Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, said he could sue The New York Times.
In a presser, he said: “I am looking into the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the New York Times right now because this is outrageous.”
The third is the most acclaimed. It’s a New York Times front page cover photo of Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub with his mother. Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub suffers from a genetic disease that we are all familiar with. It is called cerebral palsy. His mother is fed well and his brother healthy. This is outrageous. I am looking into the possibility of filing a lawsuit against the New York Times. The correction was only a postage stamp size — I have no idea where it was hidden — but still, this is outrageous. All three of these photos are fakes. This is the same kind of malicious lies that were hurled at the Jewish population in the Middle Ages. We will not suffer. We will not allow this to continue. This is the goal of this press conference. I hope you will see the simple truth: Hamas is a liar.
A lawsuit is being threatened after the New York Times had to correct an article entitled “Young and Old Starve to death in Gaza: There Is Nothing.”
The New York Times corrected an article stating that the child in question had a medical condition.
The correction stated, “Had The Times been aware of the information prior to publication, it would’ve been included in both the article and picture caption.”
Netanyahu’s criticism is based on a Times article titled “Young and Old Starve to Death In Gaza: There Is Nothing.” The photo featured a child being held by his mother. The boy is clearly malnourished, with his spine showing through his skin. The focus of the article was to bring attention to the growing humanitarian crisis in this war-torn area.
A few days later, The Times published a correction stating that the child’s appearance was due to a preexisting condition. The caption and the article did not originally include this information.
Netanyahu said, “They put in a picture of an infant with cerebral palsy.”
The Times corrected that the doctor of the boy informed them after the story had been published about the preexisting condition. The outlet wrote that if The Times had known about the condition before publication, the information would have been in the article as well as the caption.
