Posted on 05/20/2025 4:12:04 PM PDT by Words Matter
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."
Gee, those lies travel fast when nobody looks for the truth before they are repeated.
Who would possibly believe HamAss or its UN enablers?
Trump should just cut a billion bucks from them. That’ll straighten them out as money talks.
no one is at risk of starving.
Last I saw they were playing on the beach fat and happy.
i bet not a single main stream media outlet “walks back” this anti-Semitic lie they so lovingly perpetuated ...
KUDOS! lulz
Too bad the UN is not at Immediate Risk.
AND IF any Fakestinians were going hungry, it would still be their own fault (86 percent of the gaza Fakestinians voted for Hamas terrorist murder gang in the first place)
But no, Israel sends in THOUSANDS OF TONS of free food and provisions.
Like NO OTHER NATION IN HUMAN HISTORY ON PLANET EARTH.
(Yes, USA did likewise once upon a time, but *****AFTER***** WW2 and the Nazi surrender)
Ironically, just a few minutes before this popped up on FR, I got an email from Save The Children begging for money to feed these 48,000 dying children.
From 14k to 48k now that was fast
UN workers still raping the women over there?
Any lie is acceptable to them when it’s to paint Israel in a bad light.
I don’t care if they are starving.
L
UN is nothing but a lying sack of excrement and has been for years. Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US. That will solve some problems.
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