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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20741/big-lies-about-israel
Big Lies about Israel
(Gatestone Institute) Robert Williams - For months, Israel has refuted the false, malicious narrative pushed by international organizations that it was causing famine in Gaza and even using it as a "weapon of war." Now, it turns out, it was all a big lie. In its report published on June 4, the UN's Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) concluded that famine was no longer even "plausible" and had no "supporting evidence." The UN has also admitted that until now there have only been 32 deaths in Gaza from malnutrition and 28 of those were among children under 5 years old. The most recent IPC report, published on June 25, concluded that the supply of food to Gaza had, in fact, increased, not decreased, in recent months and that "in this context, the available evidence does not indicate that famine is currently occurring." By comparison, more than three million children in Sudan are acutely malnourished. "About 222,000 severely malnourished children and more than 7,000 new mothers are likely to die in coming months if their nutritional and health needs remain unmet," the Nutrition Cluster in Sudan reported. The main reason that Sudan - and other conflict spots - are ignored is that the UN focuses almost all its resources on Gaza. The claim that Israel is not allowing enough humanitarian aid into Gaza was the ostensible reason for President Joe Biden to build a pier in Gaza. Yet UN Watch reported that "as of April 4, 2024, approximately six months into the war, some 13,000 trucks of food have entered Gaza, which amounts to 272,000 tons of food, more than double the required amount according to the [UN's World Food Program] WFP." Despite this, on June 18, UN human rights chief Volker Turk repeated the defamatory accusation that Israel stops humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. For months the media has reported casualty figures directly from Hamas, which claims that Israel has killed more than 37,000 people in Gaza, mainly women and children. In May, the UN effectively admitted that Hamas's casualty figures were untrustworthy, lowering the number of fatalities from 34,000 to 24,000 and reducing the number of childhood casualties from 14,000 to 7,800. According to the IDF, 14,000 of those 24,000 were Hamas terrorists, meaning that the actual number of civilian deaths at that time was closer to 10,000. "Civilians" in a Palestinian context is a complicated issue. Many so-called "civilians" took part in the Oct. 7 massacres in Israel. In addition, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are known for their recruitment of teenage terrorists.