David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, published on July 24 his op-ed: “How Israel Made Itself Responsible for Gaza, and For All the Death, Hunger and Destruction There”. The Times is not an opposition newspaper. Of some consequence, the op-ed included one photo of a Gazan boy who starved to death, something Israelis have been told is not happening. The opening lines were:
“Several news agencies published photographs on Tuesday [July 22] showing the dead body of a Gaza boy, named as Abdul Jawad al-Ghalban, 14. The French agency, Agence France-Presse, whose photos showed his family mourning him and a medic cleaning his emaciated body in the morgue at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital, stated as fact that he had died of starvation. Munir Al-Barash, the director of the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, said he was one of 20 Gazans to have died of starvation in the previous 48 hours—an ‘unprecedented’ total, he stressed, given that 88 people had died of hunger since the start of the war 21 months ago. In a briefing for Israeli reporters on Tuesday evening, an Israeli official insisted that there was no shortage of aid being made available by Israel to feed Gazans, and also that Israel had ‘not identified starvation at this current point in time.’”
