Posted on 08/07/2025 1:48:39 PM PDT by Words Matter
GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga @GAZAWOOD1 🚨 FABRICATED SUFFERING IS NOT EVIDENCE - IT'S PROPAGANDA! This video of a newborn having a seizure, taken from a nursing page on FaceBook, is pushed by media outlets as a starving baby in Gaza.
If there are starving babies in Gaza, why do they fake the evidence?
When do the Muzzies NOT lie?
Taqyia...
My give a damn is busted.
That’s an acceptable answer as well.
All muslims lie to survive in islam so it just goes and goes
I’m not the first to say this.
If babies are starving why don’t the well fed adults holding them and behind them in the pictures give up a meal or two to feed them?
And Hamas should stop intercepting food deliveries and charging black market prices to the Gazans.
And if they don’t like war then why did they invade and torture, abduct and kill noncombatants inside the borders of a sovereign state Israel?
There’s a The viral image in question that shows Mohammad Zakaria al-Motawaq, an 18-month-old baby in Gaza, photographed by journalist Ahmad al-Arini.
The photo was widely published by outlets like NPR, BBC, CNN, and Sky News, depicting severe malnutrition and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Controversy arose when some Israeli bloggers and pro-Israel media claimed the child had cerebral palsy or other genetic disorders, suggesting the image was misleading.
However, doctors treating Mohammad in Gaza confirmed he suffers from muscular dystrophy and macrocephaly, which make him more vulnerable to starvation, not less.
See here:
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sjpxrxwweg
Natasha Hausdorff: The great lie of the Gaza ‘genocide’
Brendan O’Neill Show, Spiked . July 3, 2025.
Natasha Hausdorff – barrister and legal director at the UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust – is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Natasha and Brendan discuss Bob Vylan’s vile chants at Glastonbury, the horrors Israel faces in Gaza and how the Holocaust is now weaponised against the Jews.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hIh0L1gs2xY
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib:
Hamas’s police used pick-ups & donkey carts to steal aid throughout the Gaza war, especially during the ceasefire earlier this year, where hundreds of trucks entered the Strip daily. Right here before your eyes! But according to NGOs & media, there’s still “no evidence” of theft..
Jul 21, 2025.
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/1947133813638771097
https://archive.is/hLiBD
GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga
@GAZAWOOD1
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FABRICATED SUFFERING IS NOT EVIDENCE - IT’S PROPAGANDA!
This video of a newborn having a seizure, taken from a nursing page on FaceBook, is pushed by media outlets as a starving baby in Gaza.
If there are starving babies in Gaza, why do they fake the evidence?
Jul 24, 2025
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1948458326267711815
Clip: Fat Gazan insists that Gaza is starving.
Brother Rachid الأخ رشيد @BrotherRasheed:
This guy is complaining that countries are airdropping aid, claiming it’s an insult to their dignity. He challenges them, saying, “If you’re real men, bring it through the Rafah gate!”—all while insisting that Gaza is starving. What do you notice here?
From
Safaa Subhi صفاء صبحي.
Aug 2, 2025.
https://x.com/BrotherRasheed/status/1951647822253547950
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib:
Hamas’s police used pick-ups & donkey carts to steal aid throughout the Gaza war, especially during the ceasefire earlier this year, where hundreds of trucks entered the Strip daily. Right here before your eyes! But according to NGOs & media, there’s still “no evidence” of theft.
Jul 21, 2025.
https://x.com/afalkhatib/status/1947133813638771097
https://archive.is/hLiBD
Mohammed Zakaria Ayoub al-Matouq.
The photo of the toddler who became a symbol of hunger in Gaza: Investigation shows he suffers from genetic disease.
Photos of Muhammad al-Matouq, the emaciated Gazan toddler photographed wearing a diaper made from a garbage bag, were published in nearly every media outlet covering the crisis in the Strip; But an independent journalist finds that he suffers from a background of genetic diseases, including cerebral palsy and a lack of oxygen in the blood; which contribute to his appearance; His diseases were omitted from report, and the narrative of starvation in Gaza intensified.
Itamar Eichner | published: 07.28.25.
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/bjtpa6vvgl
One Picture, A Thousand Lies.
How Western Media Became a Mouthpiece for Gaza “Hunger” Propaganda.
Viral images portraying a severely emaciated Palestinian boy as the “face of hunger in Gaza.” The boy, used as the centerpiece of a Hamas campaign, suffers from genetic disorders and muscle conditions, a fact largely ignored by most media outlets.
Gila Isaacson.
Jul 28, 2025.
