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 22nd July – a day before the Express splashed it across their front page. But in fact another Gazan 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 Wider and unpublished pictures show Mohammed’s healthy brother Joud, who was born on 18 April 2022 and is 3 years old.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 October 7.
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 – 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 20th 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 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 NYT 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 targeted strike on ‘al Qassabeeb’ street.
We can also see that Hamas were attacking the IDF in precisely that spot at the time (posts from 26 & 27th October).
Between the 25th October and the 29th, Israel lost six soldiers in the area. In this Hamas footage, which shows wide angle views of part of the same ‘street’ on 26th 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. Channeling 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 GHF aid program 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 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. Which 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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Great work, David. thank you for doing this and exposing British media lies
Not just British media. CNN carried an interview with a mother whose child was similarly afflicted. During the interview, she claimed there was no milk available for her child. No one noticed that perched on a shelf next to the child was a baby bottle with milk in it. Or maybe they did, and they just didn’t care about the truth.
Can you find a link to that please?
You can tell at a glance that this child is suffering from some nasty disease, that his thin and deformed body is not just the result of lack of food.
And if he has become wasted through lack of food, why are there so many others around who look fit and healthy?
When you see photos of the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps at the end of the Second World War, they are ALL emaciated.
But they don’t display the grotesque deformities or this child.
Don’t you see what is happening in Gaza. Are you blind? You are the ones who is reporting erroneous lies. I am an Israeli-Jew, and I denounce this Genocide. Netanyahu and his right orthodox extremist wing are denying this situation. SHAME ON THEM!
Two Israeli-Jewish organizations are denouncing this Genocide. 31 Israelis prominent personalities signed a petition denouncing this.
GIVE ME A BREAK!
Everybody knows, who is paying those Israeli-Jewish organisations. The same, who pull this scam. Like England´s Thomas Fletcher, who invented the 14.000 babies to die within 2 days of hunger, despite knowing it better. Your organisations were protesting that same day supporting his lies. One day later these lies were exposed and everybody could see the connections. I suppose, there will exist no lie about Israel, which your “two Israeli-Jewish organisations” will fail to support in the blink of an eye.
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Thx Barry.. they are near the bottom of the page – have tested both and they work..
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You’d think the mainstream media would be angry to have been misled so badly, but for that they’d need a sense of shame, which they don’t have.
At last we get s factual, unbiased report on what’s going on in Gaza. Thank you.
How can you get a ‘factual and unbiased report on what’s going on in Gaza’ when no independent foreign media are in Gaza?
All the Journalists in Gaza killed by the IDF. Foriegn medical staff give reports about what they see and they report at least one quarter of all children they see have malnutrition.
Do you not understand that Hamas has full editorial control? It is like reporting what Germans in Nazi Germany were saying as if there were not Nazi thugs going around shooting anyone who spoke out of line…
It is a war zone. Bad things do happen in war. But stop buying everything that Hamas agents tell you.
Total bullcrap.
You may have a point, and there are reasons for why not, other than what you imply, But staying on this subject, neither should they have reason to trust and publish Hamas propaganda, not if they are true journalists and without their own personal agendas.
Outside of the actual battle zone, “It’s all about The Narrative”, so this is absolutely essential work, thank you very much.
Is there a button I can click to “Share”, by email, the research work that you send?
Well Done.
It is time the truth is told about Gaza.
Hamas are getting the upperhand while they murder their own people.
I am totally in shock that so-called reputable news outlets like the guardian and the bbc are happy to print and broadcast such lies knowinly . it would seem they have taken sides in this fight .but have not openly declared this. How the mighty hath fallen
I’m less surprised by the Guardian and the BBC doing this but when right-wing papers like the Express, the Mail and the Telegraph indulge in it too, that is truly shocking. Thank you, David, for once again exposing these lies. I have made a donation – thank you for all your tireless work.
Can you please clarify why Israel doesn’t allow international journalists in to help clarify the misinformation?
Media have been allowed in during previous conflicts and that didn’t help. I’d suggest searching for reports about how international media failed to report on Hamas rockets being fired from civilian areas in 2014.
