On Sunday, ABC News “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos hosted the USA CEO of the virulently anti-Israel group Doctors Without Borders, who responded to the harrowing video of an emaciated Israel hostage starved by Hamas by insisting that it was somehow Israel’s fault, implying that Hamas would feed the hostage if there were only food available.
The new propaganda video released by the terrorist group Hamas shows an emaciated Israeli hostage seized on October 7, 2023, being forced to dig his own grave.
The roughly five-minute clip shows Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a tunnel barely high enough for him to stand, “crossing off dates on a calendar and digging a grave,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/world-news/hamas-releases-chilling-video-of-living-skeleton-hostage-evyatar-david/">reported</a>.
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How psychopathic is Hamas?
It forced starving hostage Evyatar David to DIG HIS OWN GRAVE for the cameras. <a href="https://t.co/iMa404St4s">pic.twitter.com/iMa404St4s</a>
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Dr. Avril Benoit started by ignoring that Hamas has targeted the zone in which Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operated.
“On June 11, 10 members of the GHF’s local workforce, on their way to a distribution site, were <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/artc-ghf-says-hamas-brutally-attacked-aid-workers-at-least-5-massacred">murdered</a> by Hamas, according to the GHF,” <a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2025/06/hamas-places-bounty-on-aid-workers-ghf.php">Long War Journal</a> noted, adding, “Days before the murders, Hamas and the Arrow Unit published statements deriding the new aid mechanism. They warned Palestinians that they would become a target of the ‘resistance’ if they associated themselves with entities linked to Israel and the United States.”
“We affirm that the resistance security forces and units now have full authorization and mandate to strike forcefully and decisively against any entity or individual that collaborates or coordinates with the enemy’s schemes or any treasonous entity outside the law and the traditions of our people. All collaborators, thieves, and criminal armed gangs are legitimate targets for the resistance units and security,” the Hamas statement <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://x.com/JoeTruzman/status/1931830960750014642">said</a>.
But Benoit deliberately avoided the fact that Hamas has gone as far as murder to thwart the GHF’s efforts, saying, “The problem with the GHF is, of course, it’s unsafe. It’s an inefficient way to deliver aid. People have to cross very unsafe zones to reach those areas that are controlled by the IDF and military contractors from the U.S.”
Stephanopoulous then asked a question that, curiously, was left out of ABC News’ initial transcript of the interview: “We also saw those harrowing videos of a hostage held by Hamas. Airing videos like that is something of a war crime, isn’t it?”
“Airing the videos?” Benoit responded by desperately trying to make it look as though Hamas would feed the hostages if only there were more food available —which is patently false as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shocking-video-shows-hamas-terrorists-gorging-themselves-while-gaza-starves?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=26&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Shocking+Video+Shows+Hamas+Terrorists+Gorging+Themselves+While+Gaza+Starves">videos have surfaced showing Hamas members gorging themselves on food</a> — “Well, look, I think the situation for the hostages is absolutely horrific as well; if no food aid is coming in, everyone is at risk. Even aid workers are at risk. So when you talk about, you know, my own colleagues who are eating every second day and scrounging around for food, you can imagine that everyone is. So this is &#8212; this is part of the problem is that the aid coming in is controlled by Israel. And that is why in this genocide, we look to Israel to have an approach that is humanitarian.”
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&quot;We are completely overwhelmed and starvation is making things all that much more catastrophic.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/MSF_USA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSF_USA</a> CEO Avril Benoît discusses what her organization is seeing in Gaza. READ MORE: <a href="https://t.co/gEwEzNpPd3">https://t.co/gEwEzNpPd3</a> <a href="https://t.co/A9ntdlCEHv">pic.twitter.com/A9ntdlCEHv</a>
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As NGO Monitor has <a href="https://ngo-monitor.org/ngos/medecins_sans_frontieres_doctors_without_borders_/">comprehensively delineated</a>, Doctors Without Borders is virulently anti-Israel. Here is just a sample of what NGO Monitor found:
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In December 2023, former MSF Secretary General Alain Destexhe published a report titled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RnHNK5fKVegDO6m0jqpXX6VpFJ_Pz1nV/view">Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), an Accomplice of Hamas?</a>” According to Destexhe, “The communication of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and its employees on the ground since 7 October shows a systematic bias in favour of Hamas and hostility to Israel. Doctors Without Borders has failed in its humanitarian purpose and violated its own charter, which proclaims the impartiality, neutrality and independence of the organization with regard to any political or religious power … Despite being subject to the MSF Charter, a significant proportion of its staff seem to share the Hamas point of view and support the terrorist attacks of 7 October. &#8230;
MSF rhetoric includes accusing Israel of “<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.msf.org/en/article/west-bank-mind-eaten-away-violence-account-msf-psychologist-nablus">collective punishment</a>,” “<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.msf.org/en/article/msf-team-entered-gaza-thursday-scale-msf-emergency-response-israeli-ground-offensive">indiscriminate bombings</a>,” and “<a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.msf.org/article/video-month-focus-july-2015">wholesale massacres</a>.” MSF has <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.hilal.ps/Content/PDF/ab828696-d9e5-47c6-a6a6-972da4a603f4.pdf">provided funding</a> to the <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/abdel-shafi-community-health-associations-ties-to-the-pflp-terror-group/">Abdel Shafi Community Health Association</a> (ACHA), formerly known as the Red Crescent Society for the Gaza Strip (RCS4GS). ACHA was founded and is directed by senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Other employees have demonstrated support for Palestinian terror groups and their actions.
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ABC Hosts Leader Of Anti-Israel Doctor Group Who Blames Israel For Hamas Starving Hostages

