Monday, July 28, 2025

Hamas lies and media complicity

Image of Gazan child with genetic illness being used to falsely smear Israel, COGAT charges



Defense Ministry body says 5-year-old Osama al-Rakab was evacuated in June and is undergoing treatment in Italy; 120 aid trucks entered Gaza Sunday, another 180 to enter Monday

5-year-old Osama al-Rakab is seen receiving medical treatment, left. COGAT says a viral image of him, right, was used to falsely accuse Israel of starving children in Gaza. (Screen capture: COGAT via X)
5-year-old Osama al-Rakab is seen receiving medical treatment, left. COGAT says a viral image of him, right, was used to falsely accuse Israel of starving children in Gaza. (Screen capture: COGAT via X)

A widely circulated image of an emaciated Palestinian child has been used to falsely accuse Israel of starving children in Gaza, charged the Defense Ministry body overseeing civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories on Monday, as Israel continued to combat accusations of having deliberately starved the population of the Gaza Strip.

According to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the subject of the viral photo, 5-year-old Osama al-Rakab, suffers from a serious genetic illness that is unrelated to the ongoing war, and is currently undergoing treatment abroad.

On June 12, Israeli authorities coordinated his exit from Gaza via the Ramon airport, along with his mother and brother, and he is receiving medical treatment in Italy, COGAT said.

“Tragic images rightfully stir strong emotions, but when they’re misused to fuel hatred and lies, they do more harm than good,” read a statement on COGAT’s English-language X account. “Don’t let compassion be exploited for propaganda. Check the facts before parroting blame.”

The statement did not address broader reports of widespread food scarcity and malnutrition in Gaza, and instead focused on correcting what it said was a specific misuse of a personal tragedy for misinformation.In a similar instance, freelance investigative journalist David Collier presented what he said was evidence to debunk another viral image intended to depict famine in the Gaza Strip.

The image, which was widely shared by international media outlets in recent days, shows Hidaya Yassin al-Mutawaq holding the skeletal body of her son, Mohammed al-Mutawaq.

Hidaya, a 31-year-old Palestinian mother, cradles her sick 18-month-old son Mohammed al-Mutawaq, who is also displaying signs of malnutrition, inside their tent at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, on July 24, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

According to Collier, the outrage sparked by this image was unprovoked, as Mohammed has serious genetic disorders and has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Furthermore, he asserted, the widely shared image is cropped in a way that removes Mohammed’s younger, healthier-looking brother from the frame.


By withholding pertinent information about the young child’s complex medical needs, Collier claimed, media outlets were “deliberately pushing a deceptive narrative that only serves to benefit Hamas and create fake news.”

However, as Collier himself acknowledged that Mohammed “has needed specialist medical supplements since birth,” it is highly likely that he is, indeed, suffering unnecessarily due to the limited aid flow into Gaza, as medical equipment is in short supply and the Strip’s health system has all but collapsed.

The reports of an increasingly dire humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip — including reportedly growing levels of severe, acute malnutrition, and children dying by starvation — led Jerusalem on Sunday to declare that it would enforce a “tactical” pause in military operations in densely populated areas of Gaza, along with several other changes, to allow for the safe distribution of humanitarian aid.

Trucks and aid boxes slated to be distributed in the Gaza Strip are seen in a photo published on July 28, 2025, by COGAT, the Defense Ministry agency that coordinates aid to Palestinian territories. (COGAT via X)

At the same time, it has denied that it is using hunger as a weapon of war, and instead accuses the United Nations and other aid agencies of failing to pick up and distribute supplies delivered to Gaza’s border crossing points.

COGAT, therefore, appeared to credit increased UN cooperation, rather than Israel’s newly eased restrictions, as the reason for more than 120 truckloads of aid having been distributed by the UN and aid agencies across Gaza on Sunday.

“Over 120 trucks were collected and distributed yesterday by the UN and international organizations,” it said on X. “An additional 180 trucks entered Gaza and are now awaiting collection and distribution, along with hundreds of others still queued for UN pickup.”



“More consistent collection and distribution by UN agencies and international organizations equals more aid reaching those who need it most in Gaza,” COGAT added.

Although the number of trucks entering the Strip is still far short of the roughly 500 aid trucks that would enter each day before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel, which launched the ongoing war, Gazans have nevertheless welcomed them and the lifesaving supplies that they carry.

“For the first time, I received about five kilos of flour, which I shared with my neighbor,” said 37-year-old Jamil Safadi, who shelters with his wife, six children and a sick father in a tent near the Al-Quds hospital in Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City.

Safadi, who has been up before dawn each day for two weeks searching for food, said Monday was his first success. Other Gazans were less fortunate; some complained aid trucks had been stolen or that guards had fired at them near US- and Israel-backed aid centers.

