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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.