• The Israeli military campaign in Gaza and its restrictions on the aid entering the enclave have created “mass starvation,” and the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” according to the World Health Organization and the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. The Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Health documented at least 101 hunger‑related deaths in the week leading up to July 22, including 80 children. “Nearly 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, and a third of Gaza’s population is going days without eating,” PBS reported, attributing the information to a director at the U.N. World Food Program. [The Guardian, 7/23/25, 7/29/25; The Washington Post, 7/24/25; United Nations, 7/22/25; PBS, 7/22/25]
• President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged that there's “real starvation” in Gaza, contradicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's claim that “there is no starvation in Gaza.” During a visit to Scotland, Trump urged Israel to permit “every ounce of food” into Gaza and claimed that the U.S. is “going to set up food centers.” [Reuters, 7/28/25; The Guardian, 7/28/25] 

• Israel has repeatedly accused Hamas of stealing the aid provided by humanitarian agencies. According to The New York Times, “The government has used that claim as its main rationale for restricting food from entering Gaza. But the Israeli military never found proof that the Palestinian militant group had systematically stolen aid from the United Nations, the biggest supplier of emergency assistance to Gaza for most of the war, according to two senior Israeli military officials and two other Israelis involved in the matter. In fact, the Israeli military officials said, the U.N. aid delivery system, which Israel derided and undermined, was largely effective in providing food to Gaza’s desperate and hungry population.” [The New York Times, 7/26/25]
• An internal USAID analysis reviewed 156 reported cases of U.S.-funded humanitarian aid theft or loss in Gaza between October 2023 and May 2025 — and found “no reports” that Hamas benefited from U.S.-funded supplies. None of the incidents could be directly attributed to Hamas, and at least 44 incidents where aid was “reported stolen or lost” were linked, directly or indirectly, to Israeli military actions. According to Reuters, there was a “limitation” on the study because “Palestinians who receive aid cannot be vetted, [so] it was possible that U.S.-funded supplies went to administrative officials of Hamas.” Reuters also acknowledged that just because there were no reports of widespread aid diversion by Hamas, it “does not mean that diversion has not occurred.” But while the U.S. State Department continues to assert there is video evidence of Hamas looting aid, it has not released any footage supporting these claims. [Reuters, 7/25/25]  
• Israel has also blamed the U.N. for being uncooperative and refusing to deliver aid to Gaza, but “the U.N. says it is hampered by Israeli military restrictions on its movements and incidents of criminal looting.” As The Associated Press reported, “Large crowds of desperate people, as well as criminal gangs, overwhelm trucks as they enter and strip off the supplies. Witnesses say Israeli troops regularly open fire on the crowds, causing deaths and injuries.” The report quoted a spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, who said, “Taken together, these factors have put people and humanitarian staff at grave risk and forced aid agencies on many occasions to pause the collection of cargo from crossings controlled by the Israeli authorities.” As the nonpartisan think tank the Atlantic Council noted, “Israel has systematically denied the entry of aid, created roadblocks to ensure that the little that does get in is not safely accessible, and perpetuated false narratives intended to discredit the humanitarian community and justify its blocking of aid.” [The Associated Press, 7/25/25; ABC News, 7/28/25; The Atlantic Council, 7/29/25]

• A New York Times article titled “Gazans Are Dying of Starvation” described the ongoing devastation in Gaza and the mounting hunger crisis. From the July 24 piece: “Hollow-eyed, skeletal children languish on hospital beds or are cared for by parents, who gaze helplessly at protruding ribs and shoulder blades, and emaciated limbs resembling brittle sticks.” [The New York Times, 7/24/25] 
• On July 29, the Times added an editor’s note to its July 24 article clarifying that one 18-month-old toddler featured in the piece also had underlying health conditions. A note posted on social media said that the paper had “learned new information, including from the hospital that treated him and his medical records.” However, the piece maintained that “his health deteriorated rapidly in recent months as it became increasingly difficult to find food and medical care, and the medical clinic that treated him said he suffers from severe malnutrition.” [The New York Times, 7/24/25; Twitter/X, 7/29/25] 
• Fox News criticized the Times, writing, “New York Times admits using misleading cover photo of emaciated Gaza child.” Fox News highlighted several examples of right-wing media figures attacking the Times for their correction. [Fox News, 7/30/25]
• Earlier this year, reporting on the worsening hunger crisis in Gaza and its impact on children featured Osama al-Raqab, whose cystic fibrosis had worsened with malnutrition. As The Associated Press reported in early May, “Osama al-Raqab’s cystic fibrosis has worsened since the start of the war. Lack of meat, fish and enzyme tablets to help him digest food meant repeated hospital visits and long bouts of chest infections and acute diarrhea, says his mother, Mona. His bones poke through his skin. Osama, 5, weighs 20 pounds (9 kilos) and can hardly move or speak. Canned food offers him no nutrition.” The Jerusalem Post later reported that al-Raqab was flown to Italy in June and “is receiving care.” [The Associated Press, 5/3/25, The Jerusalem Post, 7/28/25]

• Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk called pictures of starving children in Gaza “propaganda” and “emotional, visual, optical warfare” and claimed the “lies against Israel are relentless,” showing The New York Times’ picture of the 18-month-old suffering from malnutrition and emphasizing his “muscular disorder.” Kirk’s guest Rabbi Pesach Wolicki also claimed Palestinians in Gaza are “not emaciated. They're not starving. The people of Gaza are not starving. But Hamas needs to perpetuate this narrative.” [Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 7/28/25]
• Right-wing podcaster and self-described “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer called claims of starvation in Gaza “insane Pallywood Propaganda,” adding, “There is no starvation in Gaza. It’s a big lie.” She posted: “When the leftists try to make you feel bad over fake starvation in Gaza, ask them if they also cry for the children of cops killed by free Palestine protestors. I’m kind of tired of seeing fake stories about starvation when my tax dollars are going toward feeding terrorists via the World Food Program which is managed by CINDY MCCAIN. … There is no starvation in Gaza. It’s a big lie. … This insane Pallywood Propaganda has to end. If it doesn’t end, Trump should shut down the World Food Program. Let’s see the audit. Penny for penny.” [Twitter/X, 7/28/25; Media Matters, 7/29/25]
• Conservative personality Dinesh D’Souza commented, “Does this look like the behavior of people who are starving?” in response to a story about Palestinians speaking out about having to chase aid airdropped into Gaza. [Twitter/X, 7/29/25]
• As a guest on Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, Jewish News Syndicate’s Ruthie Blum said, “Let me just set the record straight — there is no famine in Gaza.” She continued, “The accusation that Israel is purposely starving people is absolutely outrageous. It's a lie. It's a blood libel, and Hamas spread it.” [Twitter/X, 7/28/25] 
• TheBlaze’s Glenn Beck asked, “Have you seen the pictures of mom or dad holding the babies that are supposedly starving and they seem perfectly healthy? Does that seem reasonable to you? There’s no critical thinking here at all.” Beck then went on to add, “I’m sure there’s hunger there, real hunger. … I’m not dismissing that there’s not real hunger there, and we should do everything that we can. But, you know, let’s put some of the onus on Hamas as well. And then, can we stop listening to the people of Hamas tell us by showing these babies, who now we know have problems from birth.” [Twitter/X, 7/29/25]
• Right-wing podcaster Stephen L. Miller posted, “If Gaza wants to convince anyone other than Western media that we are truly at the brink of a genocidal famine, they should stop putting healthy well fed adults in front of cameras.” [Twitter/X, 7/30/25]

• Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro claimed, “Hamas is stealing the aid.” He also attacked the United Nations, saying, “The UN literally refuses to ship food in if they are escorted by the IDF, because the U.N. wants to fund Hamas.” [The Daily Wire, The Ben Shapiro Show, 7/28/25]
• National Review’s Rich Lowry wrote an article titled “Hamas Is to Blame for Gaza’s Woes,” which claimed that Hamas “considers the agony of Gazans a useful weapon in the narrative war. From this perverted point of view, a famine would be welcome news.” The piece concluded, “Hamas would rather see the population starve than give up on the war, or its grip on power.” [National Review, 7/29/25] 
• After playing a clip of Trump saying the U.S. will get food into Gaza, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner said, “Now if they could just stop the bloodthirsty savages of Hamas from shooting at their own people and taking supplies away from them, that would be a miracle.” [Fox News, The Faulkner Focus, 7/28/25]
• Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed that “the problem is it’s Hamas. Hamas started it. They don’t care about their people. … They want to blame Israel for it.” Co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones agreed, with Earhardt saying, “They steal the aid that Israel sends in, that America sends in.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/29/25]
• Fox News senior strategic analyst Jack Keane claimed it is “Hamas that has stopped the aid from coming in by not making this deal.” Keane: “Are there some humanitarian starvation and serious gravity taking place among the people in Gaza? You betcha there are. But it's Hamas that has stopped the aid from coming in by not making this deal.” [Fox Business, Mornings with Maria, 7/29/25]
• Newsweek’s Josh Hammer alleged that “anti-Israel forces have a new op: Israel-induced famine in Gaza. More lying. Hamas and the UN are obstructing aid from entering.” [Twitter/X, 7/28/25] 
• Stephen L. Miller claimed, “The famine in Gaza is because of Hamas.” [Twitter/X, 7/23/25] 
• On Outnumbered, Fox host Mark Levin claimed, “Hamas is killing and starving its own people.” He added, “The U.N. is actually helping Hamas. The only people feeding the Palestinians there — the United States and the Israelis.” [Fox News, Outnumbered, 7/28/25] 
• Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen agreed with Netanyahu’s claim that there is “no policy of starvation in Gaza” and claimed the reason for famine in the region is “Hamas, not Netanyahu.” Thiessen: “What is important to remember here is the reason why there is starvation in Gaza — Netanyahu is right. There is no policy of starvation in Gaza. The reason is that Hamas has been defeated but they refuse to surrender. They have no chance of prevailing and in any normal situation like this, where they had suffered such military setbacks, the other side would surrender and end the fighting and allow humanitarian assistance to come in. And Hamas is refusing to do that. And that's the source of the problem in Gaza. It's Hamas, not Netanyahu.” [Fox News, Special Report, 7/28/25]
• Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich posted: “Gaza is the only place where the UN and Hamas are purposely starving the population as a PR strategy against Israel.” [Twitter/X, 7/26/25]
• Right-wing podcaster Ben Ferguson claimed starvation in Gaza was caused by “adults who decided to put killing Israelis ahead of making sure their own kids are safe.” Ferguson added, “This is not Israel's fault. This is Hamas' fault; this is terrorists’ fault. They are the ones starving these kids. So I’m sick of people saying somehow this is Israel's fault. They attacked Israel. Period.” [Fox News, The Faulkner Focus, 7/28/25]
• Fox News contributor Guy Benson said Trump is “right” for saying the “fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!” Benson added, “He’s right & every good person who cares (or purports to care) about the suffering in Gaza should say this loudly and with one voice, every day. That so many do not is a grotesque tell.” [Twitter/X, 7/31/25]
• Right-wing radio host Larry Elder claimed, “The food is being stolen by Hamas.” He also claimed that the New York Times article that featured the 18-month old toddler “was a complete and total lie, and so many members of the media … ran with it because it advanced the narrative: Gaza is suffering from mass starvation because of the dastardly Israelis.” [The Salem Radio Network, The Larry Elder Show, 7/31/25]
• Fox News host Lawrence Jones said there’s “propaganda” regarding “the Gaza story,” that “people just believe everything that is put out there, the images,” and that Hamas is “taking some of the aid away.” Jones: “As it relates to the war propaganda, Israel is losing it, when it comes to the Gaza story right here. People just believe everything that is put out there, the images. They may put an editor's note on there [in the Times story], but the damage has already been done. I even talked with some of my friends — they don't know the full story about what Hamas is doing, taking some of the aid away.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 7/30/25]

A few right-wing media figures have acknowledged the ground reality in Gaza, including some in the alt-right or white nationalist communities who have weaponized pro-Palestinian rhetoric and activism in order to advance an antisemitic agenda. In an article addressing why some neo-Nazi groups have attended pro-Palestinian protests, lawyer Karen Dunn wrote, “For these groups, the large-scale protests across America present a golden opportunity to mainstream the same antisemitic tropes they have been pushing for years and, if they get their way, create new opportunities for extremist violence.” 

