Friday, September 04, 2026

09/03 Links Pt1: The new libel to destroy Israel; Amb. Danon: Why are we determined to remove UNRWA from Jerusalem?; Howard Jacobson: How to Kill Jews Unantisemitically

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: The new libel to destroy Israel
The overwhelming majority of attacks in these disputed areas are by Arabs on Jews—thousands of incidents of rock-throwing, stabbings, arson, car-rammings, criminal damage and murder.

In recent days, while politicians and journalists whipped up “settler violence” claims into a feeding frenzy, residents in the Judean hills reported that Arabs from a local village had infiltrated the grazing areas of an Israeli farm and scattered lethal poison hidden inside the herds’ drinking troughs.

Jewish shepherds who arrived to find their dying goats—videos of which were posted on social media—said they were attacked with stones by dozens of Arabs lying in wait nearby.

Jewish residents say farmers’ herds are regularly being stolen and turning up in the Arab casbah. When IDF troops go in to retrieve them, they are set upon by hundreds of Arabs with stones and fireworks.

Israelis’ extremist or revenge attacks on Arabs, their homes or their mosques are happening, and they are shocking and inexcusable—as are their nihilistic attacks on IDF soldiers. But this is a highly complex situation that’s being weaponized to delegitimize and destroy Israel itself.

Western media and politicians never acknowledge attacks on the “settlers,” who have been effectively dehumanized.

The prevailing unwisdom is that they shouldn’t be there in the first place because they are in “illegal occupation of Palestinian land.” So if they are attacked or even murdered, they’re asking for everything they get, and their plight doesn’t even deserve a mention.

Apart from the callous inhumanity of this attitude, it also displays gross ignorance of history and international law.

Unfortunately, a significant number of IDF members and police, who are on the left along with most mainstream Israeli media outlets, also hate the “settlers” and produce a distorted picture on which the venomous West greedily feeds. And Israeli politicians, including the prime minister and president, have merely condemned the Israeli “rioters” and refrained from presenting the other side of the story.

Those who assume that this means the “settler violence” canard is true would do well to remember how in 2000, the Israelis leapt to take responsibility for the apparent shooting and killing of a Palestinian Arab child, Mohammed al-Durah, when a demonstration in the Gaza Strip during the Second Intifada apparently came under IDF fire.

Subsequent evidence revealed that the boy had not been killed and that the whole demonstration was staged.

But the Israelis were less concerned with establishing the truth than with tamping everything down and making the issue go away. The result was a libel against Israel that incited untold numbers of killings, including the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

The same politically craven thinking seems to be operating here. Israel is now under enormous pressure over “settler violence” from both the Trump administration and American Jews, for whom this has become the No. 1 issue because they, too, believe the distorted accounts.

In addition to finally dealing properly with the true miscreants, Israel should not only be responding with the real story behind these “settler attacks,” including the role of foreign provocateurs. It should be telling the world that its citizens have the legal right to live in these disputed territories. It should also be publicly listing every single Arab attack on these Jewish residents.

But as ever, the Israeli government thinks there’s no point trying to persuade the incorrigibly anti-Jewish West of the truth and justice of Israel’s cause.

The result is untold damage being done to the Jewish state, as yet again it fails to engage with the war being waged against it on the battleground of the mind.
Adam Louis-Klein: The New Genocide Libel
Israeli settlers, including those who belong to the specific movement to establish deep outposts in Judea and Samaria, noted that, since the reports were published on Shabbat, they themselves hardly had time to give their own account of the events. For a group of people categorically defined as evil, the expectation that we might hear their side of the story before anyone rushes to extreme conclusions feels like a bridge too far. No one else, certainly not the international media, including NBC, even thought it was relevant.

The Qusra incident took place within a broader narrative that had been building over the past month that settlers were “besieging” a particular house. It turns out the house belongs to the American citizen Loui Abu Rida, who, as he stated in a New York Times op-ed, demands a return to Biden’s sanctions policy. Foreign agitators, such as Andrey X—known for his constant filming of Israeli settlers and attempts to stoke online outrage, and who once described a settler peacefully walking by with his sheep as an incident of settler violence—and Jasper Nathaniel, who proposed to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., that he enter a protected zone and harass settlers for publicity—have been present at the site. The residents at Tel Talpiot, a nearby settler outpost, claim the house was built recently and it is usually uninhabited. It functions instead as a base from which to launch attacks on Israelis.

