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...

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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.
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