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Israel consistently denies using starvation in Gaza as a weapon of war. These denials emerged as early as January 2024, when Israel submitted documents to the International Court of Justice in response to the genocide case filed by South Africa in The Hague. Israeli legal representatives asserted that 'Israel has repeatedly publicly stated that there is no limit to the amount of food, water, shelter, or medical supplies that can be delivered to Gaza.'

However, these statements were disputed by human rights organizations from the outset. Amnesty International reported that between October 2023 and early July 2024, Israeli authorities never allowed the provision of 'adequate aid and other essential necessities.'

After Israel imposed a full blockade from March to mid-May 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) noted the emergence of 'one of the worst hunger crises in the world,' reporting the death of 57 children from malnutrition, and observed that 'this number is likely an underestimate.'

When the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2024, the charges included 'war crimes in the form of starvation as a method of warfare and intentional attack on civilians.'

Israel naturally has the right to challenge these accusations, and its supporters have done so regularly. Last week, they launched a new campaign following the publication of a UNICEF survey on malnutrition among children under five in Gaza.

Agreement on Results

The American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, was the first to react to this document, posting on X (formerly Twitter): 'This is awkward for Israel haters. When a UN organization (not a friend of Israel)... refutes lies about Israel 'starving children,' it's worth reading. Is Israel committing genocide? They messed it up again!'

Former spokesperson for the Israeli government, Eilon Levy, added on X that 'starvation in Gaza has always been a fiction,' while UN Watch, which monitors the United Nations from a pro-Israel perspective, wrote: 'Starvation in Gaza? Not according to UNICEF. The new survey shows one of the lowest rates of acute malnutrition among children in the world in Gaza.'

Meanwhile, Andrew Fox, a researcher from the Henry Jackson Society, wrote on X that the notion of starvation in Gaza during the Israeli attack has been 'conclusively refuted.'

Claims that there was never any starvation in Gaza are false, misleading, and dangerous

Medical Aid for Palestinians notes that anyone with even a shred of humanity should welcome any news that Gaza's children are eating better. This UNICEF study does indeed show that the ceasefire, which proved to be a fiction in many respects, allowed more food into the enclave. If Israeli authorities deserve praise, we would be happy to say so.

Nevertheless, the study did not provide evidence to justify Huckabee's and others' claims that starvation in Gaza never occurred. We contacted UNICEF for clarification on this point, and they responded: 'The recent nutrition survey measures conditions in mid-2026, more than nine months after IPC [Integrated Food Security Phase Classification] confirmed famine in August 2025, and after the ceasefire and a significant increase in humanitarian aid. It cannot tell us what the conditions were in August 2025, and it was not originally intended to do so.'

'Both conclusions are correct: famine was confirmed then, and acute malnutrition among children has decreased since then. This improvement is a result of the aid provided in the interim, not proof that it was unnecessary.'

A Horrifying Sequence

The UK-based charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) also highlighted this point, stating: 'Claims that starvation has never occurred in Gaza are false, misleading, and dangerous.'

The group also noted that today's child nutrition survey cannot retroactively refute the famine finding made last year. MAP stated: 'Both conclusions can be true simultaneously: famine was confirmed in Gaza by IPC in August 2025, and the UNICEF-coordinated survey shows that malnutrition among surveyed children has since decreased.'

It added: 'Interpreting the second conclusion as a refutation of the first is an abuse and distortion of data and survey results.'

Indeed, one of the findings in the latest study—ignored by Huckabee and others—horrifically aligns with the claims of starvation. UNICEF found that about one in eight children under five suffers from growth stunting, noting: 'This indicates long-term nutritional stress and repeated deprivation beyond immediate depletion.'

The WHO defines growth stunting as 'a failure to grow and develop that children experience due to poor nutrition, recurrent infections, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation.' Growth stunting is largely irreversible and has serious long-term consequences. In fact, it is an inevitable result of the malnutrition and famine recorded by humanitarian organizations after the start of the Israeli military offensive on Gaza.

Protecting Gaza's Children

Martin Shaw, Professor of International Law and Policy at the University of Sussex and expert on genocide, reported that the consequences of previous periods of Israeli starvation policies between 2023 and 2025 are manifesting in children's growth stunting. He stated: 'The consequences of three years of Israeli military violence—injuries, amputations, untreated illnesses, loss of loved ones, immense psychological stress, destruction of health and education systems, etc.—all reflect in the condition of the child population.'

Furthermore, the study's finding that children under five in areas outside the Israeli yellow line have low levels of acute malnutrition is based on the registered weight of these children. Mike Spagat, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, noted: 'Children's weight can drop sharply in a few weeks and can recover in a few weeks with proper treatment—especially when administered by specialists, as here.'

He continued: 'Thus, measuring depletion is a snapshot of conditions at a specific time, and the timing matters. This survey was conducted in June 2026: eight months after the ceasefire, after two full quarters of large-scale feeding.' Spagat concludes that the low malnutrition rate represents 'the measured effect of professional intervention, and Israel supporters use this as proof that intervention was never needed.'

The new UNICEF study is unrelated to the allegation contained in the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu that he used starvation as a weapon of war. No one, whether friends or critics of Israel, should use this report for political purposes or make political capital out of it. We all undoubtedly have a duty to do everything possible to protect the children of Gaza, who have suffered greatly and endured horrors. They should urgently be allowed to return to the normal life that everyone deserves.

In the village of Chhikra, which belongs to the Mahoba district, relatives and local residents, outraged by the inability to find land for a funeral, held a cremation of a woman directly on the main road. After the death of 50-year-old Tara Devi, her poor husband Dina Ahirwar visited officials and the village headman for eight hours but received no response.

Receiving no attention, the enraged residents began funeral rites using wood and fuel, setting up a pyre on the street. As soon as this situation became known, Sadar Tehsildar Divakar Mishra and a police patrol arrived at the scene.

The family searched for land for 8 hours

Tara Devi passed away early in the morning, around three o'clock. Poor Dina did not own any land. He appealed to the village headman and administrative staff for help from the morning, but he received no assistance for eight hours.

Pyre of wood and fuel set up on the road

Frustrated by the administration's inaction, the residents blocked the village's main road, placing the body on it. Protesting the lack of space, relatives set up a funeral pyre of wood and fuel directly on the road and began the burial process, which shocked the administrative staff.

According to the residents, the place where funerals were previously held had been converted into a Gramsabha stadium. Furthermore, the area near the primary school was constantly waterlogged. The arriving Tehsildar assured that he would immediately provide new land from the Gramsabha for creating a permanent burial site, after which the four-hour protests subsided.