Notice in the center of the red circle, the material of the stretcher ENDS! The person who pointed out that it looks like the stretcher is a foot and a half long is 100% correct. The purple circle to the left is where the stretcher should appear from underneath his body, if he was actually lying on a stretcher.
I think the injured man was photoshopped from another image - like you said, the material for the stretcher ENDS under his arm! And no one looks like they are carrying a load. I don't even think this guy is Lebanese - he sure doesn't look it - look at all the other photos of Lebanese we have seen recently.
now look the angle everyone is looking at as well as the angle of the upraised camera - they are pointing AWAY from the injured guy. Kinda odd for no one to be looking at the center of attention, eh?
Also, if you look closely enough, you can see the left-hand edge of the material directly below the verticle of the man's eye - there is a gap between his neck and his shoulder.
This man is being supported by air. Photoshop.
Like the grey baby, he has novisible injures.
I see the lack of support for the torso, the lack of sag from weight on the mini-stretcher, the front of which is at the wrong angle and the legs in back (which might be explainable).
What I don't see is a mechanism to explain what I do see.
I don't see that gap in the fabric as evidence of any fraud.
Sorry man but you're reaching too far on this one. The zoomed out picture shows the bar running under him .... around post 40.
I don't think this is altered. I do not think you are seeing the end of the support post in the stretcher. I think it's a gap in the material and a cutout/rivet in the post.
Secondly, the focus seems to match on the casualty himself and the surrounding materials. I do think the stretcher itself is pretty ratty and busted up.
I do suspect this is a staged photo, but aren't most from this region suspect of that?
It's a magic carpet stretcher.