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The Hunger Narrative
“Israel is starving Gaza.”
That’s the line. You’ve seen it splashed across headlines, painted on protest signs, shouted from international stages. The UN calls it a “man-made famine.” Celebrities post black squares with #LetGazaLive. Social media reels show crying children with empty bowls, overlaid with dramatic music and a single, pointed caption: Genocide by hunger.
The accusation is explicit, and it’s powerful. What better way to cast Israel as a monster than to say it withholds food from children? No need to mention rockets, tunnels, or terrorists when you can show an empty plate and let the world assume who’s holding it back.
But there’s a problem.
That narrative has a kill switch. It’s called truth.
And the truth is this: yes, Israel has restricted aid into Gaza, especially during periods of intensified fighting. Prime Minister Netanyahu has publicly said that only “minimal” humanitarian aid will be allowed in—not zero, but not full access either. Tactical pauses have been announced to let trucks through. Convoys still move daily. Airdrops are happening. Israel even restored power to water pumps that serve Gaza civilians.
So no—this isn’t a total blockade. It’s a controlled, reduced flow of aid during a war against a terror regime that hijacks every resource it can. Israel’s goal, as stated, is military pressure—not civilian starvation.
But the global narrative ignores all that nuance.
Because the truth makes for bad propaganda.
Meanwhile, Hamas does everything it can to intensify the suffering, block the flow, and profit off the corpses. And that’s what the next section is about.
What Israel Is Actually Doing
Despite what you’ve been told, aid is entering Gaza.
Every day, trucks loaded with food, water, medical supplies, and fuel line up at Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing. Some days, it’s a few dozen. Others, over 300 trucks enter. This isn’t a trickle, it’s a lifeline. And it’s moving under the coordination of COGAT, Israel’s agency for humanitarian operations in the territories.
Even at the height of war, Israel hasn’t sealed Gaza off completely. It has restricted what goes in, but it hasn’t shut the gates.
Why the restrictions? Because every convoy that crosses that border is a security risk. Aid trucks have been used to smuggle weapons. Fuel tanks have been siphoned to power Hamas rocket systems. Food warehouses have been turned into military storage sites.
Israel is fighting an enemy that fires from hospitals, stores missiles under schools, and hides behind civilians. Every bag of flour that crosses the line is at risk of becoming a bargaining chip for Hamas or a shield for its fighters.
So yes, Israel restricts. But it also allows. And no army on Earth would do more for civilians under the direct control of a terrorist regime it is actively at war with.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, civilian casualties were deemed unavoidable. No aid was flowing in from Baghdad to Fallujah once the firefights began.
During World War II, the Allied blockade of Nazi Germany caused mass civilian hardship, and no one called it genocide. The British didn’t airdrop supplies into Berlin until the Nazis were gone.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban’s use of human shields didn’t lead NATO to feed them. It led to airstrikes.
Israel, by contrast, is providing food and water to civilians governed by the same terror group that kidnapped its children, burned its elderly alive, and launched over 20,000 rockets into its cities.
In fact, just this week, Israel announced daily tactical pauses in military operations to allow aid to pass safely. Specific windows were created in areas such as Deir al-Balah, Muwasi, and Gaza City, providing humanitarian workers with a protected corridor to move supplies.
There’s also been airdrops coordinated by Israel, Jordan, and the UAE to deliver food directly into isolated areas that Hamas controls. The same Israel accused of “genocidal starvation” is coordinating with Arab governments to feed its enemy’s civilians.
And then there’s the infrastructure:
- Israel restored electricity to pumping stations that deliver water inside Gaza.
- It allowed fuel shipments for UN operations and hospitals.
- It facilitated evacuation corridors for civilians to flee combat zones—even when Hamas blocked them at gunpoint.
So what’s the problem?
Why are Gazans still dying of hunger?
Because getting aid into Gaza isn’t the same as getting it to the people.