Heart-wrenching images of a severely emaciated Palestinian boy, spread by leading international media outlets as the “face of hunger in Gaza” and “proof” of widespread suffering due to the war, do not tell the full story.
An investigation reveals that the boy, Mohammed Zakaria Ayoub al-Matouq, suffers from multiple genetic disorders and pre-existing medical conditions, a fact entirely overlooked by the vast majority of media coverage.
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/gaza-media-coverage-controversy
How Western media misused a sick child to perpetuate a false Gaza starvation narrative
The al-Matouk case is not an anomaly but rather the latest chapter in a decades-long pattern. Opinion.
Fern Sidman.
Jul 30, 2025.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/412507
NYT Forced to Eat Crow After Falling for Super Obvious Lie About Israel ‘Starving’ Palestinians.
By Johnathan Jones. July 30, 2025.
https://www.westernjournal.com/nyt-forced-eat-crow-falling-super-obvious-lie-israel-starving-palestinians/
Time to call out media distortion on Gaza.
The misleading photo in The New York Times is just the tip of the iceberg - opinion.
It’s okay to report a humanitarian crisis, but as a part of the whole story, with balanced information about all the relevant actors.
By Lilac Sigan. The Jerusalem Post
July 31, 2025.
Luckily, we have Israel’s Consul in New York, Ofir Akunis. He’s the one who made the New York Times apologize for the giant photo published on its front page on July 25, featuring an emaciated baby in its mother’s arms, with a headline about starvation in Gaza.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-862783
Osama al-Rakab
Gaza ‘starvation’ poster child has genetic condition, left Strip with Israel’s help
“Osama suffers from a serious genetic illness unrelated to the war,” stated the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit.
JNS Staff.
(July 28, 2025 / JNS)
A Gaza boy who became the poster child for the alleged famine caused by the war in the Strip suffers from a genetic illness and was evacuated for treatment last month, the Israeli Defense Ministry said on Monday.
A picture of Osama al-Rakab, 5, was “used to falsely depict Israel as responsible for his condition, claiming Israel is starving children,” including in Italian media and on Al Jazeera, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit stated.
“Osama suffers from a serious genetic illness unrelated to the war. On June 12, we actively coordinated Osama’s exit from Gaza with his mother and brother through the Ramon airport,” stated COGAT.
The boy is currently being treated in an Italian hospital, it continued.
“Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good,” said COGAT. “Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda.
“Check the facts before parroting blame,” the Defense Ministry unit stated, attaching a picture showing Osama in a hospital gown in Italy.
Sila Barbakh
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
July 30, 2025.
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A real child.
A fake story.
📸 11-month-old Sila Barbakh isn’t starving — he suffers from a pre-existing chronic gastrointestinal illness, unrelated to the war.
But global media used his photo to push a false narrative of famine in Gaza.
This isn’t journalism. It’s propaganda.
https://www.facebook.com/IsraelMFA/posts/a-real-childa-fake-story-11-month-old-sila-barbakh-isnt-starving-he-suffers-from/1157320226425902/
Hananya Naftali
July 31, 2025.
The media showed this baby and said he’s starving because of Israel.
That’s a LIE. This is 11-month-old Sila Barbakh. He’s not starving — he has a long-term stomach illness, totally unrelated to the war in Gaza.
But anti-Israel outlets used his photo to push a fake famine story and blame Israel for something that isn’t true. This is how propaganda works. No civilian should go hungry - and that’s why Israel is delivering extra aid.
https://m.youtube.com/post/UgkxJRdtW0GSyt_qZyspblO3jDEYFV_K-o_t
The Daily Sceptic.
The Media’s Complicity in Hamas Propaganda.
by Will Jones, 28 July 2025.
In the past week, a heart-wrenching image of a desperately thin Gazan child has been splashed on the front pages of newspapers worldwide and all over social media. But what none of them have told you, says David Collier, is that the child has a serious genetic disorder – and his brother is well
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/28/the-medias-complicity-in-hamas-propaganda/
UN admits that 87% of its 2,010 food trucks in Gaza were ‘intercepted’ by crowds or armed gunmen.
Aug 2, 2025.
Anyone who supports getting more food to people in Gaza—as I do—must also ask tough questions of the UN. This isn’t about grainy footage. The UN itself reports that 87% of its 2,010 food trucks in Gaza (85% by tonnage) from May 19–July 29 were “intercepted”—either peacefully by crowds or forcefully by armed actors. That’s not an Israeli claim. That’s a UN admission as per the UN website (UNOPS). Time for real journalistic scrutiny.… pic.twitter.com/9mFn27BD9H — David Makovsky (@DavidMakovsky) July 30, 2025.
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https://x.com/DavidMakovsky/status/1950541391114739857
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