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As Israel openly declares starvation as a weapon, media still hesitate to blame it for famine

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on April 25, 2025 by Belén Fernández (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | (Posted Apr 29, 2025)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.
Flour massacre called ‘aid-related deaths’—rather than part of Israel’s engineered famine

Originally published: FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on March 22, 2024 by Robin Andersen (more by FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting)) | (Posted Mar 25, 2024)

Over 100 Palestinians were killed and hundreds more wounded on February 29, when Israeli snipers opened fire on people approaching a convoy of trucks carrying desperately needed supplies of flour. The attack was quickly dubbed the flour massacre.