About those “14,000 babies about to starve to death in Gaza over the next 48 hours”

 Plenty of Disgusting Stinking Liars in the media

Earlier this week, the BBC reported that “14,000 babies in Gaza could die in the next 48 hours” if aid didn’t reach their communities. The story spread around the world like wildfire. A quick Google search tells me that major media outlets across Europe, Australia, and the United States breathlessly reported it.

PJ Media (h/t Nita) The information came from United Nations emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher, who issued a dire warning on the BBC’s “Radio 4 Today” program. “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” he said, later adding, “I want to save as many of these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours.”

The interviewer asked Fletcher how he’d arrived at that number, to which he responded, “We still have lots of people on the ground. And so they’re at the medical centers, they’re at the schools. We had another school bombed yesterday, trying to assess needs, and this is why our mechanism for getting aid in, it’s imperfect.”

The Israeli government refuted the lies:

The BBC eventually reached out to the U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which clarified that the “remarks were based on a report that warned that 14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition were expected to occur between April 2025 and March 2026 among children aged between six months and five years.” The report was created by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Nowhere in the analysis does it suggest that any of these children will die at any point in time.

If even partly true, it’s a sad situation, but it’s also quite a different story from the extremely urgent and entirely false one Fletcher peddled on the air. The BBC later corrected the story, but it was pretty much too little too late.

Something else these fake news outlets fail to report is that even though Israel began offering aid to Gazans again this week after stopping in March, much of that aid doesn’t actually reach these starving “babies.” It’s stolen by Hamas and often sold back to people in an effort to continue funding the war.

From an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal:

Israel facilitated the entry of 25,000 aid trucks during the cease-fire ending March 18. It was confident that Gaza had supplies for five to seven months, but after Hamas pilfered aid, shortages have already become imminent, only three months on.

What was the world to do—pressure Hamas to fork over what it has stolen or pressure Israel to let in more for Hamas to steal? The answer has always been the latter, even though it prolongs the war. Everyone knows Hamas would gladly let Gazans starve to score a win over Israel. President Trump doesn’t want that any more than President Biden did.

Mr. Biden promised on Oct. 18, 2023, that aid would stop if Hamas stole it, but he never kept his word.

The op-ed also points out that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S. organization, is seeking to combat this issue by opening “distribution centers in areas of Gaza with IDF perimeter control rather than send trucks all across vulnerable territory,” adding that “Private U.S. security contractors will handle the distribution from border crossings to Secure Distribution Sites, and a GHF spokesman says civilian teams will then distribute the aid directly to Gazans.”

According to the Journal, the U.N. is against this distribution plan because it makes them and a “complex of human-rights and aid groups” irrelevant. Kind of sounds like the reason why the Trump administration went after USAID.

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