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Friday, August 22, 2025
Foreign Ministry accuses IPC of basing ‘despicable’ Gaza famine assessment on ‘Hamas lies’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s Foreign Ministry accuses the IPC of releasing a “fabricated report to fit Hamas’s fake campaign,” after global hunger monitor declared famine in large parts of the Gaza Strip.
The Foreign Ministry claims that the monitor “twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold to 15% for this report only, and totally ignoring its second criterion of death rate.”
The IPC report states that data analyzed between July 1 and Aug. 15 showed clear evidence that thresholds for starvation and acute malnutrition have been reached. Gathering data for mortality has been harder, the monitor acknowledged, but said it was reasonable to conclude from the evidence that the necessary threshold has likely been reached.
The foreign ministry asserts that the IPC report in its entirety “is based on Hamas lies laundered through organizations with vested interests.”
The report “will be thrown into the despicable trash bin of political documents,” it finishes.
The IPC has just published a “tailor-made” fabricated report to fit Hamas’s fake campaign.
Unbelievably, the IPC twisted its own rules and ignored its own criteria just to produce false accusations against Israel: the IPC changed its own global standard, cutting the 30% threshold…— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 22, 2025
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