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World

A new propaganda video released by the terrorist group Hamas shows an emaciated Israeli hostage seized on October 7, 2023, being forced to dig his own grave.
The roughly five-minute clip shows Israeli hostage Evyatar David in a tunnel barely high enough for him to stand, “crossing off dates on a calendar and digging a grave,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/02/world-news/hamas-releases-chilling-video-of-living-skeleton-hostage-evyatar-david/">reported</a>.
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How psychopathic is Hamas?
It forced starving hostage Evyatar David to DIG HIS OWN GRAVE for the cameras. <a href="https://t.co/iMa404St4s">pic.twitter.com/iMa404St4s</a>
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“I haven’t eaten for a few days in a row,” David says weakly in the video. When someone behind the camera filming him hands him a can of beans, David says, “This can is for two days. This whole can is for two days so that I don’t die.&#8221;
“This is the grave I think I’m going to be buried in. Time is running out,&#8221; he adds.
“We are forced to witness our beloved son and brother, Evyatar David, deliberately and cynically starved in Hamas’s tunnels in Gaza — a living skeleton, buried alive,&#8221; David’s family said in a statement sent to the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters. “The deliberate starvation of our son as part of a propaganda campaign is one of the most horrifying acts the world has seen.”
“Hamas terrorists deliberately starve our hostages, documenting them in a cynical, humiliating, and malicious manner,” reacted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Iran-backed Hamas terrorists have held innocent people hostage, starving them for 666 days,” Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott said. “Just look at these photos — it’s gut-wrenching. Every day that goes by is a risk to their lives. We cannot stop until every hostage is home and Hamas is destroyed.”
“This is vile. Where are all those demanding Israel end this war now?” New York GOP Rep. Mike Lawler declared. “Where are all those decrying the humanitarian crisis now? The only entity for the devastation that has been inflicted upon innocent Israelis and Palestinians is Hamas. Period. Full stop.”
Forcing Jews to dig their own graves was common during the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews in World War II. As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum <a href="applewebdata://5797B5F4-C07F-4B1A-A032-D1A52C1F7D89/v">notes</a>:
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Often referred to as an Aktion, a massacre typically began when Jews and other victims were rounded up or ordered to report to a central destination. The victims were then marched or transported to the killing site. If a mass grave had not already been dug, the victims were forced to dig one. They were stripped of clothes and valuables and driven in groups to the pit. The Einsatzgruppen  and their assistants either shot the victims at the edge so that they fell in, or forced them into the grave to be shot. Friends and families often had to watch their loved ones die before them.
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Hamas Forces Emaciated Israeli Hostage To Dig His Own Grave

