Mick Hartley

David Collier exposes another Gaza lie:

On 23 July, the tragic image of Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq shook the world. Headlines told a story of a boy being forcibly starved in a Gaza famine. My research quickly exposed that story as a lie. Muhammad had cerebral palsy, had been sick since birth, and his siblings were healthy.

Barely a week later, legacy media played the same trick again – this time with a young girl called Maryam.

We are told Maryam was evidence of Gaza’s ‘catastrophic hunger crisis’…

Coverage of Maryam’s tragic case involved deliberate omission. She has siblings – all apparently healthy. In some of the photos, they were present on the same mattress. Editors cropped them out, because their health would expose the lie.

If this were widespread famine, her siblings and mother would also show signs of starvation. They do not….

A whistleblower at an NGO inside Gaza, unhappy at the global deception, shared evidence of Maryam’s medical file from Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital….

The report is clear: Maryam became sick 18 months ago, long before famine was even discussed. She suffers from intestinal malabsorption. Her body cannot properly absorb nutrients. She was given food, therapeutic milk, and medication – but she could not absorb them…. Does this sound like a place of mass starvation and famine? This is a treatment protocol for complicated severe malnutrition. It is specialist medical care, not famine relief. She is not being starved. She is being treated.

Both these "starvation" stories seem to have been supplied by the same journalist – and mainstream news channels were very keen to report them. Fits with the narrative.

This is not sloppy journalism. It is not an innocent mistake. It is the same trick, deployed twice in as many weeks, by the same actors. That is proof that legacy media are not being misled – they are knowingly promoting a lie.