On July 28, 2025: Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, was asked about reports of chronic malnutrition and starvation in Gaza. He responded, “What a bold-faced lie. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.”
However, on that same day, Associated Press reported that the UN and the World Health Organization declared on Sunday, July 27, 2025, “There have been 63 malnutrition related deaths in Gaza this month, including 24 children under the age of 5 – up from 11 deaths total the previous six months of the year.” Gaza’s Health Ministry reported 14 deaths over the last 24 hours alone.
The bold-faced liar here is Benny the Butcher, as he is known to Palestinians suffering in Gaza and the West Bank. He continues to lie to the people of Israel and the world. His goal, and the goal of his far-right and ultra-orthodox supporters is not the elimination of Hamas. It is the complete elimination of Palestine and all the Palestinian peoples barely surviving in the open-air prisons of Gaza and the West Bank.
The international Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, “the leading authority of food crises” according to AP, has been warning of famine in Gaza for months, but has been unable to formally declare a famine because Israeli authorities, under orders from Netanyahu, restrict access to the Palestinian Territory.
When issuing arrest warrants for the war crimes charges against Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, his former Defence Minister, the International Criminal Court stated that “both individuals intentionally and knowingly deprived the civilian population in Gaza of objects indispensable to their survival, including food, water, and medicine and medical supplies, as well as fuel and electricity, from at least 8 October 2023 to 20 May 2024.”
Since October 2023, an estimated over 50,000 Palestinians have been killed. A United Nations committee found Israeli’s methods of warfare in the Gaza Strip to be “consistent with genocide” but the ICC has stopped short of calling Israel out on this front, saying that the court “could not determine that all elements of the crime against humanity of extermination were met.”
Benjamin Netanyahu is dangerously deceiving the people of Israel and spreading bold-faced lies to the rest of the world. He is a war criminal, an intentional accomplice in the murder of thousands of men, women and children, and he will face justice in this world or the next.
I hope the survivors of this conflict find peace and choose not to seek revenge. After all, “the best vengeance is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” We need a lot more shalom. The way I see it.