[dlubarov]

Claims of famine citing the UN/IPC are normally appeals to authority, whose convincingness depends on the credibility of the authority.

The UNWatch article isn't that - you can easy verify their points yourself. I.e. by IPC's own definition and Hamas' own casualty data, we're about three orders of magnitude short of meeting one of the requirements of a famine. IPC is just ignoring their own definition and declaring a famine anyway.

For other evidence of lies from UN officials, this one from the head of OCHA was rather blatant: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/debunked-un-off...

[Braxton1980]

you said it was common and claimed it was UN officials. You only supplied one example. How can you make such a general claim?

Why would one UN official's reputation be affected by another? Especially if it's not common, which you haven't yet shown.

[dlubarov]

That wasn't me. I would say the question of how often UN officials lie is rather moot. If it follows from plain facts and basic math that the famine claim is false, we don't really need to argue about the credibility of those making the claims.