim means one who submits to Islam!?
Hi Islander, “how do you separate Islamism from Muslimism?” I don’t know practically where the dividing line is but looking at the official definitions …
Muslimism:
1. “the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran”
2. “The civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion.”
Islamism:
“Islamism, broad set of political ideologies that utilise and draw inspiration from Islamic symbols and traditions in pursuit of a sociopolitical objective.”
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Islamism
So Muslimism relates to a religion (they follow Allah), and Islamism relates to politics (its is in fact an economic, social, legal and political control system, an autocratic government that dictates every aspect of life if they get into power). I guess when someone forgets they are following Allah and follows an ideology to gain power instead, then they have crossed over from being a Muslim to being an Islamist, i.e. the process of Islamic radicalisation is the process of moving young Muslim men (predominantly) away from Allah and towards the politics of power and control.
Having said that, Islamists don’t necessarily follow Islam. I’ve heard some accuse Jeremy Corbyn of being an Islamist – and I think they’re not far wrong. I would also ask whether George Galloway is an Islamist. Neither men, as far as I’m aware, follow the Koran or go to a mosque to pray, i.e. they are not Muslims – they are simply using Islam to gain political power.
Socialism/communism, like Islamism, is a economic, social, legal and political control system, an authoritarian government that dictates every aspect of life if they get into power and there is no one to keep them in check. So Corbyn and Galloway already have a common understanding with Islamism. Also, both communism/Marxism and Islamism believe revolutions (often violent) are the only way to impose their dictatorship on populations. This is why there is collaboration between communists/Marxists (far left/radical left) and Islamists, it is a meeting of like minds in this respect. This is why they collaborated in the Iranian Islamic Revolution, for example. But as communists must have realised by now, Islamists are not politically far-left, or even on the left as far as social values go, and so they will get rid of the far-left “useful idiots” when they have achieved their goals. For a real life example, read:
‘Islamo-communism is used by Islamists to gain power – and then they turn on the communists’
https://expose-news.com/2025/07/26/islamo-communism-is-used-by-islamists/
Rhoda, as for me, separating Islamism from Muslimism cannot be done-for the two are inextricably linked.
It is like trying to separate sin from the sinner, or the Christian from Christianity!
Hi Islander, it’s not the same but it can likened to separating the Vatican from Christianity. To non-Christians, the Vatican represents Christianity and the Pope speaks for Christians – Muslims, for example, most likely believe all Christians follow the Pope. But for people who are Christians we know that’s not the case – the Pope speaks for the Vatican only (and some Catholics, some of the time). And we know the Vatican was created to use the Bible and Christianity to gain influence, power and wealth (political ideology).
What about IDF attack on Christian church and constant spitting on priests and molesting of churchgoers?
Stupid autonomic reply. This article is about media using a fraudulent image. The article is NOT primarily about Israel.
Stupid autonomic reply. This article is about media using a fraudulent image. The article is NOT primarily about Isreal.
Israeli support for Hamas
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
Use of Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority
In an interview with Israeli journalist, Dan Margalit in December 2012,
Netanyahu told Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
2019 Benjamin Netanyahu said:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”[47][48]
Israel Caught Shipping “Bags Of Cash” To Hamas
https://banned.video/watch?id=6579f7afb5a2c4051c49e34b
Why did Israel back the payments?
Israeli and international media have reported that Netanyahu’s plan to continue allowing aid to reach Gaza through Qatar was in the hope that it might make Hamas an effective counterweight to the PA and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/middleeast/qatar-hamas-funds-israel-backing-intl/index.html
When did the Qatari payments start? In 2018, Qatar began making monthly payments to the Gaza Strip.
Some $15 million were sent into Gaza in cash-filled suitcases – delivered by the Qataris through Israeli territory after months of negotiation with Israel.
Israel approved the deal in a security cabinet meeting in August 2018, when Netanyahu was serving his previous tenure as premier.
