Gaza’s Fake Famine

For nearly two years, the world was told a single story about Gaza: Israel was starving children. “Genocide!” the headlines screamed. World leaders demanded action.

On Aug. 22, 2025, the United Nations officially declared famine conditions in parts of Gaza and warned that more than half a million Palestinians faced catastrophic starvation and death.

Then, quietly, the story changed.

A unicef-led nutrition survey, the most comprehensive to be performed since the war began in 2023, was released this summer, to comparatively minimal fanfare. The results:

• Acute malnutrition (wasting) among children under age 5 measured just 0.2 to 0.8 percent, lower than Egypt, Iran and Jordan, and on par with Germany.
• Chronic malnutrition (stunting) affected roughly 1 in 8 children, less than half the region’s typical rate, according to the survey.
• A researcher who has tracked malnutrition in famine zones from the Horn of Africa said she had never before seen obesity emerging in a population that had been declared famine-stricken just a year earlier.

A population the UN itself declared to be in famine is now, by the UN’s own data, one of the better-nourished in the region.

Where were the headlines this time? Search for coverage of this report across the major outlets that spent a year broadcasting “genocide” and “deliberate starvation,” and you will find almost nothing.

Israel is once again the victim of lies. The mainstream media is not interested in truth—just in agenda.