On This Day — August 22, 2025 The IPC declared famine in Gaza. It was a farce. A modern blood libel dressed up as science. According to their own standards, that declaration should have produced roughly 10,000 starvation deaths between August 22 and the October ceasefire. Hamas reported 192. 2% of the expected number. If the IPC’s earlier projections had been accurate, more than 124,000 Gazans would already have starved to death by January 2025. They did not. Gaza’s annualized malnutrition mortality rate during the war was 7.9 per 100,000, which was almost identical to the United States’ rate of 6.8. In Sudan, Phase 5 was declared only after a documented mortality of 1.9 per 10,000 per day. That same rate in Gaza would have meant more than 163,000 dead by early 2025. In Gaza, the IPC found almost no nontraumatic deaths linked to hunger or malnutrition. They declared famine anyway. To reach the desired conclusion they: • lowered the measurement threshold • discarded surveys showing lower rates • ignored the actual death numbers Then they circulated photos of children with cerebral palsy and genetic diseases as “proof” of starvation. Senior UN officials claimed 1.1 million people had completely exhausted their food supplies and that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours. None of it happened. Meanwhile Hamas systematically diverted large portions of the aid, documented at 15–25% as official policy, with periods of far higher looting, from which it generated hundreds of millions in revenue. Hundreds of trucks sat unloaded inside Gaza while UN agencies refused to distribute the quantities they themselves demanded. This was not a famine. It was a manufactured blood libel. And most of the world bought it.