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Videos of emaciated Israeli hostages — who were seized in the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of over 1200 Israelis — surfaced on Friday, pointing out the irony of world criticism of Israel for allegedly starving Gazans while Islamist terror groups make no bones about starving their victims.
Footage of hostages <a href="https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1951320589857095798">Evyatar David</a> and <a href="https://x.com/amjadt25/status/1951065466421518569">Rom Braslavski</a> was released by Islamic Jihad and Hamas, showing their skeletal condition.
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For the rest of my life, I will judge the NGOs, media outlets, and governments around the world that gave this demonic behavior by Hamas a pass or turned a blind eye.
If Israel has to be alone in the face of this Islamist death cult, so be it. I stand with Israel. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EvyatarDavid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EvyatarDavid</a> <a href="https://t.co/PeHpVD6fx0">pic.twitter.com/PeHpVD6fx0</a>
&mdash; Sia Kordestani (@SiaKordestani) <a href="https://twitter.com/SiaKordestani/status/1951316791197884750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ask yourself why Hamas released the photos of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, who are actually starving, right after a big news cycle about food not getting into Gaza. They did it as a show of power, proof that the media, the influencers on the Left, and now many on the Right… <a href="https://t.co/nV2VPx7sVm">pic.twitter.com/nV2VPx7sVm</a>
&mdash; Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) <a href="https://twitter.com/bungarsargon/status/1951326554966868382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times will probably tell you this is a starving Palestinian. 
It is in fact Evyatar David, an Israeli held hostage for almost two years. 
Palestinian terrorists have just released a video of Evyatar. <a href="https://t.co/C9ihZVH4Gp">pic.twitter.com/C9ihZVH4Gp</a>
&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1951304211267772911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A real starving person in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists have released a gruesome video of Evyatar David. An Israeli hostage who&#39;s been tortured for almost 2 years.
Share this photo with every media outlet there is. And watch them still not cover it. <a href="https://t.co/41jHGwqInK">pic.twitter.com/41jHGwqInK</a>
&mdash; dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) <a href="https://twitter.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1951318351797453232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hamas releases chilling video of hostage Evyatar David appearing skeletal and starved after 664 days in captivity. <a href="https://t.co/YTNLzCwpPh">pic.twitter.com/YTNLzCwpPh</a>
&mdash; Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1951320589857095798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The video triggered fury from a number who immediately drew comparisons between the way Islamist terror groups actually treat their hostages and the way they try to claim Israel treats their civilians.
“This isn’t just heartbreaking; it is a crime against everything decent left in this world,” said Amjad Taha, a United Arab Emirates-based strategist and political analyst who led the first independent youth delegation to Israel after the signing of the Abraham Accords.
“A hostage in Gaza, tortured and starved by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, was filmed in agony,” he continued. “If you can watch that footage and still call it ‘resistance,’ then you’ve buried your humanity long ago. This is not a liberation movement; it is a cult of cruelty. Islamists don’t build nations. They build cages, graves, and propaganda. This is not justice. It is modern-day Nazism, with the camera rolling like they were proud of it, while the United Nations stays silent, too afraid to speak. This is not just evil. It is a performance of evil, endorsed by silence, applauded by cowards, and excused by fake activists. Shame on every self-righteous fool who celebrates this. Shame on every mouth that dares to call it ‘freedom.’ And shame on the UN for being too scared, too compromised, or too useless to speak the damn truth.”
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May God cradle his shattered family in Israel with strength and mercy. This isn’t just heartbreaking; it is a crime against everything decent left in this world. A hostage in Gaza, tortured and starved by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, was filmed in agony. If you can watch… <a href="https://t.co/ZjqAImC2vS">pic.twitter.com/ZjqAImC2vS</a>
&mdash; Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) <a href="https://twitter.com/amjadt25/status/1951065466421518569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman noted, ‘This is what ‘starving’ looks like — Israeli hostage held by Hamas named Evyatar David. I haven’t seen a single picture of a Palestinian adult who looks anything like this (and, believe me, the @nytimes and other anti-Israel outlets are desperately looking for such a picture).”
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This is what “starving” looks like — Israeli hostage held by Hamas named Evyatar David. I haven’t seen a single picture of a Palestinian adult who looks anything like this (and, believe me, the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> and other anti-Israel outlets are desperately looking for such a picture). <a href="https://t.co/6B09EyGdun">pic.twitter.com/6B09EyGdun</a>
&mdash; David M Friedman (@DavidM_Friedman) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidM_Friedman/status/1951320449779908987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Braslavski’s family issued a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-jihad-airs-video-of-hostage-rom-braslavski-they-broke-him-family-says/">statement</a> saying, “People are speaking a lot about what is happening in Gaza, about the hunger, and I ask all those who are speaking about hunger: Did you see our Rom? He doesn’t receive food, and he doesn’t receive medicine. He is simply forgotten there. They managed to break Rom. Even the most resilient person has their breaking point.”
“I know how many beatings he is taking,” his mother told Ynet News. “I know because Rom doesn’t cry. If he cries, it is because they are abusing him. Look at him. Thin, limp, crying.”
In addition to starving Evyatar David, Hamas also tortured him by <a href="applewebdata://D36FD9A0-1145-47C5-B9AC-C13A5E57EB01/v">bringing him to the site</a> to watch the release of the three hostages — Omar Wenkert, Omar Shem Tov, and Eliya Cohen — in February.

