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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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