That’s where the real obstruction begins—and it doesn’t come from the Israeli side of the fence.
Hamas Controls the Food and the Chaos
Once the aid crosses the border, it doesn’t go to the people. It goes through Hamas.
And Hamas has no interest in feeding Gaza. It’s too busy feeding itself.
Convoys meant for civilians are routinely intercepted, hijacked, or redirected by Hamas operatives. The terrorist group either sells the supplies on the black market or reserves them for fighters and their families. The World Food Programme, UNRWA staff, and other NGOs have reported seizures of aid trucks and armed theft from warehouses.
Hamas has turned humanitarian aid into a weapon of war. Flour becomes leverage. Fuel becomes power, literally and politically. Even medical supplies are filtered through loyalty: if you’re not pro-Hamas, you’re last in line. Or never in line at all.
And if that weren’t enough, they’ve openly attacked aid distribution sites, blaming the chaos on Israel while stoking it themselves.
In March 2024, Hamas gunmen reportedly fired on civilians rushing to collect flour near an aid drop, causing panic that turned deadly. In another case, UN officials confirmed that trucks were seized and rerouted by Hamas just minutes after crossing from Israel.
Why flour? Because in Gaza, it’s not just food, it’s survival. It’s the base for bread, the core of every meal, and the only calorie source many families can afford. Control the flour, and you control whether a family eats or riots.
Let’s be clear: Israel isn’t holding the food. Hamas is.
They are starving their own people to manufacture outrage, rally global sympathy, and weaponize every image of a hungry child as a propaganda tool.
And they’re not the only Islamic regime that operates this way.
Iran’s Islamic Republic crushed protestors while cutting fuel subsidies and hoarding emergency funds for Hezbollah. The Taliban took international aid and denied it to women and Hazara minorities. Bashar al-Assad, backed by Iran, bombed bread lines in Syria and called them “terrorist gatherings.”
When Islamic regimes want power, their own people are the first to suffer. Children aren’t sacred, they’re props. Civilians aren’t citizens; they’re shields, leverage, and sacrifice.
Gaza’s Mob Problem
Even when aid does make it past Hamas checkpoints, it doesn’t guarantee safe delivery.
Why? Because Gaza is no longer a functioning society. It’s a pressure cooker, and Hamas has destroyed the lid.
With no civil order, no fair distribution, and no enforcement beyond Hamas loyalists, desperate civilians mob the trucks as they arrive. And what begins as desperation often ends in deadly chaos.
Crowds have surrounded convoys before they can unload. People climb onto moving vehicles, tear into trucks mid-route, and trample each other to grab a sack of flour or a box of supplies.
In multiple documented cases, stampedes have killed dozens, not because Israel fired on them, but because Hamas created an environment where food delivery looks like a riot scene.
One UN report described the convoy process as “humanitarian roulette” where driver safety, crowd control, and civilian survival are all left to chance.
And yet, every time the headlines run, they point the finger outward:
“Israeli fire kills aid seekers.”
“Dozens die in Gaza food panic—blame placed on blockade.”
“Hunger turns deadly amid lack of international pressure.”
The media shows the blood but not the context.
They don’t show the armed Hamas fighters looting the trucks. They don’t show the lack of organized aid distribution. They don’t show the terror group controlling the crowd with bullets or letting it descend into mayhem for the optics.
Gaza’s Mob Problem Orchestrated for the Camera
If Gaza were truly under “total siege,” there’s one simple solution no one ever talks about: Egypt. The other Islamic country…
Gaza shares a border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, and the Rafah crossing sits right there, ready to be opened.
If the people of Gaza were dying solely because Israel won’t open its gates, Egypt could save them. It could let in aid. It could take in refugees. It could coordinate medical evacuations, fuel shipments, and food deliveries.
But it doesn’t.
Because Egypt, like Israel, knows who controls Gaza: Hamas, a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and an enemy of the Egyptian state.
