NYT forced to admit story about starving Gaza child was a hoax

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NYT forced to admit story about starving Gaza child was a hoax
July 30, 2025 | Chris Donaldson

The New York Times walked back its claim that an emaciated Palestinian child was suffering from malnutrition that was featured in a story about alleged starvation in Gaza.

In a ghastly picture that was prominently featured with the story, a woman is holding sickly one and a half year old Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq, who looks like a human skeleton, a harrowing image that was picked up by other media outlets across the world.

With the picture being used to portray a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza amid a global Israel-shaming propaganda campaign, something else was noticed that would soon bring great embarrassment to the once-venerable newspaper.

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[Smokin Joe]

Quick! Call "Green Helmet Guy!" to save the narrative!

(For those who do not recall, "Green Helmet Guy!" and his lackeys brought refrigerated trucks full of civilian corpses, especially children's, to plant in rubble from air strikes in Lebanon to be 'discovered' in front of the press.)