• Conservative podcaster Tim Dillon: America is “funding a famine” in Gaza. Dillon: “We are now funding the starvation of a group of people halfway across the world or all the way across the world.” [The Tim Dillon Show, 7/28/25]
• Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum acknowledged that there are cases of starvation in Gaza, while mentioning the New York Post’s reporting that one child who was starving “suffers from genetic disorders.” MacCallum: “Meanwhile, we have other sources in Israel saying it is being taken out of context and The New York Post reporting, quote, ‘viral images of starving Gaza boy don't tell the whole story. He suffers from genetic disorders, critics say.’” But there is no — it is quite clear that people are starving in Gaza and we see the numbers and we see the response and we see the food that has not gotten to them.” [Fox News, The Story with Martha MacCallum, 7/28/25]
• On his podcast, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said “starvation in Gaza” is hurting Israel’s image among “young people.” Paul said, “Young people, whether I think they’re in the United States or whether in Israel, they’re sick and tired of it. … I think this problem with Gaza and the starvation in Gaza is calling attention to this and as bad as it is, hopefully it will, some good things will come of that and more people will wake up.” [Rumble, The Ron Paul Liberty Report, 7/30/25]
• While talking about Trump’s attempts to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz acknowledged, “There is mass starvation in Gaza, and Trump has broken with Bibi Netanyahu on that mounting humanitarian crisis.” [Fox News, MediaBuzz, 8/3/25]
• War Room host Steve Bannon responded to Trump’s comment about starvation, saying, “That’s cutting out – that’s really taking Bibi’s biggest tactic. Let’s be blunt and call it what it is.” His guest Jim Rickards responded, saying, “You're right. This is starvation — not just starvation, it's also the hospitals, medicine, medical treatment, etc.” [Real America’s Voice, War Room, 7/29/25]
• Far-right commentator Candace Owens attacked “Zionists,” saying they are “pretending that people are not starving in Gaza.” Owens, who has also engaged in antisemetic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, added: “You are outright mocking, at points, … images of children that are starving, saying that they deserve that. And you can only behave like a sadistic, psychopathic, murderous individual for so long before the world takes notice.” [YouTube, Candace, 7/28/25; Media Matters, 3/22/24; Rolling Stone, 3/22/24]
• MAGA media influencer Jack Posobiec discussed starvation in Gaza on his show, saying, “You don't have to be Pro-Israel or Pro-Hamas to be pro-humanity.” Posobiec — who, as per Southern Poverty Law Center, has “collaborated with white nationalists … and neo-Nazis” and has pushed antisemitic rhetoric — said: “It is these refugee conditions in these displacement camps that have come under fire and where starvation conditions now, as President Trump has said, are exhibited.” He continued, “Here’s what it all comes down to folks, you don't have to be pro-Israel or pro-Hamas to be pro-humanity, OK? You don’t have to come in and say all of this and all of that. But what you do want to be able to say is, it’s war. The war is what’s driving all of this.” [Real America’s Voice, Human Events, 7/29/25; Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed, 8/1/25]
• White nationalist Nick Fuentes spoke about the “ongoing famine, forcible starvation of the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza by Israel.” [Rumble, America First, 7/28/25] 

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson has recently hosted multiple guests who have talked extensively about the realities on the ground in Gaza.

• U.S. Green Beret veteran Tony Aguilar discussed his deployment in Gaza on behalf of a security contractor and talked in detail about “mass starvation” in the Gaza strip. Aguilar continued, “The narrative of there's no starvation and there's no hunger going on in Gaza, that is negligent. That is shameful that anybody would say that.” [YouTube, The Tucker Carlson Show, 7/31/25]
• Carlson also hosted political scientist John Mearsheimer, who labeled Israel’s actions a genocide and asked, “You're going to build a ghetto. You're going to put, you know, 2 million people in a ghetto and continue to starve them. Is this sustainable?” Mearsheimer also claimed, “The Israelis are executing a genocide in Gaza.” [YouTube, The Tucker Carlson Show, 7/30/25, 7/30/25]