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Enough with the Gaza Famine Canard

(National Review-American Enterprise Institute) Danielle Pletka and Brett D. Schaefer - Since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the UN has repeatedly warned of famine in Gaza (November 2023, December 2023, January 2024, March 2024, May 2024, November 2024, May 2025), only for it not to materialize. The government of Israel refuted the claims then, and subsequent evidence proved them correct. This does not mean that Gazans are not suffering. There is evidence of a serious level of food insecurity for many civilians. But Israel and the conflict itself are only partly responsible. Hamas systematically steals aid and prevents civilians from accepting Israeli assistance. Famine classification under the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) requires: at least 20% of households experience extreme food shortages; at least 30% of children suffer acute malnutrition; and a crude death rate exceeding 2 per 10,000 people per day. For Gaza, those standards were watered down and manipulated to reach a predetermined political outcome. There is hardly a sentence in the latest IPC report that cannot be refuted by either direct satellite evidence, photographic data, proper math, or non-UN statistics. But at the end of the day, the facts don't matter. Israel fights a rearguard action against an international system that seems determined to cast Jews as the villain. The writers are senior fellows at AEI.
2025-09-14 00:00:00
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