In addition – media are often banned from war-zones. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last. Sadly, much of the meda has used this as an excuse…
If you don’t believe me answer this. Mainstream media published this image across the globe – using it as ‘proof’ there was widespread famine.
The truth was found by some bloke working from his home in London.
If I can do it – working alone with a single keyboard and without speaking Arabic. Are you really suggesting the biggest media teams in the world couldn’t do it because ‘ Israel won’t let them in’?
Because the IDF would have to shoot them like they have done with all the Gazan Journalists and it would look bad
If a Hamas terrorist puts on a PRESS jacket, it does not make him a journalist. If you found journalists openly celebrating 9/11 and pushing Al Qaeda propaganda – would you still call them journalists? You should have a look at my report into those people killed who claimed they were journalists. It is in the report section above…
Please stop spreading disinformation here.
Such a sad and sickening state of affairs that the news has lost all truth…they help perpetuate the lies and create global evil!
David. Your work is an inspiration. Incredibly researched and eloquently and calmly presented. You make a compelling case on two fronts, one of which is that Truth is an endangered species, the other is that there is, at best, lazy journalism, and at worst, malign influences executing a powerful PR strategy to garner worldwide opposition to the ‘pariah’ State of Israel. Both are probably true.
However, I have a further question. After being so exasperated at the poor standard of Israeli PR spokespeople in the UK, I have to ask why they seem oblivious to your work? They struggle to assemble a believable or evidence-based argument in interviews, instead resorting to shrieking personal attacks on the interviewers. Yes, many will currently appear hostile or interrogative. They should be. Faced with the images and testimonies that are presented to them, probing for answers is their responsibility and duty. But ‘our’ people seem completely unarmed to respond in the same manner as you do here. Is there no way for you and your work to become a resource for the Israeli PR Depts? Or is there something else at play here? Is there actually a comms strategy being activated that targets Hamas annd Iran and wilfully wants (maybe even needs) such negative and hateful opinion from the outside world? Are they deliberately avoiding your evidence with the aim of applying a kind of ‘Millwall’ model of ‘fuck ‘em all! We are more mental than anyone, more Arab than the Arabs, ruthless, brutal and unaffected by global rebuke or discomfort. In such a scenario, the accusation of wilful starvation or targeting of civilians is almost a backhanded compliment.
In honesty, I don’t believe the Israeli Government are organised enough to pursue such a strategy. But the result isn’t hugely different.
Ultimately, I sincerely hope that your efforts are appreciated by this me tasked with shaping or reframing perceptions and that they tap into your talents. Best wishes.
Daily the Hamas ministry of health issues unverified lies and propaganda of alleged famine and genocide in Gaza by the IDF. Without question, the likes of BBC, SLY NEWS etc repeat it giving Hamas an advantage in the propaganda war. Because the useful idiots for Hamas are so deluded they can’t see how they’re being fooled.
this isn’t antisemitism, & you know it. this is anti-Zionism, & there’s a difference. whether gazan children have undiscolsed medical issues or not, you are wilfully ignoring many journmalists NOT sat at home, MANY Medics, NOT sat at home, who are telling us the truth. you have unearthed a splinter & turned it into a forest of anti-semitism, which is your own ethnicism & xenophobia against gazans.
Ahhh, the genetic fallacy…and ignore the argument while you’re at it.
Congrats: You just flunked Logic 101.
Go fact check all the other pictures of starving children as well, then. All stories should be correct, off course. But Israel denies independent and foreign reporters access. In any case a single example is no evidence there is no famine. That is just gaslighting
This is not a splinter, this is the great club with which all the large media are bashing the Israelis.
Thank you for the clear, concise explanation with receipts — immensely valuable. Do you know why there this week several pro-Israel reporters (all independent journalists) who have been clear on this issue for years … yet now say there is evidence if Israel holding back aid? Does this shift in reporting relate to these recent reports? I’m trying to figure it all out — and the media doesn’t make it easy. Thanks.
Superb journalism, thank you.
I greatly appreciate your work putting this report together. However without more of the report from the Basma Association, or even some reference to him on their site, I don’t think anyone who is determined to belief the media narrative will believe me. I posted video today of the stockpiles of aid the UN failed to distribute and was simply told I was lying.