The US was aware of the Qatari payments to Hamas, a former senior State Department official involved in the region told CNN on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Qatar was prepared to provide funds to the Gaza Strip through Hamas as early as the 2014 Israel-Hamas war to alleviate the humanitarian crisis there, the official said, and the US at the time left it up to the Israelis to decide whether they would permit this.
I know it’s your site and you can do what you want with it, but I for one will be very disappointed if you decide to become pro-Israel.
Stupid autonomic reply. This article is about media using a fraudulent image. The article is NOT primarily about Israel.
Expose does so much great work in combatting propaganda.
It is bizarre that on the particular issue of Israel it chooses to parrot Zionist propaganda.
Zionists persistently lie as naturally as humans breathe air.
Not only do members of the anti-human zionist death cult persistently lie (some are still repeating the ‘beheaded babies’, ‘mass rapes’, & ‘Hamas steals all the aid in Gaza’ lies), but they only believe, & uncritically repeat, what their cult leaders in israel tell them to believe.
Did you know they have a Hasbara propaganda app that sends out ‘missions’ telling them what to repeat on social media?
https://rumble.com/v5jegjx-israels-new-hasbara-app-haaretz.html
I have a built in automatic presumption that everything in MSM is untrue or exaggerated, until I find out differently with research.
I’d go along with that!
This looks to me like an AI pic of a near-dead child with an older living child’s head superimposed on it.
History repeats itself. Remember that half naked little girl crying while walking on the road in Vietnam? Staged! She was crying because her parents deliberately hid themselves to make her cry – for the camera.
Please note that I have in no way indicated what I think of Israel or Hamas or war or dying children. I write and read only to explore to the facts of the subject at hand. If I am questioned and don’t answer, it will be because the question appears to me to be outside this limit.
They do the same thing with “climate change.”
A polar wasting away could very well be dying of old age.
I hate to break the news to the eco-pimps, but all animals eventually die of old age.
If you spend enough time in polar bear habitat, eventually you will see a bear sadly in it’s last days, which has nothing to do with the climate.
We’ve all been around people and pets dying of natural causes.
The Eco-warriors can’t quite grasp this.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fake-news-nat-geo-admits-viral-photo-polar-bear-amanda-prestigiacomo
So the image is a fugazi( fake) or to rephrase it its an image of a child medical condition. Further more the writer shows another image stating that the second image shows that the people are not showing any evidence of starvation. Meanwhile the Knesset in so called Israel are debating about further starving the Gazans. The story not only is it morally wrong but also ethically of bad taste. Yes image used to push a narrative, but to state on the aforementioned article that the family is anything but showing that the are anything but malnourished. Gaza at present makes the Stalingrad battle look like a Hollywood fake set. Has this so called journalist have no shame. So Gazans are not starving and the IDF are victims of circumstance. Israel is and was always an ethno fascist supremacist state the only difference now is that the veil of Israel fakery has been taken down. The photo used might be used to promote some narrative but to deny the truth of the Gazan humanitarian disaster is pure evil. And I am a self hating Sephardic Italian Jew.
Post Scriptum: This article is evidence of mis direction and creating an alternate narrative that the Gazans can further be dehumanized and that Arab lives are less worthy as opposed to Ukrainian’s or western people. Reminds me of how Africans are narrated to us so called civilized people. I suggest to the author of this article read the Jerusalem Post Times of Israel and Haretz at least they report what happens in the colonial outpost called Israel.
Hi askn4amico, talking of Africans. When did you last see a protest in the West about what is happening in Sudan and Nigeria? When did you last see a television report on the atrocities being carried out and highlighting the persecution and the starvation happening there? How many aid trucks or how much assistance has been sent to Sudan and Nigeria to help and protect vulnerable populations? How many “pro-Palestinian” activists are highlighting the cause of Nigerians and Sudanese? Have you even heard of the atrocities being committed in Sudan and Nigeria, and now Syria? What do all these atrocities have in common? Islamism, the perpetrators are Islamists and their victims are non-Muslims. Islamists are ethnically cleansing these countries of their native African population and their culture and religion, last heard 6-10 million Sudanese had been displaced from their homeland by Islamists, Christians are being massacred in Nigeria by Islamists, were you aware of that?