That’s what seems to have happened in the Qusra incident. Video released by Channel 18 Israel, a Judea and Samaria-focused media platform founded in 2024 by former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Sam Schubert, and shared by Saadia Hershkop, an American tour-guide who lives in the region, show a crowd of masked Arab men, accompanied by foreign journalists, launching the assault around noon of Shabbat day. When the IDF had some delays in arriving at the site, the settlers organized a security patrol and pushed the Arabs back to Rida’s house. The situation then turned into a skirmish in which both sides threw stones at the other. The Qusra attack was, according to Israelis at Tel Talpiot, designed to produce an international media spectacle of Israeli aggression.

If Arabs initiated the incident at Qusra—which no doubt will simply be classed indifferently as a case of “settler violence” —then questions ought to be asked about Jalud and the NBC attack.

The same narrative—of a home under continuous “siege,” by settlers, which, in the Qusra case, had been actually used as a base to launch attacks on Israelis—was also unfolding at the Toubasi household in Jalud. The NBC crew there was accompanied by Khaldoon Eid, a local Palestinian journalist, and Lawahez Jabari, who had collaborated on a documentary, Death Trap: No Safe Place in Gaza, alleging that Israel intentionally targeted journalists in Gaza (a claim that has been falling apart over the last several months, as the Committee to Protect Journalists has been forced to admit that more “journalists” were terrorists wearing the press vest). NBC instantly attributed the attacks to “settlers,” even though masked Arab men were present around the same time due to the confrontation in nearby Qusra.

Notably, the attack on the NBC crew was perpetrated by masked men driving in a car—on Shabbat, a detail that would perhaps suggest the men weren’t religious settlers, who would in any case seem to have little motivation to attack a camera crew aiming to depict them as villains.

After the initial attack at Qusra, the Israelis called in reinforcements from surrounding towns. While Israelis usually use pickup trucks or SUVs for security patrols, the IDF and police later found private passenger cars at Qusra. It is possible that some of the Israelis who were recruited by the Tel Talpiot settlers traveled around the same time to Jalud and committed the attack on the NBC crew. Nevertheless, the timing of the two events is strange, as is the decision of the media crew to be at the Jalud site at precisely that moment. Besides, the fact that the car had Israeli license plates hardly establishes the occupants as Jewish—unless the stereotype of the violent settler is all one is prepared to see.
Danny Danon: Why are we determined to remove UNRWA from Jerusalem?
We could’ve predicted the reactions to the enforcement mission at the former UNRWA compound in Jerusalem.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued a statement expressing his outrage over Israel’s actions. The UN spokesperson condemned the operation by Israeli security forces during his press briefing. A number of foreign ministers, most of them from Europe, voiced their disapproval.

It was never a question of if this would happen, but when. Recently, Israeli authorities completed their mission.

This move was not a matter of choice. It was a matter of necessity.

Exposing UNRWA
Over the past few years, we have exposed UNRWA for what it truly is. It has become increasingly clear that the UN agency established to assist Palestinian refugees functioned, in practice, as an active arm of the Hamas terrorist organization.

UNRWA employees participated directly in the October 7 massacre, including acts of murder and kidnapping. Throughout the war, Hamas terrorists operated from UNRWA schools, using the agency’s facilities to store weapons and conduct military activities.

Even deep into the conflict, UNRWA continued employing thousands of individuals who simultaneously held positions within Hamas’s military wings. They taught in classrooms that incited hatred against Israel by day and planned terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians by night.

Even before October 7, UNRWA had become the problem rather than the solution. Instead of helping resolve the Palestinian refugee issue, it perpetuated it and fueled the conflict. Numerous reports documented the incitement and hatred promoted in UNRWA schools, shaping another generation of Palestinians through anti-Israel indoctrination. But after October 7, the agency’s conduct crossed every possible line.

And, yes, Guterres did not condemn the terrorist acts carried out under the auspices of the organization he leads. Nor did we hear any unequivocal statements from the UN spokesperson during the daily press briefing about it.