You know Mary, if you are arguing in Antizionist circles, you could bring the child to the UK, have him medically examined by a doctor here – have him publicly produce a report – and they still wouldn’t believe you. There is a medical report that I am unable to reproduce on ethical grounds. I have seen images of the mother, with her ID and the letter. I have a reputation that presents over 10 years of producing reliable, fact-driven, forensic investigations. I am meticulous about my research, and never publish until I have every source checked. I am happy to share the image privately with any professional who seeks confirmation.
You can tell some people the Holocaust happened and they will say you are lying. I cannot help with that.
The UN were unable to deliver the aid because they have to drive through a literal war zone abd Israel refused to give security guarantees that the UN workers would not be killed. Now israel have agreed to pause fighting and set up humanitarian corridors so at last large quantities of food waiting to be delivered can be
It seems you believe any old spin. The UN is merely the sum of its parts. Most of its parts are despots. Why do you use them as your truthbearing ‘moral guide’… Do you always take your moral cues from China, Russia, Iran, the DRC etc etc?
In a propaganda war claims made by all sides should either be backed by hard evidence or dismissed as non-credible. Telling others “I’ve seen the evidence” isn’t good enough. I’m sympathetic to the idea that the media and socials are biased and dishonest, but if you want to be a credible source then you have to provide the actual primary documents supporting your claims. Otherwise you are also guilty of being a propagandist.
that is such a false logic. I am not a propagandist because I refuse to publicly release a child’s medical diagnosis.
I’m afraid that the logic is perfectly sound. Propaganda can be done by those for OR against a position. Furthermore, when in an environment of mass propaganda, a wise person regards all claims with skepticism regardless of if those claims are made by those we support or those we oppose. If you ask people to “just believe me bro” then you are failing in your mission to discredit the media’s position regarding this child. I also dismiss the notion that releasing his official medical diagnosis is somehow out of bounds. You’ve already made a controversial claim about his condition, and I fail to see how providing actual proof would cause the child more suffering. If you care about sharing the truth with people, then bring the receipts or you are, in fact, engaged in propaganda.
The “prove it” brigade has flooded every social channel since 8th Oct 2023 and almost always in response to content likely to engender sympathy for Jews and Israel; Content such as this from the author. It is very telling that the burden of proof is placed almost entirely on those posters that express support for Jews and Israel and almost never on the direct or indirect claims of Hamas and the many agencies and media organs that align with it. Seemingly, the word of Hamas is taken as read and reposted and republished on the nod and positioned front and centre as front page news. Conversely, the word of Israel and its supporters requires turgid levels of fact checking and is then marginalised in the lower columns of page 27, normally as an apology for an earlier inaccuracy. This brings us to the contribution of “EW” above which seems to fit neatly into the former camp and its disingenuity can therefore be weighted accordingly.
You’ve impugned my call for proof as being disingenuous, which is laughably misguided. I support Israel and wholly believe that they’re being unfairly slandered on the world stage. That doesn’t mean, however, that I will accept the viewpoint of someone who is purporting to debunk deceptive narratives just because their article supports a view for which I’m sympathetic. The author has claimed that he has proof to the central claim of his article and yet he is not willing to produce it. If his word alone is sufficient for you to believe the claims, then that’s on you. Disingenuous? No, I seek the truth whether it supports my views or not. All must come with receipts or be dismissed, because I, unlike you Ian, am not an apologist for my preferred views.
I agree that there has been propaganda on both sides. After Oct 7th there were widespread claims of burned Jewish babies. And unverifiable claims Jewish women were raped or were sexually tortured. The mainstream media in my country (USA) published these stories uncritically and en masse.
poppycock. One journalist made a claim that she had been told by a person on site that there were beheaded babies – the media ran with that without verification. Hardly the same as 21 months of relentless Hamas driven propaganda – but people constantly bring up the beheaded babies as if it were an official position and part of a wider Israeli disinformation program.
So dishonest to draw parallels. And then of course you deny the rapes – which have been verified – and supported everywhere – even by the anti-Israel UN…
Which basically means you are not actually interested in the truth – because if you were – you would know that Oct 7 saw widespread sexual abuse that was weaponised and organised.