If the perpetrators in Sudan, Nigeria and Syria were Israelis or Jews, it would be nightly news and all over social media, but the perpetrators are Islamists, so the UN and corporate media stay silent, and not a peep out of left-wing activists. Why is that, do you think? Don’t you think it’s odd?
Claiming concern for people rings hollow when that concern relates only to one people and no concern is shown for the populations of the rest of the world.
As for what’s happening in Gaza, I have seen enough lies, manipulation, misinformation, propaganda and activism (let’s sum that up as “fake”) to confidently say – no one knows. Most of the information you see about Gaza either on the television or on social media is fake. Some are easily shown to be fake, with others, by applying a little bit of critical thinking, will be shown to be fake. And by “most” I mean 3/4 of what is publicised in the media and on social media: since 7 October 2023, I estimate about 70% of what I’ve seen regarding Gaza is fake. The truth doesn’t need embellishment, it can stand on its own. So why would there be so much fake information and activism about Gaza? Have you heard of a PsyOp? You will have come across this concept relating to covid, climate change and Ukraine – use those as examples and you will notice the same pattern relating to (mis)information about Gaza. As for the “pro-Palestinian” activism, its is a re-run of the Black Lives Matter activism, which should be renamed to “No Lives Matter (except for Black Lives Matter’s leaders).”
Thank u 4 ur reply Rhoda just the point I made referencing africans as less than human and not as worthy as westerners such as Ukranians. Yes I am aware of christians being murdered in africa in fact they are being murdered in Al Qaeda capitol Damascus in Syria as we txt or msg each other via ur wonderul web site which I have been following since the scamdemic. My point is the whole self importance of people of judeaic faith and western civilization. Further more Rhoda takfiri movement have been financed and orchestrated by western secret service agencies since the beginning of the 20th century, Lawrence o Arabia the Muslim Brotherhood were all British intelligence operations with the use of countries Like Qatar Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan was the biggest example of modern secret services creation 1979 Carter administration via the CIA and its various cut outs created the takfiri movement via ISI Paskistan secret service and viola the Taliban. Poco Harem when they kidnapped all those school girls from a christian college . Where did they get those tanks arms and logistics from ? Was it an organic creation?Rhetorical question. If it looks like a duck quakes like a duck its a duck.
Post Scriptum raised a catholic and I believe in God the Father and the Holy spirit AMEN Pace e Bene peace be with You
Docius In fondo/Last but not least.
The term Matrix comes to mind. and narratives are a plenty but one thing is 4 sure the enemy is the state and not Muslims Jews Christians or Hindus
Talking of protests if it gets publicized its psy-op. Check the banners and if they were professionally made by printing houses big large banner and not hand made you can bet your bottom dollar or British pound it is a well funded and orchestrated psy-=op. In my youth was raised a communist my grandfather was one of the founding members of Il Partito Communista Italiano and I was a labor union organizer.
Hi askn4amico, regarding protests you are right. You can spot the government/Globalist funded “protests” a mile away.
A medical condition, disclosed or otherwise, does not cause starvation. It only increases vulnerability to it. The infant’s condition reflects systemic deprivation, not just illness. The older sibling appearing less malnourished proves nothing. Infants deteriorate faster, and he was born after the blockade began. Even then, the sibling is not demonstrably well-fed, only comparatively less emaciated. The photo documents a real famine’s impact on the most defenceless. That is not deceit. That is evidence. This image is not deception, it is indictment. And what a task, to rummage through the medical files of a dying child in order to exonerate a blockade. One wonders what kind of person sees a famine and thinks, ‘how best to defend it.’”
