UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk.

[Pastelli]

Typicsl UN, first bombastic langugage, when pressed for clarity,
- backing down...

###

Too late, lie already spread.

Jfeed | 5.20.25
UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk.

UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk. After the UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed 14,000 Gazan children are set to starve to death in the next 48 hours without aid, the numbers were revealed to be without foundation. Avi Woolf. May 20, 2025.

The claim that 14,000 Gazan children are at immediate risk of dying within the next 48 hours is false, according to a report today (Tuesday) by the BBC.

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed that 14,000 Gazan children are days away from starving to death due to lack of humanitarian aid, a claim that was widely and very rapidly echoed in other mainstream media outlets, including in the United States. NBC even published an article with a skeletal-looking child to get the point across.

However, when the BBC asked to know where this figure came from, they ran into either hedging or pointing to a report saying that 14,000 children are at risk of serious malnutrition over the course of the next year, with an emphasis on "could."

 

[Meister]

Yeah, it hits the news cycle, and the msm runs with it without any vetting.

 

[Pastelli]

Yeah, it hits the news cycle, and the msm runs with it without any vetting.

A phenomenon so frequent.

 

[Foxfyre]

Typicsl UN, first bombastic langugage, when pressed for clarity,
- backing down...

###

Too late, lie already spread.

Jfeed | 5.20.25
UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk.

UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk. After the UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed 14,000 Gazan children are set to starve to death in the next 48 hours without aid, the numbers were revealed to be without foundation. Avi Woolf. May 20, 2025.

The claim that 14,000 Gazan children are at immediate risk of dying within the next 48 hours is false, according to a report today (Tuesday) by the BBC.

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed that 14,000 Gazan children are days away from starving to death due to lack of humanitarian aid, a claim that was widely and very rapidly echoed in other mainstream media outlets, including in the United States. NBC even published an article with a skeletal-looking child to get the point across.

However, when the BBC asked to know where this figure came from, they ran into either hedging or pointing to a report saying that 14,000 children are at risk of serious malnutrition over the course of the next year, with an emphasis on "could."

They don't care that they got it wrong and made millions believe it was true. I would bet a good steak dinner that they knew from the get go it was fake news. And they put it out there deliberately to embarrass Bibi, embarrass Trump, embarrass anybody who is pro Israel.

 

[DGS49]

Starvation takes a long time. If children (or anyone else) are within a few days of death by starvation, the photographic evidence would be stunning indeed.

This is a claim that should have been met with a high level of skepticism. But it wasn't.

Can someone name a previous time when an invaded country was told that it must "surrender" before defeating the invading foe? A foe that continues to maintain that its reason for existence is the eradication of the invaded country?

If you apply standards to Israel that you would apply to no other country on earth, it just might be anti-Semitism.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Pray for Trumpland...the new Middle East resort.
,
,

 

[Sayaras]

UN retracts aid chief's claim that 14,000 Gazan babies will die in 48 hours without aid. The UN later cited a report that said there could be 14,100 cases of malnutrition in children in Gaza between April 2025 and March 2026, a timeframe of one year not two days. By Mathilda Heller. May 21, 2025. JPost


Exposed: The Lie About Gaza Starvation. NBC Under Fire for Promoting Discredited “14,000 Babies Will Die” Claim Despite UN Retraction. The article discusses how NBC News continues to circulate a widely debunked claim regarding mass infant deaths in Gaza, despite the United Nations walking back the statement and clarifying the data. It explores the dangerous implications of spreading misinformation, particularly when it aligns with anti-Israel propaganda. Eliana Fleming. May 21, 2025 17:52

NBC makes false report on Gaza situation Photo: Screenshot of NBC site.

NBC News is facing intense backlash after continuing to circulate a discredited and inflammatory claim that “14,000 babies will die in the next 48 hours” if humanitarian aid is not delivered to Gaza. The quote, originally made by UNRWA representative Sam Rose Fletcher during a BBC interview, quickly went viral, sparking outrage and prompting mainstream outlets like NBC to amplify the statement without proper verification or context. [...] Critics accuse NBC and similar outlets of irresponsibly parroting Hamas propaganda aimed at portraying Israel as deliberately starving Palestinian children, a claim not supported by the facts. Public responses to NBC’s post have been scathing:

• “Will we get an expose on why the UN humanitarian chief lied so egregiously?” – Ari Paul.
• “The @UN, @NBCNews, and international media made up and instigated a blood libel against the Jewish people.” – Ron M.
• “NBC wants so much to see starving children… so their dumb readers will think this is a child being starved to death by evil Jews.” – Chava P.
• “Why is @nbcnews acting as Hamas’ mouthpiece parroting false claims without evidence?” – Michal Sabra.

