Gaza genocide claims at least partially fabricated
13.08.2025
The terrorist group Hamas manipulates statistics and overestimates Palestinian deaths from malnutrition as part of a targeted campaign to discredit the State of Israel in order to achieve political benefits. This was reported by COGAT, an agency that is part of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and coordinates the government's activities in the territories, after checking the information disseminated by terrorists.
The agency has identified a significant gap between the number of deaths related to malnutrition indicated by the Hamas Ministry of Health and the official mortality data. In most of the documented cases, the deceased had chronic diseases, COGAT reported.
Thus, since the beginning of the armed conflict in Gaza, which was a response to terrorist attacks on Israel in October 2023, until June 2025, the Hamas-controlled ministry reported 66 deaths allegedly caused by famine. In July 2025, the number of such deaths, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, was more than 133, but information on the identities of the victims, as was done earlier, was not provided.
"In-depth analysis of various platforms revealed only a small number of real cases. This discrepancy between digital reports and individual publications raises doubts about their reliability," COGAT's statement said.
An analysis of individual deaths reported in the media shows that most of the deceased allegedly had concomitant diseases that led to the deterioration of their health and were not related to nutrition. It was also found that many of these people were treated in Israel before the conflict began. "This indicates that the documented cases are not representative of the entire population of the Gaza Strip, but rather are extreme cases related to existing diseases," COGAT noted.
The agency did not publish the full text of the review, but noted some of the previously identified cases of Hamas misinformation about deaths from hunger and cited new ones. In particular, COGAT commented on the photos depicting four-year-old Abdullah Hani Mohammad Abu Zarka. The child does not suffer from hunger, as Hamas assures, but from a genetic disease that causes a deficiency of vitamins and minerals, osteoporosis and thinning of bones. This hereditary disease also affected other family members. Four months before the outbreak of hostilities, Israel organized his treatment at Al-Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem.
In another case reported by COGAT, we are talking about 27-year-old Karam Khaled Mustafa al-Jamal. The agency found that Karam suffered from muscular dystrophy and partial paralysis since childhood, which made it difficult for him to swallow. Earlier, several more "evidence of hunger" in Gaza was exposed using photos of children suffering from genetic diseases.