Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the IPC food security index report for Gaza on his English-language X account, which is expected to be presented to the Security Council and lead to a UN declaration of a "famine epidemic" in Gaza City, writing that "the IPC report is an absolute lie." According to him, "Israel has no policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation. The only ones deliberately starved in Gaza are the Israeli hostages. This is a modern blood libel, spreading like wildfire through prejudice."