"We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza ..."
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"We have since learned new information, including from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that Anne Frank was suffering from typhus, and have updated our story to add context about her health problems."
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We have appended an Editors' Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below.
Children in Gaza are malnourished and starving, as New York Times reporters and others have documented. We recently ran a story about Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. We have since learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records, and have updated our story to add context about his pre-existing health problems. This additional detail gives readers a greater understanding of his situation. Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza, bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.
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July 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"We have since learned new information, including from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that Anne Frank was suffering from typhus, and have updated our story to add context about her health problems."
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman.bsky.social) 2025-07-30T13:39:53.927Z
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So damned tired of the whitewashing... 'Kind of like the continuous postings of the same TikTok or other video depicting a Hamas crew theft of an aid supply to imply or even overtly "prove" that ALL aid to Gaza were being diverted/stolen by HAMAS and that it was not that Israel was not allowing them to go through (or killing those in line to receive them--or the aid workers trying desperately to deliver them), had not had blockades up for more than a year, and as though this were all HAMAS and recent.
Yeah, I'm sure Anne Frank brought on her problems leading to her death and that of her family... I guess all that was conveniently left out of her diary--just as those young Gazan children are really HAMAS in disguise. 
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So damned sick of it. My contempt runneth over for those who whitewash reality.