# Evidence doesn't point to a genocide in Gaza — despite all of the rage
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Publisher: New York Post · published 2026-09-03 · read 2026-09-09

Original: https://nypost.com/2026/09/02/opinion/evidence-doesnt-point-to-a-genocide-in-gaza-despite-all-of-the-rage/

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## Who is named (13)

- [Tom Fletcher](https://truthscore.com/entity/1768d31c)
- [Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq](https://truthscore.com/entity/1a603f9c)
- [UNICEF](https://truthscore.com/entity/34e9c2f5)
- [Human Rights Watch](https://truthscore.com/entity/406e78cd)
- [UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs](https://truthscore.com/entity/447c37c3)
- [Gaza Strip](https://truthscore.com/entity/634f6f30)
- [Amnesty International](https://truthscore.com/entity/8357b70a)
- [The New York Times](https://truthscore.com/entity/9869dffb)
- [Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/9e6b26cf)
- [US‑Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation](https://truthscore.com/entity/c2b00d7e)
- [Nutrition SMART Survey Result](https://truthscore.com/entity/c9374576)
- [Association of Genocide Scholars](https://truthscore.com/entity/e8b32655)
- [Hamas](https://truthscore.com/entity/fdd1871d)

## What it added

- [14,000 babies in Gaza would die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them](https://truthscore.com/claim/2be1e2f7)
  > In May 2025, Tom Fletcher, the United Nations under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, went on BBC Radio and told the audience that 14,000 babies in Gaza were going to die “in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”
- [There are around 20,000 babies in Gaza](https://truthscore.com/claim/6351b28c)
  > According to UNICEF, there are around 20,000 babies in the entirety of Gaza.
- [The New York Times relayed Fletcher’s allegation to its audience without any skepticism](https://truthscore.com/claim/f5a56221)
  > The New York Times, along with numerous other establishment media outlets, relayed Fletcher’s allegation to its credulous audience without any skepticism.
- [The New York Times ran a front‑page story featuring a photograph of an emaciated Palestinian toddler named Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq](https://truthscore.com/claim/c8061bc5)
  > A couple of months after Fletcher’s pronouncement, for instance, The New York Times ran a front‑page story about starvation in Gaza featuring a haunting photograph of an emaciated Palestinian toddler named Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq.
- [Mohammed Zakaria al Mutawaq suffered from cerebral palsy and other serious preexisting medical conditions, and his appearance had nothing to do with hunger](https://truthscore.com/claim/f4f9e7ce)
  > Unmentioned was that the boy suffered from cerebral palsy and other serious preexisting medical conditions, and his appearance had nothing to do with hunger.
- [The UN report found that 14,000 cases of malnutrition might occur among the 1 million children of Gaza over the next year if aid did not reach them](https://truthscore.com/claim/90614af6)
  > In any event, what the UN report actually found, and even this contention was questionable, was that 14,000 cases of malnutrition might occur among the 1 million children of Gaza, not babies, if aid did not reach them over the next year.
- [The US‑Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation delivered around 187 million meal equivalents, plus produce, and over 1 million packs of supplementary food for…](https://truthscore.com/claim/df185ca0)
  > The US‑Israeli Gaza Humanitarian Foundation delivered around 187 million meal equivalents, plus produce, and over 1 million packs of supplementary food for children to Palestinians before the cease‑fire.
- [Israel provided Gaza with triple the food it needed during the cease‑fire, and malnutrition was lower than prewar levels](https://truthscore.com/claim/37d3d777)
  > Another report found that, despite Hamas’ tactic of pilfering international aid to control the population, Israel had provided Gaza with triple the food it needed during the cease‑fire.
  > Data showed malnutrition was lower than prewar levels.
- [The Nutrition SMART Survey Result found that acute malnutrition in Gaza was 0.5%, one of the lowest rates in the region, and there was no widespread acute…](https://truthscore.com/claim/b0b98fa1)
  > a UNICEF‑led “Nutrition SMART Survey Result” found that not only was there no widespread acute malnutrition in Gaza, but at 0.5%, the Strip had one of the lowest rates in the region.
- [The New York Times has not mentioned the Nutrition SMART Survey Result](https://truthscore.com/claim/f928550c)
  > As of this writing, The New York Times has not bothered to mention it.
- [No credible person argues that Palestinians in Gaza do not suffer because of Hamas’ endless nihilistic wars against Israel](https://truthscore.com/claim/9581c037)
  > No credible person argues that Palestinians in Gaza do not suffer because of Hamas’ endless nihilistic wars against Israel.
- [The charge of genocide, famine, ethnic cleansing and apartheid has been manufactured by a conglomeration of anti‑Israel organizations](https://truthscore.com/claim/d6727975)
  > But the charge of genocide, along with “famine,” “ethnic cleansing,” and “apartheid,” has been manufactured by a conglomeration of anti‑Israel organizations that have been priming the public for decades.
