Once upon a time, doctors on NBC were heroic protagonists saving lives in primetime television dramas. Now, the doctors being promoted on NBC News work for bloodthirsty terrorist organizations who hoard baby formula from hungry children.
By way of background, Freddie Clayton’s June 28, 2025, report, “Without baby formula, some infants in Gaza are facing a slow death” with the subheading “NBC News visited a hospital in Gaza where infants are wasting away as malnutrition surges,” featured physicians who were an actual Hamas brigade doctor and Hamas sympathizer.
The article quoted Dr. Marwan al-Hams, Gaza’s Director of Field Hospitals. Al-Hams told NBC: “we currently do not have Type 1 or 2 infant formula in hospitals, nor do we have the medical formula we use in incubators.” He further lamented to NBC about malnutrition in pregnant or nursing mothers and how at least 66 children had died of hunger and malnutrition since Oct. 7, 2023.
NBC not only endeared western readers to the “righteous” doctors treating hungry babies in Gaza, but also propagated Hamas’ allegation that babies were starving due to an Israeli blockade. On the date of the article’s publication there was no such blockade, however, which NBC only acknowledged 11 paragraphs down from the photo and caption containing the suggestion.
Dr. al-Hams, when not in scrubs.
On July 21, 2025, Reuters reported that al-Hams had been detained in southern Gaza in July by an Israeli undercover force. Some four months later, journalist and Fauda co-creator Avi Issacharoff reported for ynet, on Nov. 26, 2025, about an Arabic-language video that documented elements of the operation, which also showed al-Hams participating in Hamas military activity. Issacharoff further reported that Dr. al-Hams served as a brigade doctor in Hamas’ military wing and as a field hospital manager for Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which of course is also Hamas-run.
CAMERA wrote about Dr. al-Hams on Nov. 21 in “The News You Didn’t Hear About This Week.”
On Dec. 9, 2025, Gaza native and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, shared a video of large stores of infant formula and children’s nutritional shakes on X, accusing Hamas of having deliberately hidden them in “clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health” – the very ministry Dr. al-Hams worked for as field hospital manager.
During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The goal, as I said… pic.twitter.com/pANo9uHfAb
— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) December 9, 2025
Hamas, by way of its operative Dr. al-Hams, used NBC News to disseminate propaganda. NBC readers were led to believe there was not enough formula in Gaza to feed starving babies, inferring that Israel was to blame. In reality, the doctor’s co-terrorists were secretly hoarding the formula while Dr. al-Hams was telling the world there was none available for babies in Gaza.
NBC also quoted Dr. Ahmed al-Farra in its June 28 article. Dr. al-Farra is the pro-Hamas doctor featured in a Gaza Ministry of Health Facebook video – the sole piece of “evidence” cited by the UN Commission of Inquiry when it falsely accused Israel of “refus[ing] the entry of formula.” CAMERA noted that UNICEF had delivered 240 tons of baby food into Gaza on June 23, 2025 – five days before Clayton’s article was posted.
Hamas is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. NBC has been in the news business for 85 years and has reported on Hamas’ lies: most famously, the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion in October 2023, for which Hamas immediately blamed Israel but NBC confirmed was caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket. If, prior to October 2023, NBC did not understand Hamas’ predilection for spreading propaganda and lies, after October 2023, there is simply no excuse.
NBC News articles have only rarely mentioned that the Ministry of Health is Hamas-run, mainly referring to statistics given by “Gaza’s Ministry of Health” or “Palestinian health officials,” or “local health officials.”
Similarly, NBC News has often failed to mention to its readers that the Gaza Civil Defense is also a Hamas ministry and that its spokesman, Mahmoud Bassal, who NBC has quoted multiple times, has been exposed by the IDF as a Hamas operative, working as the “Spokesperson of the Civil Defense.” Indeed, NBC news consumers have been hearing quotes directly from the mouth of a Hamas military operative in the Zeitoun Battalion of the Izz-ad Din-al Qassam Brigades, who, according to the IDF, is tasked with psychological warfare and propaganda. CAMERA has previously requested that NBC correct its reporting to reflect that Bassal is a Hamas operative, but received no response, and no correction was made.
NBC’s first principle, in what it calls the foundation of ethical journalism, is “Seek the truth and be truthful in your reporting. Your reporting should be accurate and fair. Ensure that the facts you gathered are verified, sources are attributed and context is provided.” Failing to inform readers that they are hearing from Hamas ministries and operatives does not meet this standard.
Hamas hoarded formula to starve its children while parading its operative before international media simply to “win” world condemnation of the one and only Jewish State. NBC News readers deserve news from reliable sources and have the right not to be pawns in Hamas’ twisted game.