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“Mainstream media that gets away with fake stories without supervision or accountability”
I was alerted to this by a headline in the early hours from CNN which now I can't even find amidst all its stories on its website on David Bowie.
Every story has several back-stories - especially when it comes to western media propaganda.First the MSM version:
Starvation in Madaya: How Hezbollah role in siege could hurt it in Lebanon
Broadcast
images of emaciated children and tales of starving Syrians forced to
eat grass and leaves in the besieged town of Madaya have provoked
horror around the world.
In
Lebanon, they have fuelled criticism of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed
Shiite militia that is encircling the town alongside Syrian troops.
On Friday, demonstrations in support of the town and against the
siege were held here amid warnings the humanitarian crisis could be
detrimental to Sunni-Shiite relations internally.
Stung
by the criticism, Hezbollah has shot back, blaming anti-regime
fighters for monopolizing the dwindling food supplies in Madaya and
refusing to allow civilians to leave.
The
growing outcry concerns the fate of some 42,000 people in Madaya,
according to United Nations figures. The Syrian government agreed
yesterday to temporarily lift the siege as part of a UN-brokered
deal that will also see supplies reach two Shiite towns in northern
Syria besieged by Syrian rebels.
Several
thousand Hezbollah fighters are fighting in Syria on the side of the
regime. They have proven more reliable than the depleted Syrian army
and relatively inexperienced Iran-backed militias from Iraq and
Afghanistan, and have led multiple offensives across the country.
But the group built its reputation as an anti-Israel – and more
recently anti-Sunni-jihadist – resistance movement, which is why
the accusations over Madaya have stung.
For
the past six months, Hezbollah fighters have helped Syrian troops
mount a siege on Madaya, west of Damascus and 7.5 miles from
Lebanon’s eastern border, using checkpoints, snipers, and
landmines to hem in the population.
The
last food deliveries to reach Madaya were on Oct. 18. With food
stocks depleted, starving residents have been forced to eat grass,
leaves, and water flavored with spices.
Medecins
Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said Thursday that 23
people have died of starvation since Dec. 1 at a medical clinic run
by the organization, six of them infants under a year old.
“The
medics we support report injuries and deaths by bullets and
landmines among people that tried to leave Madaya,” said Brice de
le Vingne, MSF’s director of operations. “The desperation is so
acute that yesterday [Wednesday] people rioted trying to seize the
last food available at an MSF-supported distribution point, which
was intended to provide for the most vulnerable.”
EATING
LEAVES, HUNTING CATS
Madaya
lies at an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet and has been buffeted the
past week with snowstorms. Residents reportedly are burning
furniture in their homes or risking their lives to chop trees in a
wood on the edge of town that falls within range of Syrian
government snipers.
“The
situation in Madaya is very tragic,” says Abu Omar, a father of
four and resident of the town who recently reached Lebanon. “There
is no food. I have seen people eat leaves and hunt cats. There are
no medicines, none of the things that people need for everyday life.
We are living by miracles.”
Hezbollah’s
role in the siege has been seized upon in the past two days by its
political rivals in Lebanon.
“The
Syrian town of Madaya is witnessing a siege of starvation that
amounts to crimes of war and can be classified in the category of
crimes against humanity,” read a statement released Friday by
rival lawmakers. “The Lebanese … see that Hezbollah’s
involvement in the siege and starvation is a shameful act that
contradicts its ‘political ethics’ which the party claims to
uphold.”
Other
leading Sunni politicians in Lebanon also have criticized
Hezbollah’s actions in Madaya.
“[Hezbollah’s]
possible involvement in this crime will negatively impact ties
between the Lebanese,” said Fouad Siniora, a former prime
minister. On Friday, a Sunni political group held a rally in Beirut
in support of Madaya, while another group briefly blocked the main
highway linking Beirut to Damascus to protest the siege.
HEZBOLLAH
FIRES BACK
Hezbollah
denies that it is deliberately starving civilians. "Armed
groups in Madaya control food supplies within the town and sell to
whomever can afford it, thus starvation is widespread among poor
civilians,” it said in a statement Thursday.
And here is a little fact-checking - sifting the wheat from the bullshit.
Fact
Check on Madaya Reporting
Hezbollah Show Food Readily Available in Madaya (VIDEO)
Fort
Russ - 11th January, 2016
Video
of Marianna telling the world she is not that "starved child"
from Madaya.
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width="420" height="315"
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The supposed ''pretty Syrian girl'' that is ''starving'' in Madaya is fake
The supposed ''pretty Syrian girl'' that is ''starving'' in Madaya is fake
They
are saying that she went to a store and bought gum, then they took
pictures of her in the near garden area and posted the pictures on
Facebook. Later on people started sharing and copying the picture to
use it for their agenda in Syria saying that the girl is starving in
Madaya and the truth is that she lives in South Lebanon and is
perfectly fine.
This isn't the first case that people and ''News'' channels are using fake pictures showing starving people claiming that it's in Madaya. Here is a picture of Al-Jazeera using a picture that was taken from 2009
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