Daniel Greenfield reports on a phenomenon that may not come as a complete surprise to Power Line readers. The alleged Gaza famine was mythical:
After two years of barraging social media with lies about a famine in Gaza, Hamas propaganda channels are now trying to cover up their obesity by claiming that Israel is making them fat.
One recent Hamas media story clamored that “they’re forcing us to gain weight,” and objected that supermarkets have “shelves overflowing with chocolate, soft drinks, and cigarettes,” along with unhealthy “flour and various types of cheese used in sweets and pizza, in addition to sugar and flour derivatives used in confectionery production.”
An Arab Muslim settler in Gaza who had previously justified the Hamas massacres complained, “I am compelled to consume carbohydrates, processed cheese, and manufactured meat.”
What some are calling the “Fatocide” reflects the reality that there was never a famine in Gaza, but there was a very real obesity problem. Past reports had found high rates of obesity among children and adults in Gaza and a 2019 study found that almost half of adults over the age of 42 had Type 2 Diabetes. Another Gaza report citing Hamas Ministry of Health numbers claimed that 9.6% of the population in Gaza has diabetes and it’s the cause of 11.2% deaths.
The “Fatocide” is real and is claiming “Palestinian” lives every day.
Greenfield concludes: “From the pizza place to the ice cream shop, Fatostine will be free. Just not calorie free.”
Greenfield’s column was originally posted at Frontpage under the headline “UN Report Shows ‘Palestinians’ Fatter Than Israelis.” Greenfield subsequently posted it here at his Substack site Trajectories, which alerted me to the column.