To deny the rapes carried out by the Hamas scum on October 7 is to carry blame fore them.
Why would anyone be inclined to impugn a social media stranger that it too cowardly to post in their own name and instead hides their contributions behind a veil of anonymity? Your opinion is therefore irrelevant to anything. However the style of your post does conform to a very apparent norm that has pervaded the social channels for 2 years now whereby contributors place their burden of proof squarely on one side of the conflict. This deliberate disproportionality tends to create a certain optic and informs the reliability and balance of the contributor. As above, this is not personal. How can it be with a stranger? It is simply a very obvious pattern from a growing constituency.
I suggest you go and look for a dictionary that agrees with your definition…
“News aims to inform the public by reporting facts and events as objectively as possible, while propaganda seeks to persuade audiences by disseminating biased or misleading information to promote a specific agenda or viewpoint. News strives for accuracy and impartiality, whereas propaganda may distort or manipulate information for persuasive purposes”
What you have done is suggest that because I have (for ethically understandable reasons) decided to withhold publishing a child’s medical note in full (even though I have published both the name of the clinic and the doctor for those who want to follow up)… I am somehow disseminating either biased or misleading information…. or that somehow my reluctance is ‘proof’ that I have distorted or manipulated evidence.
That is absolute nonsense – totally unsupportable – and there is no need at all to continue to address such a silly argument.
What is this bullshit, you are not citing any sources for these claims , why would we believe this over the fact that there is food shortages and aid blockades already in gaza if the photo is supposedly “fake” even then there is people actually starving in gaza due to the current situation
I think you have missed the point completely. Nobody is claiming food in Gaza is plentiful. I am sure there are bottlenecks, price increases and so on – just as I am sure some areas do not have much of a shortage. It is a war zone.
However the image was used to suggest mass famine is happening and this is a normal child suffering from starvation. The image is clearly real but misrepresented. In the way the media have used this image – they are telling a lie.
Now – rather that be angry at the media who have lied to you – you have chosen to come here and be angry at the man who pointed out that the media was lying.
I’d suggest, of the two of us – I am not the one with the problem.
“What is this bullshit, you are not citing any sources for these claims…even then there is people actually starving in gaza due to the current situation”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
I can’t believe you don’t have the self-awareness to see how monstrous it is what you’re doing.
How do you think a blockade on food affects children, sick or healthy?
The part where you slandered his dad was also really hard to read.
What about the Gazan doctors (the few that remain) and other medical personnel who give interviews about starving infants and children. The ones I’ve seen don’t mention their own hunger but they are clearly gaunt and becoming malnourished themselves.
I don’t think you understand Gazan society very well, but I also have a feeling, I won’t be able to help you see the truth.
Or she also doesn’t understand Islam.
Do you understand the UN?
Thank you very much indeed. The World needs to know about this fraud. I gave up on the BBC 20 or so years ago. Gave up my TV licence and TV. But the BBC gets worse.
Excellent portrayal of how leftist media coordinates, choreographs and markets a narrative. Their efforts take away from the real story of Hamas treachery and lies.
Thank you for the detailed analysis and clear example of the media’s involvement in the conflict between Gaza and Israel. It’s a type of biased involvement that one does not find in other wars and violent conflicts around the world. As someone who is highly involved, I can add that there is a severe shortage of food and medication in Gaza for the 70-80% of victims who are not part of Hamas. Hamas controls all routes to food and medical support. Hamas members have little to no shortage, while others need to pay astronomical black-market prices for basic necessities (money that will sustain Hamas). People in the photos and those interviewed are often paid; the fees are in the hundreds. It’s a market. Moreover, doctors who are not part of Hamas (PA-associated doctors) are not allowed to practice or work. A few brave anti-Hamas individuals share this information publicly and privately. Western society should amplify their voices.
How to get this into the mainstream media?
Thank you. I can’t bear watching the news at the moment partly because of the disinformation and partly because I know there is some truth and it pains me so much as a fervent supporter of Israel. How do you get your facts here into the mainstream media so iconic images like this one can be exposed for what they are? Because this image is so widely used now it would be a very good story to show that a picture doesn’t always tell a thousand words?
