Feeding Gaza, Fighting Hamas: What the World Gets Wrong About Israel’s Humanitarian Aid

Since Hamas’s October 7th massacre, the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Israel has been at war with the terror organization that slaughtered more than 1,200 people, burned entire families alive, and abducted 251 hostages. Hamas continues to vow that it will repeat the atrocities “again and again,” until Israel is wiped off the map.

Even as the war rages and dozens of hostages remain in Hamas captivity, Israel continues facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid — food, water, fuel, and medicine — into Gaza, the coastal enclave controlled by the terrorists responsible for October 7th. Much of that aid is then stolen, obstructed, or exploited by Hamas.

This article lays out the facts: how much aid Israel has delivered, how Hamas subverts its distribution, and what Israel and its partners are doing to ensure relief reaches civilians — not terrorists.

Aid Delivery at Scale: Israel’s Humanitarian Corridor

According to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), by August 12, 2025, nearly 2 million tons of aid had crossed into Gaza in almost 100,000 trucks. Roughly 80% of that aid was food.

During the first week of August 2025 alone, more than 1,200 trucks delivered 23,000 tons of aid. Israel also implements targeted “tactical pauses” and corridor windows to speed delivery when needed.

Israel has steadily expanded humanitarian supply routes. In the north, three crossings are operational — Erez West, Erez East, and Gate 96. In the south, aid enters through the Kerem Shalom crossing, reopened on May 8, 2024 after a deadly Hamas rocket attackthree days earlier, as well as through the Nitzana crossing.

Humanitarian Aid Delivered Into Gaza Since October 7, 2023

These numbers show a sustained, large-scale humanitarian operation — not a blockade.

Screening With Purpose, Not Obstruction

Every truck is thoroughly to block weapons, explosive components, and dual-use items from reaching Hamas.

Screening includes high-resolution X-ray, physical checks, and post-inspection transfer to “sanitized” trucks for entry along pre-coordinated corridors.

To some observers, these safeguards are miscast as “weaponized” aid policy. In reality, they are security measures designed to keep arms out while letting relief in.

Aid Theft and Obstruction by Hamas

The UN’s own tracking shows widespread interference with convoys, including looting and diversions en route to distribution sites. From mid-May to July 2025, between 88% and 94% of aid trucks were intercepted before reaching civilians.

On November 16, 2024, 98 of 109 UN food-aid trucks were hijacked inside Gaza after entering via Kerem Shalom — about 90% in a single day.

IDF footage and logs from the Shifa Hospital area show fuel siphoning, refusals, and tunnel shafts near storage sites — diverting lifesaving supplies from patients to Hamas’s war machine.

Hamas hoards, resells, and redistributes aid based on loyalty, not need — using hunger to enrich its leaders, tighten control, and reward terrorists.

The Hamas-Induced Price Surge (WFP Gaza Market Monitor, July 2025)

The UN’s World Food Programme’s July 2025 market monitor reports extreme price hikes across Gaza’s staple foods:

These shocks aren’t normal market swings. They track directly with Hamas’s diversion of aid and the collapse of secure distribution — conditions WFP economists describe as “unprecedented.”

Alternative Aid Tracks to Bypass Hamas

To bypass Hamas control and accelerate relief, Israel and partners added parallel channels:

• Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF): Launched in May 2025 with U.S. backing and coordination with Israeli authorities, GHF reports high-volume food distributions. It delivered 1.5 million meals in a single day in June and more than 120 million cumulative meals by mid-August 2025, operating outside Hamas-controlled logistics.
• Private Merchant Track: Since August 2025, vetted Gaza merchants can import via Kerem Shalom using monitored payments. This restores shop-level supply while bypassing Hamas-run distribution.

As John Spencer — Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute — emphasized: “No military in modern history has delivered more aid to an enemy population during active war” than the IDF — calling the scale “historically unprecedented.”

The Hostage Crisis and the Media’s Double Standards

While Israel facilitates daily humanitarian aid into Gaza, dozens of its citizens remain in Hamas captivity — starved, denied medicine, and cut off from the world. Their erasure from the global conscience is not an accident — it is a deliberate moral failure.

One such hostage, 24-year-old Evyatar David, appeared in a Hamas propaganda video in early August 2025. Emaciated and barely conscious, he was shown digging what he said was his own grave. The footage revealed not only his skeletal frame but also the arm of a Hamas terrorist beside him — healthy, well-fed, and in stark contrast.

Days later, his brother Ilay addressed the U.N. Security Council, describing Evyatar as “a living skeleton… barely alive, barely able to speak, barely able to move.” His desperate plea was met with silence. The same chamber that routinely denounces Israel had no outrage left for a Jew wasting away in a terrorist dungeon.

