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Netanyahu calls UN-backed report on Gaza famine an 'outright lie' [1]

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Date: 2025-08

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed the UN report on famine in parts of the Gaza Strip as "an outright lie."

"Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation," Netanyahu wrote on the X platform on Friday.

"Since the beginning of the war Israel has enabled 2 million tons of aid to enter the Gaza Strip, over one ton of aid per person."

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The Israeli Foreign Ministry had previously written on X that there was no famine in Gaza.

The assessment of the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which said on Friday that it has "reasonable evidence" that there is famine in a part of Gaza that includes Gaza City, was based on false information provided by Hamas, the Israeli government said.

In recent weeks, it said, aid deliveries had "flooded the Gaza Strip with basic foodstuffs."

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