Quite striking that a self styled journalist who identifies as a researcher, but holds no affiliation with any recognized journalistic institution, feels qualified to discredit over 100 international organizations, UN agencies, and international medical professionals operating in Gaza. Your attempt to debunk famine by “exposing” a single photo ignores the overwhelming and consistent evidence reported by frontline responders of severe acute malnutrition, starvation-related deaths, and the blocking of access to clean water, food and medical supplies. I know this not from headlines but as a humanitarian professional working alongside my colleagues who’ve witnessed this firsthand. This article isn’t journalism, it’s a dismissal of the reality on the ground including clinics overflowing with horrifically injured and malnourished children, and doctors reporting starvation deaths. The IPC Famine Review Committee did not rule out famine, but due to access constraints, it could not formally declare IPC level 5. It issued a famine risk warning, stating famine was imminent without urgent humanitarian access. We continue to face repeated obstruction of our aid convoys. Also verified audits show that under 1 % of aid has been lost to theft, not a systemic Hamas diversion campaign, as alleged here. To believe the narrative in this piece, one must accept that virtually every international organization, the entire UN body and every field-based doctor is lying. This is propaganda masquerading as skepticism and journalistic integrity, and in all honesty it does a grave injustice to civilians facing unimaginable suffering.
You, very apparently, did not even bother to read the article.
Dear David, someone contested the veracity of the second photo showing his well-nourished brother. Could you please tell me the source of this one picture? Beg you very much for an answer.
Thank you, David, for exposing facts where so much false propaganda is being spread to influence the masses and keep them ignorant and blind.
I was trying to investigate the Hadid family story as it sounded very bizarre. I managed to get a few links to past interviews, and what looks like some deliberate misinformation, and maybe some contradictions. Unfortunately, I do not have the resources to fully investigate to the level that you achieve. I’d gladly share the links I have if you are interested in the story. I’m not sure how or if it was presented in the mainstream media, but it is quite popular on social media.
Given the amount of propaganda and publicity these photos have produced, to not publish the full medical report hardly can be seen as an invasion of privacy.
Their publication falls under the whistleblower category.
it’s long past time to publish them in their entirety.
You should look under instagram – the subtitles to the photos submitted by the Palestinian photographer give surprisingly the same description as that offered by David quoting the medical report, and naturally add for political purposes also malnutrition. He writes following: “Mohammed Al-Mutouq lost his parents and suffers from poor lunch, muscle relaxation and lack of oxygen, because of the famine in Gaza.” The same as David, however using the medical correct words: “cerebral palsy – 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.’”
You must just look for following link: https://www.instagram.com/sana_aljamal82/reel/DMYWq-ivPwv/?hl=en
There can exist thus no doubt about the veracity of his story. I even captured a screenshot.but one can not post it here.
That’s an important omission here, just as important as omitting the healthy brother: lack of medical supplies!
Again “blame that on Hamas”?
No. Naturally not. But on people, who can not read an appeal for money to help buy the medicament and debate instead Israel – whether due to the war medicaments should begin to pour out of the sky like manna and naturally be overnight for free. BTW, those CNN, NYT, have all read the same message but didn´t even stop to help with medicaments or money. They were even so humanitarian to blame their scam on the mother. So much about people allegedly preoccupied by Gaza.
It is the most vulnerable people who are effected first when it comes to starvation, and this poor child is indeed vulnerable and shows us the fate of many other Gazan children if nothing is done to ease their suffering. What is the purpose of you nitpicking such a serious issue like this? 2 million people live in Gaza, 1 million of them children. Foriegn medics are all reporting mass child malnutrition. Israel will not let baby formula into Gaza, will your next piece be about how all the babies who have literally starved to death for want of milk shouldn’t have done because their mothers don’t look like walking skeletons? All this article is trying to do is persuade others that there is no problem. And if believed it will cause mo urgency to provide food and more death, of children. You should be ashamed.
Simple mathematics tells us there are severe food shortages in Gaza. Ordinarily at least 75-150 trucks of aid are needed per day to feed the 2 million people of Gaza, but aid agencies reported that only 28 trucks a day on average were getting in. This is a huge shortfall and it has been going on for a very long time. Obviously there is a famine like conditions now. Its simple logic. Everyone is looking at certain people turning mental somersault trying to justify this slaughter and if it wasn’t so horrific it would be ridiculous!
