The executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund on Sunday decried debates over the extent of hunger in Gaza as “kind of obscene.”Speaking to host Margaret Brennan on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” UNICEF’s Catherine Russell said: “To me, it’s kind of obscene that we are having these conversations arguing about whether the methodology works or not. We know children are dying, right? I am tired of a discussion about, well, are we giving the right information or not?”
She's referring to the flawed IPC report claiming that parts of Gaza are officially famine-stricken.
IPC makes its determinations based on standards - and if the methodology is flawed, then their conclusions are flawed. Which means that there is no famine.
Like "genocide" and "apartheid" and "occupation," "famine" has a specific definition. If you change the definition to make it fit for Israel, then you are simply a liar. It is a big deal.
No one is claiming that children aren't dying in Gaza, a small percentage because of a lack of food. But when the definition of famine says that hundreds of children should be dying a day, and the numbers aren't close to that, then someone is lying.
To Russell, facts don't matter. She's tired of being held to any standards of truth. If she wants it to be called a famine, she can call it a famine. If she wants to say that thousands of kids died from malnutrition, even though it isn't true, she doesn't want to be contradicted. Because insisting on truth is, to her, "obscene."
What is obscene is UNICEF's leaders routinely lying to incite against Israel.
In March 2024, Russell was also on Face the Nation where she claimed that over 13,000 children had been killed in Gaza.
But the Palestinian Health Ministry at the time said that the number was roughly half that amount. The only source for the 13,000 was Hamas.
That was good enough for UNICEF.
It did the same last October, inflating the number of dead children by 6,000 based on Hamas figures - again contradicting the Gaza health ministry.
In March 2024, UNICEF's spokesperson made up a brand new international law just for Israel.
UNICEF even lies to children, with UNICEF Australia creating a guide to the conflict that is filled with things that are simply not true.
Thanks to Catherine Russell, we now know that these aren't mistakes. She made it very clear on national television that UNICEF must not be held to any standards of truth whatsoever, that lies are UNICEF policy, and anyone who insists that a UN agency gives out accurate information is "obscene."
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