Israel’s COGAT, the IDF unit responsible for coordinating humanitarian efforts in Gaza, issued a report responding to the IPC.

• The COGAT report finds that the IPC’s “famine classification rests on an unpublished phone survey and questionable assessments by UNRWA, a U.N. agency known for its workers being an integral part of Hamas, and local NGOs, while speculating wildly about mortality rates that even Hamas’s own Health Ministry does not report.”

The Israeli government also issued a report highlighting the serious methodological flaws in the IPC’s reporting on Gaza.

• This report adds that “IPC experts claimed Gaza City had crossed the famine mortality threshold by assuming vast numbers of unreported malnutrition deaths — yet the figure they cited, six reported deaths per day, is thirty times lower than the famine threshold set by IPC methodology, underlining the implausibility of their claim.”

This IPC report is another biased attack against Israel reflecting a broader pattern of the United Nations and international organizations reflexively blaming Israel and repeating Hamas’ lies.

• In May of this year, United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher falsely claimed: “There are 14,000 babies that will die [in Gaza] in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.” This claim was widely debunked, and was a facially absurd misinterpretation of another IPC report that said there could be “14,100 severe cases of acute malnutrition... over the course of about a year.”
• Fletcher lied again on August 22, saying that “food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel” and called to “open all crossings [into Gaza], north and south.” As he made those comments, hundreds of trucks-worth of aid were sitting inside Gaza, awaiting collection by the U.N. and other international organizations, and crossings into north, central, and southern Gaza were open, with Israel facilitating an average of 300 trucks per day over the preceding weeks into the enclave.
• The U.N. also systematically under-reports the amount of aid entering Gaza, only publicly reporting data on aid delivered by U.N. agencies and the aid organizations working with them; the U.N.’s aid reporting dashboard therefore “fails to include aid delivered by other actors in the humanitarian system, including various states, additional international organizations, the private sector, airdrops, and the distribution centers of the [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation].”
• The U.N.’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) between May 6 and 8 of 2024  lowered the total number of women and children killed during the war by almost 47%, without offering an explanation. The change reflected differences between two separate sets of data being provided by Hamas, which the U.N. routinely relies on for information.

Israel is undertaking a massive humanitarian campaign in Gaza to help the civilian population and prevent aid from benefiting Hamas.

• Since mid-May, more than 10,000 humanitarian aid trucks have entered Gaza.
• Since Hamas’ October 7 attack, approximately 2 million tons of humanitarian aid on 100,000 trucks have entered Gaza.
• The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) has distributed more than 132 million meals as of August 22.

From August 1 through August 17, over 66,000 tons of aid on more than 3,300 trucks entered Gaza.

• For example, on August 21, 220 humanitarian aid trucks were brought into Gaza, while hundreds of trucks-worth of aid were waiting inside Gaza for collection and distribution by the U.N. and international organizations. Israel also coordinated the airdrop of 155 pallets of aid into Gaza.
• The food entering Gaza since the start of August equates to 4,400 calories per person per day.