If someone had held up a child like this in January 2020 – and said ‘he has Covid’, this is what is going to happen to all the UK’s children…
He would have been shouted down as a dagenrous fake news merchant.
I am asking the media to tell the truth. That is all.
You are demanding that they turn into anti-Israel activists and spread lies.
I am not the problem here – nor am I the one who should be ashamed.
But you don’t let critical comments through. Oh well.
yes- I do… I let everything through (apart from spam). First time posters are held back just to be cleared, and the spam filter sometimes catches posts with mutliple links – but I do not moderate this – and critical comments are certainly let through.
Tron, before you wrote this comment, did you read all the comments from the top? If you did, you must have just skimmed very fast through them because there are several critical ones, some quite detailed. If you didn’t, then you are obviously just some troll eager to jump on the latest bandwagon, eager to show off that you scored a point – in your own mind.
Why didn’t you try yourself to make a critical comment if you are that concerned? Could it be that your concentration runs out after nine words?
I have been ridiculed my friends by accepting the veracity of this commentary. My credibility is at stake so I there is proof
Obvioulsy alot of work and research went into this and i commernd you. If i could offer some constuctive criticism, the article says “This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession” (photos of the brother who isnt malnourished) but the article only shows one image of the brother. I think you should show more images to put it further beyond doubt especially if you are saying you have more. Alot of people out there need deprogramming from the propaganda and investiagtive articles like this go a long way towards that. I feel like one image in this day and age of AI, Photoshop etc still leaves a little bit of doubt.
I was initially derranged too by the lack of sufficient source evidence.
David twists, I think a bit, the reason, why he did it. But he does this on very understandable moral reasons.
He is in reality protecting the life of his sources in Gaza. Not every person in this Gazan story is a crook – just the western media.
There are obviously persons, who are really sincerely worried for the life of that little child and didn´t intend to transform this in to propaganda.
This is, what I have been able to gather up, based on the existing evidence.
Since Pallywood NEEDS to lie. It proves the falsehood of PALLYWEID campaign.
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The fake famine in Gaza exposed | By Eye On Antisemitism.
May 13, 2025 .
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1023121756459379&vanity=EyeOnAntisemitism
YouTube · The Hot Zone With Chuck Holton.
May 29, 2025
The FAKE FAMINE in Gaza EXPOSED: Hamas Caught Hoarding Aid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTXcDYUN1yY
Media Flog Fake Famine Story, While UN Refuses to Help Hungry Gazans
2 Jun 2025 — Media Flog Fake Famine Story, While UN Refuses to Help Hungry Gazans
https://www.factsandlogic.org/media-flog-fake-famine-story-while-un-refuses-to-help-hungry-gazans/
Fake famine: Hamas blames Israel while cafes stay open in Gaza.
C14.
Jul 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3caFvdtoU
Since Hamas [and PIJ ‘dead baby strategy’ and preventing US/Israel aid from reaching Gazans] kills its people [including via some UN Hamas linked agents], add it to Islamic genocide Goliath post WW2.
1. “Genocide in Darfur – How the Horror Began.” By Eric Reeves. SudanTribune
September 3, 2005: “likely more than four million if we consider its earlier phase (1955-72).” Add the hundreds of thousands dead since 2005 including 150,000 2023/4
3. Nigeria, Igbo genocide by Hausa-Fulani Jihad: 3 million.
2. 1971, 3 Million Bengalis by Pakistan using Islamic themes.
3. Idi Amin, sought to islamicize Uganda, 300,000.
4. Lebanon 1970s-1999 – by Syria and “Palestinians” Muslims: 300,000.
5. Iran 1979 Islamic Revolution: 80,000.
6. Saddam Hussein (- Quran waving dictator), 500,000.
7. Iran-Iraq war (Sunni vs Shiite), 1.5 million.
8. Yemen, 1984-6, 150,000.
9. Turkey (Islamic apartheid) 1984-1999: 40,000 Kurds.
10. Somalia civil war since 1991: 1 million.
11. USA, jihad 9/11: 3,000
12. Algeria, Islamists, 1992 and 2002: 200,000.
13. Syria civil war [Muslim sects at each other, anti Alawite-Iran/Hezbollah backed oppression] since 2011:720,000.
14. Israel Holy land, 1860-2025 [Islamicized by racist ‘Palestine’ Sheikh al-Taji al-Farouqi in hate poem 1913 in ‘Falastin’ paper, then, especially by racist Islamofascist Mufti and his ilk since 1920], Arab massacres on Jews, some 30,000.
