BILD Does Journalism, Showing How Hamas Stages ‘Starvation’ Photos

As I have said before, the old saw that “a picture is worth a thousand words” is wrong. 

If an image is powerful enough, no quantity of words can dispel the impression it makes. 

Images can get seared into your mind in a way that is not true for words, at least for most people. A tiny fraction of the population can transcend the emotional impact of a photograph and focus on rational arguments, but that fraction has a decimal point and a zero before the first number appears. 

If you are old enough to remember LIFE magazine, the fascination one felt was not generated by reading the words, but in experiencing the pictures. They told a story that stuck with you because they hit you in the gut, not the brain. 

The story of the Gaza war has been told through pictures, and those pictures are staged by Hamas. 

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— Daniel Cohenעו״ד דניאל כהן (@danielco9991) August 6, 2025

The German newspaper BILD has looked into how photographs from Gaza are produced, and unsurprisingly, they are stage-managed productions straight from the foul minds of Hamas’ best propagandists. Far from the gritty photographs typically captured in war-torn regions by war correspondents, these are carefully crafted propaganda pieces, complete with scripts and actors who rehearse their lines after practice sessions. 

Here they are practicing their lines in the car between shoots. pic.twitter.com/97SV6Qh9pf

— Michael בן נח 🇮🇱 (@modalsurrealist) August 6, 2025

What is meant to appear spontaneous is usually the result of an entire production, often with stages constructed for the purpose. You may think you are looking at a food distribution center when, in fact, what you are getting is a stage constructed by Hamas. 

The BILD report focuses on a widely circulated photo of desperate Gazan women and children holding pots and pans in front of a food distribution site.

Except photos taken by others at the same site show that the hoard is actually standing opposite freelance photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, commissioned by the Turkish news agency Anadolu, BILD argues. The pots and pans are not being held up to the food distribution site, but the photographer, which Bild claims is staging for means of propaganda.

Additionally, BILD adds that his photos at the Gaza aid distribution site show mainly women and children, but that other photos at the same site show mostly adult men calmly waiting for and receiving food. Fteiha did not distribute these ones.

“I assume that many of these pictures with starving and sick children are simply staged or come from other contexts,” emeritus history professor and photography expert Gerhard Paul told SZ.

How could it be otherwise? Hamas is a terrorist organization that controls Gaza, and crossing Hamas is a death sentence. If you look at the background of almost any “journalist” reporting from Gaza, you will find that they are formally or informally Hamas operatives. Many even have social media histories replete with statements expressing admiration for Hitler, calling for the elimination of all Jews, and even photographs of the reporters palling around with Hamas leaders. 

The New York Times features stories and images produced by a stringer who openly admires Hitler. The paper employs a literal Nazi to report the “news.” 

The Times stirred up a controversy recently by publishing a photograph of a “starving” child–whose brother is mysteriously well-fed–who turned out to have a series of genetic diseases that made him appear to be malnourished. 

After we exposed the lies and cynical exploitation of Gazan children who suffer from rare genetic diseases that cause their bodies to become severely emaciated, who have become symbols of hunger – the New York Times, one of the world’s largest newspapers that echoed this lie… pic.twitter.com/E4Bbx3Lkca

— יוסף חדאד – Yoseph Haddad (@YosephHaddad) July 30, 2025

Media outlets are well aware that they are pushing Hamas propaganda and are complicit in the deception. Hamas recently released a video of an Israeli hostage they were starving in one of their tunnels, showing him digging his own grave. The Pravda Media basically ignored the story because the brutal reality, complete with documentation provided by Hamas, did not fit their narrative. 

Israelis saw the video, of course, but the rest of the world was largely kept in the dark. 

None of this would work but for the fact that Pravda wants it to. The Pallywood propaganda machine is often as crude as much Nazi propaganda and Tokyo Rose were, but slap a New York Times byline on an otherwise crude propaganda technique and it becomes credible to the credulous. 

 The power of repetition and amplification that only Pravda can provide plays a significant role in its effectiveness. “Where there is smoke, there is fire.”

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The teddy bear in the rubble sends a clear message: a child died here. It’s powerful, emotional, and widely used. But when the same bear keeps appearing in different scenes, taken by different photographers, it raises questions.
📸 Rafah, Jan 21. Same toy, multiple photos. pic.twitter.com/CqOsTwOH9F

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) July 8, 2025

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The teddy bear in the rubble is not just a toy. It’s a message. And when that message appears again and again, posed for the camera, it stops looking like journalism. The media must do better.https://t.co/nvlo2tRU4V

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) July 8, 2025

It’s all part of the hoax industrial complex that gave us Russian collusion, the “fine people” hoax, the Covington kids, “safe and effective,” and all the rest of the lies we have endured for years now. How effective can this technique be? There are still people wearing masks 5 years out from COVID, and most Democrats still believe that Russia hacked the 2016 election. 

“Journalists” know what they are doing. The Associated Press famously–or not so famously, unfortunately–shared offices with Hamas in Gaza for years. It was a convenient arrangement because it facilitated easy coordination. 

Billions of people now believe Israel is starving out the Gazans intentionally, and that impression has been created by the photojournalism of Hamas. No doubt there are children who go to bed hungry in Gaza–it is war, after all–but there is no systematic starvation on the Strip. 

It is a fiction. Brought to you by Hamas with the knowing aid of Pravda Media. 

• Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about President Trump, his administration, and conservatives.

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