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Lies from @SkyNews: "Newborn babies now have LITTLE CHANCE OF SURVIVAL in Gaza" because of starvation. The actual odds: >99.96% according to Hamas health ministry
Sky News not only ignores the fact that the UN admits there is no famine in Gaza, but it doubles down, with a headline saying, "Newborn babies now have little chance of survival in Gaza, hospital director warns."
The first words of of the video report has the narrator saying, "The chances of a newborn baby surviving in Gaza now are not good."
We are then treated to scenes of babies and children with their ribcages visible.
The report is libelous in two ways: One is that it pretends that children who have other medical issues are dying from starvation.
The "star" of this video is a dead baby: "The body of a baby that didn't pull through lies in a hospital incubator, awaiting burial. She was born two months premature because her mother was so exhausted. Too soon for her parents to even name her. Her tiny body is now wrapped in a green shroud."
If she didn't live long enough to be named, then chances are she died soon after birth from complications of childbirth, not malnutrition. What parent wouldn't name a child who is alive for days?
We've seen this before. The BBC reported that an otherwise healthy boy starved to death but didn't mention (until forced to correct) that he happened to have cerebral palsy.
This Sky report shows a child, Amjad, that it says is starving - but then mentions that he was one of the children who Israel evacuated to send to hospitals abroad. CNN showed Amjad and his older brother Ahmed, who was also evacuated, and didn't mention anything about starvation; his brother Ahmed looks well-fed.
