A UN-backed expert body, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), concluded that famine has been reached in Gaza City. Some Israeli broadcasters omitted the IPC findings or treated them with skepticism and sarcasm. Channel 12 labeled the IPC conclusions controversial despite the IPC's two decades of work on food insecurity and malnutrition. Public broadcaster Kan claimed the report relied on sources linked to Hamas and ignored figures from the Israeli army, alleging the UN echoed a "false hunger" campaign and overlooked Israeli hostages. Media commentary has been unusually uniform and often aligned with military perspectives, possibly shaped by journalists' prior IDF service.
Occasionally, the most important news comes from the headline that never appeared. That was the case last Friday on Israel's Channel 13 evening news. Just a few hours earlier, a UN-backed expert body on food security released a report confirming that famine, its most severe category, has been reached in Gaza City. And yet this was not even mentioned. While other news programmes did mention the report, it was clear they had taken its conclusions with a pinch of salt, to say the least.
When referring to the findings of the the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the Channel 12 evening news presenter described them as controversial, despite the fact that the IPC is a globally recognised organisation that has been classifying the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition for two decades. Another example appeared in the coverage of the public broadcaster, Kan. There, it was claimed that the report relied on information from sources identified with Hamas and failed to consider the real numbers
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