Just days earlier, The New York Times had splashed a front-page image of a severely underweight Gazan infant — claiming it as evidence of Israeli-induced famine. The story collapsed almost immediately. The child’s condition was not caused by hunger, but by severe genetic diseases, including cerebral palsy and hypoxemia. His siblings appeared well-fed.

But the damage was done. The correction was quietly posted on the Times’ little-known PR account, with just 89,000 followers, not its main X account, which reaches over 55 million.

And that photo was no anomaly.

The Free Press reported at least a dozen viral images of allegedly starving Gaza children — widely circulated by major outlets — were later revealed to depict children suffering from diseases like cystic fibrosis, rickets, and rare developmental conditions. In each case, media platforms failed to vet the images before publication, fueling false accusations of famine.>

CNN, BBC, NPR, and others followed suit — publishing sensational visuals stripped of context to vilify Israel, amplify false narratives, and issue quiet corrections only after the lies had taken hold.

This grotesque inversion defines our time: a starving Israeli hostage is ignored, while false images of Gazan children become global symbols. Israel feeds the very people shielding its captors — and is condemned. Hamas starves Jews underground — and earns applause on global stages.

This is not mere bias — it is a modern-day blood libel.

International Law: Israel’s Duties — and Hamas’s War Crimes

Israel’s Legal Responsibilities

Israel is not an occupying power in Gaza. It withdrew fully in 2005, dismantling all military and civilian presence. Since then, Hamas has ruled the territory. Under international law, Israel’s obligations stem from the laws of armed conflict — not occupation law.

Despite being under constant rocket fire and facing a genocidal enemy, Israel adheres to international humanitarian law (IHL) and consistently facilitates aid into Gaza.

• Protecting Civilians

Israel issues advance warnings before strikes — including roof-knocks, SMS alerts, phone calls, and leaflets — to minimize civilian casualties, even at operational risk. This reflects its compliance with Geneva Common Article 3 and ICRC Rules 87–90.

• Ensuring Humanitarian Access

Israel has enabled the delivery of nearly 2 million tons of humanitarian aid, inspecting shipments for weapons and coordinating with international bodies. This meets its obligations under ICRC Rule 55 and Geneva Convention IV.

• Prohibiting Starvation

While Hamas blocks aid, Israel provides fuel to operate bakeries, water systems, and hospitals — in line with ICRC Rule 53 and the Rome Statute.

• Avoiding Civilian Shielding

Israel directs civilians to evacuate combat zones and avoids placing its forces near protected sites, in sharp contrast to Hamas’s routine use of human shields.

Israel not only complies with IHL — it often exceeds it. Hamas systematically violates it.

Hamas’s War Crimes

Hamas systematically violates international law. Its actions on and after October 7 amount to clear breaches of the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

• October 7 Massacre: Murder, rape, torture, mutilation, and abduction of civilians are war crimes. When systematic, they also qualify as crimes against humanity (Rome Statute, Arts. 7–8).
• Starvation as a Weapon“>: Hamas uses hunger as a weapon. Both Additional Protocol (Art. 54)“> and the Rome Statute (Art. 8(2)(b)(xxv)) prohibit starving civilians or destroying their means of survival.
• Hostage Abuse: The Geneva Conventions forbid hostage-taking (GC IV, Art. 34). The Rome Statute (Arts. 8(2)(a)(viii) and 8(2)(c)(iii)) criminalizes it as a war crime. International law also bans cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
• Pillage and Aid Obstruction: Looting aid and blocking relief violate ICRC Rule 52 (pillage) and Rule 55 (relief obligations).
• Human Shields: Embedding fighters among civilians is illegal under Additional Protocol I (Art. 51(7)) and ICRC Rule 97.

The record is unmistakable: Israel fulfills its legal and moral duties. Hamas wages war through crimes.

When Aid Becomes a Weapon — and the “Jew Among the Nations” Is Vilified

Israel facilitates humanitarian aid into the very territory that harbors the terrorists who butchered its people and still holds its hostages. Hamas seizes that aid, neglects civilians, and starves Israeli captives. And still, the world blames Israel.

Today, Israel is the “Jew among the nations” — libeled, demonized, and vilified not for what it does, but for daring to exist.

Once, Jews were falsely accused of murdering Christian children for Passover rituals. Those lies fueled pogroms, expulsions, and massacres.

Now, Jews are accused of starving Gazan children while Hamas hoards aid and starves Israeli hostages. The libel has changed; the hatred has not.

Until the world names this for what it is — antisemitism, raw and unmasked — the lies will spread, the hostages will remain underground, and terror will keep wearing the disguise of human rights.

History has seen this lie before and this time, the world cannot feign ignorance.