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NY Times Forced To Admit Truth About Viral Photo Of Supposedly Starving Palestinian Child
100 Percent Fed Up ^ | July 30, 2025 | Russell Bartlett

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:

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1 posted on 07/30/2025 8:49:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

This doesn’t admit any truth! WTF?


2 posted on 07/30/2025 8:55:22 AM PDT by albie
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
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.

3 posted on 07/30/2025 8:58:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: albie

It’s a close as they dare get or else they might spontaneous combust.................


4 posted on 07/30/2025 9:00:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Who believes the NY Times EVER?


5 posted on 07/30/2025 9:01:11 AM PDT by boomop1 (term limits NOW)
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To: boomop1

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.................


6 posted on 07/30/2025 9:03:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: boomop1

Amanpour & Co. are running video of starving Pali children. Hungry, sure. They look pretty spunky for starvelings.


7 posted on 07/30/2025 9:06:33 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Red Badger

Que the lady holding the “Bomb Magnet”.

Its a tragedy.


8 posted on 07/30/2025 9:11:48 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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9 posted on 07/30/2025 9:13:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I like the meme of ET on a bed — as an alleged starving child in Gaza.


10 posted on 07/30/2025 9:16:18 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Red Badger

NYT also lied about Stalin and didn’t report that Stalin was starving the Ukrainians.


11 posted on 07/30/2025 9:20:02 AM PDT by yldstrk
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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!


12 posted on 07/30/2025 9:26:15 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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13 posted on 07/30/2025 9:29:28 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: Red Badger

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


14 posted on 07/30/2025 9:44:45 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: Delta 21

Flat Fatima





Here She Is!

15 posted on 07/30/2025 9:48:37 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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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.


16 posted on 07/30/2025 9:56:55 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: Red Badger

What, haha, did they throw the bullets at her house?


17 posted on 07/30/2025 10:02:14 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Delta 21

She’s very hard to find on the Internet.

I think she may have been purged.


18 posted on 07/30/2025 10:03:48 AM PDT by left that other site (You Shall Know The Truth, and The Truth Shall Make You Free.)
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To: albie

In the old days the New York Times could get away with lying... Now? No so much.


19 posted on 07/30/2025 10:14:37 AM PDT by GOPJ (...taxpayers paid 18.75 million dollars per charging station..(under Biden) - Freeper SuperLuminal )
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To: Red Badger
The NY Times, including their management and employees, continue to give aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.
20 posted on 07/30/2025 10:14:57 AM PDT by Carl Vehse (Make Austin Texas Again! )
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