After Gaza Famine Report, U.S. Is Mostly Silent and Israel Is Defiant

The forced starvation has gone from disgusting to grotesque..

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. Albert Camus

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-report-us-reaction.html

The White House has not commented on a report finding famine in Gaza. Analysts say that absent U.S. pressure, Israel is unlikely to change course.ps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-report-us-reaction.html

A report by a panel of food security experts that found famine in parts of Gaza prompted outrage from many European countries, but not from the United States, Israel’s main backer.

Neither the White House nor the State Department has directly addressed the report, which blamed Israeli restrictions on aid, among other factors, for the famine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday called the report “an outright lie,” saying that Israel had “gone to unprecedented lengths to enable aid to go into enemy territory.”

Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, echoed Mr. Netanyahu’s criticisms on social media. “Tons of food has gone into Gaza but Hamas savages stole it, ate lots of it to become corpulent,” he wrote on X.