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What the New York Times Left Out of Its "Starving Gaza Children" Story
(Algemeiner) Ira Stoll - A front-page story in the March 9 New York Times accuses Israel of starving Gazan children to death. Yet according to World Health Organization figures, the 5% acute malnutrition rate reported for Gazans who followed Israeli instructions to move south puts them in roughly the same shape as residents of India, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Why aren't starving children in those non-Gaza countries on the front page of the New York Times? Because the Times can't find a way to portray Jews as responsible for those other children. None of this is to deny that humanitarian conditions in Gaza are rough, or that some children are suffering. The fault for those conditions is with Hamas.