Netanyahu’s claim of no starvation in Gaza contradicts widespread reports of a growing hunger crisis
As images of emaciated Gazans dominated global news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a gathering of evangelical Christians that Palestinians weren’t starving.
“Israel is presented as though we are applying a campaign of starvation in Gaza,” Netanyahu said July 27 at a Jerusalem event sponsored by the American Christian television network Daystar. “What a bold-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. And there is no starvation in Gaza.”
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