A few weeks after Hamas’s savage October 7 attack, Cindy McCain, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, falsely claimed that Muslims in Gaza are “literally starving as we speak.”
The following month, McCain claimed that “there is virtually no food and no water in Gaza,” while CBS News reported on a British NGO’s claim that “more than half a million people … are facing starvation.” In December, the UN World Food Programme stated that 570,000 Muslims in Gaza are “starving” and at risk of “famine.” “It can’t get any worse,” argued Arif Hussein of the World Food Programme. In late January, the UN again claimed that “this population is starving.” CNN even stated that Muslims in Gaza are “eating grass” to survive.
Allegations of extreme food insecurity, malnutrition, and even famine are a key part of the accusations that Israel is committing “genocide against the Palestinians” before the International Court of Justice and of “crimes against humanity and war crimes” before the International Criminal Court.
Since then, similar claims have made headlines time and...
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