Here’s an article from a German newspaper, investigating one of the “reporters” producing fake reports designed to trigger strong emotional response in unsuspecting empathetic westerners.
The type of fake reporting and imagery Frankfooter and Klatuu consume and share here.
Automatic translation (the link to the source is below):
Doubts about pictures:
This Gaza photographer stages the Hamas propaganda
Gaza photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha stages the real suffering of Palestinians for the world public - in favor of Hamas and its propaganda. This photo was taken as part of a documentation for which the photographer was accompanied
08/05/2025 - 09:16 AM
Berlin –
Emacerated children, desperate mothers and people begging for food with empty pots: These photos from Gaza go around the world. They move millions – and influence politics worldwide.
But research of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" now questions exactly these recordings: Are some images from Gaza staged in a targeted manner - and part of a propaganda strategy of the Hamas terrorists?
The hunger is (almost always) real - but the pictures often not quite. For example, a very popular photo recently showed desperate people in front of a food distribution on a truck. Opposite them: the photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, freelance "journalist" on behalf of the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
People wag their pots, get food shortly afterwards. BUT: Photographer Fteiha apparently does not distribute the pictures, does not report back even at the request of BILD, which pictures he took there.
Ana's Zayed Fteiha apparently prefers to spread Gaza photos showing women and children
Photo: IMAGO/Anadolu Agency
Possible problem: The scenery, also captured by other photographers, shows mainly adult men waiting for food - and getting it.
Does Fteiha have no use for this?
His photos - spread by "stern" and "New York Magazine", by CNN and BBC, by Deutschlandfunk, the "Junge Welt" and also by BILD - rather show the chaos, the destruction. And above all: children, mothers, suffering in close-up and in perfect lighting.
In fact, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is great. Many people were killed in the Hamas war against Israel, many are starving. However, the staging of necessity often benefits Hamas and its propaganda.
Because "journalist" Fteiha apparently has a mission: "Free Palestine". This is what it says on a sultry painting that he presents on his Instagram account - in combat uniform with the proud inscription "Press". The "artist" who created the picture for Fteiha: a self-confessed Jew-hater.
Photo: Instagram
Another video is titled "Fuck Israel". No wonder, because Fteiha is also active in europe.palestine.network, a "pro-Palestinian collective" for "global actions in Europe" - which not only documents the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, but also promotes international "resistance" against Israel.
Photographer works for Israel-hater Erdoğan
An activist, disguised as a photographer and video reporter, on behalf of a news agency, which reports directly to the Turkish president and Israel-hater Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (71), who in turn has promoted, financed and concealed Hamas terrorists for years.
In January 2025, Fteiha posts a video with the words "Fuck Israel" on Instagram
Photo: Instagram
Just wondering: Why do German and international agencies use the photos of such an opinion fighter, although many of the pictures are obviously one-sidedly selected or posed?
BILD asked photo agencies. The German Press Agency and Agence France Press stated that they would not cooperate with the "journalist" Fteiha and carefully checked the images of other photojournalists and their reputation before publication. Reuters states that their photos "meet the standards of accuracy, independence and impartiality".
The German Journalists Association (DJV) warns: Warring parties use images in a targeted manner - to influence public opinion. Professional. Strategic. Emotional. Of course, this also applies to Israel, which has not yet allowed independent reporters to enter Gaza.
Hamas controls all images
Consequence: In the Gaza Strip, almost only Palestinian photographers are photographing - not a few with Hamas connections. Historian and photography expert Gerhard Paul on the "SZ": "In the south of Gaza, Hamas controls 100 percent of image production." The goal: to create compassion in the West, to stir up anger at Israel.
And it works! Hardly anyone is more skilled in propaganda than Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations: As early as 2002, the then Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat († 75, 2004) presented himself with candlelight and flashlights after the occupation of the West Bank by Israeli troops in his "fortress" in Ramallah - the lonely PLO fighter desperately in the dark ...
All fake: Ex-Palestinian leader Jassir Arafat († 75) in a 2002 set backdrop, benevolently staged by press photographers
Photo: REUTERS
A pure propaganda trick. But even then, many agencies apparently did not notice that the video reporters in Arafat's "prison" only made the effect possible by turning off all the battery-operated headlights on the cameras. Videos showed the PLO leader minutes later again in a glaring light - because "the press" had agreed to make the great snapshot possible.
Source:
m.bild.de
The type of fake reporting and imagery Frankfooter and Klatuu consume and share here.
