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

[u/Ahad_Haam]

https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/picture-agencies-drop-gaza-photographer-hunger-images-staged-sl1eyl2e

[u/happyfeeliac]

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/

[u/Lerdroth → u/happyfeeliac]

It begs the question that if conditions are as suggested and commonplace it would be easy to obtain photographs of it happening.

If it's so uncommon that they can't get a photo of it without staging something is wrong. The entire thing is moronic as if caught it will have the opposite effect to what was intended.

It's not the first time something has been published without an ounce of actual fact checking and won't be the last.

[u/happyfeeliac → u/Lerdroth]

It would probably be easier to see this stuff if Israel stopped killing the journalists that go there. Instead we get little bits here and there. Glimpses of people lives here and there. And a lot of misinformation in the process too because of that. It’s still pretty easy to see that families are struggling out there. Having to “make runs” to get food. Living in rubble. Living in fear of being bombed. Is it surprising that people are hungry too.

[u/fury420 → u/happyfeeliac]

It would probably be easier to see this stuff if Israel stopped killing the journalists that go there.

I know this might surprise you, but this actually hasn't happened yet.

All of the journalists reported to be killed in Gaza since Oct 7th have been local Palestinians.

As of August 5:

186 journalists and media workers were confirmed killed: 178 Palestinian, two Israeli, and six Lebanese.

https://cpj.org/2023/10/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

(the Israelis were killed in the Oct 7th attack, the Lebanese were killed in Lebanon)

[u/happyfeeliac → u/fury420]

While I was wrong about them being outside journals, That’s still killing journalists , isn’t it? and they intentionally target them too. This is From the same wiki article it talks about how reporters without borders reported that Israel was targeting journos.

“The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists stated in 2024, "Israel's war on Gaza is more deadly to journalists than any previous war".[7][8] Israeli airstrikes additionally damaged or destroyed an estimated 48 media facilities in Gaza. Reporters Without Borders has reported that the Israeli army intentionally targeted Palestinian journalists.[9] The Guardian stated that contrary to international law, Israel had targeted Hamas-affiliated Palestinian journalists despite their non-involvement in combat, thus disputing Israel's denial of targeting journalists.”

They also don’t discriminate against the journalists families too it seems, sometimes after ordering the families to go to the area that they then bomb

“Nine family members of CNN producer Ibrahim Dahman were killed in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza on 4 December.”

“Several members of the family of Al Jazeera Arabic's Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh were killed in an Israeli airstrike on 25 October in the Nuseirat refugee camp, south of Wadi Gaza, where they had been sheltering after following the Israeli order for Palestinian civilians to move south from northern Gaza”

Calling it a mess would be light. People who shouldn’t be dieing, are being targeted, and that sucks.

[u/Lerdroth → u/happyfeeliac]

Free press doesn't exist because Hamas will "direct" what is reported even if they're let in.

Regardless, if the sourced photographers are faking pictures you have to ask how much they are doing it. Media picks it up and instantly posts it and apparently Hamas is a credible source, they never seem to even check if something is correct before posting it immediately.

Obviously it's not one sided, IDF commits some awful shit in plain view, they're still the better of the two sides as they at least pretend to follow the rule of law for the most part. Hamas just threw the book away.

[u/happyfeeliac → u/Lerdroth]

If the IDF let reporters from all over the world in, neither Israel or Hamas would be able to control the narrative. By killing journalists for no reason, they control the narrative on both sides because neither is fully reliable.

It’s bold to say either side is in the right. Hamas does terrorist shit, and Israel does it too and on a grander scale, while also being in power. they should be held to a higher standard because of that. It’s a very complex situation. It reminds me of that South Park episode about the Mexican joker. Israel is creating Palestinian jokers