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Short answer
If Gaza is starving, where are the skeletal men? The collapsing mothers? The emaciated crowds in the streets — like we see in real famine zones such as Yemen and Sudan? In Gaza, the “famine” is always the same: one child, one camera crew, perfectly staged for maximum outrage.
When they do show adults, it’s never a starving civilian — it’s a cancer patient with obvious late-stage cachexia next to their well-fed relatives, or an image stolen from Sudan or Yemen. The real starved adults? Israeli hostages, wasting away in Hamas tunnels.
Like Eviatar David — held underground for nearly two years, starved to the bone, and forced to dig his own grave for a Hamas propaganda video. That footage wasn’t faked. It wasn’t “borrowed” from elsewhere. Hamas filmed it and published it themselves.
That same video accidentally exposed Hamas’s lie, as the terrorist’s arm in the shot was almost as wide as the hostage himself — showing just how well-fed his captors are. The hostage was starved intentionally.
And yet, the global media looks away — because the only suffering they care to amplify is the kind that can be weaponized against Israel.
Long answer
“Gaza is starving” they scream… But if so, then where are the skeletal men, the collapsing mothers, the emaciated crowds in the streets — the scenes we see in every real famine zone like Yemen, Sudan, or Ethiopia? In Gaza, it’s always the same: one child, one camera, one perfectly staged frame — while the adults look healthy, and often other children right next to that child look fine.
The truth is that many of the most “heartbreaking” photos are recycled from real famine zones like Sudan and Yemen. And when they do show actual adults, it’s clearly a cancer patient with late-stage cachexia, often sitting next to well-fed family members. That’s not famine — it’s propaganda.
In Yemen, over 17 million people face food insecurity, and 2.4 million children are acutely malnourished. Babies die in their mothers’ arms, entire villages waste away, and mass civilian deaths mount daily. Hospitals are destroyed, food routes blocked, and famine spreads across the country. This is a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe — yet there are no trending hashtags, no emergency UN sessions, no headlines. Yemenis are starving on a massive scale, and the world barely notices.
In Sudan, over 30 million people need humanitarian aid — more than half the population. 24.6 million face acute hunger, 637,000 are at catastrophic levels, and 9 million have been displaced amid ethnic massacres, war, and famine. Hospitals lie in ruins, food routes are blocked, and civilians are dying by the thousands. Yet there are no choreographed children, no viral outrage, no trending hashtags. Sudan’s suffering doesn’t fit the Hamas narrative — and the world barely notices.
The real starved adults in Gaza are Israeli hostages like Eviatar David — held underground for nearly two years, starved to skin and bones, chained, abused, and forced to dig his own grave for a Hamas propaganda video. That same footage unintentionally exposed the lie: the terrorist’s arm in the shot was almost as wide as Eviatar himself, showing how Hamas lied when they claimed the hostage was starving because they were also starving. These brutal truths are ignored by the media — because only suffering that vilifies Israel fits the narrative.