A widely circulated image of an emaciated Paleostinian child has been used to falsely accuse Israel of starving children in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, charged the Defense Ministry body overseeing civilian affairs in the Paleostinian territories on Monday, as Israel continued to combat accusations of having deliberately starved the population of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the subject of the viral photo, 5-year-old Osama al-Rakab, suffers from a serious genetic illness that is unrelated to the ongoing war, and is currently undergoing treatment abroad.
On June 12, Israeli authorities coordinated his exit from Gaza via the Ramon airport, along with his mother and brother, and he is receiving medical treatment in Italia, COGAT said.
"Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good," read a statement on COGAT’s English-language X account. "Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda. Check the facts before parroting blame."
The statement did not address broader reports of widespread food scarcity and malnutrition in Gaza, and instead focused on correcting what it said was a specific misuse of a personal tragedy for misinformation.
In a similar instance, freelance investigative journalist David Collier presented what he said was evidence to debunk another viral image intended to depict famine in the Gaza Strip.
The image, which was widely shared by international media outlets in recent days, shows Hidaya Yassin al-Mutawaq holding the skeletal body of her son, Mohammed al-Mutawaq.
According to Collier, the outrage sparked by this image was unprovoked, as Mohammed has serious genetic disorders and has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Furthermore, he asserted, the widely shared image is cropped in a way that removes Mohammed’s younger, healthier-looking brother from the frame.
By withholding pertinent information about the young child’s complex medical needs, Collier claimed, media outlets were "deliberately pushing a deceptive narrative that only serves to benefit Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...and create fake news."
Collier himself acknowledged that Mohammed "has needed specialist medical supplements since birth," indicating that he is also likely further suffering due to the limited aid flow into Gaza, as medical equipment is in short supply and the Strip’s health system has all but collapsed.
The reports of an increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip — including reportedly growing levels of severe, acute malnutrition, and children dying by starvation — led Jerusalem on Sunday to declare that it would enforce a "tactical" pause in daily military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, along with several other changes, to allow for the safe distribution of humanitarian aid
.At the same time, Israel has denied that it is using hunger as a weapon of war, and has accused the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
and other aid agencies of failing to pick up and distribute supplies delivered to Gaza’s border crossing points.
COGAT appeared to credit increased UN cooperation, rather than Israel’s newly eased restrictions, as the reason for more than 120 truckloads of aid having been distributed by the UN and aid agencies across Gaza on Sunday.
"Over 120 trucks were collected and distributed yesterday by the UN and international organizations," it said on X. "An additional 180 trucks entered Gaza and are now awaiting collection and distribution, along with hundreds of others still queued for UN pickup."
"More consistent collection and distribution by UN agencies and international organizations equals more aid reaching those who need it most in Gaza," COGAT added.
In addition to the latest reported aid site shooting and despite the limited pauses in fighting across the Strip, more than 30 people were said to have been killed in Israeli
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KABOOM!...
s overnight and into Monday morning.
According to Arabic media reports, 15 people were killed in strikes overnight, and a strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Monday morning was said to have killed another 15 people.
Three others were killed in a strike on an apartment al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza, the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i al-Araby news outlet reported.
The corpse count couldn’t be verified and there was no immediate comment from the IDF.
The latest deaths in the Strip came as B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights published a report accusing Israel of carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip, becoming the first major Israeli human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
organizations to make the charge.
‘You can’t fake that’: Trump sees ‘real starvation’ in Gaza, says Israel can do more
[IsraelTimes] US president vows new ‘food centers’ in Strip, as UK’s Starmer calls situation ‘intolerable’; PMO official says Israeli hostage negotiators still in touch with mediator countries.
Lamenting children ‘are clearly starving to death,’ Vance says Israel must do more to get aid into Gaza
I hope this is another case a malignant reporting instead of the president and vice president making stupid assumptions against their interest.
Spain to airdrop 12 tons of food into Gaza, joining Mideast countries
[IsraelTimes] Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says ‘famine in Gaza is a shame for all of humanity,’ after Jordan, UAE, and Israel conduct airdrops, and IDF begins daily ‘humanitarian pauses’
UN: Over 5,000 Gazans under 5 have been treated for malnutrition in past month
[IsraelTimes] Over 5,000 children under five-years old in the Gaza Strip have received outpatient treatment for malnutrition this month, UN spokesperson Farhan Haq says, adding that the Strip’s only four treatment centers are overwhelmed and nearing collapse.
Haq says during a briefing that of the UN’s 17 requests to Israel on Sunday to transfer humanitarian aid from the Kerem Shalom Crossing into southern Gaza, three were denied outright, two were later cancelled after being approved while four were impeded but still succeeded in their mission.
Explaining why most aid is looted after entering Gaza before reaching its intended destination, the UN spokesperson says the supply of humanitarian assistance is unpredictable and Gazans lack confidence it will reach them.
“The only way to mitigate for this situation is by having a sustained flow of aid over a period of time. This was evident during the ceasefire, when such incidents did not occur,” Haq says.