“Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Saturday, in the wake of a U.N.-backed report proclaiming famine in the Gaza Strip.

The PMO denounced the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification initiative report released on Friday, saying that it amounts to “a modern blood libel, spreading like wildfire through prejudice.”

Not only has there not been hunger in Gaza since Aug. 15, as the IPC report states, the PMO said, but “prices have plunged because of Israel’s surge in humanitarian aid in Gaza.”

The government body listed the humanitarian measures that the Jewish state has taken since the Hamas-led invasion of Israel’s south on Oct. 7, 2023, resulted in the deaths of 1,219

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