Tel Aviv — As famine tightens its grip on Gaza and skeletal children fill global headlines, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a brazen and inflammatory claim, accusing the United Nations of “lying” about aid restrictions into the besieged enclave. With staggering detachment from the devastation playing out just miles away, Netanyahu insisted that Israel is allowing humanitarian supplies to flow and blamed the UN for what he termed “excuses and lies about the State of Israel.”
The remarks, delivered with characteristic defiance, come at a time when international organizations—from the UN to Doctors Without Borders—have documented catastrophic hunger and mass civilian deaths in Gaza. Netanyahu, in a performative speech riddled with spin, declared that “1.9 million tons of aid” had been delivered since October 2023 and that “there would be no Gazans left” if Israel were truly obstructing supplies. It was a soundbite crafted for denial—not diplomacy.
In sharp contrast, US President Donald Trump cast a glaring spotlight on the real situation during a recent address, calling the images from Gaza “real starvation” and asserting, “Some of those kids, that’s real starvation — you can’t fake that.” Trump’s unexpected rebuke directly contradicted Netanyahu’s whitewashed narrative, implicitly exposing the Israeli leader’s claims as not only dishonest but also callous in the face of overwhelming evidence.
International observers, including the World Health Organization and UNICEF, have repeatedly sounded the alarm. As of late July, over 63 children had died from starvation, and only 100 trucks of aid are entering daily—far below the minimum threshold of 500–600 recommended by the UN. Meanwhile, Israeli shelling reportedly continues during so-called “humanitarian pauses,” killing civilians as they queue for the scant aid that does arrive.
The prime minister’s delusional assertion that aid has been flowing consistently is further eroded by mounting reports of Israeli forces obstructing convoys, bombing aid distribution centers, and detaining humanitarian workers. Netanyahu’s government even allowed organized looting of UN trucks, a fact confirmed by multiple field sources on the ground. In March 2025, Israel temporarily imposed a full blockade, preventing even water from entering Gaza for three consecutive days.
Despite Netanyahu’s claims of Israeli benevolence, it is Gaza’s barren markets and empty soup kitchens that speak the truth. Mothers ration water for their children, aid trucks are attacked en route, and civilians die waiting in bread lines—conditions that evoke a chilling parallel to state-engineered famine.
Netanyahu’s latest rhetoric does not merely challenge the credibility of the UN—it attempts to gaslight the world. In the face of horrific images and firsthand accounts from aid workers, his denialism is grotesque. But what makes this moment more damning is that even his longtime political backers are no longer in lockstep. Trump’s deviation, however self-serving, underlines a growing split in the transatlantic echo chamber that has long insulated Israeli policy from accountability.
According to The Times of Israel, Netanyahu said: “It says we are not allowing humanitarian supplies to enter. It is allowed. There are secured convoys. There have been all along, but today it is official. There will be no more excuses.” His statement, as widely noted, flies in the face of countless reports by humanitarian agencies who continue to document the Genocide in Gaza with unflinching regularity.
In a grotesque display of denial, Benjamin Netanyahu insisted there was “no starvation in the Gaza Strip,” dismissing UN and aid agencies’ reports as media “excuses.” But President Donald Trump—surprisingly breaking ranks—brutally contradicted him, stating bluntly: images of hungry children show “real starvation” that one can’t “fake”.
