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COTABATO CITY, September 2, 2025 — The League of Bangsamoro Organizations (LBO) today, Tuesday, has issued a strong counter-statement against at least Filipino reporter’s whitewashing of the genocide in Gaza, Palestine, which the United Nations has already acknowledged.
News reports have it that the Israeli Embassy in the Philippines invited 10 Filipino members of the media recently to a junket and took them near Gaza but controlled what they were able to see and observe.
The LBO took note of a Daily Tribune article written by Vernon Velasco titled “Gaza’s Fake Famine” minimizing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
The LBO condemns the article and asserts that the piece irresponsibly downplays the famine in Gaza and echoes propaganda designed to whitewash Israel’s starvation policy against the Palestinian people.
Read: Filipinos, Palestinians ask Filipino reporters to not whitewash genocide in Gaza
International bodies including the United Nations, World Food Programme (WFP), and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have confirmed catastrophic levels of food insecurity in Gaza, with children already dying of hunger and dehydration.
According to LBO, Velasco’s dismissal of this reality not only undermines journalistic integrity but also contributes to the erasure of war crimes.
“The famine in Gaza is not fake — it is a documented reality, recognized by global humanitarian institutions,” LBO declares. “Starvation is being weaponized against an entire population, in direct violation of international law. Journalism must stand for truth, not serve as a mouthpiece for oppression.”
The LBO reaffirms its solidarity with the Palestinian people and called on Filipino journalists to uphold their responsibility to truth, accuracy, and humanity.
(As this is being published, a United Nations post dated as early as August 22, 2025, on one of its social media accounts said:
“Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza. Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, marked by extreme food deprivation, acute nutrition and starvation-related deaths.
“‘It’s a man-made disaster, a moral indictment and a failure of humanity itself,'” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, declares.
He adds: “We cannot allow this situation to continue with impunity. No more excuses. The time for action is not tomorrow. — it is now. ” (√)
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League of Bangsamoro Organizations (LBO), United Nations