Automatic translation (the link to the source is below):
Doubts about pictures:
This Gaza photographer stages the Hamas propaganda
Gaza photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha stages the real suffering of Palestinians for the world public - in favor of Hamas and its propaganda. This photo was taken as part of a documentation for which the photographer was accompanied
08/05/2025 - 09:16 AM
Berlin –
Emacerated children, desperate mothers and people begging for food with empty pots: These photos from Gaza go around the world. They move millions – and influence politics worldwide.
But research of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" now questions exactly these recordings: Are some images from Gaza staged in a targeted manner - and part of a propaganda strategy of the Hamas terrorists?
The hunger is (almost always) real - but the pictures often not quite. For example, a very popular photo recently showed desperate people in front of a food distribution on a truck. Opposite them: the photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, freelance "journalist" on behalf of the Turkish news agency Anadolu.
People wag their pots, get food shortly afterwards. BUT: Photographer Fteiha apparently does not distribute the pictures, does not report back even at the request of BILD, which pictures he took there.
Ana's Zayed Fteiha apparently prefers to spread Gaza photos showing women and children
Photo: IMAGO/Anadolu Agency
Possible problem: The scenery, also captured by other photographers, shows mainly adult men waiting for food - and getting it.
Does Fteiha have no use for this?
His photos - spread by "stern" and "New York Magazine", by CNN and BBC, by Deutschlandfunk, the "Junge Welt" and also by BILD - rather show the chaos, the destruction. And above all: children, mothers, suffering in close-up and in perfect lighting.
In fact, the suffering of civilians in Gaza is great. Many people were killed in the Hamas war against Israel, many are starving. However, the staging of necessity often benefits Hamas and its propaganda.
Because "journalist" Fteiha apparently has a mission: "Free Palestine". This is what it says on a sultry painting that he presents on his Instagram account - in combat uniform with the proud inscription "Press". The "artist" who created the picture for Fteiha: a self-confessed Jew-hater.
Photo: Instagram
Another video is titled "Fuck Israel". No wonder, because Fteiha is also active in europe.palestine.network, a "pro-Palestinian collective" for "global actions in Europe" - which not only documents the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, but also promotes international "resistance" against Israel.
Photographer works for Israel-hater Erdoğan
An activist, disguised as a photographer and video reporter, on behalf of a news agency, which reports directly to the Turkish president and Israel-hater Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (71), who in turn has promoted, financed and concealed Hamas terrorists for years.
In January 2025, Fteiha posts a video with the words "Fuck Israel" on Instagram
Photo: Instagram
Just wondering: Why do German and international agencies use the photos of such an opinion fighter, although many of the pictures are obviously one-sidedly selected or posed?
BILD asked photo agencies. The German Press Agency and Agence France Press stated that they would not cooperate with the "journalist" Fteiha and carefully checked the images of other photojournalists and their reputation before publication. Reuters states that their photos "meet the standards of accuracy, independence and impartiality".
The German Journalists Association (DJV) warns: Warring parties use images in a targeted manner - to influence public opinion. Professional. Strategic. Emotional. Of course, this also applies to Israel, which has not yet allowed independent reporters to enter Gaza.
Hamas controls all images
Consequence: In the Gaza Strip, almost only Palestinian photographers are photographing - not a few with Hamas connections. Historian and photography expert Gerhard Paul on the "SZ": "In the south of Gaza, Hamas controls 100 percent of image production." The goal: to create compassion in the West, to stir up anger at Israel.
And it works! Hardly anyone is more skilled in propaganda than Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations: As early as 2002, the then Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat († 75, 2004) presented himself with candlelight and flashlights after the occupation of the West Bank by Israeli troops in his "fortress" in Ramallah - the lonely PLO fighter desperately in the dark ...
All fake: Ex-Palestinian leader Jassir Arafat († 75) in a 2002 set backdrop, benevolently staged by press photographers
Photo: REUTERS
A pure propaganda trick. But even then, many agencies apparently did not notice that the video reporters in Arafat's "prison" only made the effect possible by turning off all the battery-operated headlights on the cameras. Videos showed the PLO leader minutes later again in a glaring light - because "the press" had agreed to make the great snapshot possible.
Source:
Gestellte Gaza-Bilder: Dieser Fotograf inszeniert Hamas-Propaganda
Aktivisten als „Reporter“: BILD-Recherchen zeigen fragwürdige Inszenierungen der Hunger-Fotos aus Gaza
m.bild.de
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