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UN-backed data undercuts viral Gaza famine claims as child malnutrition falls
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EXCLUSIVE: A surge in online claims warning of famine in Gaza is gaining traction across social media and international outlets, but newly surfaced data reviewed by Fox News Digital from the United Nations, the Board of Peace and the Israeli military tells a sharply different story.
The figures were shared at a meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC), a forum that coordinates international aid to the Palestinians, by the Board of Peace and described as based on reporting from the U.N.
Children aged 6 to 59 months admitted for acute malnutrition treatment rose from 2,807 cases in January 2025 to a peak of 17,384 in August 2025 before declining steadily to 3,043 in March 2026, an approximately 83% drop, according to the data.
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The figures challenge a rapidly spreading narrative that Gaza is facing widespread famine, a claim gaining traction across global media and shaping international pressure on Israel.
Gazans carry food aid airdropped by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. (TPS-IL)
The dataset also indicates that most remaining cases are now classified as «moderate» or linked to chronic medical and genetic conditions requiring sustained support.
Separate figures presented at the same meeting, collected by the Board of Peace, show a sharp increase in humanitarian aid delivery following the establishment of the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in October 2025. The U.S.-led, multinational hub, located in Israel, is designed to manage post-war Gaza stabilization.
The Civil-Military Coordination Center oversees aid delivery, monitors a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, and coordinates efforts with 60 nations and organizations.
The figures show weekly truck deliveries into Gaza rose from approximately 1,300 to 4,200, while the percentage of trucks diverted en route dropped from roughly 90% to just 1% post-Civil-Military Coordination Center.
The number of people reached with food assistance increased from about 400,000 before the Civil-Military Coordination Center was established to approximately 2.1 million post-coordination center.
And yet, April has seen a spike in messaging alleging «engineered starvation» in Gaza, according to HonestReporting, a U.S.-based pro-Israel media watchdog, with the narrative spreading from Hamas-linked channels to mainstream platforms in a matter of days.
«On April 13, our team began seeing posts about soda and Nutella entering Gaza at the same time that Doctors Without Borders accused Israel of trying to ‘destroy the conditions of life,’» said Jacki Alexander, CEO of HonestReporting. «We used our proprietary AI tool to identify whether this was part of a broader pattern, and that analysis formed the basis of our memo.»
«Since then, we’ve seen continued use of famine-related language across social media and ideologically aligned outlets,» Alexander said. «Content claiming mass starvation has reached millions of views, and the narrative has expanded to include allegations about blocked medical supplies.»
The HonestReporting report said the messaging quickly escalated, with viral posts claiming bakeries were shutting down, food supplies were critically low and an «entire generation» of children faced irreversible harm. The narrative, claimed the report, was further reinforced by coverage in outlets including Drop Site News, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss and Al Jazeera English.
«Hamas understands that its best leverage exists in the information war,» Alexander said.
«That’s why we developed these tools — to document narrative warfare and create a blueprint to dismantle it,» Alexander told Fox News Digital.
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President Donald Trump participates in a charter announcement for his Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts during the 56th annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2026. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies nonprofit, said, «What we’re seeing is a recurring pattern in this conflict where the humanitarian narrative is being weaponized.»
Goldberg argued that the timing of the famine claims is tied to growing pressure on Hamas to disarm and to broader diplomatic efforts involving the United States, Arab states and international partners.
«One of those weapons is trying to resurrect a narrative of famine,» he said.
Hamas is seeking to «undermine» a coalition involved in shaping Gaza’s post-war future, according to Goldberg, and prevent consensus around next steps.
«Hamas is the isolated party, and they do not want to disarm,» he said.
Goldberg said that, unlike earlier stages of the war, the current environment makes it harder for such claims to take hold.
«You now have months of ceasefire, and the U.N. and other partners have been directly involved in the humanitarian effort,» he said.
«They all have the data… and they are all in a position where there’s a brick wall Hamas is going to find for its disinformation tactics,» he added.
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Personnel work at the U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center in Kiryat Gat, Israel, on Nov. 19, 2025, coordinating with Israeli counterparts to monitor the Gaza truce. (Ahikam Seri/AFP)
«What worked against just Israel a year ago cannot work as well against an entire coalition,» Goldberg said.
A senior Israeli military official told Fox News Digital that during the ceasefire, humanitarian throughput into Gaza averaged roughly 600 trucks per day, far above what the official said U.N. planning models estimated was required to meet baseline food needs.
«According to the U.N., it’s somewhere between 115 to 130 trucks a day,» the official said, while emphasizing that recent aid levels have significantly exceeded that threshold.
The official said that despite temporary disruptions during the Iran conflict, crossings quickly reopened and aid volumes returned to high levels, arguing that current famine allegations are «completely false.»
