A random child was more likely to die of starvation worldwide every day than in Gaza during "famine" ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, December 19, 2025

A random child was more likely to die of starvation worldwide every day than in Gaza during "famine"

There was an amazing thread on X by Eirik Schrøder-Bråtane that debunked the "famine" narrative in Gaza, as others have. He put together charts like this showing how far off the IPC estimates were.

But one statistic he threw out there was unreal:

According to Gaza MoH, 42 children died of malnutrition between famine declaration Aug 22 and start of ceasefire Oct 11, corresponding to 0.84 per million per day. The global average death rate of children due to wasting is 1.14 per million per day. I.e. a random child in a random country is more likely to have died of starvation than a child in Gaza in the middle of a supposed famine.

I verified these statistics. The top countries for child deaths per day per million are:

Sierra Leone — 11.3

South Sudan — 9.5

Somalia — 9.0

Mali — 8.8

Kiribati — 8.3

Mexican children are more than four times likelier to die of malnutrition today than in Gaza during the so-called famine.

People vacation in the Dominican Republic - bit no one mentions that children there die at the rate of 134 per million per day - significantly worse than the worst in Gaza during the famine declaration.

Scores of countries have worse starvation statistics, for years, than Gaza during what was the very worst parts of the war as far as receiving food aid was concerned.

And no one talks about them.

It appears that the people who claim to care about starving children really don't nearly as much as they want to falsely paint Israel as creating a famine.