Alright. Time to fact-check this story.
You have probably seen images of this Gazan child shared widely, accompanied by the claim that "Israel is systematically starving children to death" and that the child looks like this because there is no food left. That's false.
The moment I saw this I thought it didn't entirely add up. Why does only this one child look like this? How are most Gazans walking and running around normally and publishing TikTok videos, but this little child is somehow starving to death?
It turns out that the story is half-true. The most important context is left out in the viral story, and it debunks the claim that Israel is deliberately starving the children of Gaza to death.
The child's name is Yazan al-Kafarna. Yazan suffers from cerebral palsy which prevents him from eating food like all the other kids. Many cerebral palsy patients cannot eat food the normal way due to severe motor impairments that are there from birth, which is why they need assistance or pureed food. Some are fed with a feeding tube. Yazan is one of those children.
@Portes_Thomas@steph_sejourne Vous persistez à écrire des mensonges et à reprendre la propagande du Hamas. Les images montrent des émeutes et un mouvement de foule, et des camions qui écrasent les gens
@AminKraft@KarimKhanQC Des camions d’aide sont entrés à Gaza, le Hamas a tenté de s’en emparer et la foule a protesté en se ruant sur les camions. Les chauffeurs palestiniens ont paniqué et ont écrasé les gens par dizaines. Honte à vous de répandre des mensonges
@MartineBillard Des camions d’aide sont entrés à Gaza, le Hamas a tenté de s’en emparer et la foule a protesté en se ruant sur les camions. Les chauffeurs palestiniens ont paniqué et ont écrasé les gens par dizaines. Honte à vous de répandre des mensonges