Nigerian scammers, casino game apps, and romance frauds make a point of being so obviously fake that only complete idiots and those so delusional that they want to believe could fall for them. So too the Gaza famine hoax.
As you read this, remember it comes from The National, a state media outlet in the United Arab Emirates.
Israel is allowing tens of thousands of iPhone 17s into Gaza after months of blocking food, medicine and other basic supplies, leaving some weary Palestinians suspicious.
Even as families sleep in tents, food stocks fall short, and Israel shuts out building materials needed to rebuild Gaza, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is a surreal sight in one of the most devastated places on Earth.
In central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, phone shop owner Mohammed Zaqoul sees customers queuing up for the device that has become a symbol of both status and controversy. Each one costs about 7,000 shekels ($2,200).
“The demand is unbelievable,” he told The National. “Every shipment that enters Gaza contains more than 10,000 phones, sometimes more. And dozens of shipments have arrived.”
Why phones, and not food? Why an advanced piece of tech, but not baby formula or cement to rebuild the devastated Palestinian enclave?
The answer to why there are tens of thousands of iPhone 17s at $2.2K a pop, not food or medicine, is because the famine was a hoax.
The claim that Israel was preventing food and medicine from getting in was a complete lie.
So was the narrative that Gaza was an isolated ‘open air prison’ whose people were suffering and resorted to Oct 7 only because of their anguish. In reality, Gaza was wealthy, filled with high-end restaurants, hotels and Hamas millionaires.
When people have the money to buy tens of thousands of $2.2K phones and when that’s their priority, it’s obvious that the ‘devastation’ that keeps being shoved at us is also a lie. Some of the areas that had extensive Hamas infrastructure were heavily bombed, but most of Gaza is still intact. We have plenty of social media video that shows that.
After WWII, Germans and French civilians weren’t scrambling for high-end luxuries. They were dealing with the devastation.
That is not what’s going on in Gaza.
When people are buying gold and diamond iPhones, they’re doing fine and they have plenty of excess wealth to show off. Yes, gold and diamond iPhones.
Available in the Gaza Strip today 25 Nov 2025 – gold plated iPhone 17 Pro Max, with diamond beads. Comes with a gold smart watch!
Sold by Yosif Phone, Khan Younes Mawasi, South Gaza Strip.
Timestamp: 9 hours ago#TheGazaYouDontSee
Link to Instagram links in 1st comment pic.twitter.com/nNGKMy4UBs— Imshin (@imshin) November 25, 2025
The ‘famine’ now comes with a side order of gold and diamond phones that apparently go for around $10,000 each.
