The bloodiest hoax case of all time was Mohammed al-Dura. His father was paraded on world TV outlets at the time showing off his bullet wounds, allegedly received while his son was killed by Israeli troops. It turns out they were axe wounds that had been treated by an Israeli surgeon two years prior.
Jamal al Dura, who claims that Israelis fired at him and his son in 2000, was in fact injured by an axe blade and not bullets in 1992, according to an Israeli surgeon who performed reconstructive surgery on the wounds two years later. PJM’s Nidra Poller reports on the latest startling development in the mother of all fauxtography cases.
The article doesn't mention the point that the Israelis undoubtedly provided him free medical treatment.