Israel Rejects Biased UN Report Claiming ‘Famine’ in Gaza
Prime Minister Netanyahu: “The only ones being intentionally starved in Gaza are the Israeli hostages.”
Israel has dismissed a United Nations report claiming there was ‘famine’ in certain parts of Gaza. The report, compiled by the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), relies heavily on Hamas-affiliated organizations and blames Israel for a humanitarian crisis largely created by Gaza-based terror groups.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) rejected the UN document as a “tailor-made, fabricated report to fit Hamas’s fake campaign.”
The foreign ministry blasted the IPC for twisting facts and figures with the sole purpose of peddling a false narrative. The UN agency even changed its long-established criterion just to declare a ‘famine’ in Gaza. “Unbelievably, the IPC twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold to 15% for this report only, and totally ignoring its second criterion of death rate, solely to serve Hamas’s fake campaign,” the MFA said.
“The entire IPC document is based on Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests,” the ministry added. “There is no famine in Gaza. Over 100,000 trucks of aid have entered Gaza since the start of the war, and in recent weeks a massive influx of aid has flooded the Strip with staple foods and caused a sharp decline in food prices, which have plummeted in the markets.”
Netanyahu: ‘Only ones being intentionally starved in Gaza are hostages’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office likened the UN’s false Gaza famine declaration to the ‘modern blood libel.’
“Since the beginning of the war Israel has enabled 2 million tons of aid to enter the Gaza Strip, over one ton of aid per person,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement on Friday. “Today, prices have plunged because of Israel’s surge in humanitarian aid in Gaza.” He pointed out that the UN “report says nothing about the collapse in prices.”
“The only ones being intentionally starved in Gaza are the Israeli hostages,” he noted.
The UN report appears to be silent on the fact that since mid-May, nearly 90 percent of Gaza aid trucks have been looted or hijacked by Hamas or other Palestinian terrorist groups — and that according to its own data. While blaming Israel, the IPC fails to state that Gaza City and the surrounding areas are largely held by Hamas and not the Israeli armed forces.
The IPC report is an outright lie.
Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation.
Since the beginning of the war Israel has enabled 2 million tons of aid to enter the Gaza Strip, over one ton of aid per person.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) August 22, 2025
COGAT, the Israeli agency that oversees humanitarian efforts in Gaza, declared that the IPC “report is false and relies on partial, biased data and superficial information originating from Hamas, a terrorist organization, often laundered through organizations with vested interests.”
The UN body not only relies of Hamas’ affiliates for its assessment, it deliveratly distorts facts to paint a false picture, COGAT observed. The report chose to ignore the information provided by Israel and preferred to stick with incomplete and misleading information,” COGAT said. “The IPC report not only distorts reality but also undermines an accurate understanding of the humanitarian situation, fundamentally compromising its credibility.”
Referring to the massive amounts of aid delivered to Gaza, COGAT added that “[o]ver 100,000 trucks of aid have entered Gaza since the start of the war, including food, medical supplies, fuel, and shelter equipment entered the Gaza Strip through the various crossings. Close to 80% of the aid that entered consisted of a wide variety of food.”
COGAT categorically rejects the @theIPCinfo Gaza report, including the claim of famine in the Gaza Strip, and particularly in Gaza City.
Previous reports and assessments by the IPC have repeatedly been proven inaccurate and do not reflect the reality on the ground. The report… pic.twitter.com/LFNCCAknQ9
— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 22, 2025
U.S.: UN Gaza report promotes ‘false narrative’
The Trump administration, which supports the food distribution through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), also dismissed the UN report for “promoting a false narrative.”
In early August, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, inspected GHF facilities in Gaza, concluding that “[t]here is hardship and shortage, but no starvation.”
Reuters reported the U.S. response:
However, a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, when asked about the IPC determination, reiterated accusations that assistance to Gaza has been looted and said Hamas was “systematically promoting a false narrative of deliberate mass starvation to put political pressure on Israel.”
“The U.S. Government is focused on getting aid delivered to the people of Gaza. Addressing these challenging issues means honestly addressing problems for the sake of Gazans, who deserve better, not engaging in semantics,” the spokesperson said.
The IPC bent its own rules to fit Hamas’s campaign.
They lowered famine thresholds, ignored criteria, and laundered Hamas lies.Meanwhile, reality tells a different story:
➡ Over 100,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since the war began.
