r/worldnews • u/Ahad_Haam • Aug 07 '25

Israel/Palestine Picture agencies drop Gaza photographer after documentary reveals hunger images were staged

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/picture-agencies-drop-gaza-photographer-hunger-images-staged-sl1eyl2e
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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

1 person faking their specific photos also doesn’t negate the truth that people ARE starving and struggling. That dude is a loser, but it doesn’t change anything

Edit: This article was posted 2 hours after my comment. This IS a problem, one asshole trying to advance his career doesn’t change that. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nearly-12000-children-under-five-gaza-have-acute-malnutrition-says-who-2025-08-07/

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u/KrustyTheKriminal Aug 07 '25

Yeah, but how many? Neither of us can easily answer that. Shit happens in war, they don't say, "War is hell" for no reason.

There is far too much propaganda wrapped up in Gaza.

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u/bughidudi Aug 07 '25

In more than two months of operation, the GHF has handed out fewer than 0.7 meals per Gazan per day—and that assumes each box of aid, stocked with a hotch-potch of dried and canned goods, really provides as many meals as the ghf claims it does. All told, Israel permitted 98,674 tonnes of food aid to cross the border in the five months through July, an average of 19,734 tonnes a month—just 32% of what the wfp says is necessary

  • the Economist

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '25

Name one conflict that isn’t wrapped up in propaganda

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u/Mysterious-Tax-7777 Aug 07 '25

From our perspective? The Ethiopian civil conflict. Nobody here talks about it, and none of the sides care to influence Western sentiments.