Include the fact that 40% of Gazans marry their cousins… a recipe for genetic abnormalities and medical disasters.
So the source of the pallywood photo advanced by NYT (to whitewash Hamas/UN preventing aid in order to blame the humane Israeli aid) is ISLAMOFASCIST DICTATOR Erdogan’s ‘Anadolu’… just like his ‘TRT’ or other Hamas mouthpiece by Qatar – via ‘al jazeera’ (Aj) / ‘TheNewArab’ and ‘Middle East Eye’ (MEE).
The “Prove it” Brigade has been quite enthusiastic in its contributions to this article. I wonder what they think about the leaked memo from the BBC which indicates that proof is no longer relevant to their editorial agenda.
Here’s the proof from Jonathan Sacredoti writing in The Spectator.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-leaked-email-that-blows-apart-the-bbcs-impartiality-claims-over-gaza/
So basically, “well, the child was also sick along with being starved to death so the genocide is a lie.” Sure. Right.
David, this article is the first I’ve seen that got mentioned at least on the legacy news sites. So that’s something. Although NYT’s “clarification” was pathetic: By the way the child who was starved by Israel also had a health condition while Israel was starving him and Israel starved everyone else. The reporting is shockingly disgusting.
And now Hamas has finally produced the first and so far only pictures of emaciated adults in Gaza: Two Israeli hostages.
This is an outrage. And it hasn’t let up for decades. It’s almost mythical.
“Between April and mid-July this year, more than 20,000 children in Gaza were admitted to hospital for treatment for acute malnutrition, 3,000 of whom were severely malnourished, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global initiative whose members include UN agencies such as the World Health Organization, World Food Programme and Unicef, as well as NGOs and research institutes”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/gaza-photo-child-malnourished-medical
You use inaccuracies in this child’s situation to suggest that there is no widespread malnutrition and starvation in Gaza when, as per the reporting of innumerable trustworthy sources and agencies, there patently is. And yet you accuse the media of manipulation. You’re a liar, David. How could you provide an honest, objective lens when you are so ideologically motivated? I pity you for the depths of your moral deceit. The Guardian contextualising article is there for anyone here not already lost down the rabbit hole.
Michael
Calling me a liar. Can you point out where i have lied?
Firstly Michael, you have come here with unverified, unsubstantiated numbers. The fact you think that your sources are ‘trustworthy’ suggests you have absolutely no idea at all about Gazan society. You quote the UN as if it is a worthy organisation. It is merely the sum of its parts. China, Russia, Libya, the DRC, Pakistan, Saudi, Iran and so on. At what point in your life did you allow such nations to be your moral guide?
We have seen famine pictures in the world before. We know what they look like. Don’t trust me. Just ask (not the Guardian), your nearest AI engine – whether images of a healthy mum, a healthy child and a sick sibling are really indiciatve of famine. And then ask yourself why these are the only images available.
If it were widespread – we would see images to show it. Yet almost all the images we see are of children with underlying health problems.
I am perfectly willing to accept the situation in Gaza is bad. It is an urban war zone. But I will not accept media distortion, lies or have journalists tell me something is happening when it isn’t.
You do not seem to have a problem with media distortion. I do. I won’t apologise for that. I think you need to look long and hard in the mirror.
The entire British press is operating in propaganda mode—yet it is obvious that it lacks credible evidence for the reality it claims to depict. If the press were committed to truth, the absence of evidence would not automatically lead to the use of fake photographs, but they would honestly tell the truth: there is no famine in Gaza.
