TALK TV presenter Julia Hartley-Brewer has been panned for claiming many pictures of starving children in Gaza are "propaganda".
The broadcaster has been chastised for the claims she made in conversation with commentator Sam Armstrong, who also claimed the starvation children are being subjected to is not Israel's fault.
Hartley-Brewer at one stage appeared to poke fun at images of starving children saying "often there's a mother who's quite chubby with the child".
With Armstrong nodding along, she said: "A lot of those pictures are propaganda.
"It's been proved a number of them, these are children who have some congenital, horrible disease, totally unrelated to lack of food.
"Often there's a picture of a mother who's quite chubby with the child and well that's...'hey lady maybe give some of your food to your kid'.
"But there will be people who are starving, there will be people who are not getting access to food. Who's fault is that? Is it Israel's?"
Armstrong replied: "No. It is categorically, 100%, and I mean 100%, Hamas."
Julia Hartley-Brewer says many pictures coming out of Gaza of malnourished children are "propaganda". "Often, there's a picture of a mother who's quite chubby at the back with the child. Hey lady, maybe give some of your food to your kid!"@JuliaHB1 pic.twitter.com/OGGRcAwGl0
— Talk (@TalkTV) July 28, 2025
In the Sunday National, Gaza dentist Ibrahim Shareef Al-Ashi lifted the lid on the horrors of starvation gripping the territory.
He said that people were reduced to eating just one meal a day as Israel prevents food from entering Palestine.
A mass starvation expert also warned the crisis in Gaza is the "most severe" and "minutely engineered" act of deliberate starvation since the Second World War.
Speaking with System Update, Alex de Waal noted that whilst the man-made famine in Gaza is not the largest by numbers, it is more “intense” than the starvation imposed on countries like Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen.
Mark Seddon, a former adviser to Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, said the commentary from Hartley-Brewer was "revolting".
Sharing the clip on Twitter/X, he said: "This is just revolting now. Julia Hartley Brewer should try one of those Gaza diets for a few months.
"And is @TalkTV proud of the fact that it is posting this stuff? Really?"
He went on: "The more grotesque and egregious the crimes against humanity being committed in Gaza, the more extreme, absurd and offensive the claims that it is all somehow made-up. Largely being made by dead-eyed amoral individuals who seem to revel in their ignorance."
Elsewhere on social media, Hartley-Brewer's comments were described as "disgusting" and "demonstrably false".
Last week former first minister Humza Yousaf and his wife Nadia El-Nakla posted a powerful video saying that their family in Gaza is starving.
The pair said the stories they were hearing from El-Nakla's side of the family in Gaza were "sickening" and "gut-wrenching".
Last week more than 100 aid organisations warned of “mass starvation” in the enclave, with more than two million people facing shortages of food and other essentials after 21 months of brutal bombardment by Israel.
A statement from the agencies says they are “witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes”, with aid workers now joining food lines and risking being shot by Israeli forces.
Global news organisations including the BBC, AFP, Reuters, and the Associated Press, also voiced concern over journalists facing starvation.