Israel-Gaza Conflict

‘Cult Of Cruelty’: Ghastly Photos, Videos Of Emaciated Israeli Hostages Released By Gaza Terrorists

Islamic Jihad

On Tuesday, after it was reported that the Gaza child who was featured in numerous publications as a poster child for malnutrition in Gaza actually suffered from other severe health problems, a fact that the legacy media — including The New York Times— did not see fit to report, The New York Times suddenly issued an editor’s note apprising their audience of the fact.
Media outlets employed the photo of an emaciated 20-month-old Gaza child to substantiate claims that Israel is intentionally starving residents of the Hamas-controlled zone. But the legacy media never reported that the child suffers from numerous medical problems — nor that his three-year-old brother looks healthy with no signs of malnutrition, <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">according</a> to an investigation.
“Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story,” investigative reporter David Collier <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">noted</a>. “<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-faces-mass-starvation-with-supplies-totally-depleted-aid-agencies-warn-13400462">Sky News</a>, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/starvation-in-gaza-is-destroying-communities-and-will-leave-generational-scars">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14939703/Reduced-skin-bones-Gaza-famine-hell-Horrifying-picture-shows-starving-child-plastic-bag-nappy-lying-exhausted-arms-desperate-mother.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html">New York Times</a>, and The <a href="https://archive.ph/kfN5n">Times (UK)</a> – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation.”
“Except this image proves none of it,” he said. “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,” Collier continued. “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.”
“We have appended an Editors&#8217; Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the Times said in its statement. “After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems.”
“Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war,” the Times insisted.
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We have appended an Editors&#39; 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. <a href="https://t.co/KGxP3b3Q2B">pic.twitter.com/KGxP3b3Q2B</a>
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Social media buried the Times:
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar snapped.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. <a href="https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3">https://t.co/NUsrbix5d3</a>
&mdash; Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1950321101395153342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach. The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere. You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper,” physicist Shaun Maguire fired at the Times.
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Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach
The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere
You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper
&mdash; Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1950315654252548297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“You know damn well how insufficient this correction is,” Jews Fight Back wrote on X.
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You know damn well how insufficient this correction is.
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“Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers,” attorney Andrew Laufer stated.
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Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers.
&mdash; Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauferlaw/status/1950329815543992819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages,” attorney Marina Medvin declared.
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Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages.
&mdash; Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1950330544052720093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NYT Admits It Used Misleading Photo Of ‘Starving’ Gaza Child. Critics Say It’s Too Little, Too Late.

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Gaza

New York Times

U.S.

