Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism has launched a new perception management campaign aimed at whitewashing Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza since 7 October. Israel, which has massacred children and women in Gaza under the pretext of Hamas, has accused the United Nations of producing biased reports and manipulating information. The Lies of Israel conducted a review of Israel’s claims. Each claim was individually debunked through objective, fact-based sources.
Israel has resorted to projection propaganda in an attempt to shift responsibility for the long-standing genocide it has been conducting in Gaza. Israel, which has targeted civilians openly before the whole world, has claimed that the UN is distorting the realities in Gaza. The Lies of Israel unpacked the institutional contradictions at the core of the report issued by Israel's Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism. The key claims made by Israel against the UN in its digital campaign platforms and official reports were, in turn, debunked using Israel’s own state sources.
''We are protecting civilians'' narrative debunked by leaked classified IDF documents
The report’s claim that ''the Israeli army does not target civilians and has taken unprecedented steps in modern military history to minimise civilian casualties'' was undermined by military statistics leaked from within Israel itself. According to reports cited in the international press and based on Israel’s secret intelligence database, military records indicate that more than 80 per cent of fatalities in the operations were non-combatant civilians.
Military experts and independent monitoring agencies emphasise that Israel’s use of tonne-scale unguided bombs in densely populated civilian areas is entirely inconsistent with its claim of ''reducing civilian casualties". In fact, field reports from the UN and international humanitarian organisations indicate that close to 60 per cent of total casualties in Gaza are women, children, and the elderly, marking what is described as one of the highest rates of civilian asymmetry in modern urban warfare history.
Data-laundering claim flagged by COGAT system
The central claim of the report from Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism—that ''the UN is 'data-laundering' by directly sourcing Gaza casualty figures from Hamas''—has been documented to be inconsistent with the realities on the ground. The casualties recorded by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) are not mere statistics; each entry is individually verified by the individual's name, official ID number, and date of birth.
The Gaza population registry, which serves as the basis for this database, is maintained under the direct control and approval of COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories), an agency within the Israeli Ministry of Defence. This registry, which the Israeli military relies upon as a definitive tool for its field operations, is paradoxically dismissed by the same administration as "fabricated Hamas propaganda" when used to document civilian casualties. Furthermore, methodological reviews by global authorities—including Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and The Lancet, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals—confirm that in all past Gaza conflicts (2008, 2014, and 2021), UN data and subsequent independent forensic examinations matched 95 per cent of the time.
Self-proclaimed "unreliable" data was defended as evidence at The Hague
The most significant rebuttal to the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs' thesis of "unreliable UN data"—used to influence international public opinion—came directly from Israel's own Ministry of Justice and its legal team. In the official documents submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to support its defence, illustrate logistical routes, and outline the humanitarian situation on the ground, the State of Israel presented field reports from UN OCHA and the WHO as official evidence—contradicting the public accusations levelled against these same organisations by other Israeli ministries. This clearly demonstrated the methodological inconsistency and institutional contradiction exhibited by Israeli state institutions in the international arena.
Labelled it as "artificial famine", only to be thoroughly debunked by 19 independent organisations
Israel's claim that "There is no famine in Gaza; the UN is pushing an 'artificial famine narrative' for political ends" has similarly run up against a global wall of evidence. Food insecurity levels in Gaza are not based on unilateral interpretations by the UN, but rather on data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a global consortium of 19 independent organisations, including Oxfam, Save the Children, and international food security institutes. Independent reports formally document that, due to the Israeli-enforced blockade, hunger is being used as a direct weapon of war in the area.
The "trucks are not being inspected" lie was debunked by their own military
The ministry's claim that "Trucks entering Gaza are not inspected, allowing Hamas to smuggle ammunition into the territory" mocks the stark military reality at the border crossings. Every individual humanitarian aid truck entering the Gaza Strip passes through Israeli military inspection points at border crossings such as Karem Abu Salem and is subjected to X-ray screening and rigorous physical inspections before being allowed entry. Reports by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) have also confirmed that logistical oversight remains entirely under the control of Israeli military authorities.
