In July 2025 the BBC widely promoted a photograph which it claimed showed a child in the Gaza Strip who “suffers from malnutrition due to famine and weighs just 6kg”.
In fact, the BBC had manipulatively used context-free images of a disabled child suffering from Cerebral Palsy to promote its chosen narrative of starvation and famine in the Gaza Strip.
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Even after information concerning the child’s medical condition had been made public, the BBC continued to promote disinformation in additional reports:
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Two months later, on September 22nd, BBC audiences again saw that same misleading image in at least two items of BBC content, one of which was an item on a BBC News website live page.
The same video appeared in a report by James Landale and Ottilie Mitchell headlined “UK says Israel must not retaliate against Palestinian statehood push”.
Courtesy of one of the guests at that ceremony, a clearer view of the image is available:
As we see, within weeks of that disinformation being repeatedly promoted by the BBC, it found its way onto a banner displayed at a ceremony in London.
Given the BBC’s failure to acknowledge and correct, is hardly surprising that none of the MPs or other guests present at that ceremony apparently noticed that “UK recognition of the State of Palestine” was being celebrated with a misleading photograph.
