Where is the outrage about the Israeli starvation of Gaza?
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Anonymous
All my friends who still support Israel. This has been going on for a while, sadly, and social media is full of apologists for Israel. All over. And, BTW, if we are outraged by Gaza, it means we are anti Semitic. Especially if we are Jewish, then we are self loathing. |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry--the WSJ article is paywalled. I'll paste it here:
Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along. By Eitan Fischberger July 30, 2025 2:23 pm ET Over the weekend, I embedded with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, where I saw the enormous quantities of humanitarian aid the United Nations has been refusing to distribute. What struck me most were the thousands upon thousands of pounds of baby food, baking under the Middle Eastern sun—jar after jar of mashed carrots, pureed potatoes and fruit blends. This food could have gone to children like Mohammed al-Mutawaaq. Those who don’t know his name will almost certainly recognize his face. Pictures of him, gaunt and fragile, staring vacantly into the camera, were plastered across the homepages of major media outlets last week, from the New York Times and Politico to the BBC. Mohammed, more than anyone else, was made the face of a devastating allegation: that Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children. That wasn’t the truth about Mohammed, nor is it the truth about what’s happening in Gaza. Mohammed suffers from cerebral palsy, according to British investigative journalist David Collier, who uncovered a local charity’s May 2025 report mentioning the boy’s condition. CNN, for its part, briefly noted in an offhand comment during a broadcast that Mohammed suffers from a “muscle disorder,” before dropping the point from later reporting. Another notable omission from virtually all media coverage were the photos of Mohammed being held by his mother with his older brother standing nearby. Both mother and brother appear healthy and fed. “Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving,” noted an unrepentant July 29 editor’s note in the New York Times. The paper admitted it had “since learned new information” and “updated our story to add context about [Mohammed’s] pre-existing health problems.” That context would have been more useful before publishing his image on the front page and fueling global outrage. Mohammed’s isn’t the only recent case of babies afflicted with terrible illnesses being exploited to promote a false narrative that Israel is intentionally starving Gazan children. Cogat, the Israeli military unit that coordinates humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories, tweeted Monday about a viral photo of a different child, Osama al-Raqab. Like Mohammed, Osama looked emaciated, and critics claimed that he too was starving due to Israel’s actions. These critics include Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, who tweeted that Israel was trying to “mislead public opinion by claiming that he was suffering from other illnesses, not hunger” and that “what is happening is not propaganda, but a real famine.” Yet according to Cogat—and previously confirmed by the boy’s mother to the Associated Press—Osama actually suffers from cystic fibrosis. On June 12, Israel coordinated his evacuation to Italy, along with his mother and brother, so he could receive medical treatment. “Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions,” the Cogat post said. “But when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good.” That harm was clear to me in Gaza, where I stood surrounded by nearly 600 trucks worth of food, water and diapers, all ready to be delivered. The U.N. refused to do the job, saying it couldn’t operate safely with Israeli protection. Instead it asked that security be provided by the “Gaza Blue Police”—a euphemism for Hamas’s internal security forces. This is the same group the U.N. has repeatedly accused of stealing aid, including in October 2023, only weeks after the Hamas-led massacre. In addition to rejecting IDF protection, the U.N. has declined to cooperate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, despite its backing by the U.S. The result is that food meant for children like Mohammed is left to rot. Put simply, the U.N. would rather work with Hamas than the Israelis or the Americans. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has coordinated and facilitated the entry into Gaza of more than 1.86 million tons of humanitarian assistance, more than 78% of which has been food. The population of Gaza is about 2.1 million. The only comparable effort in modern history is the Berlin Airlift of 1948-49, during which the Allies delivered 2.3 million tons of supplies to 2.5 million West Berliners over 15 months. Even then, the aid was going to an allied population. “There is no historical precedent for a military providing the level of direct aid to an enemy population that Israel has provided to Gaza,” writes John Spencer of the Modern War Institute at West Point. But these facts rarely break through the noise. Instead, the world sees a photo of a suffering child, assumes what news editors want them to assume, and then shares it without asking questions. The context is stripped away. There is real suffering in Gaza. But when that suffering is exploited for propaganda, and when humanitarian systems are paralyzed by politics and ideology, it is the most vulnerable—like young Mohammed al-Mutawaaq—who pay the price. Mr. Fischberger is an American-Israeli journalist.[/quote] This an entirely disgusting article and that journalist is a bias Zionist journalist. This is what kid with cerebral palsy looks like who is not starving and it doesn’t look like those kids in Gaza. https://iahp.org/dx-cerebral-palsy-coras-success-story/ children with cerebral palsy [/quote] I am tired of that kid with cerebal palsy being held up as the reason everyone is supposedly lying. Just stop. There's plenty of other pictures, accounts, primary sources, reporters from all over saying the opposite. You are sending around propaganda about supposed propaganda. |
Anonymous
| Victim victim victim, its exhausting |
Anonymous
Try putting yourself for a minute in the shoes of an average Palestinian family. Do you understand their hatred for the Israeli’s? How would you react under similar conditions? |
Anonymous
This is why the good people of the world aren't taking sides in this conflict. There is no moral high ground to be found anywhere among the blood thirsty barbarians who want nothing more than to kill each other. |
Anonymous
Then go handle your business alone and stop asking for handouts from the rest of us if you don’t want our opinions. |
Anonymous
You seem to forget that many non jewish people were sent to camps as well. They have a legacy also and the Jewish people are not the only ones to experience the horrors of Nazis. You have no idea who you are talking to. |
Anonymous
I certainly wouldn’t celebrate their deaths. I wouldn’t nail their genitals or rape them till their pelvises break or burn them alive on FaceTime with their parents. No. None of that. |
Anonymous
Please do tell me who I’m talking to. Victims of the Nazis are all entitled to their legacy. I stand with them. However no one is teaching their children to kill the descendants of those victims rn….. unless you know something I don’t |
Anonymous
Are you 12? |
Anonymous
DP We want off the goddamned ride. What part of that don’t you get. Fund your own actions, stop being a parasite. Jesus. |
Anonymous
| I would prefer not funding UNWRA, thank you very much. Tell their billionaire leaders to fund their actions and stop being parasites. |
Anonymous
So? Half of your mother’s friends are not suffering in Gaza And I do dare to tell you whatever I wish Nobody needs to respect anybody just because they practice a minority religion and think they are so special that criticism of Israel is automatically antisemitism |
Anonymous
| Why are Israelis so upset about the photos of the hostages? I thought all the photos of starving children coming out of Gaza are fake Hamas propaganda. This is such blatant dehumanization of Palestinian people. |
Anonymous
| Let the rich Saudis feed them. |