In practice, the UK is already halfway to a fascist state, with former ambassadors making sensational claims at the UN General Assembly. One such claim alleged that 14,000 babies would die in Gaza within two days. In reality, the only available source was a report from the Hamas Health Ministry—requested specifically by Mr. Thomas Fletcher—which stated that 50 people of all ages had recently died from malnutrition-related causes. Even this questionable figure was inflated by Fletcher by a factor of 1,000. He has done it evidently on request from the current English government, just like Guardian is publishing such falsehoods for the same reasons.
The only verified photographs of severely malnourished individuals from Gaza are those of two Israeli hostages. Yet, rather than face reality, the British media prefers to amplify falsehoods—Pinocchio-style—targeting Jews while ignoring the truth.
Thank you for identifying.
Hey Michael. Since when is the Guardian reliable vis-a-vis Israel ? Just a [See i24 news 06/19/2025 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/artc-the-guardian-justifies-the-strike-on-soroka-hospital-it-treats-soldiers%5D recent example was their twisted justification of Islamic Fascist Republic targeting Soroka hospital..because apart from treating entire population (Arab-Muslims and Jews), it ALSO treats wounded soldiers from Hamas/PIJ
The Gaza genocide is happening so do not try to whitewash it. You cannot deny the starvation and death of children in Gaza. The Genocide trackers have released footages of war crimes committed by IDF. The usual chat of death to Arabs cannot be hidden anymore.
You seem to be dreaming. There is no genocide against the Arabs (I thought these were previously still Palestinians?) and none in the planning. There was a genocide planned by the Hamas, and everybody knows it, one doesn´t need genocide trackers for this. They have stated it themselves without any equivocation.
More: * Jiharnalists *
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Hamas terrorists disguised as journalists confirmed killed by IDF.
The IDF has eliminated Hamas terrorist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza City. Al-Sharif served as the head of a Hamas cell and was involved in planning rocket attacks. Another Gaza journalist, Mohammad Karika, was also reported killed in the strike.
By Shachar Kleiman. 08-11-2025.
([https://www.israelhayom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/whatsapp-image-2025-08-10-at-23-1200px-1140×570.jpg].
The terrorists Mohammad Karika and Anas al-Sharif, who were killed).
The IDF has eliminated Hamas terrorist Anas al-Sharif in Gaza City on Sunday. Al-Sharif, who also worked as a reporter for the Al Jazeera network, served as the head of a Hamas cell and was involved in planning rocket attacks. Another Gaza-based journalist, Mohammad Karika, was also reported killed in the strike
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/08/11/hamas-terrorists-disguised-as-journalists-confirmed-killed-by-idf/
PALLYWEID casualties: As of Aug2025, some 23,000 Hamas/PIJ terrorists were eliminated [Source: https://infogram.com/english-swords-of-iron-dashboard-1hnq410vnz8xk23%5D. Add to them their average assisting guilty wives.
PALLYWEID UPDATE: Another photo of a child…
Abdullah Hani Muhammad Abu Zarqa were circulated, claiming his condition was due to hunger in Gaza. A COGAT review found that he suffers from a genetic disease causing vitamin and mineral deficiencies, osteoporosis, and bone thinning – a hereditary illness that also affected other family members.
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COGAT @cogatonline
Hamas’s “Starvation Campaign” is a coordinated effort to mislead the public.
➡️A thorough review by the defense establishment exposes how Hamas is misrepresenting deaths from pre-existing medical conditions as malnutrition to advance their political agenda.
➡️For instance, in recent weeks, images of four-year-old Abdullah Hani Muhammad Abu Zarqa were circulated, claiming his condition was due to hunger in Gaza. A COGAT review found that he suffers from a genetic disease causing vitamin and mineral deficiencies, osteoporosis, and bone thinning – a hereditary illness that also affected other family members. Four months before the outbreak of the war, the child traveled with his mother, with Israeli approval, to receive medical treatment at Al-Makassed Hospital in east Jerusalem.
➡️Hamas cynically exploits tragic images and misuses them for a false and timed propaganda campaign aimed at generating pressure and creating negative public opinion against Israel.
➡️We will continue working to improve the humanitarian response in Gaza, in cooperation with the international community, while rejecting allegations of famine in the Gaza Strip.
Aug 12, 2025
https://x.com/cogatonline/status/19551705692399
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