Fact Check: Netanyahu's claim of no starvation in Gaza contradicts widespread reports of a growing hunger crisis

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UN data, eyewitness accounts and humanitarian reports contradict the prime minister's denial, showing thousands are at risk of death from malnutrition

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/gaza-famine-starvation-hunger-crisis/



As images of emaciated Gazans dominated global news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a gathering of evangelical Christians that Palestinians weren’t starving. “Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza,” Netanyahu said July 27 at a Jerusalem event sponsored by the American Christian television network Daystar. “What a bold-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. And there is no starvation in Gaza.”

Israeli Army spokesperson Effie Defrin similarly told NPR on July 27 that photos showing dire conditions in Gaza are part of a campaign distributed by Hamas to create “an image of starvation, which doesn’t exist.” The remarks came the same day the Israeli military began limited 10-hour pauses in daily fighting in three populated areas of Gaza in order to increase the amount of humanitarian aid that could enter the war-torn area.

Starting in March, Israel blocked all humanitarian aid for two and a half months. On May 19, under international pressure, Israel partially lifted the blockade. Still, aid groups said the aid allowed into Gaza wasn’t enough, The Associated Press reported. Gazans are starving — 74 people have died of malnutrition in 2025, 63 of them in July, the United Nations reports, and thousands more are at risk. The hunger crisis is well documented in images, by United Nations data, news reports, first-person accounts and information from humanitarian organizations working in Gaza.

International authorities and humanitarian groups use various terms — hunger crisis, starvation, malnutrition, acute food insecurity — and classifications to discuss the disaster’s scale. But there is widespread agreement among those groups that Gazans are dying because they don’t have food. When asked whether he agreed with Netanyahu’s statement, President Donald Trump said “not particularly.” Based on what he’d seen on television, “children look very hungry,” Trump said July 28. “Some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff,” Trump said later. “I see it, and you can’t fake that.” We contacted the U.S. Israeli embassy and received no response.

One-third of Gazans are not eating for days, malnutrition deaths are rising....................

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jul/29/benjamin-netanyahu/benjamin-netanyahus-pants-on-fire-statement-that-t/

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1. Eff him

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