Cogat, an Israeli military agency that manages civil affairs in the Palestinian territories, said again on Tuesday (12) that the terrorist group Hamas tries to “amplify the narrative of hunger in Gaza” by including among the dead by malnutrition “patients with serious diseases”.
“Despite the supposed high rate of death in July, the Hamas Ministry of Health has not published the identity of the deceased as it did in the past,” says the COGAT statement. “This discrepancy between numerical information and publications [de nomes] Individuals raises doubts about their credibility. “
Israel’s defense forces (FDI) said they began an “in -depth” investigation into the case.
“The case -by -case analysis of the deaths shows that most of those who allegedly died of malnutrition had previous medical conditions that led to a deterioration of their health not related to their nutritional status,” the FDI said.
Cogat used the case of Abdullah Hani Muhammad Abu Zarqa, a boy of about 4 years whose images were released by some press vehicles, who claimed that their health problems were caused by hunger.
The military statement issued an alleged document from Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis [cidade ao sul de Gaza]which points out that the minor suffered from vitamin D resistant hypocalcemic rickets, “a genetic disease that causes deficiencies of vitamins and minerals, osteoporosis and bone weakening.”
In recent weeks, Israel has ensured that other minors presented as extreme cases of malnutrition, such as Mohamed Motawaq (the New York Times cover) and Osama Al Raqab (whose photography opened “IL Fatto Daily”), among others, had previous diseases.
The New York Times even retrained that: “We recently published a report on Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians, including Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, who is about 18 months old and suffers from severe malnutrition. Since then, we have obtained new information, including hospital data that attended it and its medical records, and updated our report to include context on problems of problems pre -existing health, “they said in a statement issued by the newspaper’s advisory X.
Cogat states that an average of about 270 trucks a day has entered Gaza last week, although UN agencies insist that a larger number is needed.
