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Palestinian mother 'destroyed' after image used to deny Gaza starvation
Misinformation campaigns have used a family reunion video to deny Gaza's worsening food crisis despite United Nations warnings of widespread starvation and malnutrition.
- Pro-Israeli accounts mocked Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar after she embraced her daughters and seven grandchildren at Toronto's airport last month.
- Valerie Wirtschafter, fellow at the Brookings Institution, said the hoax narrative `deflects from the real humanitarian harms that are happening right now` after X's chatbot Grok misidentified an AFP photo to fuel Gaza starvation claims.
- United Nations agencies warned that famine was unfolding in Gaza as Israel severely restricted aid entry, with the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reporting widespread starvation driving hunger-related deaths.
- Najjar said `As a mother it just destroyed me`, after a social media post viewed more than 300,000 times wrongly implied she had just left Gaza.
- The ridicule Najjar faced is part of a broader trend, as pro-Israeli accounts deny Gaza starvation despite UN warnings and reports of widespread famine.
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After fleeing Gaza, Faiza Najjar sees her appearance used on the networks by pro-Israeli accounts to deny the famine affecting the Palestinian territory. The image of other refugees is also
A video of the reunion between Faiza Najjar and part of her family in Toronto was flooded with comments.
Gaza mother ’destroyed’ after image used to deny starvation
Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult daughters with her. She watched from a distance as food shortages in the territory worsened. From Canada, where she lives with her six other children, Najjar pursued a months-long effort to get those she had left out of Gaza. She finally embraced her daughters and seven grandchildren when they arrived at Toronto's airport last month. But when c…
Palestinian mother ‘destroyed’ after image used to deny Gaza
MONTREAL: Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult daughters with her. She watched from a distance as food shortages in the territory worsened. From Canada, where she lives with her six other children, Najjar pursued a months-long effort to get those she had left out of Gaza. She finally embraced her daughters and
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Palestinian mother ‘destroyed’ after image used to deny Gaza starvation
Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult daughters with her. She watched from a distance as food shortages in the territory worsened. From Canada, where she lives with her six other children, Najjar pursued a months-long effort to get those she had left out of
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