Within days, Collier noted, the photo – and the Gaza photographer’s framing of it – was published by the BBC, Daily Express, Sky News, CNN, The Guardian, Daily Mail, New York Times, The Times and many others, in a manner reinforcing the false child starvation narrative. The medical records Collier obtained noted that Mohammed also suffers from hypoxemia (low oxygen in the blood), possibly linked to a suspected genetic disorder. In fact, we were able to convince the Guardian to revise a caption under a photo of the boy to note that he suffers from cerebral palsy. Shortly after our X post, the photo of the sick boy was removed from the article, and the paragraph with the grossly misleading sentence about Gaza was completely deleted. However, contrary to normal journalistic practices, editors failed to add an addendum explaining the corrections.

Source: The Times December 07, 2025 14:35 UTC