Haters have been sharing the following video and allegation, which has already been viewed over 650K times on X as of the time of this post:
In #Gaza, you die while waiting for food. pic.twitter.com/e1nbpLw5GX
— Sameh Ahmed (@PalPress24) July 20, 2025
One of those to share it has been Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis:
We’ve watched a child take its last breath. Now the elderly? https://t.co/VOSMZcqx1l
— Mary Kostakidis (@MaryKostakidis) July 20, 2025
Let’s examine the video and the allegation.
All we see is an old man supposedly collapse into someone else’s arms. And while it does smell of a possible “Pallywood” production (this happened to be captured on camera?), there is no definitive proof it is.
Having said that, there is also no proof the man died as alleged. The people around him are certainly not panicking or showing any urgency in trying to resuscitate him, as you’d expect people to do if confronted with someone who looks like they died. Instead, they slowly carry him away, and most of the bystanders look indifferent to his plight.
What’s more, independent searches return no news stories, obituaries, or confirmations from reliable outlets that any man died of starvation waiting in line for food.
If this footage is authentic and not Pallywood, then the most likely scenario is that he simply fainted.
So why does Mary Kostakidis accept as fact that he died? As a journalist, shouldn’t she examine things more closely as I just did?
I mean, it is not like she accepts everything as fact, even things where there is actually evidence:
Given she has disgraced herself with her antisemitism since October 7, I’d argue she is not motivated by getting to the truth.
Rather, she – and her fellow haters – are motivated by demonizing the Jews.
When there’s zero verification but 100% moral outrage, you’re not reporting the news — you’re weaponizing it.
