There can be no doubt that Hamas is winning the propaganda war. Every night we see heartrending photographs of what are described as “starving children,” the victims of famine in Gaza. But some of the same videos of emaciated children are shown repeatedly; perhaps there are not so many of them to put on display after all. As the Israelis keep saying, there is no “famine” in Gaza; there is, instead, “malnutrition.” These are different things. There is “malnutrition” in Mississippi. There is “famine” in the Sudan.
An IDF soldier who served in Gaza protecting the humanitarian aid at one of the GHF distribution centers, preventing it from being seized by Hamas, has set the record straight here: “‘I saw something different’: IDF reservist refutes intl. claims of intentional starvation,” by Gabriel Colodro, The Media Line, July 27, 2025:
In the quiet outskirts of Tel Aviv, an active-duty soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), who, for security reasons, will be referred to only as “Y,” is between rounds of duty after completing more than 300 days of service since October 7.
In an exclusive interview with The Media Line, he recounts what he saw during one of the most contested incidents of the war, challenging headlines that claimed Israeli soldiers opened fire on starving civilians.
Another IDF reservist who was present at the scene also spoke with The Media Line and confirmed “Y’s” account of the incident, including the sequence of events and the nature of the crowd that approached the distribution site.
Access to Gaza has been limited, and the foreign press has been unable to enter the area to tell the story accurately. Since the soldier gave this account, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) has challenged Hamas’ claim of widespread starvation in Gaza with a statement on Thursday that “there is no famine in the Gaza Strip,” while acknowledging “there are issues of access to food” in certain “pockets” in Gaza.
Photos were circulated on social media showing 1,000 humanitarian aid trucks stalled outside the Gaza Strip. While the UN claims that Israel’s bureaucracy prevents distribution, Col. Abdullah Halabi of COGAT told Yahoo News, “The State of Israel allows the entry of humanitarian aid beyond the standards of international law, without restriction. As long as the international community makes an effort to bring in the aid, we will allow them to bring it in.”
The IDF announced Thursday that, in response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, it will renew the airdrop of aid into the Gaza Strip. The effort will be coordinated by COGAT and the Israeli air force and will include seven aid pallets containing flour, sugar, and canned food provided by international organizations. In addition, the IDF said it will facilitate the movement of aid trucks within Gaza.
The much-maligned Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, backed by both Israel and the United States, has already managed to serve 1.5 million meals in Gaza. Does that sound like Israel is trying to “starve the people of Gaza”?
While the IDF has acknowledged that mistakes occur amid the fog of war and that serious incidents are subject to internal review, “Y” emphasizes that his account is based solely on what he witnessed during his deployment. “I’m not saying everything always goes right—we’re people, and people make mistakes,” he notes. “But where I was, I didn’t see what the news is claiming. I saw something very different.”
The soldier’s latest deployment placed him not in combat with enemy terrorists, but guarding one of the war’s most controversial flashpoints: a humanitarian corridor intended to deliver aid to civilians in Gaza.
‘Trained to fight terrorists, not to manage riots’
“This was the worst thing I’ve ever done,” says “Y.” “It was disgusting. You see people fight each other over food. Trampling, throwing sand, stealing. It’s chaos. We’re not trained for that. We’re infantry. We’re supposed to fight terrorists, not manage riots.”
Assigned to a corridor, one of the three Safe Distribution Sites in southern Gaza, “Y” was part of the Israeli effort to allow aid trucks into the Strip without empowering Hamas. The system was coordinated with US aid officials and monitored by drones to weaken Hamas’s control over food distribution and, in turn, pressure the group to agree to a ceasefire and release hostages.
The IDF soldiers were there to protect aid trucks entering and inside Gaza from being seized, or looted, by Hamas, and also to keep Hamas members from waylaying Gazans who had received food from the GHF and stealing large amounts of the food they had been given.
“It made sense strategically,” he explains. “Take away their grip on aid, make life easier for civilians, and isolate Hamas. But on the ground, it turned into chaos.”
According to “Y,” thousands of civilians pour into the compound daily. “It’s the size of a football field, surrounded by sand berms and barbed wire. People arrive on foot, in cars, on motorcycles, or on horses. They carry sacks. There are no lines. No supervision. It’s a stampede. They push, they stab, they throw sand at each other. Sometimes they trample the weak. We tried to bring some order, but the system collapsed from the start.”…
The Gazans themselves, by their violent behavior directed at other Gazans when they are clamoring for food, make it almost impossible for the orderly distribution of aid. Hamas encourages this behavior, which it knows can be videotaped and presented to the world as an example of the IDF “making the desperate Gazans suffer in their desperate search for food.”
Hamas terrorists and common criminals waylay those Gazans who do manage to obtain food from the four GHF distribution points (three in Rafah, and one in northern Gaza), and steal that food for resale. That resale of humanitarian aid stolen by Hamas has become a main source of revenue for the terror group, which is especially needed now that financial aid that used to be delivered from Iran through Syria to Hamas has been cut off.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
The obsession w/ humanitarian aid to Gaza needs to end, and Israel needs to make the final push to eliminate Hamas – freeing the hostages if possible, losing them if necessary. It’s not even known how many are still alive. If it’s just their cadavers that the IDF needs to recover, they can do it after leveling that place
Stop debating ad nauseum the righteousness of the Israeli cause – on which everybody has already made up their minds – and just push for ending this quickly. There may be a few days of outrage, but after a week or more, everybody in the Leftist mobosphere’s attention will be diverted to the next shiny object, such as birthright citizenship for kids of illegals in the US
somehistory says
All true, Infidel. Trying to convince the inconvincible is not ever going to work.