JFeed


Brendan O’Neill: The UN’s claim about babies dying in Gaza is unravelling. 21 May 2025, 5:33pm TheSpectator


Featured. ‘14,000 Babies Will Die’: How the UN Invented a Blood Libel — and the Media Ran With It. Rachel O'Donoghue. May 21, 2025 HR


A UN Official, Then Journalists, Lied About 14,000 Babies. By: Gilead Ini May 21, 2025 CAMERA

 

[Pastelli]

Remembet the 2024 "famine" myth ?
Now, the already retracted '"14,000 babies" unraveled basic lie promoted by NBC with a picture of a Yemen child, etc.

 

[GavanPeacefan]

Typicsl UN, first bombastic langugage, when pressed for clarity,
- backing down...

###

Too late, lie already spread.

Jfeed | 5.20.25
UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk.

UN walks back wild Gaza starvation claim: 14,000 children not at immediate risk. After the UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed 14,000 Gazan children are set to starve to death in the next 48 hours without aid, the numbers were revealed to be without foundation. Avi Woolf. May 20, 2025.

The claim that 14,000 Gazan children are at immediate risk of dying within the next 48 hours is false, according to a report today (Tuesday) by the BBC.

UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher claimed that 14,000 Gazan children are days away from starving to death due to lack of humanitarian aid, a claim that was widely and very rapidly echoed in other mainstream media outlets, including in the United States. NBC even published an article with a skeletal-looking child to get the point across.

However, when the BBC asked to know where this figure came from, they ran into either hedging or pointing to a report saying that 14,000 children are at risk of serious malnutrition over the course of the next year, with an emphasis on "could."

While these tactics by Netanyahu leave me wanting to completely retract the blank check I (and others!!!) gave him to 'eradicate Hamas as a political, educational and military group operating in Gaza',

I also realize I just can NOT do that. The hate mongering imams of Hamas, the surviving soldiers of hamas, those 2 groups, have not yet been dealt with. And those? They'd rather let their own children and wives starve ("as martyrs on their way to 7th Heaven of Allah - Allahu Akbar!..") than see themselves go even a bit hungry. Typical Iranian tactics.

To back down now is to prolong the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for yet another big round ("We will make an endless amount of Oct 7ths!" - Hamas 2024+2025AD) later on the human timeline.
Those calling for a ceasefire now, in THIS conflict, are probably nothing better than gullible useful idiots, or worse (hypocritical liars working for the arms industries on either side of this conflict).

And the fact is; The Palestinian wives will be happy once the war is over, extra-happy once it's behind them for a while, and most happy to rebreed new babies for another Hamas type organisation IF HAMAS IS NOT ERADICATED AS AN EDUCATIONAL ORGANISATION LEADING TO A POLITICAL MOVEMENT AND MILITARY WORKING AGAINST ISRAEL.

So, NO, @UN; my blank check for Netanyahu remains intact.

 

[Rigby5]

Yeah, it hits the news cycle, and the msm runs with it without any vetting.

Wrong.
The UN is a valid news source and it is JFEED that is not.
It is is not hard to vet.
There are over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza and a good 10% are likely to be young children.

 

[Meister]

Wrong.
The UN is a valid news source and it is JFEED that is not.
It is is not hard to vet.
There are over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza and a good 10% are likely to be young children.

Hence the UN backing away from it's initial clams?


Did you even read the OP?

 

[Rigby5]

Hence the UN backing away from it's initial clams?


Did you even read the OP?

Wrong.
The OP is a total lie from JFEED that is not AP, and is not what the UN has actually said at all.
The UN is standing by its obviously true assessment of the 15k children being illegally started to death by the war crime blockade of international waters.

It is not just that most of the food shipments are prevented from coming in, but that Israel also is illegally blocking all outgoing commerce, preventing the Palestinians from being able to afford food.

It obviously is about the worst war crime even committed since the Geneva Conventions outlawed starvation blockades in 1906.

 

[Meister]

Wrong.
The OP is a total like from JFEED that is not AP, and is not what the UN has actually said at all.
The UN is standing by its obviously true assessment of the 15k children being illegally started to death by the war crime blockade of international waters.

It is not just that most of the food shipments are prevented from coming in, but that Israel also is illegally blocking all outgoing commerce, preventing the Palestinians from being able to afford food.

It obviously is about the worst war crime even committed since the Geneva Conventions outlawed starvation blockades in 1906.

Whatever you say, Rigby.