9.59 Are the Israelis Starving the People of Gaza?
Hamas holds Israeli hostages in inhuman conditions and the war between Israel and Hamas has lasted since October 2023 because Hamas won't release the hostages and give up power to a more moderate leadership. Large quantities of food from the international community have been trucked into Gaza to prevent famine. Hamas sold some of the food to civilians and taxed food sales as well of what should be free food.. If a civilian dared to go to a warehouse to get food they were beaten or shot by Hamas. You can watch a video of that below but it probably should not be watched by anyone younger than 15 years old.
There was so much food flowing into Gaza that there are videos and photos of open restaurants and Arab Muslims in Gaza throwing away U.S. aid.
As I write this paragraph on December 25, 2024 enormous amounts of aid sit at the border of Israel and Gaza and don't get in. In fact a lot of the food has expired. According to the New York Times the aid organizations won't deliver the food because they are afraid that the food will be looted. Hamas used to loot the trucks but Israel pushed Hamas back from the border so now armed Arab gangs loot the trucks.
The United Nations did not allow Israeli soldiers to protect aid convoys, with the pretext that allowing Israelis to protect the aid would compromise UN neutrality. Of course the UN had no neutrality problem when Hamas indoctrinated hatred in UN schools in Gaza. The U.N. concern for neutrality didn't stop Hamas from hiding weapons in UN buildings in Gaza. U.N. neutrality did not stop U.N. employees from invading Israel and committing atrocities on October 7 2023. The UN says they want the Gaza police to protect the aid. The Gaza police are part of Hamas. Israel wanted to pressure Hamas into releasing the hostages and so does not want Hamas to get the aid so it won't allow the UN to use the Gaza police so the food sat there and the UN blamed Israel for not allowing food into Gaza. If the United Nations was truly concerned with getting food the people living in Gaza they would have let the Israelis protect the food trucks from Hamas. The only rational explanation of their refusal to do so and their insistance on having Hamas police protect the food is that they want the food to go to Hamas more than they want the people of Gaza to have food.
You can watch a video about the food accumulating and expiring below.
The control of food by Hamas helped Hamas survive and prolonged the war so Israel stopped the flow of food in March of 2025. However in May the food was resumed under a plan in which an effort would be made to ensure that Hamas didn't get it. The problem was that Hamas couldn't be stopped from firing at Gazan civilians who went to get the aid. At the same time their health ministry claimed that the Israeli army was shooting at Gazan civilians. This claim was then picked up by major media outlets throughout the world. A Gazan civilian said:
“The ones who fired shots were Hamas terrorists. They don’t want the people to receive aid; they want to thwart the plan so they can get the aid, so they can steal it...
They live on the aid… they want aid to come in through the United Nations and international organizations so they can steal it… I swear to you, they’re criminals, like ISIS.”
You can head the Gazan resident tell this to an Israeli interviewer in the recording below.
One of the American media outlets that carried the Hamas accusations, The Washington Post issued a retraction afterwards. Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas admitted that Hamas was stealing humanitarian aid from Gazan civilians. In an official statement, Abbas condemned the “looting and theft carried out by criminal gangs targeting warehouses and storage facilities of humanitarian aid.” According to the P.A., “Hamas-affiliated gangs” have been “primarily responsible” for the theft. Abbas added that Palestinians would “not forgive these disgraceful acts committed in such a critical time.”
The BBC also issued a retraction. Karoline Leavitt talks about that below.
On July 4, 2025 Haaretz a very left wing paper in Israel published an article titled It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid. Why would the IDF do that? The IDF is there to protect the aid workers and those seeking aid. It is a very dangerous job. They and the aid workers and the people seeking aid are all targets of Hamas. One way Israel secures the aid is by regulating who gets to it. Israel has to ensure that Hamas does not and that mobs of people don't loot the aid trucks. It appears that Hamas along with civilians violates Israeli orders not to approach during hours that the aid centers are closed and in response Israel fires warning shots. It may be that in order to defend themselves Israeli soldiers who were being approached by Hamas controlled mobs who were told to stay away, opened fire. Every Israeli soldier knows the fate that awaits them if Hamas gets hold of them. The Haaretz article claims that Israel opened fire when there was no threat to Israeli soldiers and the IDF General Staff is investigating. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense minister Katz say these allegations are like the old blood libel and are untrue.
