Just as I predicted, the AP is once again in full out propaganda mode with staged photos from Gaza. Film crews staking out an emergency room caught scores of Gazans rushing unharmed toddlers in front of the cameras. Once inside, the children pawns are lined up next to actual wounded for enhanced PR.  These apparently unhurt children were deliberately arranged on a stretcher next to a wounded man for propaganda purposes.  Via LGF:

Associated Press Palestinian photographer Khalil Hamra seems to be the AP’s inside man when it comes to pictures of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and this photo (shown below) that he filed yesterday has all the marks of being staged.

I Consult writes:

Khalil Hamra is the credited AP photographer for many of the pictures of the International Solidarity Movement activities in Gaza, including those of Rachel Corrie. To recall, Rachel Corrie was an American activist who attempted to stop an Israeli bulldozer from destroying Gazan tunnels in 2003. Corrie slipped under the bulldozer, was killed and became a shaheed of the left. Hamra’s pictures include this one of Corrie burning an American flag (left).

A search of Google images shows hundreds of Hamra’s pictures of grieving Palestinians as well as Palestinian dead and wounded. His many pictures of Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters and military exercises suggest that Hamra could almost serve as Hamas’ official photographer.

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