Report: Mainstream Media Deliberately, Deceptively Uses Images of Palestinian Children with Genetic Diseases to Push Gaza Famine

Modern day blood libel.

This is what a modern blood libel looks like:

A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth.

His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness.

He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12. Israel enabled his medical… pic.twitter.com/Sh8UBK3HVh

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 28, 2025

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’

Remember their names. pic.twitter.com/aPBfE4Dqyx

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) July 27, 2025

1/10

The leaked email that blows apart the BBC’s impartiality claims over Gaza
By : @jonsac
A leaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The… pic.twitter.com/vk1mCzoMMQ

— ME24 – Middle East 24 (@MiddleEast_24) July 28, 2025

Unlike his brother standing by his side, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq suffers from cerebral palsy.

But BBC, CNN, Daily Express, and The New York Times spread a misleading story using a picture of a sick, disabled child to promote a narrative of mass starvation in Gaza —… pic.twitter.com/dfkwQKS13i

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 29, 2025

THE NEW YORK TIMES IS SICK.

That child in their “famine in Gaza” photo?
Mohammed al-Mutawaaq.
He has a muscular disorder.

They knew that.
They didn’t care.
They wanted a photo to make Israel look like monsters.

Disgusting. Dangerous. Deranged. pic.twitter.com/vJBSgOJrLC

— Jews Fight Back (@JewsFightBack) July 27, 2025

This is why Israel will not allow the Leftist mainstream media into Gaza. The mainstream media is evil, corrupt, dishonest, and virulently anti-Semitic. They have a deep-seated bias and hatred toward the state of Israel, and they have had a profound role in the appalling rise of anti-Semitism that we are witnessing across the world. In a just world every one of these media outlets would be sued into bankruptcy.

There’s a special place in hell for the editors & journalists who took Hamas’ photos of children with congenital conditions (and parents with double chins) and broadcast them to their already radicalized audience with the message, ‘Look what the Jews did.’

Remember their names. pic.twitter.com/aPBfE4Dqyx

— Saul Sadka (@Saul_Sadka) July 27, 2025

GHF has delivered over 95 million meals directly to Palestinians in Gaza.

Every day, we hear their gratitude for the American people and @POTUS.

Thank you, President Trump and @USAmbIsrael, for supporting this lifesaving mission. https://t.co/ZcIdIZPjms

— Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (@GHFUpdates) July 28, 2025

Hamas terrorists steal humanitarian aid, and then accuse Israel of not supplying it.

The facts: Israel has already supplied nearly 2 MILLION TONS of food since the beginning of the war to Gaza. https://t.co/mj1bDAFgLD

— RJC (@RJC) July 28, 2025

This is what a modern blood libel looks like:

A sick child. A hijacked photo. A lie that spreads faster than truth.

His name is Osama al-Raqab. He has cystic fibrosis, a serious genetic illness.

He’s been in Italy receiving treatment since June 12.
Israel enabled his medical… pic.twitter.com/5G4rhseRks

— Embassy of Israel to the USA (@IsraelinUSA) July 28, 2025

Why is the New York Times using a photo of Mohammed al-Mutawaaq, a child with a muscular disorder, as the face of famine in Gaza? pic.twitter.com/qwSTWnLi7A

— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) July 27, 2025

Report: Mainstream media deliberately uses images of Palestinian children with genetic diseases to push Gaza famine stories

By All Israel News, July 28th, 2025

A new report by independent investigative journalist David Collier alleges that mainstream media willingly used the image of a child with cerebral palsy as the lead image for stories about a supposed deliberate famine in Gaza.

According to the mainstream media outlets, such as the BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, CNN, The New York Times, and Daily Mail, the condition of Mohammed, the boy in the striking images, was due to the desperate conditions in Gaza. His pictures were used to depict the severity of the famine situation in Gaza, however, Collier says those stories did not mention Mohammed’s preexisting condition of cerebral palsy, which often leads to severe malnutrition, as children with the condition have difficulty eating.

None of the major news sources mentioned Mohammed’s cerebral palsy, with most indicating within the body of the article, or in the photo description, that Mohammed’s condition was due to “severe malnutrition.”

The Gaza Starvation Lie

“The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your… pic.twitter.com/LMixWFYmYU

— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) July 27, 2025

Blood libel.