Mainstream Media 'Debunks' Famine Denial, Ignores Blockade
France24 helpfully corrects the record, confirming UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini did *not* claim there was no famine in Gaza. A vital fact, to be sure, given Netanyahu's government repeatedly restricts aid, bombed bakeries, and their soldiers even filmed themselves destroying food. (Remember the 'flour massacre' of February 29th, where over 100 Palestinians were killed seeking aid?). The report
neglects to mention the 2007 classification by the UN of Gaza as 'under a suffocating blockade' , or the official Israeli policy, revealed in 2012, to put Gazans 'on a diet'. So, Lazzarini didn't say 'no famine.' The more pressing concern, consistently ignored, is how many starvation deaths will it take for 'fact-checkers' to point directly at the blockade itself? How many 'debunkings' deflect
from the actual, documented policies creating this humanitarian catastrophe?