WSJ Editorial: The Fight to Get the UN Out of Lebanon
After nearly 50 years of failure, the UN peacekeeping mission to Lebanon has run out of time - but not if France can help it. For decades, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has failed, billing the U.S. $150 million a year to sit by in peacetime while Hizbullah turned Southern Lebanon into an armed camp. In wartime, the UN peacekeepers acted as Hizbullah's human shields, refusing to budge when Israel took up the job they had failed to do.

UNIFIL's operations were set to end on Dec. 31, after which a yearlong "drawing down" period will commence - as though it takes 12 months to cease doing nothing. The result is that international forces will stay in Lebanon until the end of 2027.

But now the U.S. faces maneuvering by the French and others who seek to preserve the international role in Lebanon and their own postcolonial influence in Middle East affairs. Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, said on June 15 that she was "advancing work on a new EU mission in Lebanon." This mocks the intent of the push to end UNIFIL.

Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said in April, "We'd like to keep the French as far away as possible. They're not needed. They're not a positive influence, particularly not in Lebanon." The Trump Administration is right to say no to UN peacekeepers and no to an international force in Southern Lebanon, where they help rather than hinder Hizbullah.
Hizbullah Disarmament Plan Stalls
The pilot program in southern Lebanon, designed to pave the way for Hizbullah's disarmament south of the Litani River, is not progressing as expected.

The Lebanese army is not operating in accordance with the targets set for it. Its soldiers avoid searches inside homes and terror infrastructure in villages, preferring to focus only on open and public areas.

Moreover, at the diplomatic level, no agreement has been reached on who will supervise the Lebanese army's work, what criteria it will be required to meet, and what exact conditions the IDF will need to approve before beginning a withdrawal.

The deadlock gives the IDF vital room to complete its mission on the Ali al-Taher ridge, where dozens of Hizbullah terrorists are currently trapped.
U.S. Strikes Iran Tankers under New "Tanker for Tanker" Policy
The U.S. military attacked two Iranian government tankers on Tuesday in retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials said. A U.S. official said the move was part of a new "tanker for tanker" policy approved by President Trump to further deter Iranian attacks on tankers that move through the strait. U.S. drones launched missiles that hit their engine rooms.

U.S. officials said around 100 targets were attacked during Tuesday's strikes to degrade Iran's attack capabilities in the strait. Among the targets were Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) air defense sites, radar systems, mine-laying capabilities, communications sites, anti-ship cruise missile launchers and attack drone launchers.

In retaliation, Iran fired 25 ballistic missiles, but only half reached Jordanian airspace. Ten were intercepted and three landed without causing any casualties. Iran launched two dozen drones at U.S. bases in Bahrain, but most were intercepted. Iran also fired ballistic missiles and drones at U.S. bases in Kuwait. Two drones were launched at a U.S. base in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq but were intercepted.

American forces continued guiding ships through the strait. A U.S. official said 40 ships transited in and out on Tuesday, carrying millions of barrels of oil. U.S. forces intercepted several anti-ship cruise missiles and drones that the IRGC fired toward the ships.
Howard Jacobson: How to Kill Jews Unantisemitically
This is Bondi Beach. Hands up if you can spot an antisemite. Take your time. Use a magnifying glass if it will help.

Quite what will give the game anyway, I’m not sure. A swastika on a pair of shorts? A towel saying KILL ALL JEWS or, because this is Bondi where I’ve just read that no antisemites reside, KILL JEWS SELECTIVELY.

Why do I ask? Because a man I think of as a friend and respect as a writer, a volcanically angry Australian, has recently told an audience at a festival in Sydney (let’s keep the man and the venue anonymous) that the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach on December 14 2025 (the first day of Chanukah, remember) was not antisemitic. ‘Other than the murderous evil of the two gunmen, where was the antisemitism to be found at Bondi on that terrible day. Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere.’

