Journalist David Collier exposed the lies behind the photo of Mohammed, a “starving” Gazan child, that recently accompanied numerous headlines as proof of the “deliberate famine Israel is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip.”
The photo was first published on the front page of the Daily Express on July 23 and was then picked up by Sky News, CNN, NYT, BBC, the Guardian, and others.
Collier wrote how these anti-Israel outlets chose not to publish additional images of Mohammed along with his brother and mother, who both look healthy. They “forgot” to question why only one member of the family is “starving.”
In reality, Mohammed has a serious genetic disorder, cerebral palsy, and hypoxemia and has required nutritional supplements since birth. This information is recorded in a medical report issued in Gaza in May 2025. The media outlets “forgot” to mention this fact.
Collier wrote that he watched BBB broadcasters openly lie on a live broadcast when they interviewed the mother. She spoke about the child’s cerebral palsy and the physiotherapy he has received. BBC ignored her and reported that Mohammed’s curved spine is a result of famine.
Additionally, media outlets (such as the example below from NYT) emphasized the “famine” narrative by falsely reporting that Mohammed has no father because he was killed by the Israelis while “looking for food.”
But Mohammed’s father was actually killed in a targeted airstrike in Jabaliya in October 2024, in a week when seven IDF soldiers were killed in that area.
Sadly, the photo and the narrative are just one tiny example of a sea of lies about the world’s only Jewish state.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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The lies are wrong, but so is your reporting. Actually, it’s the world’s only Zionist, not Jewish, “State”. Stop repeating their lies.
The much bigger lie about the current starvation going on in Gaza is outlets like the NYT report in their headlines “after Israel blocked food aid from entering” when in reality Israel did this months ago when Gaza was awash in food and started allowing food back in months ago. Instead the lack of food there is a direct result of the UN and other NGOs refusing to distribute food since Israel took control over food entering Gaza to keep it out of Hamas’ hands based on the claim that doing so will violate their “principles” of neutrality. As a result there were only a few distribution points in all of Gaza. However because blaming the UN and NGO’s is not a narrative they are “comfortable” with they had no choice but to resort to misleading their public and blaming Israel.
HaKatan – It is the only Jewish majority political entity with nation-state level jurisdiction. Since that’s a lot to say, some people call it a ‘Jewish state’. Since Khazaria and Hymaria no longer exist, and Lakewood and Rockland County are subnational jurisdictions, no other currently extant political entity can be thus described. How and why Israel came to exist, the many shortcomings of the State (and מעלות of the people…), and what our attitude should be towards it, doesn’t need to be the subject of every comment thread.
Yaakov Yosef A:
It is a gross liability to Jews worldwide to label the Zionist “State” as Jewish. That’s the biggest problem. There is no need for anyone to repeat that Zionist propaganda and Big Lie, especially not an entity that titles itself “Yeshiva World”.
They could simply write “Israeli State” rather than “Jewish State”, which would address your other concern while, at the same time, not needlessly promoting a false liability on Jews, R”L L”A.
Thank you, YYA, for your intelligent remarks. It is so annoying to keep reading the same anti Zionist remarks over and over. We all know what the anti-Israel camp has to say. But we don’t need to see it being relentlessly and obsessively repeated.