‘No innocents in Gaza’: Israeli minister denies famine amid rising starvation deaths
An Israeli minister has rejected reports of famine in Gaza, contradicting UN agencies that warn the territory faces starvation under Israel’s gempcidal aid blockade.
"There is no famine. There is no humanitarian disaster. And according to the [captives’] testimonies – there are also no innocents or uninvolved people," Israeli minister Miri Regev write in a post on her X account on Thursday.
Posting The New York Times front page photo showing a Gazan woman cradling her malnourished child, she claimed, “We are not waiting for an apology, not from the New York Times, not from 'Haaretz,' and not from the hundreds of media outlets that echoed the lie of famine in Gaza."
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu previously echoed similar assertions, denying any starvations in Gaza.
“There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza. We enable humanitarian aid throughout the duration of the war to enter Gaza – otherwise, there would be no Gazans,” he claimed.
This comes as UN agencies have said Gaza is currently on the brink of famine, due to the Israeli-imposed blockade on aid.
On Tuesday, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, and the Food and Agriculture Organization warned hat "time was running out" and Gaza stood "on the brink of a full-scale famine."
Seven more people had died from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according Gaza Health ministry on Thursday. At least 155 Palestinians—including 89 children—have died from starvation.
The youngest in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the starvation crisis triggered by Israel’s months-long blockade, as supplies of baby formula have run out in hospitals and mothers have nothing to feed newborns.
Since launching its genocidal war on Gaza, Israel has killed more than 60,200 Palestinians and injured more than 146,000, most of them women and children.
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