Hamas is a terrorist organization that uses any money it can get its hands on to build tunnels and military infrastructure to attack Israel. Its jihadis murdered 1,200 Israelis and took 250 more hostage on October 7, 2023, prompting a strong and necessary response from Israel. Hamas has long governed the people of Gaza (who foolishly elected them), and one way it controls them is by being in charge of distributing the humanitarian aid brought in by the UN and other organizations.
It’s a terrible scandal. Right now, food is getting particularly scarce — not because of a lack of aid or Israeli blockades, but because aid groups like the UN are refusing to distribute it as a form of protest against Israel.
The Hamas propagandists at The New York Times, Axios, the BBC, and elsewhere have been circulating images of starving children (some AI-generated) and the devastation of war (not necessarily related to the Israel/Hamas conflict).
The Times recently featured an image of a skeletal young child in the arms of his not-so-malnourished mother to illustrate the starvation happening in Gaza. There were several issues with the image. First, the child has a genetic condition that makes him look emaciated. Second, his mother doesn’t look particularly starved. The mistake was so egregious that the Times quietly issued a correction days later.
We have appended an Editors’ Note to a story about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza who was diagnosed with severe malnutrition. After publication, The Times learned that he also had pre-existing health problems. Read more below. pic.twitter.com/KGxP3b3Q2B
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) July 29, 2025
Moreover, BBC writers, according to a leaked memo, were admonished to structure their pieces in a way that villainizes Israel and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a new U.S.-Israel humanitarian aid group. As The Spectator’s Jonathan Sacerdoti reports:
Leaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The memo, titled ‘Covering the food crisis in Gaza’, amounts to a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality, elevates one side of a deeply contested narrative, and imposes a specific anti-Israel legal-political framing as settled fact. The existence of this email is a telling sign of how the Corporation works to ensure its journalists stick to its own ideological angles.
There can be no doubt that the vulnerable people of Gaza are suffering. There is probably starvation. Cities in the Gaza Strip are mired in a war that Palestinian leaders started — and sadly, civilians are paying a price. However, Hamas doesn’t view the plight of its people as an incentive to cease terrorist activities or release the remaining Israeli hostages. No, it views the Palestinian suffering as a perfect opportunity to manipulate the world and maintain power. If children die, so be it.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been the main target of these Leftmedia hit pieces. This new group has been successful in getting aid directly to Gaza’s hungry civilians free of charge, which has hurt Hamas’s bottom line so much so that it’s strapped for cash.
BREAKING: Hamas is facing a financial meltdown and can’t pay salaries.
Since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation took over aid distribution, Hamas can no longer steal billions by diverting and reselling aid at outrageous prices. pic.twitter.com/i6Hu4fhmoK
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 21, 2025
Hamas sees the Foundation as a direct threat to its power, so it has continually attacked GHF sites. (The UN and other agencies refuse to help.) Hamas even aimed a rocket at one GHF distribution site. Why? Because the group was getting food to the terrorists’ main source of propaganda. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation provides at least two million meals a day free of charge to the people of Gaza, and it’s trying to figure out ways to get food to the weak and vulnerable, not just the strong. One such effort was the creation of a women-only distribution center. According to The Wall Street Journal:
Instead of working with the GHF to make its sites safer for Gazans to access, the U.N. and other aid groups want it gone. Were the pressure to shut down the GHF to succeed, a U.S. official adds, “say goodbye to the hostages.” Hamas will have all the aid and control it needs and won’t make a deal. “The answer is more aid, not less,” a GHF spokesman said Friday. Aid also needs to get to the weak, not only the strong, which is difficult when aid sites are rushed and trucks are looted. Opening an aid site to women only, as the GHF did Thursday, is one promising idea. Israel is running out of time to ensure more aid gets through to Gazans. Blaming the U.N., though fair, doesn’t suffice. In a good sign on Friday, Israel allowed Arab states to resume aid airdrops. Jerusalem will also have to prove to its allies that the GHF can work and scale up operations, or risk losing their support.
Israel’s best weapon at this point would be ending the war quickly, but Hamas, despite being on the ropes, is using every last social and political capital it has left to prolong the conflict. Speed is more essential than ever for both Israel and the people of Gaza.
