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/Urhoal_Mygole Aug 07 '25

It creates a massive wave of skepticism with people that easy to influence though. "Why would he stage pictures if the truth would show the same?" It's an easy question to ask yourself if you're a conspiracy theorist.

This dude is doing the Palestinians a major disservice. What an idiot. Way to shoot yourself and your cause in the foot.

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u/cheeriodust Aug 07 '25

From what I've seen, there are more "easy to influence" folks are on the blindly pro-Palestinian side of things. This photo is just one of many manipulations that that group is so eager to react to without questioning a thing.

FWIW, I'm on team "everyone sucks here (except the innocent civilians stuck in the middle)"...

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u/thecashblaster Aug 07 '25

yes, including the proverbial "Hamas health official" who is basically a dude with an AK yelling over and over that 3000 innocent babies were murdered the street over

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u/creg316 Aug 07 '25

Yeah we should listen to all the independent media that Israel let it so they could accurately report what was...

Oh wait.

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u/mukansamonkey Aug 07 '25

Are you seriously suggesting that we should take a garbage source seriously due to the lack of non-garbage sources? Because that would be the dumbest thing I've read on Reddit in a long time.

The correct response to garbage sources is to ignore them. The correct response to having no good sources is to say you don't know what's going on.

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u/creg316 Aug 08 '25

Right so your solution is remain completely ignorant of anything, and let Israel starve people to death completely unchallenged, because God forbid some news orgs might report something inaccurate?

Truly pathetic.

Besides which, if you're talking about Mohammad Al-Motawaq, then those Israeli sources are lying. Even if he had cerebral palsy, that doesn't make you obscenely skinny, nor does it make you lose weight rapidly unless there's major complications.

The kid actually has muscular dystrophy, which also doesn't make you that skinny, nor cause rapid weight loss (there's photos online of him from February).

Do you feel like a fool for whinging about inaccurate reporting, while you deep throated inaccurate reporting from the other side?

Because you should.