If Egypt opens Rafah, it risks Hamas infiltrating Sinai, reigniting jihadist activity, and destabilizing its own borders. So Egypt keeps the gate closed.
And guess what?
No one screams “genocide.” No one calls for sanctions. No UN resolutions. No campus protests. No aid convoys are sailing to the Egyptian shore.
That silence tells you everything.
Because this was never about feeding the people. It was never about saving Gaza. It was always about the anti-Israel narrative.
The real blockade isn’t around Gaza. It’s around the truth.
Gaza’s Starvation Is Real, But the Villain Isn’t Who You Think
Yes, people in Gaza are suffering. That part isn’t a lie.
The truth is being starved far more viciously than any population.
And that should matter not just to those who support Israel, but to anyone who believes in justice, in human life, in the dignity of the oppressed.
Because real justice demands we call evil by its name, even when it wears a keffiyeh and screams “resistance.” Real compassion requires discernment, not just tears.
And if you follow the God of the Bible, then you already know:
Lies serve death. Truth serves life.
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
— John 8:32
It is the truth, not propaganda, not pressure, not public opinion, that sets people free. Free from tyrants. Free from false gods. Free from systems built to destroy.
The people of Gaza deserve the truth. Israel deserves justice. And the world deserves to stop being lied to.
Let’s start telling the truth even when it’s not popular.
The author is 100% correct. The problem , of course, is that the media will not concede the truth . The reasons for this are quite clear, but I will leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions. We are not a genocidal people. That’s the other side.
Tell Hamas, you imbecile! You and others like you simply pivot to attempt another way of discrediting Israel.
Yahya Sinwar considered the use of people in Gaza as human shields acceptable losses. That’s how little life means to them.
As usual you convolute the truth to vilify Israel.
While controlled resources are coming into Gaza and Hamas has shown themselves eating well…the hostages are being starved.
For some reason your frontal lobe malfunctions whenever you are in proximity to the truth.
Actually, Israel should expel all people in Gaza just as our Jewish people were by Middle Eastern nations after the formation of the Nation of Israel. Everything was taken from them. Their homes, businesses, bank accounts, jewelry. They were to leave with only what they could carry…over 500,000.
So spare me your one-sided, ill informed comments. Hamas eats well…so food is available so why aren’t they feeding these children? Because allowing them to become propaganda serves them better…how willfully obtuse are you?
Not to mention Hamas started this war and their war crimes against humanity continue….a REAL attempted genocide against the Jewish people and Nation of Israel!!!
Internally Hamas and its linked HNRWA (and morally lowlives like Mrs. Goebbels AKA Fascista Francesca Albanese driving the lies narrative) controls Gaza and its images ti becfed to MSM. So no. And these bad actors promote pallyweid.
Total schmeegee!
What starving children in Gaza? The ones photographed in the arms of overweight mothers and with perfectly healthy siblings, those ones? The ones with muscle waisting and other medical issues unrelated to malnutrition. those ones?
Love those crocodile tears, Sebby. Obviously no one believes you. Keep racking up those downvotes. You’re doing great today.
OK loser, tell your cheap low rent gay jokes. After all they are what passes for barely sentient in your anti-semitic world.
99% of the News is Fake or just plain Leftists Propaganda not real news
Thanks Anni !!!!!!!
During WW1, the Allied Naval Blockade caused mass starvation in Central Europe, even after the war ended.
During the Civil War, the North blockaded the South. Etc., etc. All through history.
Place the blame on Abu Mazen…
…because it rhymes with starving Gazan. 〰️
😃
Anni, your writing is 1000% correct, as an American, Israeli, who served in the IDF in 2 wars who voted for President Trump 3 times for the life of me can’t understand why he tells the world “there is real starvation in Gaza,” without explaining why and by who. Which anyone who has lived in the Middle East knows if you give a finger Hamas will take your hand. Any speaking of starvation is their life’s blood to show the world see Israel is starving the people of Gaza and the world falls in line, then Hamas decides why should we negotiate, as they then come up with what they even know is unreal demands that Israel can’t except unless it commits national suicide, and the suffering of hostages who are still alive and the people of Gaza continues. The world needs to understand the only catastrophic starvation going on in Gaza is the 20 Israel hostages held by Hamas thought to still be alive.
