YnetNews.com reports: “The Israeli military agency COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) published a statement Thursday accusing Hamas of using children with genetic illnesses to falsely depict famine in Gaza and blame Israel for the humanitarian crisis.

The post on COGAT’s official English-language X account included documentation about a 14-year-old Gazan boy Abad Qader Al-Fayoumi, whose image was circulated online in recent days.

According to the statement, Hamas-affiliated channels claimed Al-Fayoumi’s deteriorating health was caused by hunger. However, Israeli defense officials said records show that Abad was treated in Israel in 2018 for a rare genetic neurological condition—long before the current war began.

‘Abad was one of hundreds of Gazan children treated in Israeli hospitals in recent years,’ COGAT noted, adding that medical evacuations continued even after the October 7 Hamas attack that led to the destruction of the Erez Crossing…”