“The demand is unbelievable”
Nigerian scammers, casino game apps, and romance frauds make a point of being so obviously fake that only complete idiots and those so delusional that they want to believe could fall for them. So too the Gaza famine hoax.
As you read this, remember it comes from The National, a state media outlet in the United Arab Emirates.
Israel is allowing tens of thousands of iPhone 17s into Gaza after months of blocking food, medicine and other basic supplies, leaving some weary Palestinians suspicious.
Even as families sleep in tents, food stocks fall short, and Israel shuts out building materials needed to rebuild Gaza, the iPhone 17 Pro Max is a surreal sight in one of the most devastated places on Earth.
In central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, phone shop owner Mohammed Zaqoul sees customers queuing up for the device that has become a symbol of both status and controversy. Each one costs about 7,000 shekels ($2,200).
“The demand is unbelievable,” he told The National. “Every shipment that enters Gaza contains more than 10,000 phones, sometimes more. And dozens of shipments have arrived.”
Why phones, and not food? Why an advanced piece of tech, but not baby formula or cement to rebuild the devastated Palestinian enclave?
The answer to why there are tens of thousands of iPhone 17s at $2.2K a pop, not food or medicine, is because the famine was a hoax.
The claim that Israel was preventing food and medicine from getting in was a complete lie.
So was the narrative that Gaza was an isolated ‘open air prison’ whose people were suffering and resorted to Oct 7 only because of their anguish. In reality, Gaza was wealthy, filled with high-end restaurants, hotels and Hamas millionaires.
When people have the money to buy tens of thousands of $2.2K phones and when that’s their priority, it’s obvious that the ‘devastation’ that keeps being shoved at us is also a lie. Some of the areas that had extensive Hamas infrastructure were heavily bombed, but most of Gaza is still intact. We have plenty of social media video that shows that.
After WWII, Germans and French civilians weren’t scrambling for high-end luxuries. They were dealing with the devastation.
That is not what’s going on in Gaza.
When people are buying gold and diamond iPhones, they’re doing fine and they have plenty of excess wealth to show off. Yes, gold and diamond iPhones.
The ‘famine’ now comes with a side order of gold and diamond phones that apparently go for around $10,000 each.
CryHavoc says
Wouldn’t it be amusing if those 17’s were lowjacked? What a creative way to deal with FataHamas!!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, either that, or they should replicate the pager operations that they did on Hizbullah last year
Gold & diamond decked phones? Why don’t they just max out the specs on those phones and order them? Make Apple loads of more money
Thane Eichenauer says
Without stable electricity having an iPhone 17 in Gaza seems like a meager tool. The cell phone service there is described as “extremely limited, unreliable, and subject to frequent and prolonged blackouts”.
Gaza is a terrible place to be even with thousands of iPhones.
Tony says
Muslim deceit is limitless against Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 3:28, 54; 7:99; 8:30, etc.). Islam is a totalitarian system of deceit.
Allah’s Islam, a CRIMINAL-TERRORIST-GANG ENTERPRISE and a MURDEROUS-DEMONIC CULT OF BELIEVERS, Terrorist Muslim Soldiers for satanic Allah, continually fund, promote, and practice ideological subversion, propaganda, bigotry, discrimination, deceit, industrial-scale slavery, human trafficking, intimidation, supremacy, segregation, hatred, incitement to violence, criminality, genocide, victimhood, censorship, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law, Sharia, and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 5:14,35; 8:60; 9:41, 88, etc.).
Deceitful Allah stirs hatred against Christians until the resurrection day when Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 60:4.
As taught by Allah, Muslims are supremacist terrorists for Allah with their MONEY and with their LIVES while undermining a society from within using the man-made book of lies and deceit, the Qur’an. Allah in Qur’an 49:15 states, “Surely the believers[Muslims] are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed jihad with their MONEY and their LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.” Allah in Qur’an 4:101 says, “…Surely the infidels(Non-Muslims) were your clear enemies.”
ALLAH’S MUSLIMS are a greater TERROR than diabolical Allah. Allah in Qur’an 59:13 says, “You[Muslims] are a greater terror in their chests than Allah. This is because they[Jews & Christians] are people who do not understand.” Islam must be banned as illegal, and we have the legal right to defend ourselves from Muslim violence. As a result, Non-Muslims are marked for death by Islam and its Muslims. Allah in Qur’an 9:29 commands, “Engage in war with those who do not believe in Allah nor in the last day. Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid, nor believe in the religion of the truth among those who have given the book until they pay the jizyah out of hand and they are subdued.”
Again, Islam is a totalitarian and supremacist system of lies and deceit because Allah, the best deceiver, is the actual source of Muslim deceit. Allah in Qur’an 3:54 says, “And they deceived, and Allah deceived. And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 8:30 says, “…And Allah is the best deceiver.” Allah in Qur’an 13:42 says, “And indeed, those before them deceived, so to Allah all the deception…”
Charles says
Daniel you wrote that there is plenty of social media that shows that much of Gaza is intact. Do you have some links to that? That would be helpful for all of us making Israel’s case on social media.
Charles says
According to Bloomberg there was a lot of damage in Gaza. It may have been unavoidable. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-gaza-damage-assessment/
Bexarkat says
Israel is preparing for the next intifada…”Abdul go boom!”