With reporting on Israel, the truth is irrelevant

Tuesday blog

I have actually written a blog for today. But then I came across this article on The Daily Sceptic. It seems that a photo of a supposedly ‘starving’ child in Gaza was a lie. The boy was actually suffering from cerebral palsy and several other debilitating diseases. I wonder if those conditions might have been the result of consanguineous marriage? By the way his mother and brother actually looked reasonable well fed.

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/28/the-medias-complicity-in-hamas-propaganda/

I’m not denying that the situation in Gaza is probably pretty ghastly. But it would help if the mainstream media reports were at least a little bit truthful.

And here’s a brief extract from the Global Nutrition Report:

The State of Palestine has shown limited progress towards achieving the diet-related non-communicable disease (NCD) targets. 42.0% of adult (aged 18 years and over) women and 29.5% of adult men are living with obesity. The State of Palestine’s obesity prevalence is higher than the regional average of 10.3% for women and 7.5% for men. At the same time, diabetes is estimated to affect 20.7% of adult women and 20.1% of adult men.

I doubt the BBC or any other mainstream media will ever mention that!