“Nearly one in five children under five in Gaza City is now acutely malnourished, and over 5,000 under-five children have required treatment for severe acute malnutrition in just two weeks in July alone.”
— World Health Organization, 27 July 2025
(https://www.who.int/news/item/27-07-2025-malnutrition-rates-reach-alarming-levels-in-gaza–who-warns)
Stupid comment. The majority of children with cerebral palsy (CP) have feeding difficulties and are especially prone to malnutrition.
So, yes, this medical condition usually causes starvation.
“This medical condition usually causes starvation.”
No. Starvation is not caused by cerebral palsy. It is caused by the absence of food, care, and medical infrastructure. That absence is not accidental. It is engineered.
You are confusing vulnerability with inevitability. A child with CP needs more support, not less. They require feeding assistance, supplements, sometimes tubes, but they do not starve unless the system around them collapses. And in Gaza, that collapse was not natural. It was deliberate.
Before this war, Gaza had paediatric specialists, hospitals, feeding clinics, physical therapists, disability support services, and a functioning UN-backed aid delivery system. It was fragile, under-resourced, and under siege, but it worked. Children like this one were being treated and supported.
Then the hospitals were bombed. The doctors killed. The health system dismantled. UNRWA expelled. Aid convoys blocked at the border. That is what caused mass starvation. Not CP.
To say “this medical condition usually causes starvation” is to erase all of that. It takes a political act and pretends it is biology. It shifts blame from siege policy to the child’s body.
This is not just wrong. It is strategic. It is how mass death is made acceptable. You turn a victim of structural violence into an unfortunate medical case. You frame extermination as a health issue. You make starvation sound inevitable.
If this child had been in London, Paris, or Tel Aviv, they would not be starving. Not because CP is easier to manage in rich countries, but because those countries are not being bombed, their hospitals are not being erased, their doctors are not being killed, and their food supplies are not being blockaded.
This child is not starving because of cerebral palsy. He is starving because the systems that could have supported him were systematically dismantled. And when you say his condition “caused” that starvation, you help bury the fact that this was engineered. You rewrite a war crime as a medical inevitability.
That is not a misunderstanding. That is complicity.
Hi GristlyBarez, what do you think of the below?
New York Times stunningly rolls back claims about viral photo of starving Gaza boy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-times-stunningly-rolls-back-011054332.html
The New York Times was the original propagator of the false story. Now Sky News, CNN, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Times (UK) and BBC should confess that they also lied to promote a narrative.
The New York Times, which I have no interest in defending under normal circumstances, at least demonstrates the bare minimum standards of responsible journalism here. It added new information. It did not retract. It did not apologise. It did not “roll back” anything. It updated its article to reflect additional medical context that became available after publication.
That is called reporting.
The child is still starving. The famine is still real. The suffering of Gaza’s children, disabled or not, is still documented. Not only by the NYT, but by the World Health Organization, Médecins Sans Frontières, UN OCHA, and dozens of journalists who have risked their lives to report from inside a besieged enclave where medicine, food, and electricity are systematically denied.
What you have done here is link to a Yahoo-syndicated article with a clickbait headline and pretend it proves your case. It does not. It confirms the opposite. The child is malnourished. He has cerebral palsy. Both things are true. His condition made him more dependent on medical care, not less. And Gaza’s infrastructure, including hospitals, doctors, and supply chains, was systematically destroyed. That is why he is starving.
The update clarifies the child’s heightened vulnerability. You twist that into a reversal. That is not misreading. That is deliberate reframing. It is an attempt to manufacture exoneration where none exists.
So which is it? Did you not read the article you just linked? Or did you read it and post it anyway, hoping nobody else would? Either way, the conclusion is the same: your position is not based on fact, but on narrative maintenance. You are not here to understand. You are here to distort.
You present yourself as a journalist. But the NYT, despite its long record of institutional failure, displays more journalistic ethics in a three-line editorial note than you have across an entire article. They add context when new information emerges. You subtract it.
