Are the “last reporters in Gaza” starving to death?
That’s what AFP declared in a dramatic press release on July 21 claiming its employees would die without immediate intervention.
But while the media echoed the story around the world, AFP’s own photographers were still out working.
The images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski, and the plight of the rest of the hostages cruelly held by their terrorist captors for 668 days, have not gone viral. Instead, much of the media have self-conscripted themselves to a disinformation campaign that serves the interests of a Palestinian movement that’s not only pathologically hostile to Jews, but to the West as well.
In the latest illustration of the BBC's self-conscripted PR campaign against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), their journalists accepted the unevidenced claims of a GHF "whistleblower" at face value, while failing to do real journalism in response to the allegations.
Food insecurity in Gaza is real. So is the propaganda war waged from the territory, which seeks to mislead by concealing the preexisting health conditions of those suffering most.
On July 21, an AFP journalist society posted a press release about the "last journalists in Gaza" facing death by starvation. The Committee to Protect Journalists then declared that "Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence.” But were the journalists really being starved into silence?
On July 21, Hamas was broke, couldn’t pay its fighters, and was in ceasefire talks. But on July 22, Hamas rejected the ceasefire deal on the table and submitted new demands that mediators called “unacceptable.” Then the narrative began to shift.
Propagandistic headlines of the past week that exaggerate suffering and put the blame only on one side have most likely served only to prolong the war, along with the misery on both sides.
The same terror organization behind sex gum and oxycodone-spiked flour fables is also the source for the unsubstantiated claim that more than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect food at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites.
After CNN falsely reported last June that famine in the Gaza Strip is "imminent," the network drops a new chapter in its unfolding Gaza famine fable: "famine worsens."
In an article about Amnesty accusing Israel of genocide, the Post doesn’t think that “what to know” includes the fact that Amnesty has unilaterally changed the definition of genocide in order to attempt to make it fit the situation in Gaza.
