In Gaza, Because of Israel and Despite Hamas, the Humanitarian Situation Steadily Improves

In Gaza, the reality is very different from what most of the world’s media wants us to believe. There is no famine. There is no starvation. There are cases of malnutrition. More on the real Gaza, as described by Shoshana Bryen, can be found here: “This Is the Actual Humanitarian Situation in Gaza,” by Shoshana Bryen, Algemeiner, June 5, 2025:

The humanitarian aid situation in Gaza has been receiving overwhelming media coverage lately. While it was a good military move to stop Hamas-controlled food trucks from entering Gaza, Israel should have expected the world’s PR machine would be turned against it — even though there has never been an actual famine or anything close to it in Gaza.

Israel didn’t/doesn’t/won’t let people starve. Hence the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US-run, Israeli secured food distribution system in Gaza. On June 2, The Jerusalem Post reported:

According to the organization, 21 truckloads of food aid were delivered from its Tel Sultan distribution site, totaling 18,720 boxes – enough to provide approximately 1,081,080 meals. This brings the cumulative total to an estimated 5.8 million meals distributed since operations began.

At the time of this writing, June 5, the Israelis have distributed more than seven million meals.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee corroborated the figures in a stiff statement denouncing the flood of international media using “Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States.”

Huckabee called it “sloppy journalism.”

Respectfully, Mr. Ambassador, it is more. It is a collaboration among terrorists, international “aid” organizations, and the media in which each has something to lose if the truth wins. Consider:

“Gaza is the hungriest place on earth,” said the UN’s Jens Laerke. But Laerke should check Action Against World Hunger, which reports Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Sudan at the top of the list of people facing famine. Yemen and the DRC are right up there. The UN began yelling about famine in Gaza less than six weeks after Israel’s entry into Gaza following the 10/7 massacres. It never happened.

Then, Tom Fletcher, a UN humanitarian aid official, told the BBC on May 20, “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them. I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours.”

It was strange from the beginning — if there was a famine and genocide, how did 14,000 babies get born and survive? It may be the only genocide in the world that resulted in a larger, not smaller, victim population. The UN actually said, “Nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months … Of these, 14,100 cases are expected to be severe.”

Eleven months, not 48 hours. And even then, malnourished is bad and Israel is working to prevent that, it’s not the same as dead. But how many news outlets reported the lie but not the follow up?

Most recently, Hamas reported an Israeli tank attack at a GHF site last weekend.

A tank? How likely is it that the IDF would let loose with tank fire on a crowd waiting to take delivery of food? The IDF has said there were warning shots fired in the air — not at anybody — to maintain crowd control by reminding people to stay within the designated lines. Riots, after all, do not merely make the distribution of food more difficult, but innocent people can be crushed in such riots. The only people firing guns at Gazans are members of Hamas, hoping to disrupt the disbursement of aid.

The media reported it without question. A BBC news summary said, “At least 31 people have been killed after Israeli tanks opened fire near an aid center in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says, and 150 Palestinians have also been injured according to the Red Cross hospital in Rafah … ‘We have had an extortionate [sic] amount of people come through the door… The injuries are all gunshot wounds.’”

Gunshot wounds from a tank attack? Oops.

It is true that there was shooting; you can see it here — Hamas operatives are shooting at Palestinian civilians.

The Center for Peace Communications posted this video: “An eyewitness speaks out. ‘Hamas attacked queues of people waiting to receive aid from the American company in Gaza … while on social media, Hamas threatens and incites against those who receive American aid.’”

A later BBC article changed it without comment. The Washington Post removed its story altogether.

In its changed account, the BBC actually gives considerable space to the IDF’s account of the shootings, and its denial of responsibility, though it has also retained Hamas’ version blaming the IDF. The Washington Post took down the entire story, not knowing what version of the events — that of Hamas or the IDF — to believe.

Amjad Taha, a political strategist from the United Arab Emirates, says that “Hamas shoots Palestinians to stop them from eating because starving children are the main course for protest menus in London and Paris.”

This observation comes not from an IDF spokesman, but from an Arab commentator from the Emirates, Amjad Taha. Perhaps the BBC and the CNN might like to interview him on what is the real humanitarian aid situation in Gaza, who is trying to better things in the Strip, and who is trying to make them worse.