This is not an argument. It is a salvage operation. You published a piece trying to discredit famine photography. Now the facts will not cooperate. So you clutch at a routine editorial update and pretend it is a confession. But it is not. It is you, again, seeing starvation and thinking: how do I spin this?
Poor child probably got vaccines from GAVI
The Israeli people are NOT the Israeli government as the Palestinian people are NOT Hamas, which was brought into being by certain entities in the West and then took on a life of its own… and as Neten-Yahoo! has said, or words to this effect… “we need Hamas as an enemy”, useful to apparently help him and his cronies achieve the Greater Israel they have in mind, which has absolutely nothing to do with the average Jewish person and their daily lives and aspirations, but is a manoeuvre desired by the powers that pull the strings of politics, profits and wars. Sad.
Now, in the news the United States and Israel will tell the American people the terrorist attack israel not knowing the true story.
Israel funds Hamas the United States funds terrorist and then then Hamas gets money to attack Israel to further the (Greater Israel Project)
Greater Israel”, according to the founding father of Zionism Theodore Herzl, is a Jewish State stretching “from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates.
The recent picture of an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier with a Greater Israel badge on the uniform provoked outrage in Arab countries (Middle East Monitor, 2024). The promised land of Israel, as described in the badge photo, includes regions from the Nile to the Euphrates, from Medina to Lebanon, including territories from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, entire Jordan, and Occupied Palestinian territories. Why it sparked outrage, however, is not clear: the map reflects Theodor Herzl’s more than a century old statement: “Discussed with Bodenheimer the demands we will make. Area: from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates…” (Herzl, Ed. Patai, & Transl. Zohn, 1960, p. 711), and with newer instances of this territorial expansion desiderate, expressed by Oded Yinon plan and Saul B. Cohen’s geopolitical concepts, among others, and the aggressive stance against Israel’s neighbors and regional countries. Hence, it is probably not the existence of the plan that sparked outrage, but its appearance in the broader social media space.
This view on region’s future is neither new nor rare. In a January 2024 recording, Israeli politician Avi Lipkin was stating: “… eventually, our borders will extend from Lebanon to the Great Desert, which is Saudi Arabia, and then from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates. And who is on the other side of the Euphrates? The Kurds! And the Kurds are friends. So we have Mediterranean behind us, the Kurds in front of us, Lebanon, which really needs the umbrella of protection of Israel, and then we’re gonna take, I believe we’re gonna take Mecca, Medina and Mount Sinai, and to purify those places” (muslimi.official, 2024), (Middle East Monitor 1, 2024).
This article analyzes the geopolitical and international relations implications of Israel’s expansion plan in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, in connection with the dynamic concept of Greater Israel, from a historical development
perspective.
Israeli support for Hamas
(Wikipedia)
Use of Hamas to undermine the Palestinian Authority
In an interview with Israeli journalist, Dan Margalit in December 2012,
Netanyahu told Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
2019 Benjamin Netanyahu said:
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”[47][48]
The fact is that there is wilful imposed starvation on the Palestinians by the Zionists.
Any attempt for distraction of this fact is suspicious at best.
Hi Bernard Kerkhof, where are you getting your “facts” about “Palestinians” and “Zionists” from?
Palestine is not a geographical location, it is a political ideology – an Islamist political ideology. And, the word “Palestinian” is a projection of Islamist ideology, or, in short, it is Islamist propaganda. On the other hand,, Zionists are Jewish nationalists, just as there are nationalists in every country in the world. Case in point: the word “Palestinian” is a political term (propaganda) loaded with nationalism (Islamist nationalism).
So, you have declared your support for Islamist nationalism but reject Jewish nationalism, which is your choice – a choice you may live to regret, but it is your choice as long as you don’t drag anyone else with you into the hell you’re attempting to usher in by supporting the take over of countries by Islamists. “Countries?” you might say. Islamists aren’t limiting their plan for world domination to the take over of far flung places such as Sudan, Nigeria, DRC or Israel, it will come to your country soon enough if you let it. Indeed, as we speak, although the Islamification of Europe is in its infancy, the governments of Western Europe and the UK are facilitating the Islamic take over of their countries.