«It’s impossible with the amount of aid that is going in,» the official said. «There is no shortage of food in the Gaza Strip for an extended period.»
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) similarly told Fox News Digital that Israel’s defense establishment believes Hamas is attempting to exploit global attention shifting toward Iran and Lebanon by pushing renewed humanitarian collapse narratives about Gaza.
Hamas has repeatedly sought throughout the war to portray «a deliberately false narrative of the collapse of the humanitarian system» in Gaza in order to increase international pressure on Israel and shape negotiations, according to COGAT.
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World Food Programme aid is positioned at the Erez crossing on the Israel-Gaza border, according to an IDF spokesman. (IDF Spokesman)
A security official said Hamas intensifies such campaigns whenever diplomatic pressure rises.
«Hamas is trying to stall for time and is using all means to maintain its grip on power,» the official said. «Whenever negotiations over an agreement take place, Hamas intensifies false campaigns about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in order to secure international support through fabricated crises.»
Fox News Digital has reached out to the United Nations and the World Food Programme for comment.
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GOP gubernatorial hopeful blasted by critics for ‘lying’ on stage about illegal immigrant hires
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Rick Jackson, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful in Georgia, is facing heat from critics calling him a «fraud» and claiming he lied during a debate earlier this week when the candidate struggled to answer whether he has illegal aliens working for him.
«I don’t know,» Jackson replied when his fellow Republican frontrunner in the race, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, asked him point-blank whether he has any illegal aliens working for him.
Jackson explained he was not directly involved in the hiring process in question, but he also said on the debate stage that anyone making hires for him «obey[ed] the laws,» including verifying employment eligibility using the appropriate federal «verification» measures despite saying the opposite during a sworn deposition.
After his contradictory remarks on the debate stage Monday night, Jackson’s critics leaped at the opportunity to call him out, pointing to his sworn remarks from a worker’s compensation case, during which Jackson admitted that new hires were not vetted using mandatory federal I-9 forms meant to ensure employees are eligible to work.
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Republican candidate for governor in Georgia, Rick Jackson, has been embroiled in controversy over whether he has been hiring illegal immigrants to do landscaping at his mansion. (Rick Jackson for Governor/Charles Ommanney via Getty Images)
«Rick Jackson is lying to someone. Either he lied in his deposition under oath or he lied to Georgians on the debate stage,» said political strategist Phil Vangelakos after the debate. «It’s pretty clear that he knows he’s employed illegal immigrants.»
«Richie Rick Jackson is a fraud that will say what he needs to in order to win and is pretending to be a Trump Conservative, when in fact, he is a Bush moderate,» said Georgia Tea Party activist Debbie Dooley, who is unrelated to the football coach turned Republican candidate for Georgia governor, Derek Dooley. «He campaigns against illegals, yet he hires them.»
The criticism against Jackson stems from a worker’s compensation lawsuit Jackson found himself embroiled in, which included documents and records indicating he was paying at least one landscaper at his mansion who is undocumented, possibly more. The story was first reported by The New York Post ahead of Monday night’s debate.
The suit was filed against Jackson Investment Group, LLC, and JIG Real Estate, LLC, which is owned by the former firm. Jackson is publicly listed as the CEO of both companies as well.
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According to the case’s filings, Jackson «maintained a long-standing workforce of multiple laborers performing landscaping and property maintenance work for decades, including individuals without work authorization who nonetheless performed continuous employment for the employer.»
Jackson was deposed as part of the case, during which Jackson indicated he was unaware that his hires were undocumented immigrants. However, according to the deposition, Jackson was aware that his new hires were not being vetted using mandatory I-9 verification forms.
«No,» Jackson replied when asked in the deposition if he does any employment verification through the I-9 system.
In other parts of the deposition, Jackson echoed what he said Monday night, that he was not directly involved with the hiring of workers and only engaged with the landscaping superintendent.
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«I know that sounds confusing,» Jackson explained in his deposition. «But most of our — if we have other employees, we usually hire them through JIG or another entity. I’m talking about if JIG has employees, we hire them through another entity. I’m not sure that we have any direct employees, from a payroll standpoint, out of JIG Real Estate.»
Rick Jackson, Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, speaks at a campaign event. (Rick Jackson Campaign)
Greg Bluestein, a reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, pointed out Wednesday that it «didn’t take long» after Monday night’s debate for one of Jackson’s leading opponents in the GOP primary battle, which will culminate with a May 19 primary election, to attack Jackson over the inconsistency of his statements.
«No I-9’s, no background checks for decades,» says a narrator in an attack ad from the Jones campaign. The ad then cuts to Jones asking Jackson on the debate stage whether he has any illegal immigrants working for him, to which Jackson responds, «I don’t know.»
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«He knew,» the narrator chimes in. «He’s not just hiring illegal immigrants, he’s lying to Georgians.»
