According to I*Consult, the Washington Post just published the following photo from Gaza — shot and captioned by an Arab photographer. (Hattip Barry Rubin)
The caption reads:
Palestinian children and a man wounded in Israeli missile strikes are seen in the emergency area at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. Israeli warplanes demolished dozens of Hamas security compounds across Gaza on Saturday in unprecedented waves of simultaneous air strikes. Gaza medics said at least 145 people were killed and more than 310 wounded in the single deadliest day in Gaza fighting in recent memory. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) (Khalil Hamra - AP)
Are the three children on the other stretcher wounded? Or dressing? Actually, if you read the text carefully, it doesn’t say the children are wounded, but that they are photographed with a wounded man. My suspicion is that were there real blood on these children’s bodies the photographer would have included it in his photo
Apparently, Gaza journalists are having trouble finding civilians among the casualties. Reports estimate 90% of killed are “militants.”
In the meantime, I think the WaPo has removed the picture because I no longer find it at the Washington Post. Maybe they smelled the poop.
The photo is still available here.
Here it is larger (may be a problem for some webbrowsers).
Although many sites have scrubbed it, it remains at the BBC in an interesting variant: (HT/Jayne)
Caption: Most of those killed were members of Hamas, but women and children were also caught in the raids.
Makes for an interesting photo. It’s no longer even clear that they’re in a hospital. In some senses it’s more believable than with the wounded adult.
Of course the tragic crossfire these children are caught between is the camera work of demopaths and the reporting follies of their dupes. Pity even more the genuinely wounded.
UPDATE: More child exploitation, here from Getty Images. HT:My Right Word
And try this one: http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2008/12/just-sitting-around.html
Comment by Yisrael Medad — December 28, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Let the Staging Begin…
‘Hey, you kids, lay down on that stretcher…good…take picture now!” Richard Landes has a taste of the flood of staged PR photos courtesy of Hamas yet to come: WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells……
Trackback by Solomonia — December 28, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Get ready for some more fautography!
Comment by Mats — December 28, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
Hmmm…even the blood on the man’s pants appears to be splattered from another source, and it not his own blood….
Comment by RB — December 28, 2008 @ 11:28 pm
This photo is being withdrawn from many sites - but is still alive and well on the BBC news site (without the injured adult who might confuse things): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7801814.stm
I thought the next shot of a man hosing down an apparently smokeless fire was of interest too.
But the really interesting question, when there will be injured civilians and there are burning buildings, is why are they still faking?
Comment by jayne — December 29, 2008 @ 3:46 am
I’ve asked myself the same thing. Partly, i think, out of habit. As i watch them evacuate the injured (really injured) i see how brutally they do it, as if their Pallywood training has taken over — rush for the camera. Partly it may be that they’re lacking in dead children, which is, as anyone knows, the money shot.
Comment by Richard Landes — December 29, 2008 @ 3:53 am
Anti-Israel Photojournalists Struggling To Cope With Extensive Israeli Humanitarian Measures, Low Palestinian Collateral Damage…
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As i watch them evacuate the injured (really injured) i see how brutally they do it, as if their Pallywood training has taken over
probably part of it. however, they are inherently brutal in all they do, so why not the wounded? after all, if they won’t let the wounded be treated in egypt, isn’t that even more brutal?
Comment by oao — December 29, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Those dreadful Islamists (Palestinian or Al Qeada or Taliban or Hezbollah), using their kids (as shields to) make sure they die for their propaganda, what kind of a PEOPLE is that?
http://geocities.com/jihadipedia/HumanShields
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WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells … Apparently, Gaza journalists are having trouble finding civilians among the casualties…
WaPo steps in
Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells … Apparently, Gaza journalists are
having trouble finding civilians among the casualties. Reports estimate
90% of killed are “militants.”
(Excerpt) Read more at……
Trackback by The Reality Show — December 29, 2008 @ 7:17 pm
Those dreadful Islamists (Palestinian or Al Qeada or Taliban or Hezbollah), using their kids (as shields to) make sure they die for their propaganda, what kind of a PEOPLE is that?
Allah’s chosen people — the religion of peace.
Comment by oao — December 30, 2008 @ 12:14 am
It looks like all the guy has is a bloody nose.
Comment by fg — December 31, 2008 @ 11:56 am
Maybe the wounded man in the photo is the three children’s father or relative?? Perhaps those in charge of the children are dead or wounded elsewhere? Or maybe, in all the chaos and destruction, all the confusion, the fear, people, families have become separated.
Why do people propose that the photos must always have to show blood and death in order to pass as being credible? Is it not enough of a horror to see and to know that people are and have been for ever so long, too long, been living in the midst of and witnessing all this hate and violence?
Comment by Ulla Koppel — January 6, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Israeli Propaganda
Comment by Shabat Shalom — January 10, 2009 @ 10:56 am
Provigil and weight….
Provigil….
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