A handout image provided by United Arab Emirates News Agency (WAM) on July 28, 2025 shows trucks carrying humanitarian aid, supplied by UAE AID, waiting to be allowed to cross from the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing with the Gaza Strip. (AFP Photo/ handout/WAM)

“I saw injured and dead people. People have no choice but to try daily to get flour. What entered from Egypt was very limited,” said 33-year-old Amir al-Rash, still without food and living in a tent.

His account appeared to be backed up by the Al-Awda hospital in Nuseirat, central Gaza, which said in a statement that one person was killed and nine others were wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid.

It was unclear which organization was handing out aid at the site of the reported shooting, although reports of mass-casualty events near sites operated by the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation have become a near-daily occurrence.

The GHF’s operations have been under intense scrutiny since its opening in late May, and the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says that more than 1,000 people have been killed near its aid sites in that time.



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‘Obama Phone’ Scam:

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The owner of a Florida telecommunications company will spend the next five years in prison and his firm must pay a hefty fine regarding an “Obama phone” scam.

Q Link Wireless LLC and its owner, identified as CEO Issa Asad, previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud and steal federal funds from the Lifeline program that began in the 1980s, Fox News reported Sunday.

The program offers subsidized cellphone services to lower-income people. In 2012, a video emerged of a protester outside a Mitt Romney event who claimed her neighbors received an “Obama phone,” Breitbart News reported at the time.

When asked why she supported Obama, the woman said, “Everybody in Cleveland low minority got Obama Phone. Keep Obama in President, you know? He gave us a phone, he’s going to do more.”

The clip shows the woman standing with other protesters on the side of a roadway while holding signs. The Breitbart News article speculated that she may or may not have been a paid agitator:

The name “Obama Phone” caught on after the video went viral, and “some telecommunications companies with Lifeline contracts embraced the term, although the government did not,” the Fox article noted.

In 2013, Breitbart News reported that opposition to the “Lifeline” program was growing as Tracfone Wireless, “the company that most benefits from the government subsidy, is now advertising on inside-the-beltway news websites in an effort to save it.”

Terrorist Islam

'I'm going to bomb the plane. Death to America. Death to Trump.'

A man threatened to bomb a plane full of civilians over Scotland in order to "send a message to Trump."

President Trump was visiting Scotland and the U.K. over the weekend, where he told European nations they needed to clamp down on mass migration.

On Sunday morning, EasyJet flight EZY609 was scheduled to fly from England's Luton Airport to Glasgow, Scotland, but was interrupted by a man threatening the plane and threatening the president.

In a viral clip on X, a man is heard saying he wants to "send a message to Trump."

The remarks were corroborated by Scottish outlet EdinburghLive.

Then, the man threatened the plane itself before yelling an Islamic chant.

"I'm going to bomb the plane. Death to America! Death to Trump! Allahu Akbar!" the man yelled.

A witness told the Sun the man then "pushed the airline staff and was being aggressive towards them."

"He was a big guy, about six foot, and they were these petite women," the witness added. "When he pushed them, that's when things changed."

The man making the threats was then grabbed from behind and pulled down by another male passenger, as others pounced to pin the man. Video of the incident showed the accused man being handcuffed while on the airplane floor.

Passengers then allegedly took the man's wallet to find out where he was from.

 

The same witness told the Sun that passengers discovered the man is an Indian national who was carrying a refugee status card.

According to the passenger, the pilot soon announced that he was making an emergency landing, and the plane touched down in Glasgow around 8:20 a.m. local time.

"We received a report of a man causing a disturbance on a flight. ... A 41-year-old man was arrested in connection, and further inquiries are ongoing," a Police Scotland spokesperson told the Sun.

"At this time we believe the incident was contained and that nobody else was involved," authorities added. "We are aware of videos circulating online, and these are being assessed by counterterrorism officers."

An EasyJet spokesperson explained that police met the flight upon arrival in Glasgow, before they "boarded the aircraft and removed a passenger."

At the time of the passenger's removal, which was also captured on video, he is heard asking about his "phone and wallet" and looks behind him. One man is heard saying in response, "F**k off," followed by several passengers bursting into laughter.

 

 Photo by: Giovanni Mereghetti/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The original witness said at first he thought the suspect was "joking" when he came out of the bathroom and said, "I've got a bomb; I've got a bomb."

"I mean, it's a weird joke," the witness continued. "He was fighting a bit on the floor, but at this point he knew he'd f**ked up," the witness added.

Blaze News has contacted the White House for comment on the incident but did not receive an immediate response. This article will be updated with any applicable replies.