The New York Times’ infamous addition of an “editor’s note,” explaining that a Gazan child depicted in a report as facing starvation should be re-interpreted as suffering from “pre-existing” conditions, highlighted the need for honest journalistic assessments of starvation’s impacts, as well as its causes.

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In discussing “The Medical Consequences of Starvation,” Time (7/31/25) not only touched upon lifelong mental health struggles for children like “anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and mental illnesses like schizophrenia,” but also the immediate threat of “refeeding syndrome.” Bodies that have adapted to an altered diet must slowly be reintroduced to normal food intake in an intensely monitored environment, lest they trigger “cardiac arrhythmia, organ dysfunction and death.”

Despite serious efforts in these articles to highlight how starvation will affect the Palestinian population beyond this “war,” none of them named Israel as the perpetrator in their headlines.

(Emphasis original.)