According to Haaretz an IDF officer explained:
"At night, we open fire to signal to the population that this is a combat zone and they mustn't come near. Once, the mortars stopped firing, and we saw people starting to approach. So we resumed fire to make it clear they weren't allowed to. In the end, one of the shells landed on a group of people." In other cases, he said, "We fired machine guns from tanks and threw grenades. There was one incident where a group of civilians was hit while advancing under the cover of fog. It wasn't intentional, but these things happen."
The Israeli army issued a response to the accusations in the Haaretz article, saying it "strongly rejects the accusation raised in the article - the IDF did not instruct the forces to deliberately shoot at civilians, including those approaching the distribution centers. To be clear, IDF directives prohibit deliberate attacks on civilians." The army added that "any allegation of a deviation from the law or IDF directives will be thoroughly examined, and further action will be taken as necessary."
The hostages held by Hamas are hungry. Eden Yerushalmi, a young woman who was one of the six hostages murdered by Hamas, weighed only 36 kilograms or 79 pounds at the time of her death. Other surviving hostages have described severe hunger in the past. While the U.S., Israel and other countries fill Gaza with food, the hostages are the ones starving. There is a report with disturbing pictures about the horror of how the Israeli hostages are being starved that only adults should look at here.
There are Israelis who block aid trucks because they object to Netanyahu's May 2025 decision to allow more food into Gaza. “This is not humanitarianism; it is national suicide,” said Ashriel Machlev, a reservist and protest leader. “Every truck that enters Gaza prolongs the war. Until the hostages are home, there will be no aid. We will be here every week to physically stop this insane policy.”
There are Israeli leaders who object to Netanyahu's May 2025 decision to allow more food into Gaza.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir denounced the move in a social media post, writing: “Mr. Prime Minister, our hostages have no humanitarian aid!” He also warned in a statement that “any humanitarian aid that enters the Strip, certainly all of it, will fuel Hamas and give it oxygen.” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wrote: “Every truck that reaches Hamas in Gaza prolongs the war, strengthens Hamas, and endangers our fighters.” Likud Knesset member Moshe Saada called the move “a wrong and immoral decision.”
Israel together with an American company distributed the aid instead of letting the UN bring the aid in. When the UN brought the aid in Hamas took it and made money off of it as explained by Major Amiad Cohen in the video below.
Since the U.S. and Israel took over bringing in food Hamas has killed heroic aid workers who were bringing food to the people of Gaza. The reason why is explained in the video below.
Israel feeds Gazans while there are hungry Israelis. According to the Mazon organization 25% of Israelis are hungry. The attacks by Hezbollah that have burned up much of the North of Israel and that have driven Israelis from their homes, the attacks of Hamas in the south that have burned farmer's fields, the necessity for Israel to transfer it's workforce to the army has taken it a hit on the Israeli economy which leads to poverty and hunger.
Oren created a video titled No, Gaza Isn’t Starving – Here’s Proof in Under 60 Seconds which is embedded below.
A terrific video that clears up a lot of the propaganda against Israel in Gaza is embedded below. In it Mike Huckabee, who visited Gaza is interviewed by Brian Kilmeade.
Propagandists against Israel say the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shoots people at the food distribution site. This video shows the food distribution site and the people there as well as the IDF.
Additional Links:
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Gaza Humanitarian Foundation won't stop aid distribution after Hamas puts bounties on workers
New text reveals Hamas threats to aid workers, warning of 'severe consequences'
"Hamas murdered at least 5 Palestinian aid workers in Gaza... Where's the condemnation from the UN?"
‘Must be condemned’: UN’s sensationalist Gazan baby death propaganda is ‘shameful’ - YouTube
Fox News Host in UTTER Amazement When Mike Huckabee Reveals Chilling Details About Gaza
"Not Quite So Innocent!" Mike Huckabee On Killed Journalists & Gaza Occupation
WATCH: Hamas Savagely Beat Gazans for Taking Aid - Geller Report
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