Netanyahu Says World Is Promoting False Claims About Starving Palestinian Children

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a forceful condemnation Thursday night against what he called a global misinformation campaign accusing Israel of starving children in Gaza. Speaking via video on X, Netanyahu asserted that such claims are “Hamas propaganda” and are fueling antisemitic violence most recently culminating in the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.

“A few days ago, a top U.N. official said that 14,000 Palestinian babies would die in 48 hours. You see many international institutions are complicit in spreading this lie,” Netanyahu said. “The press repeats it. The mob believed it. And a young couple is then brutally gunned down in Washington.”

The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in what authorities are investigating as an antisemitic act of terror.

Responding directly to the starvation narrative, Netanyahu laid out hard figures: “Since October 7, Israel has sent 92,000 aid trucks into Gaza. That includes 1.8 million tons of aid more than enough food to feed everyone in Gaza.” The problem, he explained, is not Israel’s aid policy, but Hamas’s hijacking of the aid itself.

“Hamas took a huge chunk for themselves. The rest they sold at exorbitant prices to the Palestinian population,” Netanyahu stated. “Then they used the money to recruit new terrorists to continue their war against Israel.”

To prevent further exploitation, Netanyahu unveiled a new humanitarian aid distribution mechanism that will involve American companies and IDF-secured safe zones in southern Gaza. “Palestinian civilians will move there for their own safety, while we conduct combat in other zones,” he explained.

“No army in the world has ever gone to such lengths to provide aid to the civilian population in the midst of intense combat,” Netanyahu asserted. He thanked U.S. President Donald Trump and the American people for their steadfast support and emphasized, “Civilization will triumph over barbarism.”

The Israeli military echoed the prime minister’s message. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) stressed that “there is no food shortage in Gaza at this time,” and criticized U.N. Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher’s recent claim about mass infant starvation as “a cynical political manipulation.”

As hundreds of aid trucks continue to enter Gaza including deliveries of baby formula and flour for bakeries Israel is making it clear: the obstacle to food distribution is not a lack of supply, but the terror group hijacking it.

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