James Lincoln says
Seconded!
somehistory says
Malnutrition can happen when food is abundant; either the person doesn’t eat it, or it is not wholesome food.
A few days ago, an account out of the U.K. was on the feed. As it happened, a woman who had moved from her home country to Britain called the emergency line, said she couldn’t breathe and couldn’t move her arms and legs and that her daughter needed help as she was totally dependent on her. Then, the phone line went dead.
Emergency services did not send help; it was decided that the woman had disconnected the call.
Weeks, a month, went by and a neighbor who hadn’t seen the two in some time, called for a welfare check on them.
The woman had died of pneumonia Her daughter, who had Downs and couldn’t take care of herself, had died some days later of ****malnutrition.****. They could both have been saved if the emergency people had acted appropriately.
Every week, if not more often, stories of a similar kind come out of the U.K. with inquiries deciding that the appropriate actions were not taken to save a baby’s life. Babies are dying because people are not doing their jobs as they should be.
mozzie scum…hamas or otherwise…are not going to be truthful. Neither will they be appreciative of what is done for them. Those in Gaza will gladly sacrifice their babies if it will further their islime.
They want to destroy Israel and the Jews who live there. First, they are destroying Israel’s rep before the world….which they have been doing for nearly a century…and when everyone who takes the bait decides in the mozziescum’s favor, then they will be all for destroying Israel in a literal way.
That time is almost here.
ploome says
The arabs have useful idiots and willing executioners.
The UN, Europeans, British and most of the world seem more. than happy to pile on to bring Israel to her knees.
They make it a crime to accurately describe the jihad and refute the propaganda and takkiya they all and are too ready to believe and embellish.
The whole world seems determined to continue the holocaust today.
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ploome says
why?
Largest Teachers Union Just Erased Jews Then Hid the Handbook That Ordered the Erasure After Conservatives Found It
By Randy DeSoto, The Western Journal
The nation’s largest teachers’ union found itself on the defensive recently when its Holocaust guidance made no mention of the Jewish people.
Just to get the history straight, Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” called for the systemic killing of all the Jews in Europe, and his Nazi regime managed to take the lives of six million of them, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
That was nearly one-third of the entire Jewish population worldwide.
However, the National Education Association 2025 handbook makes no connection between the killing of Jews and the Holocaust, the conservative Washington Free Beacon reported.
somehistory says
Just as they try to say Israel has no connection to the Land of Israel. However, it is only because they ignore, or lie about, all of the evidence of the Jews being in the Land for so many centuries. Lies upon lies to uphold the lies and the evil.
Here’s a recent find that proves it. Found in the area where young David fought and killed the giant, Goliath
“Three-Year-Old Girl Stumbles on ‘Beautiful Stone’ While Hiking, Turns Out to Be 3,800-Yr-Old Israeli Scarab Seal”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/three-year-old-girl-stumbles-on-beautiful-stone-while-hiking-turns-out-to-be-3-800-yr-old-israeli-scarab-seal/ar-AA1C9YTC?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6889116478474062b256cd05105658b2&ei=30
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
A truly heartbreaking story about that woman and her daughter.
I pray for them.
somehistory says
I too felt emotional pain when reading it, James. and anger that no help was sent.
gravenimage says
Chilling story, Somehistory–and completely unneccesary. Authorities should have checked–not that hard.
somehistory says
Breaking from cnn
“Britain to recognize Palestinian state unless Israel takes ‘substantive steps to end appalling situation in Gaza’”
somehistory says
““I have always said that we will recognize a Palestinian state as a contribution to a proper peace process at the moment of maximum impact for the two-state solution,” Starmer said in press briefing after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
“I can confirm the UK will recognize the State of Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly in September, unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, agree to a ceasefire and commit to a long-term sustainable peace reviving the prospect of a two-state solution.”
Starmer convened the meeting one day after the UK leader said the British public are “revolted” by images of people starving in Gaza, speaking alongside US President Donald Trump in Scotland.”
ploome says
and Starmer is married to a Jew. His children are Jews.
from Jpost
Lady Victoria Starmer, a Jewish woman with a rich cultural heritage and deep-rooted traditions, is the new British prime minister’s wife.
Intertwined with her Jewish upbringing, her life story plays a significant role in shaping the values and practices of her family.
gravenimage says
Rewarding Jihad terrorists for kidnapping, raping, and murdering Jews.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Hamas’ practice of shielding themselves behind “Palestinian”s has been known for decades. So, awaiting Israel’s response to Oct. 7, the table was set. The IDF would act, Hamas would lie about the IDF committing war crimes, and the contest would be who was believed.
I looked at this formula and said to myself, the outcome of this in PR comes down to what the press believes, and what they report and don’t report. Not surprisingly, Hamas is winning the PR war because of the press’ eagerness to buy into Hamas’ transparent lies.
Say, I thought the Jews owned and controlled he press. What’s going on here?
James Lincoln says
Alarmed Pig Farmer says,
“Say, I thought the Jews owned and controlled he press. What’s going on here?”
A brilliant point!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, on this one, there are a lot of antisemitic Jews. So some of the press (outside Israel) is being controlled by some Jews, but it’s not controlled by the Jews – the ones who presumably are shills for Israel
abu taleb says
Muhammad wanted his followers to sacrifice themselves for his interest, either voluntarily or not. So Hamas is just following Muhammad’s deed, the sunnah of Muhammad.
Islam comes from two sources, Quran and hadiths which narrate the sunnah of Muhammad.
Coop says
I wonder how likely it might be that Hamas would coerce a family to intentionally starve or give up their child to Hamas propaganda purposes?
With absolute control, Hamas can do whatever it wants.
gravenimage says
An IDF Soldier Testifies as to What Is Really Happening in Gaza
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Good for him.