Burt Jones, then-Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, speaks as Republican Gov. Brian Kemp listens at a press conference in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 7, 2022. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)
When asked for a response to the backlash, Jackson’s team said that the takeaway from the debate «is the universal agreement that Burt Jones has used his office corruptly to enrich himself and attack his political opponents.» The campaign spokesperson also alleged that much of the criticism targeting Jackson stems from people part of the Jones campaign.
«It’s like a corrupt politician to attack Rick over someone hired by his landscaper,» the spokesperson added. «In the debate exchange, Rick talked about hiring thousands of people per year, a reference that could only be about Jackson Healthcare, which has used E-Verify since 2012. Rick would never knowingly hire someone in the country illegally and, as governor, he’ll make Georgia No. 1 in criminal illegal deportations.»
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The primary election on May 19 will also include GOP front runners Attorney General Chris Carr, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and former college football coach Dooley.
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Estados Unidos: en un fallo clave, la Corte Suprema cambió una medida electoral que podría favorecer a los republicanos
Con un fallo este miércoles, la Corte Suprema estadounidense de mayoría conservadora cambió una medida electoral que impide a los Estados rediseñar distritos con criterios raciales, una decisión que limita los derechos de las minorías y que podría abrir la puerta a que republicanos recuperen circunscripciones de mayoría negra en el sur del país.
En una votación de 6 a 3, alineada con la mayoría automática conservadora ante la minoría progresista que integra la Corte, el Tribunal dio la razón a los que demandaban contra el Estado de Luisiana por haber creado un segundo distrito de mayoría negra. Anuló así una parte esencial de la Ley del Derecho al Voto de 1965, una de las grandes conquistas de la era de los derechos civiles.
La decisión abre la puerta a que los republicanos se apuren a rediseñar distritos electorales en poder de sus rivales, especialmente en el sur del país. Son circunscripciones llamadas aquí de “mayoría minoritaria” en las que predomina un grupo minoritario en la composición demográfica del conjunto del país, por ejemplo, los afroamericanos o latinos.
La sentencia cambia las reglas electorales de Estados Unidos durante las últimas seis décadas y podría tener consecuencias en las elecciones legislativas de noviembre, en las que el partido republicano de Donald Trump se juega la mayoría de una o de las dos Cámaras.
Los sondeos actuales indican que los republicanos podrían sufrir no solo la perdida de la cámara baja sino también el Senado ya que muchos votantes están disgustados con ciertas políticas del presidente, sobre todo su gestión de la economía y la inflación, y el manejo de la guerra con Irán, un conflicto que ha hecho que el precio del combustible en Estados Unidos haya alcanzado un pico de hasta 4,16 de promedio en el país.
Sin el respaldo del Congreso con el que ahora cuenta, Trump vería afectada la segunda parte de su mandato y podría crecer la posibilidad de un impeachment.
La mayoría de la Corte, cuya opinión redactó Samuel Alito, uno de los magistrados más conservadores, deroga la disposición que impide que el diseño de los distritos electorales, una práctica que en EE.UU. se conoce como “gerrymandering”, discrimine el poder de decisión en las urnas de los negros, hispanos, nativos estadounidenses y asiáticos, que es un electorado que tradicionalmente vota a los demócratas. O sea que ya no se podrá privilegiar el derecho de esas minorías a verse reflejados en los políticos que las representan.
Según especialistas citados por The New York Times, el fallo podría abrir la puerta a que estados gobernados por republicanos eliminen distritos electorales de población afroamericana o latina —que tienden a favorecer a los demócratas—, y esto podría afectar el equilibrio de poder en el Congreso. Un rediseño de distritos de que sea mayormente poblados por minorías, especialmente en estados del sur de Estados Unidos, podría costarles escaños a demócratas afroamericanos, añadieron.
Si bien en principio la decisión puede mejorar la suerte de los republicanos antes de las elecciones legislativas, está por ver qué tan grande será la ventaja que supondrá en realidad.
El caso afectó directamente a un estado, Luisiana, anulando su mapa de congresistas y probablemente provocará allí que los demócratas pierdan al menos un distrito de tendencia demócrata. Pero los expertos señalaban que no estaba claro de inmediato cómo podría desarrollarse la sentencia en los otros estados que aún no han celebrado sus elecciones primarias este año.
En Florida, donde el gobernador Ron DeSantis y los republicanos presentaron esta semana un nuevo mapa que podría añadir cuatro bancas con inclinación hacia el Partido Republicano. La decisión de este miércoles probablemente alimentará esos argumentos oficialistas.
Más allá de Luisiana o Florida, la situación se vuelve mucho menos clara de cara a estas legislativas. Pero el partido republicano, que se ve muy acorralado por las encuestas de cara a las elecciones, podría comenzar a activar rápidamente el rediseño de distritos en otros estados para conseguir algunas bancas más.
