The Israeli hostage releases remind us that the ‘Gaza famine’ was fake

The Israeli hostage releases remind us that the ‘Gaza famine’ was fake: Now that a few of the Israeli hostages are home, we’re beginning to hear details about their lives in captivity. One specific detail really caught my eye, which is that the women experienced kwashiorkor, a sign of severe malnutrition that sees its victims retain fluids to the point at which their stomachs look explosively large. Aside from showing how terribly the hostages suffered, it’s a reminder that the claim that there was a famine in Gaza was a hoax because, unbelievably, none of the published images showed people suffering from kwashiorkor.