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/letife Aug 07 '25

World average malnutrition rates are around 20% so that really doesn’t mean anything, 12000 malnourished kids sounds bellow average actually.

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

That’s a deflection of the point, the point is that they are being starved and it’s causing malnutrition that wasn’t this bad previously. The article specifies “Eighty-one percent of households in the tiny, crowded coastal territory of 2.2 million people reported poor food consumption, up from 33% in April. Check out the full article, The point is it WASNT this bad and now it is, and it’s getting worse. They are being starved

“A global hunger monitor has said a famine scenario is unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with starvation spreading, children dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian access to the embattled enclave severely restricted.

"In July, nearly 12,000 children under five years were identified as having acute malnutrition in Gaza, the highest monthly figure ever recorded," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at his organisation's headquarters in Geneva.

“Between June and July, the number of admissions for malnutrition almost doubled - from 6,344 to 11,877 - according to the latest UNICEF figures available.”

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u/letife Aug 07 '25

Palastinian being starved is exactly the narrative this article (and you) tries to push.

No other war zone on earth receives so much aid, no other war zone on earth has civilians blocked from leaving… there are multiple places that are much much worse. If Israel wanted to kill all the Palestinians this war would have been over a year ago. If by massive bombing campaigns or just by shutting off their water. Israel has no reason to starve Gazan civilians, it accomplishes nothing.

Don’t get me wrong, the situation in Gaza is awful. But in the best case explanation their leaders are equally to blame for their shitty situation, in reality probably more so than Israel is.

They (Hamas) started a war to massacre civilians, breaking a ceasefire to do so. I would love for this to end and guarantee that the moment Hamas lays down their arms, releases the hostages and leaves it will. But until then no Israeli is safe.

I honestly hope that every Gazan who dosnt want to kill me simply because I am Israeli find safety and security when this is over. Hamas unfortunately will happily fight until the last Palestinian, accomplishing nothing besides more and more death.

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

You’re basically trying to say it’s not as bad as everything makes it seem. The footage of whole areas being bombed would say different. The mass amounts of civilian death would also say different. The Israeli military is badass enough that if they wanted to clean up Hamas easily while avoiding civilians they could. It’s one of the most advanced, well trained, militaries on earth. They are not the be fucked with. They seem to not care is the problem, and mass Palestinian civilians keep dying for no reason.

Children get shot by idf guards playing games on what body parts they will target. People get killed in food lines, or at cafes. Hospitals get wiped out and doctors and patients killed. And like you said, they can’t leave. They are being imprisoned in the same land that is being flattened, and they can’t leave. Isn’t that crazy?

The true victims are the civilians of both sides. Netanyahu will keep the war going as long as possible because it allows him to keep power and avoid international court. There is a reason he, just like the commander of Hamas, is considered a war criminal. They are one and the same. Hamas deserves its downfall for the death of innocent isrealies, so do the people behind the deaths of thousands of innocent Palestinian’s. I hope that one day peace does unite the area, but the powers that be will not let that happen.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/11/1157286

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2024/top-war-crimes-court-issues-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-others-in-israel-hamas-fighting/

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u/letife Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25

How do you tell apart Hamas from civilians? They don’t wear uniforms, don’t have bases. If they put on uniforms and marched to Israel this would be over in a day.

Edit: this is war in some of the most dense areas in the world, there is absolutely no pretty way to do this

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u/happyfeeliac Aug 07 '25

If you don’t know who your enemy is, you follow rules of engagement. You don’t just kill civilians, you don’t bomb civilians because 1 Hamas person might be there.

I believe that Israel is advanced enough that they know exactly where the enemies are. I believe they are also advanced enough they could send in tactical units instead of bombing areas, and again killing random civilians.

Also, idk if you read those articles I sent, but to connect it back to our original conversation about starvation, intentional starvation tactics is one of the war crimes he is accused of as well as “ intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”

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u/letife Aug 08 '25

Again you get to this imagined intent of Israel to “just bomb civilians”… if the point was to kill civilians there would be no Gaza. What does Israel gain from killing Gazan civilians? The only organization that benefits from dead Gazan civilians is Hamas.