The Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the UN report on the famine in Gaza and called it fabricated.

The United Nations (UN) report on the catastrophic famine in the Gaza Strip is deliberately fabricated in favor of the interests of the Hamas movement. This was announced by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on August 22.

The UN statement is based on data from the Integrated Classification of Food Security Stages (IPC).

"The Food Security Assessment Project (IPC) has just published a specially fabricated report tailored to a fake Hamas campaign," the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a Telegram channel.

According to the agency, the IPC distorted its own rules and ignored the criteria in order to make false accusations against Israel. The Israeli Foreign Ministry claims that there is no famine in the Gaza Strip, and the UN documents are based on the lies of Hamas, "whitewashed through organizations with selfish interests."

"Since the beginning of the war, more than 10,000 trucks with humanitarian aid have entered Gaza. In recent weeks alone, a massive influx of humanitarian aid has flooded the Gaza Strip with basic foodstuffs and caused a sharp drop in food prices in local markets," the ministry said.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry added that all IPC forecasts regarding Gaza turned out to be groundless and false.

"We survive on a pot of lentils — and often not even that"

Gazans told Izvestia about ivs for starving children and shelling near humanitarian aid trucks.

Earlier in the day, the United Nations declared a catastrophic famine in the Gaza Strip for the first time. This corresponds to the famine of the fifth phase according to the classification of phases of food security (IPC). The UN called the proposed definition of the situation plausible.

Earlier, on August 21, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip reported 271 deaths from starvation. It was clarified that 112 children were among the dead. The number of injured in hospitals exceeded 2 thousand people. Prior to that, on August 4, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk reported that Israel's refusal to provide citizens of the Gaza Strip with access to food could be qualified as a crime against humanity.

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