Debunking the False Claim of Israel Starving Gaza

• Massive Humanitarian Aid Delivery: Since October 7, 2023, Israel has facilitated over 1.2 million tons of humanitarian aid—food, water, and medicine—delivered via 60,841 trucks to Gaza by December 2024, demonstrating a commitment to civilian welfare despite ongoing conflict with Hamas.

• Hamas’s Theft and Profiteering: Hamas intercepts much of this aid, hoarding or reselling it at exorbitant prices to Gaza’s 1.8 million food-insecure Palestinians, per UN reports, potentially using profits to fund terrorism, including recruitment and attacks against Israel.

• Starvation of Hostages by Hamas: Videos from 2025, during a ceasefire under President Trump’s new administration, showed released Israeli hostages—emaciated and severely malnourished—revealing Hamas’s deliberate starvation of captives, a clear war crime under international law.

• Legal Framework: International humanitarian law does not classify restricting aid as a war crime when it is diverted by a terrorist group like Hamas for military purposes. Conversely, Hamas’s hostage-taking and denial of basic rights to captives explicitly violates the Geneva Conventions.

• Moral and Legal Distinction: Restricting aid to prevent it from fueling terrorism, as Hamas does, is lawful and aligns with historical precedents. Israel’s actions target Hamas, not Gaza’s civilians, unlike Hamas’s exploitation of its own people.