Day after day, reports pile up about emaciated children, looted aid deliveries, and destroyed infrastructure. UN organizations sound the alarm, Western media publish shocking images, and aid groups denounce Israel. But is this the whole truth?

For months, there has been talk of starvation in the Gaza Strip, and it’s escalated in recent weeks. Israel is accused of actively contributing to a famine or at least deliberately failing to prevent it. Israel, however, dismisses these accusations as exaggerated, politically motivated, and misleading. Israel insists there is enough food. Enough medicine. Enough aid deliveries—only blocked by Hamas. “There is scarcity, yes—but no famine,” Jerusalem stresses. The real blame lies with those who started the war and use their own population as a shield.

What is true? What is a lie? What is war, and what is deliberate deception? The front lines in Gaza no longer run only through ruins but through our minds. The information war rages with full force. And Israel is losing it—quietly, slowly, fatally. Because those who don’t shape the narrative themselves are defeated by...

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