Posted on 07/30/2025 8:49:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Most mainstream media outlets have made it clear in recent years where their loyalties lie regarding the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
But while rational observers can disagree about how both sides have reacted in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack, the use of misleading photos to manipulate the narrative should never be deemed acceptable.
That’s what the New York Times essentially admitted it did with a photo originally presented as a severely malnourished child in Gaza.
A little legwork by a watchdog group called Honest Reporting helped expose the misrepresentation, as Breitbart reported:
The New York Times admitted Tuesday that an emaciated Palestinian child it featured on the the front page suffered from “pre-existing health problems” that it had presented, inaccurately, as the result of starvation.
There is an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza — the result of poor food distribution, not low supply, as Hamas and armed gangs loot aid convoys. Hamas also refuses to release Israeli hostages and end the war.
As Breitbart News reported, the child, photographed by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini of the Turkish Anadolu agency, had a muscular disorder. Few outlets that ran the photo disclosed that fact to readers.
The photo had already spread far and wide online by the time the outlet issued its statement:
We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. pic.twitter.com/KGxP3b3Q2B— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) July 29, 2025
Here’s some of the social media reaction:
Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby · Follow BREAKING: The New York Times has admitted that the Gazan child they plastered on the front page as malnourished was actually suffering from pre-existing health issues.
Once again, they spread propaganda to the world—then quietly walk it back after the damage is done.
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@mdubowitz The New York Times: The child we used to indict Israel actually had severe pre-existing conditions. But hey — the photo worked, the outrage spread, and no one reads the corrections anyway.
War reporting as libel and malice.
Radio Australis @freedom4UU · Follow The New York Times has now acknowledged that the Gazan child featured on its front page was not malnourished, but had underlying medical conditions…
But the damage was done already.
Israel issued a statement denouncing the reports from the Times and a number of other international news agencies, per the Jerusalem Post:
“BBC, CNN, Daily Express, and The New York Times spread a misleading story using a picture of a sick, disabled child to promote a narrative of mass starvation in Gaza — playing into the hands of Hamas’s propaganda war,” Israel accused.
“Without proper disclosure. Without medical context. Without journalistic ethics,” the post concluded.
On Monday, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) revealed that a different Gazan child with a genetic disorder, whose photo went viral over claims of starvation, had been evacuated from the Gaza Strip in June and is receiving care in Italy. Five-year-old Osama al-Rakab, along with his mother and brother, were evacuated through the Ramon airport on June 12, COGAT revealed.
“Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good,” COGAT wrote in a statement.
“Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda. Check the facts before parroting blame.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time the New York Times has compromised its remaining credibility to push its Middle East agenda:
VIDEO AT LINK..............
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This doesn’t admit any truth! WTF?
Hamas and armed gangs loot aid convoys. Hamas also refuses to release Israeli hostages and end the war.
...that it started when it mass-murdered 1200 Israelis and kidnapped many others.
It’s a close as they dare get or else they might spontaneous combust.................
Who believes the NY Times EVER?
Does anybody even read it any more?
Our local papers are defunct and other are soon to follow suit.
The Dead Tree Media is doomed for extinction, regardless of their politics, Left or Right.................
Amanpour & Co. are running video of starving Pali children. Hungry, sure. They look pretty spunky for starvelings.
Que the lady holding the “Bomb Magnet”.
Its a tragedy.
I like the meme of ET on a bed — as an alleged starving child in Gaza.
NYT also lied about Stalin and didn’t report that Stalin was starving the Ukrainians.
The pic I need is of the same woman standing in a burned down Palestinian neighborhood lifting above her head a gigantic Wile E. Coyote ACME magnet and whaling that le, le, le, le, twit, twit, twit sounds continually!
That must be some gun that shoots, leaving the bullets unscathed with the brass still attached.
I want one...save me on picking up all my brass at the range.
Seems to shoot different sizes as well. With such advanced weaponry, I don’t think one can ever run out of ammo. Just put the used ones back in the gun and shoot ‘em again! LOLOLOLOL
Yep, thats her. One more step they had the magnet in her hands. Swear to God, I laughed for 15 minutes first time I seen it. Got little giggles just thinking about.
What, haha, did they throw the bullets at her house?
She’s very hard to find on the Internet.
I think she may have been purged.
In the old days the New York Times could get away with lying... Now? No so much.
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