It Looks Like Axios Used the Same Starving Child That Prompted NYT Editor’s Note – Twitchy

In case you were wondering what the situation in Gaza is, here’s a video from Tuesday that sums it up (language warning):

Why do people infected by the woke mind virus always look and sound like this? pic.twitter.com/Q7UfBnvXMu

— Catch Up (@CatchUpFeed) July 29, 2025

All caught up? Good.

Israel has been air-dropping aid into Gaza, but the United Nations is worried that the “dangerous” move could kill Palestinians, who’ve told CNN that they’re not dogs and that chasing after air-dropped aid is an insult to their dignity.

As Twitchy reported earlier, the front page of the New York Times the other day featured a seemingly starving five-year-old. The story didn’t mention that the child’s emaciated look isn’t from starvation; he has cerebral palsy, hypoxemia (a lower-than-normal blood oxygen level), and a genetic disorder. The Times also cropped out the child’s health and well-fed older brother and added an editor’s note to the story, saying, “After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems.”

It looks like, a day later, Axios published a photo of the same child, Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, and his mother to illustrate the starvation of children in Gaza.

At least 16 children under five have died of starvation-related illnesses since July 17 and half a million people are currently experiencing “an extreme lack of food,” according to a UN-affiliated report out Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/r9kWSCe2KB

— Axios (@axios) July 30, 2025

Did Axios just use the same mother and child, 5 minutes ago, that the New York Times had to offer a correction on?

Sure looks like it. https://t.co/FwRwHalXOM pic.twitter.com/Pj9FLmNC8b

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2025

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Here’s the other photo the New York Times cropped. Sure looks like the same woman. Is starvation so bad in Gaza that the American media can only find one mother with a child with another illness willing to pose for photographs? pic.twitter.com/qo5POAh1id

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2025

So the question, I guess @mikeallen and @axios is, why does your media outlet run today with a photograph of a woman and child that the New York Times had to back track on yesterday?

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 30, 2025

The photo is still on Getty. @melissaeweiss tweeted it yesterday. It’s maddening.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) July 30, 2025

There are so many emaciated babies in Gaza that Turkish media had to use video from a neonatal Facebook group for moms.

Ahhh…. This is the same family that the @nytimes got caught using to demonstrate “starvation” when the child has cerebral palsy. Good to see the “journalists” at @Axios are either really bad at their job, or love Hamas and will lie to push a story that isn’t exactly true.

— Dark Rides (@TesRides) July 30, 2025

are you aware the @NYTimes had to apologize for posting this Hamas propaganda pic of a child with medical issues entirely unrelated to starvation?

Do you know your jobs at all, or do you concede your real job is propaganda?

— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) July 30, 2025

This child has a genetic disorder. Here’s the child’s brother on the right. Clearly not suffering from hunger. pic.twitter.com/t9bTYGupnU

— Ted The Truth (@tedsthetruth) July 30, 2025

Nor is the mother.

You’re really gonna use that picture, uh?

— Thulsa Doom (@TheButcher2020) July 30, 2025

The blame could go to Getty, whose photographer allegedly gave the photo a false caption.

Weird, all the parents are well fed……. you’re full of shit.

— Matthew S Harrison (@MatthewSHarriso) July 30, 2025

If there was starvation in Gaza, you wouldn’t have to lie about it.

— End the Simpsons (@EndTheSimpsons) July 30, 2025

You’re propaganda for terrorists.

— Anmarie (@AnmarieInMn) July 30, 2025

They’re using the “starving children” narrative to push for Israel to call a ceasefire … which it has proposed many times and been rejected by Hamas every time. Hamas isn’t interested in ending this war or it would surrender and return the hostages.

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