The poster behind the child includes the logos of UNICEF, UNRWA, the World Health Organization - and the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
Here's another poster inviting the media to cover the polio vaccine campaign showing all four logos more clearly.
The vaccination campaign is certainly important, and in all probability it would not be as successful without UN cooperation with Gaza hospitals that report to the Gaza health ministry. But this shows how deeply embedded Hamas is in every aspect of Gaza, and how the UN and NGOs are completely dependent on doing only what Hamas allows them to do, and how they only have access to data that Hamas allows them to have.
As we have shown numerous times, the Gaza health ministry publishes casualty and injury numbers that come not from their own counts but from Hamas' propaganda "media office." They paper over the differences between the two by saying that some 10,000 deaths have "incomplete data."
This campaign shows again that the UN organizations like WHO and UNICEF depend on Hamas to do anything in Gaza, even today. And Hamas controls all the information they are given.
This explains why the number of deaths from starvation are so out of whack with the estimates expected by NGOs. If Hamas controls all the information - and it does - they can exaggerate the number of families who they claim cannot get food, a critical statistic in determining whether there is a famine.
Gazans are still, by and large, still frightened of Hamas and unwilling to deviate from the official Hamas line when talking to outsiders. This mentality permeates all of Gaza. Hamas prioritizes its propaganda as a crucial part of its military strategy. This basic fact remains almost unmentioned in the media.
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