Who, and what, to believe? The warnings coming from the UN, from every aid agency, and from governments normally friendly to Israel, that famine stalks Gaza – or the complacent denials of the crisis by Benjamin Netanyahu, who states that “you don’t see one, not one emaciated from the beginning of the war to the present”, and dismisses claims to the contrary as “the current fad, the current lie”, which “spreads like wildfire”?
Anyone in any doubt only needs to glance – and these are not easy for the eye to linger upon – at the heart-rending images of skeletal children in Gaza starving to death. The Israeli government has long refused to allow foreign media into the war zone in Gaza, a suspicious policy in itself, but that has not prevented journalists already there and in the region from revealing the harrowing truth about the situation.