The claim "UNRWA Infiltrated" weakened under the independent investigation
An independent international commission, chaired by former Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Catherine Colonna of France, was established to examine one of the most frequently repeated allegations in the report—that UNRWA had been thoroughly infiltrated by Hamas and had effectively become a terrorist-affiliated institution. Following a comprehensive investigation conducted with the participation of independent research institutions based in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the commission concluded that Israel had not provided the international panel with concrete intelligence-based evidence sufficient to substantiate these allegations.
Allegations of "Hamas Roadblocks" challenged by satellite evidence pointing to Israeli control points
The claim circulated by official Israeli accounts that "Hamas had established checkpoints on Salah al-Din Road to prevent civilian evacuations" was challenged by cyber-intelligence analysts. Independent open-source intelligence (OSINT) communities, including Bellingcat, geolocation specialists, and field observers from Euro-Med Monitor, examined satellite imagery. According to technical geographic analyses, the barriers blocking the route were identified not as Hamas checkpoints but as military control points operated by Israeli forces surrounding the area.
The harshest reality of modern history against claims of "exaggerated child deaths"
Israeli accusations that United Nations officials were engaging in sensationalism and exaggeration by describing the situation as “the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe” were contested by data produced by independent medical and humanitarian organisations. Groups such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and Save the Children International have confirmed with hard field data that the rate of child deaths, limb amputations and destruction of civilian infrastructure has surpassed any crisis in modern history (including Ukraine, Syria, and Yemen).
The allegation of "military headquarters" beneath hospitals remains unproven
Israel accused the United Nations of "obscuring the context of Hamas' use of the hospitals, such as Shifa and Nasser, as military bases" when reporting the shelling of these hospitals. However, investigations conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International, and independent medical observation teams examined these healthcare facilities on the ground. Their findings reported that no systematic military evidence was identified that would justify rendering the hospitals completely inoperative or bombing the intensive care units.
Classification of hostage-taking as a ''war crime'' in UN reports
The claim by the ministry that ''UN agencies completely ignore Israeli hostages'' has also been shown to be entirely unfounded. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have repeatedly called for the immediate release of hostages in all their official statements and have officially described Hamas’ detention of civilian hostages as a ''war crime'' in their reports.
Digital manipulations in the Al-Ahli Hospital massacre exposed
The claim that "the UN wrongly accused Israel in the Al-Ahli Hospital explosion" came under scrutiny in a cyber analysis conducted by forensic architecture experts. While Forensic Architecture and Human Rights Watch examined the blast crater, the Centre for Combating Disinformation of the Directorate of Communications stated that radar and video footage shared by Israel’s official state accounts was deliberately cropped and reversed to mislead the global public, as demonstrated through raw footage.
Forensic assessments revealed that the munitions that destroyed the hospital are consistent not with rockets held by groups in the area but with high-yield munitions found in the inventory of the Israeli Air Force. Furthermore, Hananya Naftali, Digital Media Officer to Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, initially posted on social media immediately after the massacre that "the Israeli Air Force struck a hospital in Gaza" but deleted the post within seconds, and it was archived in official institutional records.
The real cause of the aid truck crisis: Arbitrary quotas and military attacks
The claim in the report that ''the UN is concealing Hamas' looting of aid trucks'' was also refuted by independent humanitarian organisations carrying out logistical distribution on the ground. Oxfam and Human Rights Watch have documented that the primary cause of the food security and distribution crisis in the region is not systemic looting by Hamas but rather Israel's arbitrary quotas on truck crossings, supplies held at the border for months, and the direct targeting of aid convoys by the Israeli military. The DMM, through technical analysis, demonstrated that the videos circulated by Israel as "looting" actually show desperate, starving civilians rushing toward aid trucks and that they were taken out of context as part of a perception management operation.
