The Gaza Starvation Hoax: How Hamas Stole the Aid and the World Blamed Israel
For almost four months in 2025, Israel faced one of its most insidious accusations: deliberately starving the people of Gaza.
This was particularly egregious because of the sinister image it painted—of Israelis as monsters capable of withholding food from millions. Being accused of engineered famine is a modern-day blood libel. Especially when the exact opposite was true.
Israel facilitated millions of tonnes of food and aid into Gaza, according to COGAT figures. But facts never stopped the narrative. The UN, which oversaw much of the internal delivery, stayed mostly tight-lipped about the truth—even though the vast majority of its own aid trucks never reached their destinations.
Almost a year later, the UN finally admitted the truth. It was Hamas all along—hijacking aid from the people who needed it most. Unable to stay silent any longer, Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov released this official statement:
“I strongly condemn the recent obstruction of humanitarian operations in Gaza by the de facto authorities, which endangered humanitarian personnel, intimidated workers delivering lifesaving food assistance and disrupted life-saving humanitarian operations.
Yesterday, humanitarian workers were forced to halt food distributions after armed personnel affiliated with the de facto authorities forcibly entered the Abu Rashid food distribution point in Jabalia, North Gaza. The forces also entered a WFP warehouse and reportedly assaulted two truck drivers who were delivering humanitarian supplies.”
The statement still falls short of naming Hamas directly, but things must have gotten completely out of hand for them to say even this much. It’s infuriating that so many humanitarian organisations clung to a comfortable narrative instead of speaking the truth. The only people who suffered the consequences were the Palestinian civilians.
The Mid-2025 Frenzy
The starvation story hit its crescendo in mid-2025. The online outrage was insane—every post a condemnation, every feed flooded with the same recycled pictures of sickly-looking people portrayed as victims of Israeli cruelty. Most were suffering from unrelated illnesses, but that didn’t matter. To the mob, it was irrefutable proof. The images being debunked did little to change people’s minds. The same image would pop up again, and again, regardless.
The world was set ablaze. Condemnations poured in from every direction. Countries like the UK, France, and Canada seized the moment, using the frenzy as cover to recognise a “Palestinian state”. That move was striking: a political decision framed as punishing Israel for an accusation they surely knew was being fuelled—or outright manufactured—by terrorists on the ground.
The outrage only intensified.
The New York Times ran a harrowing image of an emaciated child, skin stretched tight over bones, held by his mother. His spine protruded like ridges through his leathery skin.
It was made to look like a healthy baby had been reduced to skin and bones by deliberate starvation.
If the fire of outrage was burning before, it was now a raging inferno.
The Problem: It Was a Lie
The only problem? It wasn’t true.
The New York Times eventually issued a correction. The child suffered from a severe pre-existing condition affecting his brain and muscle development—not famine. But the damage was done. The image had already done its work.
In reality, the widespread famine narrative never stood up to scrutiny. Yes, there were pockets of genuine hunger amid the chaos of war. But Gaza was no Yemen or Sudan. Videos posted by Palestinians themselves told a different story: markets with goods, people who didn’t look starved. Israel let the aid in. The failure happened inside.
The UN and its partners rejected armed IDF escorts to preserve “neutrality.” Without protection, the trucks were sitting ducks. Hamas, gangs, and desperate crowds looted them relentlessly. Between May 19 and August 5, of 2,604 aid trucks collected by the UN after crossing the border, 2,309 never reached their destinations. That’s well over 80 percent. An insane number.
Piles of food and supplies were sometimes left rotting in the sun near crossings like Kerem Shalom—aid Israel had approved, but which never moved forward.
Much of what was stolen resurfaced in black markets at exorbitant prices. Another Hamas tool for control and profit. Distribution was always the choke point. It ended up in the wrong hands.
Even during the worst of it, Hamas fighters uploaded videos of themselves gorging while others went hungry. There was hunger, yes—but not for lack of food entering Gaza. It was easier to blame Israel than confront the thieving terrorists.
The Rot Runs Deep
The West has been lied to. Young people have been emotionally tricked into supporting movements that would rip them apart in the same way those on October 7th were. They were manipulated by social media, the pressure to fit in, the desire to be on the “right side of history”—all turbo-charged by once-trusted entities like the UN and charities such as Amnesty International. These organizations, through complicity or silence, have fed young people into an anti-West narrative soaked in Israel hatred.
From corrupt UN rapporteurs with insidious agendas—denying the mass rapes of October 7, siding with Hamas, or receiving money from hostile forces like China—to charities declaring “genocide” without legal authority, the pattern is unmistakable.
This conflict is fraught with lies, half-truths, and distortions like nothing I’ve ever seen. Lies spread across the world in moments, while the truth is buried in the aftermath. It’s jarring to watch trusted institutions participate in the disinformation.
Everything used as a slanderous lie against Israel is slowly being revealed. This gaping, festering wound of falsehoods is finally getting its band-aid peeled off. Underneath, we see raw Jew hatred and a broken, compromised system geared to protect terrorists who love death and destruction. A bent system that grotesquely twists itself to villainies Western democracies while turning a blind eye to barbaric, anti-human Islamist entities like Hamas.
During the same frenzy, videos emerged of Israeli hostages held by Hamas—emaciated, skeletal figures forced to dig in tunnels or shown wasting away in captivity. These were people who actually looked starved, deliberately malnourished by their captors. The hypocrisy was glaring: genuine starvation of hostages (used as human shields and bargaining chips) barely registered compared to the manufactured outrage over Gaza.
Israel even tried to cut through the choke point by collaborating with the U.S. on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—a mechanism designed to deliver aid more directly to civilians and bypass Hamas control. Some Palestinians reportedly said it was the first time they actually received food without having to pay for it. Yet many so-called humanitarians and media outlets seemed more upset about Israel helping get aid to Gazans without Hamas skimming it than they were about the actual theft and diversion.
This wasn’t the action of a party trying to destroy a people. It was an attempt to feed them—something the narrative machine simply couldn’t tolerate.
The true scale of the rot will gradually be exposed as time goes on. And when it is, the real indictment won’t just be on Hamas—it will be on every institution that enabled the lies while real people suffered.