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.”
When Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief, Head of @UNOCHA, ignores Hamas’ atrocities but echoes their propaganda – it’s not humanitarian work, it’s blood libel. pic.twitter.com/BkA2OGoiOG
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 21, 2025
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.
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) May 11, 2025
Exposing the Gaza ‘famine’ Lie
Sorry but no pityx from me then they put live babys in the oven and more, what they did to other human beings is nothing to 1400 dying babys on their side…so what. all they get they worked hard for so let this go its way and we shall all see that this is nothing more than a lie from the traitors.
14000 future terrorist.
14000 starving babies or not, the international optics are not in Israel’s favor. And if Israel wants to thrive and succeed it better start playing the long game.
It is. Eliminating Hamas, whether the world likes it or not. Fuck what the world thinks.
Thank you for putting this out then its exactly what most of us here think and in most european nations the same, and yes you hit the named nail directly on the head.no more to add here.
If only the legacy media would do the same.
yes
What exactly constitutes the “long game” for Israel? Should islamic terrorism originating in Gaza and Lebanon become acceptable and allowable without retaliation by Israel? Why don’t the islamic terrorist attacks from Gaza and Lebanon constitute acts of war?
Y’know, life is funny.
Around a year ago, I was having a conversation about the pallyswine-Israeli conflict with a Jewish woman. I have known her for quite some time, well before I left the “Big Island” for over a decade. It was quite amusing how she took the side of those “poor little children in gaza”.
I just casually mentioned all of the “rocket attacks” (those “rockets” are actually warhead mounted missiles). I proposed that I was puzzled, as to why Israel just didn’t respond in kind. Since, those missiles were directed towards civilian areas, Israel should just have responded in kind. What could be more fair. She, then went on to explain that Israel had this “Iron Dome” and the people of Gaza did not. I mentioned the billions of US dollars/Euros/YouNameIt that the West had sent to those “people”, they could readily have built one. Or, even better, they could simply not sent warhead mounted missiles at Israel.
She started frothing at the mouth, voice going up at least two octaves (could be considered screaming) and changed the subject to Trump. Hell, he wasn’t even president at that time. The subject changed from the poor little pallyswines to Trump’s a liar, dictator, and the worst thing to ever hit this country, if not the world.
I couldn’t help but break out laughing. Just one of those hippies that hadn’t outgrown the sixties. I probably would have made some mention of “OK Boomer”, or something similar if I wasn’t one of that generation myself.
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Yes, TDS is a mental disorder.
I used to know an IDF vet. who served in the Yom Kippur War in one of their parachute detachments. His unit was tasked with taking out radar installations that controlled the Egyptian SAM sites along the Suez Canal. He once told me: “American Jews are incredibly naive.”
Yet, our abortion mills cancel the lives of untold millions over the decades….and that’s okay…..
The Left doesn’t consider unborn babies to be human. But they think trannie freaks are.
The two Israelis were murdered because of Tom Fletcher’s lies.
BBC is also a greater bullshitter than CNN. They are state sponsored
Which means taxpayer funded. Trump just ended govt funding of far left radio & TV funding
First, the UN official spoke about babies in danger of dying, due to the lack of baby formula, which was an open lie, because Israel has been adequately providing, whereas the UN and Hamas Health Ministry doesn’t provide any hard evidence (e.g. videos or pictures) of such babies even existing. Second, the Press, while reporting it, provides images of two or three obviously fatally ill children, not babies, and says that 14,000 children will die within the next 24 or 48 hrs, depending on the media outlet.
Now, how stupid can you be to report such a thing? How on earth can you tell that 14,000 people [what a nice, clear-cut number, by the way] will die tomorrow? Unless, you poison them or blow them up. Otherwise, you should have had skeletal people, unable to move of weakness, and still you could not tell exactly when they would die. Moreover, if there were so many starving children, shouldn’t there be a sort of an equal number of adults, dying of starvation, too? Because, usually, people feed their children first, unless the Palestinian adults feed themselves and let their children die. So, where are all these people? It would be rather impossible to be hidden or go unnoticed. not only now, but even in the process of getting to this critical point.
This whole thing was sheer stupidity on the part of anyone who reported or believed it. A little bit of critical thinking, has never hurt anyone.
So many idiots who believe anything.
Since the entire theory and basis of Islam, is based on lies, what’s a few more like starving babies?
I don’t recall the WWII Allied Forces sending in food aid to Gemany or the japans.’
Perhaps, that wasn’t covered in the Western History classes that I attended. Or, it was that part of the book’s text that I skipped.
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14,000 babies will die God willing! It’s Allah’s problem.