NYT Admits It Used Misleading Photo Of ‘Starving’ Gaza Child. Critics Say It’s Too Little, Too Late.

On Tuesday, after it was reported that the Gaza child who was featured in numerous publications as a poster child for malnutrition in Gaza actually suffered from other severe health problems, a fact that the legacy media — including The New York Times— did not see fit to report, The New York Times suddenly issued an editor’s note apprising their audience of the fact.

Media outlets employed the photo of an emaciated 20-month-old Gaza child to substantiate claims that Israel is intentionally starving residents of the Hamas-controlled zone. But the legacy media never reported that the child suffers from numerous medical problems — nor that his three-year-old brother looks healthy with no signs of malnutrition, according to an investigation.

“Within hours, almost every major outlet was using the image to tell the same story,” investigative reporter David Collier noted. “Sky NewsCNNThe GuardianDaily MailNew York Times, and The Times (UK) – they all ran with it, reinforcing the message: Gaza is gripped by mass starvation.”

“Except this image proves none of it,” he said. “Wider and unpublished pictures show Mohammed’s healthy brother Joud, who was born on 18 April 2022 and is 3 years old. Mohammed was born on 23 December 2023, just two months after October 7. What we can see from the pictures is that both Mohammed’s mother and his older brother, look healthy and are not suffering from any type of starvation that would be necessary to cause the thinness suffered by Mohammed.”

“This is visible in multiple images we have in our possession,” Collier continued. “The published images in all the various news broadcasts and publications have either been deliberately cropped to remove the image of the healthy brother, blurred him into obscurity, or the journalists have only chosen to use photos in which the brother is not visible at all.”

“We have appended an Editors’ Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition,” the Times said in its statement. “After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems.”

“Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war,” the Times insisted.

Social media buried the Times:

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” Jewish Insider Editor-in-Chief Josh Kraushaar snapped.

“Way too late. This correction will get 1/1000th the reach. The story was a blood libel against Jews everywhere. You should have a long hard look in the mirror and reassess what’s going on at your paper,” physicist Shaun Maguire fired at the Times.

“You know damn well how insufficient this correction is,” Jews Fight Back wrote on X.

“Post this on your main account with the 55 million followers where the original libelous article appeared. This account has a mere 88k followers,” attorney Andrew Laufer stated.

“Reminds me of that time that you buried the Holocaust in the back pages,” attorney Marina Medvin declared.


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