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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/05/publishing-fake-news-about-israel-needs-to-stop/
Publishing Fake News about Israel Is Endangering Lives
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - In July, the BBC interviewed Anthony Aguilar after he was sacked by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Aguilar accused Israeli troops of the most lurid crimes. International editor Jeremy Bowen failed to ask the obvious question: Why would Israel go to the effort and expense of feeding the Palestinians only to gun them down? In another interview, Aguilar claimed that a 10-year-old boy was "gunned down" by the IDF. Although pictures showed the boy looking pretty healthy, Aguilar said he was "emaciated" and "starving." Fox News worked with the GHF to track down the boy and his mother. Turns out his name is Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden and he is not dead. He and his mother Naja were extracted from Gaza on Thursday after Aguilar's version of his story had gone viral. There were concerns that, to preserve the propaganda victory handed to them, Hamas was trying to track down the boy and commit the crime that the IDF had not. This is just the latest example of apparently fake news finding a huge and enthusiastic audience among a public that has fallen victim en masse to its own growing confirmation bias. Given the extensiveness of the tunnel network in Gaza, every single civilian could have found refuge from bombardment underground, as they did in London during the Blitz. Yet Hamas prevented them from entering. It wanted them dead. Why? Because it wanted you to see those pictures. It is striking how often policymakers across Europe cite "the pictures coming out of Gaza" when explaining their latest Israelophobic stance. The appalling truth is that millions of people across the West have been manipulated into supporting the very forces of jihad that would have them dead, along with their civilization of disbelievers. With our help, the jihadis are winning the propaganda war.