Other than? Other than! ‘Other than that Mrs Lincoln…’

But ‘other than’ is just one extraordinarily callous gaffe in a multiplicity of them. It’s extraordinary to be confident, to the tune of three furious ‘Nowheres’, who was or wasn’t on Bondi or any other Australian beach that day. Extraordinary to want to assert, as my friend does, that there were no antisemites stretched out on the sands of Bondi at the hour of the shooting, as though the power to sway a mind is to be measured by physical proximity alone. Extraordinary to adduce the courage of Australian bystanders who resisted the gunmen as proof that this wasn’t an antisemitic incident, as though evil influences you can’t see must be supposed not to exist. No one doubts there are Australians aplenty who don’t hate Jews. I’ve lived in Australia and can vouch for them. I can also vouch for the existence of Australians who hate Jews as unreasonably as citizens from any other country do. Sometimes, depending on the company they keep, the books they read and the universities they attend, the first become the second. Ask where the gunmen got their grasp of history, their fatally aggravated sense of grievance, and their conviction of utter rectitude, and you don’t have to look much further than the circumambient culture of incendiary Jew-hate that fuelled the bloodlust of those who rallied on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to celebrate the October 7 massacre of Israelis of all ages and faiths.

Imagine that. Applauding a massacre.

My friend dismisses any suggestion that anti-Jew brutalism has become pervasive in some sections of Australian society as a ‘slur’. In the context of the gunning down of fifteen innocents, a slur feels one of the lesser crimes. Be that as it may, rather a ‘slur’ than a bullet.

Ask, then, where the bullets and the will to fire them came from, and his answer, taking this with that, is ‘the Israel lobby’ - lobby being an emotional flutter of a word reserved to describe any group of people who speak up for what they believe when it isn’t what you believe. In this reading of events, Jews are victims of their own backfiring attempt to silence criticism. Whoa! Isn’t that called victim blaming, Hugo? I am giving my friend the name Hugo so as not to identify him. We are addressing ideas here, not the man who holds them. And Hugo is a bigger man than his words, though words are his trade. The Hugo I know and like would no more blame Jews for the violence visited on them in Bondi than he’d blame them for the Massacre of October 7. But in this instance, the siren voices of system and ideology have sneaked a way of speaking through him. For which, if this is to be a war of lobbies, I blame Postcolonialism.


John Howard calls on Albanese to front Bondi Royal Commission
News24 host Chris Kenny details how former prime minister John Howard has called on Anthony Albanese to front the Royal Commission.


‘Won’t learn’: Abbott gives a scathing review of the Bondi Royal Commission
Former prime minister Tony Abbott discusses the Royal Commission into Antisemitism, criticising that no ministers have been called into question.

“The whole point of the royal commission is to ensure that something like the Bondi massacre never happens again,” Mr Abbott told News24 host Peta Credlin.

“We can’t learn the right lessons if you don’t call the relevant ministers, if you don’t call the relevant security officials, if you don’t expose the Islamist hate preachers.

“You won’t learn the right lessons from senior counter terrorist police talking about the deficiencies and the gaps in our counter terrorism programs.”


‘We owe the dead the truth’: Credlin demands more than just a report from Royal Commission
News24 host Peta Credlin says change needs to come from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion and demands politicians be questioned “long and hard” about what they did and didn’t do before Bondi.

​“We want the operational reality that counter terrorism police live under to try and keep us safe from terrorism,” Ms Credlin said.
​“All of that should be on the table.
​“Otherwise, what's the point of spending $130 million on this Royal Commission?
​“We don't want just a report; we want change.
​“We owe the dead the truth.”


Albanese accused of 'ensuring' neither he or his ministers would face the Royal Commission
Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese set the Royal Commission up in a way that made sure he and his ministers would never have to front it.


Australian Jewish Association: Fixing Australia - Senator Bridget McKenzie, Shadow Minister For Infrastructure & Transport
From October 7 to Bondi: How Did Australia Get Here? | Senator Bridget McKenzie

Australia has changed dramatically since October 7.

Rising antisemitism, growing extremism, the Bondi massacre and the deterioration of Australia's relationship with Israel have raised serious questions about how Australia reached this point and what must change.

In this AJA Weekly Zoom Speaker Series discussion, Senator Bridget McKenzie, Leader of the Nationals in the Senate and Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, joins AJA to discuss:

• The rise of antisemitism and extremism in Australia
• The failures that preceded the Bondi massacre
• Australia's changing relationship with Israel
• The political response to antisemitism and extremism
• What Australia must do next

Senator McKenzie has been a strong and outspoken supporter of Australia's Jewish community and Israel.




