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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Israel trying to deflect blame for widespread starvation in Gaza

Woman holds very thin baby
A Palestinian woman with her malnourished five-month-old daughter, Rama Abu Aya, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. Photograph: Ramadan Abed/Reuters

Israel is pursuing an extensive PR effort to remove itself from blame for the starvation and killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is responsible.

As dozens of governments, UN organisations and other international figures have detailed Israel’s culpability, officials and ministers in Israel have attempted to suggest that there is no hunger in Gaza, that if hunger exists it is not Israel’s fault, or to blame Hamas or the UN and aid organisations for problems with distribution of aid.

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