The Manufactured Famine: How the UN and Aid Bureaucrats Tried to Weaponize Hunger Against Israel. A Scandal Brews in Geneva.

A senior World Health Organization official has just blown the lid off one of the most cynical manipulations in modern humanitarian politics.

Dr. Michel Thieren, WHO’s representative to Israel, revealed that in December 2023, top humanitarian organizations convened in Geneva not to save lives, but to decide how to brand Israel as a perpetrator of “famine.”

In a stunning interview on the French-Israeli podcast Mosaïque, Thieren described sitting in a supposedly neutral, multilateral “governance meeting” on Gaza that descended into a political witch trial.

“They were not asking how to measure famine,” he said. “They were asking how to use the term famine, as a tool to exert pressure.”

By the end of the session, the verdict was already written: Israel guilty, Palestinians victims.

“The guilt had already been assigned,” Thieren recalled. “The crimes were predetermined, they just needed the evidence to fit the accusation.”

He told the Mosaïque podcast that in Geneva: “There was a gathering of experts who asked the question quite forcefully. I was there, and I was absolutely stunned. What they were saying, essentially, was that one should try to find a term that could be used to exert pressure. ” pic.twitter.com/T71ucQbANE

— Leslie Kajomovitz (@kikas6652) October 28, 2025

Predetermined Crimes and Prewritten Headlines

Thieren went further, accusing NGOs and international agencies of “throwing around” loaded terms like genocide and famine “right from the start.” The aim, he suggested, was to generate political leverage, not scientific accuracy.

While WHO officially avoided adopting the “genocide” narrative, Thieren warned that other humanitarian players were drunk on it, intoxicated by the moral theatre of their own storytelling.

“There’s this kind of… pleasure in announcing catastrophe,” he said. “All these accounts, wherever they come from, are tinged with antisemitism.”

That statement landed like a bombshell: a senior WHO official accusing his own ecosystem of antisemitic narrative-building.

The UN, NGOs like @amnesty, and nearly every legacy media outlet have been calling this 'famine' and 'genocide' for two years.

It is the greatest hoax of modern times - and it was carried out in plain sight, as the truth was there to see all along. This is Gaza.

ht @imshin pic.twitter.com/yljSDqk8lO

— David Collier (@mishtal) October 15, 2025

The Missing Corpses of Gaza’s ‘Famine’

For most of 2025, media outlets from The Guardian to Al Jazeera parroted the claim that Gaza was in “famine conditions.” Yet critics pointed to a basic problem: no evidence of mass starvation. In every historical famine, from Ethiopia to Yemen, the world has seen harrowing images of skeletal victims. But in Gaza, those images never materialized.

Still, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-linked body, declared in August 2024 that a famine was “ongoing” in parts of Gaza. Their explanation? “Devastation prevented accurate body counts.”

Instead, the IPC claimed to use a proxy measure: mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC), the standard test for child malnutrition. According to IPC’s own guidelines, a famine threshold is crossed when 15% of sampled children show malnutrition.

But new data from the Global Nutrition Center (UNICEF’s technical partner) revealed that the threshold was never met.

After declaring FAMINE in Gaza, UNICEF’S OWN data found there was actually NO FAMINE IN GAZA….

Does anyone else hear crickets or is that just me?

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Full episode on The Erin Molan Show

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— Erin Molan (@Erin_Molan) November 3, 2025

The Data That Undermines the Narrative

In September, the so-called “State of Palestine Nutrition Cluster”, ironically funded by the same UN network, released its age-weighted MUAC data, showing that in July, malnutrition peaked at 14.8%, then fell sharply in August to pre-crisis levels.

The “famine-level” 15% mark was never reached.

So how did the IPC get its “famine” headline? By using unweighted data, which inflates results by counting more younger children, who naturally have smaller arm measurements.
That methodological sleight-of-hand raised the rates to 16.2%, just enough to cross the famine threshold.

“Using unweighted averages without age adjustment inflates the results,” explained data analyst Mark Zlochin to the JNS last week, who spent months auditing Gaza’s nutrition data. “Once you apply proper age weighting, the entire narrative collapses.”

A Famine Built on Fabrication

According to Zlochin’s findings, the IPC’s determination was “based on fabricated data” that presented unweighted, skewed samples as legitimate famine-level indicators.

“It was always a hoax,” he said. “And those hacks knew it all along.”

Even the UN’s own internal data now confirms this. In Gaza City, where the IPC claimed famine was raging, malnutrition actually declined from July into August, a trajectory impossible under real famine conditions.

Zlochin also revealed that IPC officials manipulated data timelines, moving lower malnutrition figures from late July into early July to fake a “rapid upward trend.” The goal: create the illusion of an “exponential” spike that justified emergency declarations.

The UN’s Confidence Game

When confronted last summer, Jean-Martin Bauer, Director of the UN World Food Programme’s food security service, confidently told JNS that the “famine” claim was “peer-reviewed and indisputable.”

“The prevalence of malnutrition among children has tripled between May and July,” Bauer insisted. “That exponential increase means an exponential rise in mortality risk.”

But that “tripling” was based on the inflated, unweighted data that UNICEF’s own release later disproved. No surge in deaths occurred, and no famine-level collapse was recorded.

HonestReporting’s data review by Salo Aizenberg later demonstrated the absurdity: If Gaza had truly reached famine levels on Aug. 22, IPC models predicted 10,000 starvation deaths by Oct. 10.

Actual count? 192, many with pre-existing conditions, less than 2% of the prediction.

🚨Final Gaza fake “famine” analysis: IPC declared famine on Aug 22. Through ceasefire on Oct 10 there should have been 10,000 starvation deaths. But Hamas/UN counted 192 (most if not all with pre-existing conditions). That's 98% below famine levels. It was always a hoax. 1/ pic.twitter.com/jWcZOnwdAe

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) October 21, 2025

Weaponizing Suffering, Abandoning Science

The revelation from Dr. Thieren exposes more than statistical malpractice. It exposes the politicization of humanitarianism itself, the conversion of hunger, suffering, and death into propaganda tools against Israel.

From Geneva boardrooms to UN press releases, the same script played out:

• Premise: Israel is guilty.

• Method: Reinterpret data to fit guilt.

• Outcome: Famine by declaration, not by evidence.

And when confronted with contradictions, with children who were not skeletal, with hospitals still functioning, with aid still flowing through Israeli crossings, the bureaucrats simply moved the goalposts.

As Thieren lamented, “The crimes were predetermined. The reports just followed.”

This thread starkly highlights the lack of mortality that would necessarily come if real famine, or even levels below, took hold in Gaza. 2/2 https://t.co/yVEh7mIrLp

— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) October 23, 2025

Conclusion: The Famine That Never Was

What the world witnessed was not a humanitarian crisis, but a humanitarian hoax. A narrative born in conference rooms, not refugee camps. A “famine” engineered not by hunger, but by hatred.

It is a chilling reminder that in today’s international institutions, facts are negotiable, but politics are sacred. And in the war against Israel, truth itself has become the first casualty.