For months, anti-Israel campaigners have been attempting to convince the public that a famine is imminent in Gaza, and for just as many months, that supposed famine has never materialized, with more and more data debunking their allegations.

However, they remain undeterred, as a recent CBC News interview demonstrates. On October 22, host Jacqueline Hansen spoke with Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children, a radical anti-Israel organization which has been given repeated opportunities to spread their disinformation on CBC.

During the introduction of the segment entitled: “Lack of food and other aid catastrophic for children in northern Gaza, UN warns,” Hansen made the demonstrably false claim that “Israel has blocked nearly all food aid from entering the region.”

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With those words, Hansen appeared to forget that she was a CBC News host, and not an anti-Israel activist spreading Hamas-friendly propaganda. On any given day, more than 100 trucks are entering Gaza, and in fact, the day before the interview aired, more than 600 trucks filled with humanitarian aid were sitting, waiting to be delivered into Gaza by United Nations agencies.

Ironically, Hansen’s guest, Saieh, contradicted the host’s introductory words by lamenting what she described as low levels of aid, but which still acknowledged that humanitarian aid was still, in fact, entering Gaza. However, Saieh nevertheless alleged that “almost nothing has entered northern Gaza” in recent days. And by “almost nothing,” she presumably was referring to the hundreds of aid trucks which have, in fact, entered northern Gaza in recent days.

In sharp contrast to the apocalyptic fear mongering from anti-Israel activists and their enablers in the news media, the reality on the ground is often very different than as presented. Beyond the number of humanitarian aid trucks entering Gaza – providing that food has not been, in Hansen’s words, “blocked” – even the United Nations has quietly acknowledged the lack of famine.

In an October 2024 report, the United Nations-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system has found a marked improvement in the food situation in Gaza, repudiating the shameless attempts by Saieh and her organization to convince viewers otherwise.

Even more evidence debunks this ‘famine’ lie. Grassroots video footage by people in Gaza show stalls in Gaza bustling with food, iPhones, and gourmet cheesecake for sale. Unsurprisingly, none of these details – the number of food trucks entering Gaza, a United Nations report showing an improvement in food security, and videos on the ground corroborating this reality – were ever mentioned during the CBC News segment.

Nor was Hamas ever mentioned. Hamas, the genocidal Islamic terrorist group which launched an unprovoked war on Israel on October 7, 2023, and which continues to hold more than 100 hostages inside the enclave, was utterly erased from mention, a particularly egregious omission given that their captors, Hamas, have also stolen food aid from Gazans.

Not content to attempt to convince viewers that there is a famine in Gaza when there is none, Saieh also repeated the oft-cited statement that large numbers of aid workers have been killed in Gaza. Conveniently, Saieh did not give any further evidence as to who these aid workers were. Had she done so, she might have mentioned that a number of “aid workers” have also been Hamas terrorists.

Not only has the slanderous lie of a famine in Gaza has not been borne out by any actual evidence, it also serves to redirect the public’s attention away from the indefensible war crimes by Hamas, and towards an entirely fictional allegation against Israel. While it is predictable that a staffer from Save the Children would peddle such disinformation, it is scandalous that a CBC News host would peddle it also.