Staged Gaza rubble pictures, 2023 edition

As with every incident involving Gaza airstrikes, no matter how limited it was against civilian structures, Gaza's photographers are eager to stage photos with old women carefully placed in the midst of rubble.

Here, an old woman took a seat for a helpful photographer in the middle of rubble that could seriously injure her if she fell.

A woman sits amid the rubble Saturday of a destroyed building in the Gaza Strip.
Said Khatib / AFP via Getty Images

When Gaza photographers find a good old woman to be a model, everyone wants to pose her differently:

A Palestinian woman from the Abu Khatir family reacts next to their destroyed house after Israeli air strikes in Beit Hanun town in the northern Gaza Strip, 12 May 2023. EFE-EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

A woman gestures next to rubble, in the aftermath of deadly Israeli strikes, in the northern Gaza Strip May 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

A woman reacts near a damaged house following an airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, May 12, 2023. . (Photo by Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua)

One Gaza photographer that is excellent at finding women and children to pose for him is Mohammed Abed.

A woman sits among the rubble of her house at Nusseirat refugee camp in Gaza, on May 14, 2023. Mohammed Abed/AFP

Getty Images/Mohammed Abed

Children amid the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli airstrike in the center of the Gaza Strip on Saturday....Mohammed Abed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A child looks towards the sky (Beit Hanoun) Mohammed Abed at USA Today

A child watches from a window as people sift through the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli airstrike in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday. Credit: MOHAMMED ABED - AFP

Abed just happened to be on the other side of this hole catching this person looking through it and up:

By an incredible coincidence, he caught an image  just like it in 2020:

Abed went to Islamic University of Gaza - which is run by Hamas. He knows his job is not to record history, but to create it.

And major media still pay for Gaza photographers to stage these photos.

I couldn't find a single wire service photograph of a sad Israeli sitting in the rubble of the building struck by a rocket in Rehovot. No, that only happens in Gaza.

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