Inside Iran: "We've All Become Poor because of the War"
Inside Iran, the economic crisis continues to worsen. The Iranian rial fell to a new record low of 2.2 million to the dollar. Prices of basic goods rise daily, and Iranian social media is flooded with "empty pot" videos and harsh accusations against the regime. One video that reached millions showed a uniformed police officer, a station commander, holding an empty pot while sharply attacking the regime and its indifference.

An Iranian citizen from Mashhad, a government employee, told me Tuesday: "We haven't eaten meat in weeks, chicken once a week, and mostly rice with very few side dishes on the table. The car sits by the house because there's no fuel, and I don't have extra money to buy it at the inflated black market price."

"Public transportation is mostly paralyzed because there's no diesel for the buses, and I walk to work, almost an hour each way. People are selling everything they have to fund food and medicine, and I keep getting requests from family and friends to help them. We've all become poor because of the war, and in practice, the government barely exists."

"It's no longer about supporting or not supporting the government's policy on the nuclear issue or Hormuz; nobody cares about that anymore; people are just trying to survive. When the people feel they can't take it anymore, change will happen."


Katz: Iran attack would send regime back to ‘Stone Age and darkness’
An Iranian attack on the Jewish state would remove “every existing constraint” on an Israeli response, including strikes on Tehran’s civilian and energy infrastructure, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Thursday.

Speaking at a Rosh Hashanah toast at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Katz said Israel would, if attacked, hit Iran’s “national, military and civilian infrastructure,” and send the Islamic Republic “back deep into the Stone Age and darkness.

“The ayatollah regime in Iran knows very well why it is not attacking Israel: After we struck them powerfully twice [in June 2025 and February 2026], dealt a blow to the nuclear program, eliminated [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei, and severely damaged their strategic capabilities,” Katz said.

He said Israel had identified indications that severe economic pressure and concern over internal unrest and a possible collapse of the regime could drive Iran toward “desperate steps.”

“Israel is very well prepared, defensively and offensively, for every possibility, and the IDF is ready to carry out the mission,” Katz said.


In Gaza, Netanyahu says IDF will retain Yellow Line positions
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited an Israel Defense Forces outpost near the Yellow Line demarcation boundary in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. He said Israel would maintain control of the area as it works to complete the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza.

“We control the territory. We are not withdrawing. We are staying on this line,” Netanyahu said during the visit, alongside IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and senior Southern Command officers.

“We control 60% of the Strip, and our reach extends further, because we are eliminating the terrorists who threaten us. We do so day in and day out,” Netanyahu said, adding, “Yesterday, we got Hamas’s Shin Bet chief. We will surely learn some things.”

He was referring to Tuesday’s capture of the commander of the terror group’s internal security apparatus in Gaza City, Muein al-Arabid.

The premier said the objective of preventing Gaza from again threatening Israel had “largely already been achieved,” while acknowledging that additional work remains.

Netanyahu also held a security assessment at Gaza Division headquarters at Camp Re’im on Wednesday, where he met the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) special forces operators who led the Southern Command in apprehending al-Arabid, commending them “for the daring and successful operation,” according to Netanyahu’s office.

The prime minister on Tuesday hailed al-Arabid’s capture, describing him as “one of the most senior Hamas leaders who had been “responsible for hiding and transporting our abductees [and] hiding senior Hamas officials,” referring to those taken captive by the terrorist group during its Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.

More recently, al-Arabid was involved in efforts to restore Hamas’s control in Gaza and to attack Israeli soldiers and civilians, Netanyahu said. “My directive is clear: The State of Israel will continue to persecute all Hamas leaders and all those who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre,” he added.
Senior IRGC Officers Believed Trapped in Hizbullah Command Center
Iran has warned the U.S. that it would respond forcefully to an Israeli offensive on the Ali al-Taher mountain ridge in southern Lebanon where Iranian military personnel are holed up alongside Hizbullah fighters, three officials said.

Hizbullah built an underground command center and weapons stores within the Ali al-Taher ridge. The Israeli military occupies territory to Ali al-Taher's south and has identified the ridge as one of its "primary operational focuses."

Two officials said over a dozen members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, including at least two senior officers, were with the Hizbullah fighters.

