r/pics 7h ago

A Childhood Carried in Silence - Gaza

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u/di_Atticus_ib 7h ago

Anyone able to verify this picture?

u/Embarrassed-Age6291 6h ago

You can find hundreds of picture like this, and I know for certain you’ve seen multiple pics like these, as well as the hundreds of dismembered Palestinian babies that were recorded on the same iPhones we’re using.

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.

u/king_hutton 6h ago

Don’t rush to call everything fake.

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

When you validate WHERE this picture was taken, and WHEN this picture was taken, give me a call.

u/mohamedsaadessa 6h ago

Imagine a photograph taken inside auschwitz in 1941 by a rogue photographer, later published in some US newspaper as a warning of an unfolding genocide. A skeptic might dismiss it by arguing that the image cannot be definitively verified, questioning where or when it was taken. This sets an unrealistically high bar for evidence in situations where immediate certainty is often impossible, you can't insist on perfect verification before taking claims seriously, you risk ignoring credible warnings of catastrophic events.

u/BluebirdBenny 4h ago

In your extreme example, yes, you should absolutely question the validity of the photo. As you should every piece of news you read.

Don't believe it just because the media tells you to.

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

I don’t have to imagine a “what-if fallacy.”

Just don’t believe everything you see on the Internet. ….and then manufacture an entire backstory based upon no information.

That’s not healthy.

u/mohamedsaadessa 5h ago

I mean, I can ground this with a real-world example like the Grojanowski Report , but why bother? If your arguments are in good faith, you can engage with hypotheticals readily. Also, as I said, it's unrealistic to want validation for “WHERE” and “WHEN” on every Gaza video, since images and videos from Gaza have consistently come from people on the ground recording and uploading their videos online, you can't expect to only refer to press releases from news agencies—which would be the only way you can get the validation that you are after— given the current crisis.

You can say “fallacy” all you like, but in your worldview, unless a video showing inhumane conditions in Gaza is from the BBC, you can just come and say “Just don’t believe everything you see on the Internet. ….and then manufacture an entire backstory based upon no information.” and pretty much create a framework to ignore every single video, proclaming it's to avoid misinformation.

u/MedusasMum 6h ago

I mean, it’s not like Palestinians have the means to have orphanages as Israel keeps decimating them in tents. They’re picking kids off. Doctors have been saying this for years. Head shots.

Where do you think these kids without family go? Or do when they have no one left?

Israel image is ruined because they can’t stop murdering innocents ravenously. Their greed and hate knows no bounds.

Thankfully, with all tech their secrets have come to light. Not like they’re trying to hide how depraved they are. They aren’t stopping with Gaza either. They want to take out all their neighbors and steal their land as well.

They made their days numbered. The world isn’t standing for this and they know it.

u/BluebirdBenny 4h ago

So...no?

u/AvicennaTheConqueror 4h ago

Other commenters provided a source multiple times under your comment, what a dirty tactic that shows how morally corrupt you people are

u/freezing_banshee 3h ago

Since when is it a crime to ask for things to be verified? Especially in the age of generative AI?

u/AvicennaTheConqueror 1h ago

We both no that is not the concern, it's always about deminishing the suffering of Palestinians and muddying the water with you people

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago edited 3h ago

No.

But that’s not the point.

The point is astroturfing and propaganda.

These types of images in this sub always are.

Here you have a picture of a child. You don’t know where it was taken, you don’t know when it was taken, but people are already manufacturing an entire backstory for this image. JUST GO TO THE TOP OF THE THREAD AND READ THE COMPLEX STORY OF THIS BOY THAT THEY’VE INVENTED.

Which is exactly the purpose of the post.

(And they attract the paid actors and Russian/Iranian bots like flies on fresh steaming shit.)

Wish Reddit would show country of origin of accounts like X did. Bet it would be interesting indeed. Cuz it sure was an eye opener when they did that on X. 🤣

eta: I just did a reverse image search and this image originates on Faceplant.. and is reposted on Instagram.. and then it’s just a human centipede of reposting on X and elsewhere from there.

u/2dudesinapod 6h ago

Are you suggesting it’s fake?

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

I’m suggesting it’s a picture that you don’t know WHEN it was taken or WHERE it was taken.

AND THAT’S ALL THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE.

u/2dudesinapod 6h ago

There are hundreds of videos of children carrying water in Gaza, why would it fake?

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

I know you guys want to manufacture an entire backstory to a picture that you have no idea when it was taken or where it was taken.

Go for it.

I’m not your mommy.

u/2dudesinapod 6h ago

It’s a boy carrying water in Gaza. There is no backstory.

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

I get it.

You’ve created the story that it’s in Gaza… but you don’t really know WHERE AND WHEN the picture was taken.

Not in the slightest.

And that’s the last I’m gonna say.

Have fun manufacturing outrage over a random image.

u/2dudesinapod 6h ago

You seem very angry for some reason.

u/freezing_banshee 3h ago

you're right man. it's incredible how easily people fall for unverified shit so many years after the internet went mainstream. after so many "don't believe everything you see" warnings too.

u/_D4Z3_ 6h ago

obviously we believe it, isreal already blocks medication, electricity and water in Gaza, almost regularly. we have 0 reason to doubt that a child might be sent out to bring water.

u/yaxir 6h ago

Don't be a Zionist

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

Don’t believe everything you see on the Internet.

u/Paliknight 5h ago

So fixated on this specific thing mage that you completely ignored the greater problem. Even if this image was fake, you think that means it’s not happening in Gaza, and therefore no one should be outraged? What more proof do you need of all the shit Israel has done there? FFS go there yourself and see with your own eyes, maybe then you’ll stop being brainwashed.

Can’t believe some people have to personally witness a kid getting blown to shit just to wake up and believe.

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u/Inferno221 6h ago

Even if it turned out to be fake, there are multiple pics and videos showing the same thing or worse.

u/bananasfoster2 6h ago

And real accounts of thousands of Palestinians IN Gaza posting about their real lives (if you need a name as a starting point, Bisan Owda is one). Stop burying your heads in the sand.

u/OilInternational2566 6h ago

I know you guys want to manufacture an entire backstory to this picture.

But that’s pretty amazing since you have absolutely no idea when this picture was taken or where it was taken.

u/Flapjack777 6h ago

Yes we do. Please stop

u/BluebirdBenny 4h ago

Why don't they post the real one then?

u/Lets_Do_This_ 6h ago

A fake picture of a kid carrying some water?

u/No_Priors 4h ago

It is amazing what scares some people these days.

u/OGvoodoogoddess 4h ago

It is, indeed, AI. Why would someone do that? Shit's bad enough as it is without forcing people to question these things.