According to Hamas' own figures, Americans are three times as likely to die of malnutrition than Gazans during the war ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, April 25, 2025

According to Hamas' own figures, Americans are three times as likely to die of malnutrition than Gazans during the war

The Government Media Office in Gaza renewed its warning on Friday of the continuing and alarming deterioration of the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip. This comes as the occupation continues to impose a stifling blockade, deliberately closing the crossings completely, and preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid for 55 days, leading to a wider famine.

The government media official said that famine today is no longer just a threat, but has become a bitter reality, as 52 deaths due to hunger and malnutrition have been recorded, including 50 children, in one of the most horrific forms of slow mass killing. At a time when more than 60,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition, while more than a million children complain of daily hunger that has caused emaciation and poor physical structure, and they have become a focus of danger, while thousands of Palestinian families have been forced to face death by starvation after being unable to provide a single meal for their children.

52 deaths for a population of 2.1 million means 2.48 per 100,000 people, over 18 months.

In the United States, 20,500 people died of malnutrition in 2022, according to the CDC. That comes out to a rate of 6.19 deaths per 100,000 people, over 12 months. Over 18 months the numbers could be assumed to be about 9 deaths per 100,000.

Which means that even during wartime, even with hundreds of thousands of people displaced, even with severe disruptions in the food supply, the chances for a Gazan dying of malnutrition is less than one third that of an American during peacetime - according to Hamas' own statistics.

Statistics without context are propaganda. And Hamas has every reason to exaggerate the situation because it relies on stealing humanitarian aid to fund its own activities.

This also points to the uncomfortable fact that US media publishes orders of magnitude more articles about starvation in Gaza than about the far worse problems of malnutrition at home.