So, because of the way you’re using “Palestinian” and “Zionist,” you’ll understand why I’m questioning the sources of your “facts.”
Please remember: Muslim does not equate to Islamist. And Islamism does not equate to Islam. Islamism is a political ideology that Islamists follow. Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi, Palestinian Authority, Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian regime and numerous other associated organisations are Islamist/Islamism – they use the religion of Islam to gain and maintain power and control over populations. If Islamists are not Muslims, what religion do Islamists follow? As is the case with communism, the Islamic state religion is the state dictatorship, the ruling political party, represented by its head (e.g. the Ayatollah) – they deify a man (who represents a political party/organisation/ideology) instead of worshipping and following God.
You got to be out of your mind. This was waste of space and time, and totally p, ropaganda. We are suppose to curse our minds, ears, sights and then join your cult.
Well, perhaps you did not get the cosmic memo, this is a new age, and if you know the Old Testament text that was corrupted by the chosen after they killed God’s wise prophets and then as it is done today they stole & misappropirated their title, “Illuminati” which means “enlightenment” while looting, lying, cheating & killing. Let’s start Friday m the beginning, case in point about how GOD so loved a disobedience tribe. Lie, this is the proof:
Judges 2:11-23
11 And the people of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and served “Baal” and the “Ashteroth” .
12 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, because they had removed themselves from the way which the Lord commanded Moses, to walk in the way of Baal and the Ashteroth.
13 And the Lord said to Moses, “If the Israelites will not obey my laws, I will send them into the enemy’s hand, and those who do not obey my laws will be destroyed.”
The so called ” promise” of land is a “LIE”. Now if that is a lie, then the Israelis terrorized innocent people, stole their land & homes and then began murdering, starving & colonizing them, then blamed the innocent victim. Just as this insulting article has done, blaming Hamas and raping the public mind with lies concurrently.
Well, back to the beginning so others can connect the dots. God never gave the Israelis anything because they preferred to serve and do the fornication of demons-Baal” and the “Ashteroth” hidden in the shadow even today.
The truth is God made a ” Covenant” with Judah provided they followed his rules. Did they? So the land deal and protection was off the negotiating table, and a new and unbreakable Covenant was made when Jesus took the world stage.
Exodus 24:7 – The People Agree to the Covenant:
“Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, ‘All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.’”
Deuteronomy 28:15
“But if you do not obey the Lord your God… all these curses will come upon you and overtake you.”
What happened, they lied.
Israel violated the covenant and was punished.
Jeremiah 11:10
“They have returned to the sins of their forefathers… They have broken my covenant, which I commanded their ancestors.”
The New Covenant Replaces the Old:
Hebrews 8:7–9
“If there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another… they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them.”
Matthew 21:43
“Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.”
So, the point is, everything the Zionists claimed biblically was a lie and they got away with it, corrupting the OT text, taking by force what GOd gave to others in the New Covenant, and in secret declaring war on God.
Since they boldly, perpetuated and created their own problems, they skillfully manipulated the kindness and goodness of others via victimhood. Of course, GOD being GOD allowed it because a time was coming as predicted by Jesus when the “Wheat would be separated from Tart. Jesus said in a new age. That age is now, just saying.
So, starving women & children, manipulating their barbarism, claiming it was in defense, and changing the meaning of terms like street thugs and challenges anyone with a moral compass, is the reason Trump’s Maga base is leaving him.
The con game is over, Netanyahu is a war Criminal and others will be added to the list, despite the threats, or assassination, if need be, nothing will stop a Divine idea whose time has come.
But, arrogance believe their own lies, so don’t expect the public to abandon theirs.
See: https://youtu.be/QTfQo4t_zVY?si=kNqeEDHFVSl3453k