WATCH: IDF Releases Video of ‘Hamas Terrorists Looting an Aid Truck’:
New video shared on social media shows Hamas looting an aid truck in Gaza, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
“Footage from just 4 days ago shows Hamas terrorists looting an aid truck, this is the same organization spreading false claims about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza. Make it make sense,” the IDF wrote above the black-and-white 18-second video clip.
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories, a unit of the Israeli Ministry of Defense that oversees civilian policy in Judea, Samaria, and toward the Gaza Strip, shared images on X Tuesday morning of men surrounded by food. The men in the photos are Hamas terrorists, according to the Israeli government.
“While Hamas promotes a campaign of so-called ‘starving Gaza,’ it’s terrorists are feasting underground,” the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories wrote on X above the images.
“Photos taken in recent months from inside tunnel kitchens show a wide range of food: meat, fresh vegetables, boiled eggs, even cake for dessert,” the post continues, noting that a U.N. World Food Program logo can be seen on one of the boxes behind a man in the photo.
“Hamas makes sure their underground stocks are full while ordinary Gazans are used to perpetuate false narratives,” according to the Israeli government. --->READ MORE HERE
Gangs and merchants sell food aid in Gaza, where Israel’s offensive has shattered security:
Since Israel’s offensive led to a security breakdown in Gaza that has made it nearly impossible to safely deliver food to starving Palestinians, much of the limited aid entering is being hoarded by gangs and merchants and sold at exorbitant prices.
A kilogram (2.2 pounds) of flour has run as high as $60 in recent days, a kilogram of lentils up to $35. That is beyond the means of most residents in the territory, which experts say is at risk of famine and where people are largely reliant on savings 21 months into the Israel-Hamas war.
Israel's decision this weekend to facilitate more aid deliveries — under international pressure — has lowered prices somewhat but has yet to be fully felt on the ground.
Bags of flour in markets often bear U.N. logos, while other packaging has markings indicating it came from the Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — all originally handed out for free. It's impossible to know how much is being diverted, but neither group is able to track who receives its aid.
In the melees surrounding aid distributions in recent weeks, residents say the strong were best positioned to come away with food.
Mohammed Abu Taha, who lives in a tent with his wife and child near the city of Rafah, said organized gangs of young men are always at the front of crowds when he visits GHF sites.
“It’s a huge business,” he said.
Every avenue for aid is beset by chaos
The U.N. says up to 100,000 women and children are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, aid groups and media outlets say their own staffers are going hungry, and Gaza’s Health Ministry says dozens of Palestinians have died from hunger-related causes in the last three weeks.
When the U.N. gets Israeli permission to distribute aid, its convoys are nearly always attacked by armed gangs or overwhelmed by hungry crowds in the buffer zone controlled by the military.
The U.N.’s World Food Program said last week it will only be able to safely deliver aid to the most vulnerable once internal security is restored — likely only under a ceasefire.
“In the meantime, given the urgent need for families to access food, WFP will accept hungry populations taking food from its trucks, as long as there is no violence,” spokesperson Abeer Etifa said.
In the alternative delivery system operated by GHF, an American contractor, Palestinians often run a deadly gantlet.
More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli troops while seeking food since May, mainly near the GHF sites, according to the U.N. human rights office, witnesses and local health officials. The military says it has only fired warning shots when people approach its forces, while GHF says its security contractors have only used pepper spray or fired in the air on some occasions to prevent stampedes. --->READ MORE HERE
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