Despite a ceasefire announced in June, the Israeli military has said Hizbullah is still operating around the ridge.


One lightly wounded in suspected stabbing terror attack near Old City's Damascus Gate
A man in his 30s was lightly wounded in the suspected stabbing terror attack in the Damascus Gate area of the Old City of Jerusalem, United Hatzalah said early Friday morning.

He was evacuated to Shaare Zedek Medical Center for further treatment by United Hatzalah.

Israel Police said that officers stationed in the area shot the terrorist after he approached security personnel located nearby.

The attack came hours after more than 50,000 people gathered at the Western Wall to recite the selichot earlier in the night.

The sequence of events during and after the attack
The terrorist reportedly arrived at the Damascus Gate via motorcycle around 3:45 a.m., and attempted to stab civilians there. They managed to escape unharmed and called the police.

Jerusalem Border Police responded to the call and caught the terrorist holding a knife. He attempted to stab one of the Border Police officers, at which point another officer shot and killed him.

The attacker's knife was seized as criminal evidence.


‘Iran could fall within 90 days’ | Ex-Trump adviser on why the regime is weaker than you think
Fred Fleitz – vice-chair of the America First Policy Institute’s American Security department and former executive secretary and chief of staff to Trump’s US National Security Council – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Fred and Brendan discuss why the Iran War has reignited, how far Trump will be willing to go to finish the job, and why the regime is so terrified of its own people.

0:00 — Cold open: "Iran is winning? Ridiculous."
1:00 — Welcome back, Fred Fleitz
1:34 — What's actually happening right now in the conflict?
2:19 — The shift to economic strangulation — seizing IRGC assets worldwide
2:50 — Is the regime still as wounded as you said last time?
3:35 — The nuclear objective: destroyed infrastructure vs buried uranium
4:45 — Breaking down the controversial Memorandum of Understanding
6:10 — What's really happening in the Strait of Hormuz
8:11 — Recapping the two-stage war: nukes, then the Strait
8:40 — Rubio's "missile shield" explanation and the damage done
9:44 — How close is the regime to actually falling?
10:25 — Executions rising, parliament, and the 60–90 day prediction
11:05 — Pro-regime marches in London vs pro-war Iranian diaspora rallies
11:50 — The mood in America — war fatigue vs resolve
12:57 — Are the US and Israel actually at odds?
14:07 — Iran's collapsing regional standing and a new anti-Iran alliance
15:43 — What this means globally for Russia and China
17:22 — October 7th, Hamas, and Iran's role as paymaster
18:11 — Hezbollah, the Houthis — proxies running out of road
19:28 — Does Trump have the stomach to see this through?
20:12 — Fleitz's final read: negotiate or collapse


Four percent of Gaza children overweight as UNICEF finds acute malnutrition ‘low’
Four percent of young children in Gaza are overweight while levels of acute malnutrition are now “low”, according to a major new UNICEF-led survey published less than a year after famine was declared in part of the territory.

The study of children under five found 12.2 percent were affected by stunting, a sign of impaired growth associated with longer-term nutritional and health problems.

UNICEF said the findings showed a “complex nutritional picture”, with low acute malnutrition existing alongside chronic malnutrition, overweight children, poor diets and widespread illness.

The figures mark a significant change from last August, when the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed famine in Gaza.

According to The Free Press, the underlying survey results recorded wasting – extreme thinness and a measure of acute malnutrition – in 0.5 percent of children when their weight was compared with their height.

The US publication reported that the findings have prompted fresh debate over last year’s famine assessment and the methodology used to reach it.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told The Free Press that the latest data represented a “revelation” and “presents a different story than what had been told outrageously – for the past almost three years.”

“It just shows what Israel has to confront every single day, which is utterly fake news that they are committing a genocide and trying to starve people,” he added.

UNICEF, however, says the new figures do not contradict the earlier famine finding and stresses that acute malnutrition can change rapidly when access to food improves.

Its survey was conducted between 31 May and 15 June, following what the agency described as a “substantial expansion” of humanitarian assistance after the October 2025 ceasefire and the resumption of commercial traffic.

Nearly 17,000 children were admitted for acute malnutrition treatment at the peak in August 2025, according to UNICEF. By March this year, that had fallen to fewer than 3,000.





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