Regardless of the facts, the world will go on blaming Israel.
“Hamas gunmen caught on tape accusing leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid,” Times of Israel, February 17, 2025:
In unencrypted radio communications intercepted by Israel in early 2024, low-level Hamas operatives in Gaza can be heard accusing their leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid and of ordering an attack on the wives of fighters who criticized them.
The recordings were broadcast by Channel 12 on Sunday. The report said that Israeli officials had played the recordings to counterparts in the Biden administration, in a failed bid to counter White House pressure to keep letting some 250 trucks of aid enter the Strip daily after the November 2023 truce-hostage deal fell apart.
Israel has accused Hamas of stealing the aid. The network, citing the recordings, said the aid reached Hamas’s leaders but not the operatives in the field..
“Tell the leadership in Khan Younis, we’ll beat you up,” one irate operative can be heard yelling. “You only take care of yourselves, there is no leadership.”
Even as aid flows in, the Hamas fighters can be heard complaining about dwindling supplies and growing casualties.
“Our condition is very harsh. We haven’t had an allotment for a long time. What is the leadership’s response?” one low-level operative can be heard saying. “They took everything, stole everything. Soon we won’t find anything to eat or drink.”
In a clip played separately, an identical-sounding operative says: “Regarding the funds we spoke about yesterday, almost nothing is left. We bought cigarettes for ourselves, some of [the money] went to cover our expenses. We want to bring flour.”
“It’s urgent, please,” says the operative. “I’m responsible for 170 souls, I told you 20 are wounded… there had been a few cans [of food]… we went [to get supplies] and there was nothing.”
Those who accused Hamas of hoarding the supplies soon received notice that their wives had been attacked in a Rafah mosque, Channel 12 said. At the reported time of the recordings, the Strip’s southernmost city was inundated with displaced people from north Gaza, many of whom sheltered in mosques.
On the radio network, operatives blamed Hamas leadership for the attack on their wives. “I swear I’ll rain blows on all of you,” one operative yells….
Sue says
This is something that should be made known to every High School, College Universities. It should be in the History Books so the dumb kids who protest against Israel learn true history not the lies taught in schools all over the United States.
The history of the Unted States, and of the Jewish people should be a mandatory class in every school across America, It would greatly change the minds of many Americans knowing the truth. Without Israel “Jacob” America would not exist, Why? The pilgrams sought after a free country to worship the greatest Jew of them all, and God blessed the land of Ameruca for recognizing His Son. It is when the United States kicked God out of schools a decline began to slowly happen. It totally surprised me when I actually found the 80’s and 90’s babies didn’t know about Jesus. What shocked me most was when I had told someone Jesus was born in Bethlehem and he replied; How Israel didn’t exist until the 20th century. My jaw dropped. Sorry I went down a rabbit hole. History is real important.
John Pepple says
It doesn’t surprise me one bit that the aid wasn’t getting through. Nor does it surprise me that the Biden administration still kept sending aid.
somehistory says
bo had to make sure his best buds were fed and cared for, no matter how much they hoarded and retaliated against their own.
Retaliating is nothing when considering that they put women and little children in harm’s way and then blamed Israel when the little kids were killed.
No one in the videos of the casket return looked like they had been starving. And what is interesting in this ‘recording’ quotes is that they were without food but they “bought cigarettes” for themselves. Thought that smoking was forbidden in islime unless it furthered the spread of the evil….as in wanting to appear as infidels to hide their true intent.
All media should be required to air these recordings if they intend to talk about Israel and hamas; and opine on what should be done.
PMK says
Am I supposed to feel sympathy for these ‘low-level’ jihadis? Not in a zillion years.
OLD GUY says
Humanitarian aid to the enemy, who would have thought our politicians could come up with such a plan. But then they do become multi million aires off of playing with our tax dollars. And when the fighting end the wonderful American tax payer will spend billions rebuilding Gaza for the vary people who started the war. Where is the sense in that?
somehistory says
The word “senseless” was coined just for the likes of them.