U.N. officials make outlandish, unverified claims — like the assertion that 14,000 babies would die within 48 hours if aid wasn’t delivered — a baseless and inflammatory fabrication. Needless to say, 14,000 Gazan babies did not die in two days.
From: The Jerusalem Post May 30, 2025 False: UN aid chief admits starving Gazan baby claim was amid 'desperation' to let aid in
Fletcher admitted that when he made the comment, he was 'desperate' to get aid into Gaza, acknowledging that he needed to be more precise with language.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher expressed regret for his recent claim that 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours in Gaza without aid — a claim the UN retracted - in an interview with the BBC on Friday.
Fletcher acknowledged a need to be "precise" with language, admitting that when he made the comments, “we were desperately trying to get that aid in.”
"We were being told we couldn't get it in, and we knew that we'd probably have a couple of days, a window to get as much aid in as possible, and that was being denied, and we were desperate to get that in. And so yes, we've got to be utterly precise with our language, and we've clarified that," he said
After retracting Fletcher’s statement, the UN later cited a report that said there could be 14,100 cases of malnutrition in children in Gaza between April 2025 and March 2026 a timeframe of one year, not two days.
When questioned by the BBC about his claim of “10,000 aid trucks on the Gaza border, cleared and ready to go” — a claim that had been refuted by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Fletcher said that he “especially needed to be careful and really precise."
Despite his retraction, Fletcher still maintained that Israel has caused forced starvation in Gaza, amounting to a war crime. “It is classified as a war crime. Obviously, these are issues for the courts to take the judgement on, and ultimately for history to take a judgement on,” he told the BBC.
UN: I, don't like your kind of people -- dressed up in those silk suits -- and try to pass yourselves off as decent UN but the fact is, I despise your masquerade -- the dishonest way you pose yourselves. Yourselves, and your whole anti-Israel UN
Anti-Israel Nations: Irresponsible, False, baseless and inflammatory fabrication, outlandish, unverified claims, antisemitic and some
if aid wasn’t delivered — a baseless and inflammatory fabrication. 
Needless to say, 14,000 Gazan babies did not die in two days. 