I, for one, thank you for your service.
Had I not been taught that anti-Semitism is a thing of the past, I wouldn’t have shirked MY duty to serve in the IDF, the fact of which is now my big regret as I grow old.
All I do now is make wisecracks at Muslims’ expense.
Half of Muslims are evil.
The other half are ingrates.
(The Muslims who live in Israel are the luckiest Muslims in the world.)
We were told, by Obama run Netflix, that Gaza is an open air prison, why does it need fuel trucks if it’s so small as to be a prison?
Let ’em starve. They are humanities refuse.
If Israel strikes some sort of cease fire all Hamas will do is regroup and re-arm because of sh*t-hole countries like China and Russia and attack again.
This time though, because E.U. pussy idiots like Macron and Starmer and Carney, the Swinestians will have the imprimatur of being recognized as an actual country on Israel’s border. This is what happens when you have unrestricted flow of the dirt eating Muslims into your country who get to vote. Who’s really running the E.U. these days? Obviously it’s Mohammed.
Whatever trade deals Trump had with Macron, Starmer and Carney, he should raise tariffs one hundred percent. Squeeze them until they bleed.
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are so such thieves and despicably callus that that steal aid send peaceful people of Gaza and use in an different ways for the murderous jihad against the State of Israel and the Jewish people.
As an Israel government official had explained “They, Hamas, steal the aid, they resell the aid, they use the money to rearm, then they to attack again …. Aid that goes Hamas is not humanitarian ….”it’s “Enabling the enemy to resupply itself so that can regroup and reattack us..” [1]
Just thinking about this the Gazan people wouldn’t really need al that aid if Hamas hadn’t started this war on October 7,th 2023.
[1] The Epoch Times March 19-25, 2025. A10.
Those thieving Muslim terrorists of Hamas with their stealing the food aid meant for the civilians of Gaza, who also happen to be Muslims, this further exposes the cruel selfish unconscionable wickedness of the Hamas savages
Then Hamas official spoken have the lying gall to say to the nations of the world “Look, those terrible Israelis are deliberately starving the civilian population of Gaza.”
Those Muslim terrorists of Hamas are stealing the aid sent to the people of Gaza so that the jihadists of Hamas can put their other resources into the jihad in that vicious Islamic quest the destroy the State of Israel murder all the Jewish people of Israel and also of other nations
Those Hamas jihadists in their theft of that aid sent to the people of Gaza are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam.
This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.” To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of Hamas.
Some very decent but naïve Westerners who don’t understand the despicable loathsome character of the jihadists of Hamas, when those people of the West discover that the terrorists of Hamas are stealing the humanitarian aid sent to the noncombatant civilians of Gaza and using it only for themselves.
Those same Westerners would be shocked and then ask “How can those Muslim terrorist of Hamas being Muslim do such a terrible unconscionable as that, to deprive other Muslim, who are not violent, of the aid they so desperately need ?”
The answer to that question is provided in the Bible, which reveals that there are some men who a very callous cruel and heartless because they have had “their conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [K.J.V.]
For those Muslim terrorists of Hamas that “hot iron” is Islam.
I have known this all along, and said it online everywhere I can, and I’ve been viciously attacked for it as well, by the hateful antisemitic mosque goers on many platforms. The UN is behind it all, They must be taken down as the force for evil they really are.
Today Tucker Carlson interviewed one of the very few Americans who have been to Gaza.He is TONY AGUILAR, a Green Beret veteran who worked for GHF (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation)
and his almost 1 hr 30 min interview
gives lots and lots of information that goes against the affirmations in the article.