No será tan fácil. “Es extremadamente improbable que algún estado que ya haya iniciado su proceso de votación anticipada intente dibujar nuevos mapas antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato”, afirma Nick Corasaniti, el experto electoral de The New York Times en un análisis. “Eso equivaldría a desechar votos emitidos legalmente y podría crear caos y confusión entre votantes y candidatos”.
Señala que también es poco probable, aunque aún posible, que los estados donde haya pasado el plazo de presentación de candidatos intenten redibujar sus mapas. Esa medida requeriría que los estados aprobaran nuevas leyes y cambiaran plazos.
Los plazos para presentar la presentación ya han sido superados en muchos estados. Otros han iniciado el proceso de votación anticipada. Eso deja solo a unos pocos estados que podrían intentar redibujar sus mapas para obtener una ventaja partidista en noviembre.
Más allá de todo, el fallo tiene también un peso simbólico significativo, señala The Washington Post, al desmantelar en la práctica el último gran pilar de una ley de 60 años de antigüedad, considerada desde hace mucho tiempo como uno de los logros más destacados de la era de los derechos civiles, que prohíbe las prácticas discriminatorias en el voto y que contribuyó en gran medida a aumentar la representación de las minorías en los cargos estatales y federales.
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Sanctioned tankers disguised as Iraqi vessels are moving hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian crude as President Donald Trump doubled down on the port blockade to squeeze Tehran’s oil lifeline, according to maritime intelligence.
Windward AI claimed Wednesday that a group of U.S.-sanctioned tankers are falsifying their location data to come off as anchored off Iraq while secretly loading Iranian oil at Iranian ports.
«Among the tankers spoofing their location in the area identified by Windward are four VLCCs: Alicia (IMO 9281695), RHN (IMO 9208215), Star Forest (9237632), and Aqua (IMO 9248473), using various flags, including fraudulent registries from Curacao and Malawi,» the firm told Fox News Digital.
«For the four VLCCs, each VLCC can hold about 2 million barrels, so four of them would hold 8 million barrels, worth about $800 million at $100 per barrel,» Windward said.
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A cargo ship sails in the Persian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz on April 22, 2026. (AP Photo)
This came as Trump said Wednesday he will keep Iran under a naval blockade until it agrees to a deal addressing U.S. concerns about its nuclear program.
The U.S. administration has demanded that Iran dismantle its uranium enrichment program, while Tehran maintains that enrichment is a sovereign right and nonnegotiable, leaving little room for compromise.
Windward AI noted a «cluster» sanctioned tankers spoofing locations and sighted to the West of the Strait of Hormuz.
«A cluster of 10 Iran-trading, U.S.-sanctioned tankers is now spoofing its AIS location to falsely appear at anchorages off Basrah, Iraq, as the blockade continues to constrict Iranian ports,» Windward explained.
«The vessels identified by Windward Multi-Source Intelligence are manipulating their signals to create a digital alibi,» the intelligence firm claimed.
«By broadcasting fake destination messages to Iraqi ports, the tankers appear to be in Iraqi waters while covertly sailing to Iran to load sanctioned oil.
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«Once loaded, the vessels re-emerge on AIS to suggest a legitimate Iraqi origin for the cargo.»
The U.S. blockade on Iranian ports began April 13 as part of a broader effort to pressure Iran into renegotiating limits on its nuclear program.
The blockade has unfolded in stages, starting with naval deployments and restricted maritime enforcement to limit Iran’s oil exports and economic activity.
Windward said more than two dozen tankers are currently confined west of Hormuz as of Wednesday, with the blockade cutting Iranian oil loadings and exports by more than half.
«This deceptive practice is under intensified scrutiny as the vessels are part of a larger group of more than two dozen tankers currently confined west of Hormuz,» the firm said.
«The handysize tanker Paola and Long Range One tanker Adena, both signaling ‘Iraqi owner’ but linked to a sanctioned network.»
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The firm claimed three medium-range tankers, including Aqualis, Kush and Charminar, and the LPG carrier Royal H (IMO 9155341), which was newly sanctioned in February, are currently displaying «erratic voyage trails to suggest a loading at the Iraqi port of Khor Al Zubair.»
«The tell-tale spoofing signs, including erratic patterns and fake port signals, highlight the shifting tactics used by the dark fleet as the blockade more than halves Iranian oil loadings and exports,» the firm said.
Meanwhile. Iran’s Mohammad Ghalibaf slammed U.S. policymakers Wednesday, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, over the impact of the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports.
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The parliamentary speaker cited «junk advice» and blamed the Treasury for pushing up oil prices.
«Three days in, no well exploded,» Ghalibaf said in a post shared on X.
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