➡ Markets are stocked, food prices are… pic.twitter.com/ZmfEnk8XoJ— Israel ישראל (@Israel) August 22, 2025
Israeli air defense systems intercept a Houthi missile
On Friday night, the Yemen-based Houthis terrorists fired another ballistic missile at Israel. The IDF said in an initial statement that “several attempts to intercept the missile were made by the aerial defense systems,” and “the missile most likely fragmented in mid-air.”
A ballistic missile launched by the Houthis in Yemen at Israel a short while ago apparently broke up in the air during its descent, according to initial IDF assessments.
The Israeli Air Force launched interceptor missiles to shoot down the falling fragments. The IDF says the… pic.twitter.com/aEM3D1QDrN
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 22, 2025
The Israeli air defense array also intercepted a Houthi drone hours ahead of the missile attack. “Earlier in the evening, the IDF also had to make several attempts to intercept a drone launched from Yemen, which triggered sirens in Israeli towns along the Egyptian border,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Iran-sponsored Houthis terrorists group, an ally of Hamas, declared war on Israel and began attacking Western cargo ships in November 2023, a month after the October 7 massacre.
🚨Sirens sounding across several areas in Israel following Houthi projectile fire from Yemen pic.twitter.com/KprjK72vFk
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 22, 2025
IDF destroys Hezbollah’s weapons depot in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military on Friday located and destroyed a Hezbollah weapons facility in southern Lebanon. “A short while ago, the IDF struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area of Dier Kifa in southern Lebanon,” the military disclosed Friday night. “The presence of the weapons storage facility is a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
The IDF also took out a terrorist trying to fortify Hezbollah positions along the Israeli border. In a separate statement, the military announced that it had “eliminated a Hezbollah terrorist who was involved in attempts to rehabilitate infrastructure sites belonging to the terror organization.”
Since Israel agreed to a ceasefire in November 2024, Hezbollah has been trying to regroup its terrorist forces and rebuild its infrastructure in southern Lebanon in clear violation of the U.S.-brokered truce agreement.
🎯STRUCK: A Hezbollah weapons storage facility in the area of Deir Kifa in southern Lebanon.
The presence of the weapons storage facility is a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
The IDF will continue to operate in order to remove any threat towards…
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 22, 2025
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the jews have sat in the prisons of humanity long enough
glad to see them finally say
enough is enough and kick the scums arse
The entire notion that Israel is responsible for feeding the genocidal, goose-stepping, war crimes-committing, Arab invaders from Arabia in Gaza is farcical and contemptible.
Never before in the history of human warfare has the party/state defending against rabid belligerence, invasion of its territory and war crimes been absurdly charged with the duty of facilitating its enemy’s sustenance. Only the Israeli Jews are assigned that ridiculous “responsibility,” by the evil, stupid and morally bankrupt American Dhimmi-crats and European, leftist dhimmis.
When sadistic Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists start a war by committing the vilest of murders, rapes, kidnappings and atrocities, they don’t get to play the allegedly aggrieved “victim.”
As a youth I was a big believer in the UN and even participated in several model UNs. Then I grew up. I know believe the UN building in NY should be imploded preferably with the UN staff still inside, It’s a great hive of evil and villainy that deserves to be utterly destroyed,
A dear friend of our family always had that opinion of the UN when I was very young. We thought she was over stating the case. She wasn’t.
New day, same story. Getting rid of Jews is purifying.
Just read two excellent articles at Tablet, one addressing purity of the UN and others over time.
“The Holiest Hatred”
Since medieval times, antisemitism has cloaked itself in righteousness. Today’s anti-Zionism is just the latest passion play—with Jews once again cast as the villains, and those who want them dead as the redeemers.
By Adam Louis-Klein
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/holiest-hatred-antisemitism
The other gives solace to the fact that Jews will live on because of the few.
“The Troubled and the Committed”
The UJA’s $1 million Gaza donation isn’t about the money. It’s a choice between pandering to Jews defined by their unease or standing with the untroubled few who will carry Jewish life forward.
By Liel Leibovitz
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/uja-gaza-donation-troubled-committed-liel-leibovitz
Sad that morals are so lacking in the pretend do gooders defending us from Zionism and that too many American Jews lack gumption to stand up for themselves when it matters.
X is full of Jew haters. I wonder if anyone is doing an analysis of this. Are they bots? What countries are the posts coming from?
Any famine it due to Hamas withholding food.
If the people who live in Gaza are unhappy with the was their government started then they should surrender.