- [Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, a UN body and the Association of Genocide Scholars are described by major media outlets as home to “world’s top…](https://truthscore.com/claim/bb0d28a6)
  > It’s Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or some UN body, along with bogus “expert” organizations such as the Association of Genocide Scholars — habitually described by major media outlets as home to “world’s top scholars,” even though any random nonacademic can pay a simple entry fee and become a member.
- [There was no genocide](https://truthscore.com/claim/a90ca894)
  > There was no genocide.
- [International organizations had to change the way they apply the legal definition of genocide to smear Israel](https://truthscore.com/claim/d84eb14c)
  > The most significant thing to remember about the genocide charge is that international organizations had to change the way they apply the legal definition that has been in place since the 1948 Genocide Convention to smear Israel.
- [Israel delivered more humanitarian aid to Gaza than any army has probably ever delivered to an enemy population during wartime](https://truthscore.com/claim/0f99bc02)
  > And if Israel harbors genocidal intentions, why would it deliver more humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip than any army has probably ever delivered to an enemy population during wartime in history?
- [Israel warned civilians with flyers, roof knocking, phone calls and other mitigation techniques](https://truthscore.com/claim/5ae415ba)
  > If Israel has genocidal intentions, why does it warn civilians with flyers, roof knocking, phone calls and other mitigation techniques?
- [Israel moves populations of entire cities out of the way when confronting Hamas](https://truthscore.com/claim/cda59a49)
  > Why does Israel move the populations of entire cities out of the way when trying to confront Hamas?
- [Israel could annihilate all of Gaza within minutes if it felt like it](https://truthscore.com/claim/e2d1730b)
  > Israel could, of course, annihilate all of Gaza within minutes if it felt like it.
- [Israel has one of the lowest combat‑to‑civilian death ratios in the history of modern warfare](https://truthscore.com/claim/0b6d9adf)
  > If Israel has genocidal intentions, why does the Gaza war have one of the lowest combat‑to‑civilian death ratios in the history of modern warfare?
- [Hamas urges its own people to become cannon fodder, builds tunnels under hospitals, schools and mosques, fires rockets from civilian areas and prevents its own…](https://truthscore.com/claim/9210f871)
  > Hamas urges its own people to become cannon fodder as a means of appealing to friendly Western journalists and intellectuals.
  > Hamas leaders build tunnels under hospitals, schools and mosques.
  > They fire rockets from civilian areas.
- [If Israel had genocidal intentions, there would be a lot more than 70,000 total casualties during the war](https://truthscore.com/claim/8fe3ba07)
  > If Israel had genocidal intentions, there would be a lot more than 70,000 total casualties during the war.
- [The total casualty figure includes deaths from illness, old age, executions, murders, natural causes, preexisting conditions and includes Hamas and Islamic…](https://truthscore.com/claim/df84a484)
  > That total, it needs to be stressed, includes deaths from illness, old age, executions, murders, natural causes and preexisting conditions.
  > Most importantly, it includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters — though that fact is barely ever mentioned by the mass media.
- [The Hamas charter explicitly calls for the genocide of Jews](https://truthscore.com/claim/01e72ccb)
  > Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for the genocide of Jews, could have surrendered...
- [Arab Israelis have higher living standards, longer life expectancies and greater political freedom than Arabs in most neighboring countries](https://truthscore.com/claim/478db34a)
  > Arab Israelis have higher living standards, longer life expectancies and greater political freedom than Arabs in most neighboring countries.
- [If Israel’s goal was ethnic cleansing, the nation is the most spectacularly incompetent operation in human history](https://truthscore.com/claim/a8fd7efb)
  > If Israel’s goal was ethnic cleansing, the nation is the most spectacularly incompetent operation in human history.
- [Blood libels spread by anti‑Israel progressives are meant to distract from the Oct. 7, 2023 attack and weaponize the Holocaust memory against Jews](https://truthscore.com/claim/4f21599a)
  > These blood libels, which have been spread by anti‑Israel progressives for decades before the latest war, are meant to distract from the evil that was perpetrated on Oct. 7, 2023, and strip the memory of the Holocaust from the Jewish people and weaponize it against them.
- [The survival rate of Jews under Nazi control was roughly 30%, while the survival rate for Arab civilians during the Gaza war was around 99%](https://truthscore.com/claim/d8e03958)
  > The survival rate of Jews under Nazi control in Europe was roughly 30% — and only because Nazis did not have time to finish the job.
  > The survival rate for Arab civilians during the Gaza war was somewhere around 99%.
- [There was a war and the bad guys lost](https://truthscore.com/claim/aec991d3)
  > There was a war.
  > And the bad guys lost.

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