IDF Officials Say No Evidence Hamas Systematically Stole UN Aid in Gaza

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For those who eat up the propaganda and then use propaganda as though it's the truth.  Realize that the world is losing its patience for genocide and crimes against humanity like constructing a siege and starving a population is a war crime, specifically, starvation as a method of warfare is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions (Additional Protocol I, Article 54) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 8(2)(b)(xxv)). Denial CAN be eventually be prosecuted as complicity. There are historical precedents. It seems the owners of main-steam media are waking up to that fact, hopefully operators of social media will follow suit. It won't be a good thing to end up on the wrong side of history and outfits like the New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC, and Israel's own Haartz understand this.

News agencies now reporting on the siege and starvation in Gaza:

• The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/world/middleeast/gaza-starvation.html
• The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/israel-deflect-blame-starvation-gaza-hunger
• BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1j7n72ywo]

Current propaganda:

• David Mencer, Israeli Government Spokesman, July 24, 2025: "There is no famine in Gaza - there is a famine of the truth."
• Itamar Ben Gvir, National Security Minister, July 25, 2025: "In reality, there is no famine in Gaza. If they were hungry, they would have returned the hostages."

And...

• Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, July 21, 2025: "Hamas steals the food."
• Netanyahu, July 22, 2025: "We're trying to let the food in, and guess what happens when we let them in? Hamas steals the food, takes a good chunk for itself, they jack up the prices..."
• Netanyahu, July 23, 2025: "We’re not starving Gaza. Hamas is stealing the food."

So - Hamas is stealing all of the food arriving in Gaza according to Netanyahu.

Opps!  That one just got debunked.  The rest need to be debunked as forced starvation is a crime against humanity.
 

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/idf-officials-say-no-evidence-hama

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Are you sure there’s no conflation in this report?

 

”WASHINGTON — An internal US government analysis has found no evidence of systematic theft by the Hamas terror group of US-funded humanitarian supplies, challenging the main rationale that Israel and the US give for backing a new armed private aid operation.

The analysis was conducted by a bureau within the US Agency for International Development and completed in late June. It examined 156 incidents of theft or loss of US-funded supplies reported by USAID partner organizations between October 2023 and May.

It found “no reports alleging Hamas” benefited from US-funded supplies, according to a slide presentation of the findings seen by Reuters.

The analysis was unable to attribute most instances of theft to a particular actor, although it noted that because Palestinians who receive aid cannot be vetted, US-funded supplies might have been going to Hamas nonetheless.

A State Department spokesperson disputed the findings, saying there is video evidence of Hamas looting aid, but provided no such videos. The spokesperson also accused traditional humanitarian groups of covering up “aid corruption.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/usaid-finds-no-proof-hamas-systematically-loots-aid-state-department-idf-push-back/

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-rabbis-demand-israel-stop-using-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war/