Media outlets have employed a photo of an emaciated Gaza child to substantiate claims that Israel is intentionally starving residents of the Hamas-controlled zone.
But the legacy media never reported that the child, now 20 months old, suffers from numerous medical problems — nor that his three-year-old brother looks healthy with no signs of malnutrition, <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/">according</a> to an investigation.
This viral image of a child in Gaza was misreported as proof of starvation caused by Israel. In reality, Muhammad&#8217;s health condition, not hunger, is the issue. It&#8217;s time for the media to correct their misleading coverage. <a href="https://t.co/UnE28pyyrb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UnE28pyyrb</a>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) <a href="https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1949768419491913868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Published initially on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DMXyCYCN2CD/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> with the caption, “A body eated [sic] by hunger, and eyes looking for mercy in a deaf world,” the visuals went viral after The Daily Express <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2085539/gaza-palestine-muhammad-israel-hamas-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showcased</a> them on its front page.
“Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story,&#8221; investigative reporter David Collier <a href="https://david-collier.com/the-truth-behind-the-viral-gaza-famine-photo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. &#8220;<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-faces-mass-starvation-with-supplies-totally-depleted-aid-agencies-warn-13400462" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sky News</a>, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2025/07/world/photos-starvation-in-gaza-intl-cnnphotos/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/starvation-in-gaza-is-destroying-communities-and-will-leave-generational-scars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14939703/Reduced-skin-bones-Gaza-famine-hell-Horrifying-picture-shows-starving-child-plastic-bag-nappy-lying-exhausted-arms-desperate-mother.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, and The <a href="https://archive.ph/kfN5n" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Times (UK)</a> – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation.&#8221;
“Except this image proves none of it,” he said.
“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.
&#8220;This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession,&#8221; Collier continued. &#8220;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.”
A medical report issued in May 2025 showed Mohammed was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as well as hypoxemia. Collier noted that in a BBC interview with Mohammed’s mother, she admitted he had physiotherapy sessions to help him stand, and the curvature of the spine could well be a result of the child’s cerebral palsy. “In a CNN report published on Saturday, the boy’s mother explained that Muhammad suffers from a muscle disorder,” Honest Reporting <a href="https://honestreporting.com/another-photo-another-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
“From everything I’ve learned, Mohammed’s mother is simply trying to find help for her child,” Collier wrote. “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.”
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee also dismissed &#8220;Hamas&#8217;s fake narrative,&#8221; writing on X that &#8220;the lie told by the media &amp; Hamas is itself a tragedy.&#8221;
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Hamas&#8217; fake narrative exposed: Truth about Gazan child who made global headlines. The child’s health is no less tragic but the lie told by the media &amp; Hamas is itself a tragedy. <a href="https://t.co/MdUEPAcO33" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/MdUEPAcO33</a>
— Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1949793740882649521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The media also pushed another lie about the Gazan child.
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This is what a modern blood libel looks like:
A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth.
His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness.
He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12. Israel enabled his medical… <a href="https://t.co/Sh8UBK3HVh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Sh8UBK3HVh</a>
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1949781081751765052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Hamas cannot afford to lose <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1948701831040811068" target="_blank" rel="noopener">control</a> over aid distribution – not if it intends to remain the ruling power in post-war Gaza,” Collier posited. “Channeling or controlling aid has always been one of the terrorist group’s most <a href="https://archive.ph/MywhU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reliable</a> sources of income. That’s why it has been essential for Hamas to discredit the US-Israeli <a href="https://www.gov.il/en/pages/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-operational-update" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GHF</a> aid <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program </a>and portray it as a failure. This has included an almost <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20rz63g1zko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">daily</a> pantomime of <a href="https://x.com/mishtal/status/1946619392118210608" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unverified</a> 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.”
“There is plenty of publicly available <a href="https://x.com/Aizenberg55/status/1948009090841731308?t=XV2bpG8Dm755IFqW7P6ecw&amp;s=19" target="_blank" rel="noopener">information</a> showing that significant quantities of food are entering Gaza. But with local <a href="https://x.com/AGHamilton29/status/1948701831040811068" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media</a> firmly under the control of Hamas, none of this gets reported,” he stated. “Instead of helping facilitate aid delivery, UN agencies have imposed impossible conditions, <a href="https://archive.ph/XNkGg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stalling</a> convoys and leaving hundreds of trucks abandoned – their contents rotting just a short distance from those in need. &#8230; Let’s call this what it is: The UN, UNRWA and other NGOs are not prioritizing 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 prioritizing a political agenda that aligns with – and thus ensures – the survival of Hamas. They’re not neutral. They’re enablers.”
Collier’s comments were buttressed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who told NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday, that “Israel, since this war began, has supplied over 94,000 truckloads full of food. It&#8217;s enough food to feed two million people for two years, trying to get that into Gaza. But Hamas has stolen the food, a huge amount. In fact in 2024, the numbers are that Hamas profited over $500 million in stolen food aid that was supposed to go to these poor people who needed it. That&#8217;s half of their budget.”

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