# From hunger crisis to ‘obesity’: how Gaza’s UN data is being twisted

https://mins.news/en/item/54573

- Al Jazeera, 2026-09-11 12:30 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/11/from-hunger-crisis-to-obesity-how-gazas-un-data-is-being-twisted?traffic_source=rss

> US and Israeli officials are citing a decline in acute malnutrition cases to claim that Gaza has no hunger and even faces an ‘obesity problem’. Al Jazeera examines what the figures omit and doctors’ accounts of the hunger crisis’s effects on Gaza’s children.