I think the author should listen to the intellectual arguments Aguilar says, to see if she thinks Aguilar is correct.Aguilar has been interviewed before,but here it is the LONGEST one,with lots of more details:
Here is my problem with this interview. I have a difficult time believing anyone that works for any Gaza Humanitarian Organization. Why would any American choose to do that? It denotes a sympathy, I do not share with the people of Gaza. He obviously does. So strongly he went there. Why? Is he a Muslin? Will his perspective be honest and accurate. I don’t think so.
I have a TCN subscription. I will get to this eventually. I have no problem, with Tucker questioning any US involvement in ANY country. That is were I draw the line. I think Tucker should get his Arse on a plane and see it for himself. After all, he has been there multiple times in the past.
My guess. Israel is not letting him enter.
Thank you for deciding to see the interview when possible.
I took down notes and here are 3 details,and the details pile up and pile up and pile up:
1. He NEVER says the IDF or 314 Americans who work for GHF fire INTO the Gazans.
He says they fire above their heads or ON the GROUND at their feet,for crowd control.
The Devil is in the details: depending on the angle,when you fire bullets on the ground there are bullets that HIT OFF the ground and can literally kill somebody,and that is how people are getting killed.
The 314 Americans who are there are the ones in charge of distributing the food,NOT the IDF, and 80% are military (marines,special forces) and the rest have police experience.
2. GHF NEVER distributes WATER (no water bottles ). And a human who goes 3 to 5 days with no water,what happens. He dies,from dehydration.
3. Aguilar said Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) began to work with GHF. That company is a firm that is a MANAGER CONSULTANT for companies all over the world.
It has 100 offices in 50 countries.
It is one of the TOP THREE such companies in the world.
Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives.
Aguilar said Boston Consulting Group decided to NO longer associate itself with GHF. That tells you they know it is rotten.
Many of the trucks, though traveling under enhanced Israeli protections introduced on Sunday, have not reached U.N. warehouses, according to Gazans on the ground. Once the trucks have arrived in the population centers, armed Hamas militants have hijacked the cargo, the Gazans said, and what aid has arrived at the warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by Hamas.
Most Gazans have been forced to buy the aid at exorbitant prices from merchants hand-picked and heavily taxed by Hamas.
“Fifty trucks arrived yesterday at warehouses in Gaza City, and Hamas stole all of the aid,” Moumen Al-Natour, a 30-year-old lawyer in the northern Gaza capital, said on Tuesday. “Today, the aid went on sale in the black markets at very high prices.”
The Islamist terrorists, whether in Gaza, Judea and Samaria or neighboring states long ago realized that they cannot defeat Israel militarily so adopted a strategy to use the Anglosphere,’s liberal democratic processes to gain significant influence in “progressive” academia, leftist NGOs and government institutions in order to get the West to stop supporting Israel and thus defeat Israel that way. This strategy seems to be working thanks to the immigration of many hundreds of thousands of Muslims across the Anglosphere. The Islamist anti-Israel (if not anti-semitic) propaganda whether through MSM or social media has been much more effective in shaping public opinion that any messaging in support Israel. However it might not be too long into the future when the West might be engaged in its own war against those same enemies of Israel but on its own shores.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/gaza-starvation-photos-tell-a-thousand-lies-palestine-israel-aid-1d689cc8?st=VbGnyu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Why is the UN preventing food and aid from entering Gaza? Why are Hamas supporters well-fed and thriving? The starvation in Gaza is man-made – orchestrated and perpetuated by the media.
July 30, 2025.
https://www.instagram.com/imtizionism/p/DMpfoDlNi6i/
When you go this hard on the spin and this pro is real it destroys your credibility on everything. Is real is wrong here. Genocide is happening. No you aren’t an anti semite for saying it. The world sees it and the old way of trying to control the media narrative doesn’t work anymore. I have no idea how is real moves forward and survives after this Gaza mess. It’s never going to gain back the trust and support it has lost.