Mick Hartley

Here we go again. From the JC:

An emaciated Palestinian child whose image appeared on the front page of the Daily Mirror accompanied by the headline “Stop starving Gaza’s kids”, is suffering from a condition that affects appetite and can lead to weight loss, it has emerged – but no mention is made of this in condition in the newspaper’s coverage.

The evocative image of Karim Muammar was published in Saturday’s edition of The Daily Mirror, with the full text on the front page reading: “Plea from the Heart: Holocaust survivors call on Israel to end aid catastrophes as famine is declared”. Underneath in block capitals, the newspaper urges: “Stop starving Gaza’s kids”. The image of Karim is captioned: “Please help: Karim Muammer, three, has severe malnutrition in hospital at Khan Yunis, Gaza.”

The accompanying story, published as an exclusive across three pages, describes how a group of Shoah survivors have “begged Israel to end the horrors of starving Palestinian children” after a UN-backed report deemed Gaza to be in famine."…

Karim is suffering from a rare genetic condition, Fanconi syndrome, according to a Palestinian woman working as a local journalist, Doaa Albaz. Weight loss is a common symptom of the condition.

That this keeps happening suggests perhaps that real images of starving children are hard to come by: which in turn suggests that the Gaza famine may not be all that it's cracked up to be. Also, the determination of mainstream media to maintain the famine narrative by using these images serves as a grim reminder of quite how deeply the Israel-hatred has taken root.