Gaza Aid Photos Staged to Control Narrative

 We’ve all heard the screams pointed at Israel for “starving the innocent children of Gaza”.  We all know that Hamas would willingly starve its own people for a photo opportunity.  We also know it doesn’t take much fakery to get the godless world to hate Jews and Israel.  

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Amidst the international outrage that followed the publication of pictures showing apparently malnourished children in Gaza and the widespread use of photos showing Gaza civilians scrambling for aid, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung alleges that some of those photos were staged by a Hamas-affiliated photographer. 

In a recent article, Süddeutsche Zeitungreported that the Gaza-based photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha staged photos depicting the “real suffering of Palestinians” in a manner that is “in favor of Hamas and its propaganda.” 

The newspaper showed a picture of Fteiha apparently staging the civilians in the area where the food would be distributed, making it look as if they were desperately waiting in line for the food distribution. However, as other pictures in the series show, the food distribution did not occur until sometime after Fteiha took his pictures. 

The article did not deny the acute hunger among parts of the Gaza population; however, it noted that Fteiha, who works for a Turkish agency, regularly posts anti-Israel and antisemitic content on his social media accounts, and that his pictures often support the Hamas narrative regarding the civilian situation and Israel’s conduct in the war. 

The Süddeutsche Zeitung article cautioned that such images make accurately assessing the situation difficult, noting that "at least some of the images were presented in a false or misleading context.” 

The newspaper interviewed several experts to provide an opinion regarding the reliability of the images and their use to convey an accurate picture of the situation in Gaza.

One of those, Gerhard Paul, professor emeritus of history and photography expert, who has researched images from Israel and Gaza for 25 years and has traveled to the region himself, said, “I assume that many of these images of starving and sick children are simply staged or come from other contexts.”

“These aren't fakes,” he told the newspaper. “But the people are presented in a certain way or given a misleading caption to mobilize our visual memory and our emotions.” 

“The Palestinian side is primarily concerned with emotionalizing Western, pacified societies. And it works brilliantly,” Paul said. “The images also have an additional function: They are intended to overwrite the brutal images of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. Many people don't even remember those images anymore. Hamas is a master at staging images.” 

https://allisraelnews.com/german-newspaper-reveals-that-well-known-gaza-aid-photos-were-staged-as-part-of-narrative-control