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Netanyahu: “Hunger campaign” of Hamas does not stop us
Updated on 23.08.2025 – 03:28 a.m.Reading time: 3 min.
Israel is under international pressure to relieve the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza. A famine in the north now contest a famine Netanyahu – and holds on the course.
Even after the explanation of a famine in the city of the city of Gaza, Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu steadily stated by international experts at his war goals. The hunger campaign staged by the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas will not prevent us from freeing our hostages and eliminating Hamas, “he said in response to a sensational report by the IPC initiative recognized worldwide as an authority for nutritional security.
Netanyahu had previously approved plans for taking the city of Gaza in the north of the sealed -off Gaza Strip. Israel’s military is preparing to convert around one million residents to tent camps in the south. According to the IPC initiative, the life of 132,000 children under the age of five is threatened due to malnutrition. 41,000 of them would be regarded as particularly threatening cases, twice as many as in the previous assessment in May. It is about the Gaza district where the city is also located.
“On some days I can only find a small bread and a tomato to share them between three children,” complains Mariam al-Scheikh. Getting something to her children is a daily fight, reports the 34-year-old from the city of Gaza to the German Press Agency. She is often looking for bread or food pans for hours. At night she hears the youngest of her children cry with hunger. “More than half a million people in the Gaza Strip are faced with catastrophic conditions, characterized by hunger, poverty and death,” says the report of the IPC initiative.
Netanyahu described the report as a “smooth lie”. According to Israeli representation, the IPC initiative’s assessment is based on the false information of Hamas. “The report deliberately ignores data that the authors were presented to in a meeting before its publication and overlooks the efforts to stabilize the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks,” said the responsible Israeli authority of Cogat. Which data it is, but remained open.
UN General Secretary António Guterres spoke of intent in connection with the famine. What happens now is the “intentional breakdown of the systems that are necessary for human survival”. As a occupying power, Israel has clear obligations. Israel always rejects such statements and allegations. The country, in turn, accuses the UN of not distributing aid deliveries available in the Gaza Strip. Israel is not pursuing the policy of starving, but hunger prevention, Netanyahu emphasized. “The only ones who are deliberately exposed to hunger in Gaza are the Israeli hostages,” he said.
