Lol. Iām hardly hyper partisan. I know both sides are the same. You donāt.
Iāll agree with you about Don saying heād end it. Biden never did. So, you condemn Trump for saying he will but not Biden, who happily supported the war criminal Bibi in destroying Gaza.
One child has a medical condition such that nutrition is poorly absorbed in his body. The problem with this child is not that there is no available food (see not-malnourished mother and brother), but that when the child eats, his body can not properly maintain his weight. The malnutrition is a result of his medical condition, not a lack of available calories.
Over the weekend, I embedded with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, where I saw the enormous quantities of humanitarian aid the United Nations has been refusing to distribute. What struck me most were the thousands upon thousands of pounds of baby food, baking under the Middle Eastern sunājar after jar of mashed carrots, pureed potatoes and fruit blends. This food could have gone to children like Mohammed al-Mutawaaq.
Those who donāt know his name will almost certainly recognize his face. Pictures of him, gaunt and fragile, staring vacantly into the camera, were plastered across the homepages of major media outlets last week, from the New York Times and Politico to the BBC. Mohammed, more than anyone else, was made the face of a devastating allegation: that Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children.
That wasnāt the truth about Mohammed, nor is it the truth about whatās happening in Gaza. Mohammed suffers from cerebral palsy, according to British investigative journalist David Collier, who uncovered a local charityās May 2025 report mentioning the boyās condition. CNN, for its part, briefly noted in an offhand comment during a broadcast that Mohammed suffers from a āmuscle disorder,ā before dropping the point from later reporting. Another notable omission from virtually all media coverage were the photos of Mohammed being held by his mother with his older brother standing nearby. Both mother and brother appear healthy and fed.
āChildren in Gaza are malnourished and starving,ā noted an unrepentant July 29 editorās note in the New York Times. The paper admitted it had āsince learned new informationā and āupdated our story to add context about [Mohammedās] pre-existing health problems.ā That context would have been more useful before publishing his image on the front page and fueling global outrage.
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Mohammedās isnāt the only recent case of babies afflicted with terrible illnesses being exploited to promote a false narrative that Israel is intentionally starving Gazan children.
Cogat, the Israeli military unit that coordinates humanitarian aid in the Palestinian territories, tweeted Monday about a viral photo of a different child, Osama al-Raqab. Like Mohammed, Osama looked emaciated, and critics claimed that he too was starving due to Israelās actions. These critics include Dr. Muneer Alboursh, director of the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health, who tweeted that Israel was trying to āmislead public opinion by claiming that he was suffering from other illnesses, not hungerā and that āwhat is happening is not propaganda, but a real famine.ā
Yet according to Cogatāand previously confirmed by the boyās mother to the Associated PressāOsama actually suffers from cystic fibrosis. On June 12, Israel coordinated his evacuation to Italy, along with his mother and brother, so he could receive medical treatment. "Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotionsā,ā the Cogat post said. āBut when theyāre misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good.ā
