Genocide and Starvation in Gaza?

Time for some realism here:

Let me quickly answer my title question: yes there is, but it is overwhelmingly at the hands of Hamas. Israelphobes and antisemites claim that Israel is the bad guy here, and the source of all the suffering occuring. They are wrong. Let’s look more closely at this matter. The two common terms recklessly tossed around are somewhat similar:

Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area, with the intent of making the society ethnically homogeneous.

Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. It’s characterised by acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a group as such, and is recognised as an international crime.

We can see that both terms are fully appropriate and applicable – for Hitler and the Nazis, and for Hamas and other jihadist terror groups, and for Islam in general. These online definitions make it clear that Israel is involved in neither one, but its enemies certainly are. Intent is key here.

When it is the stated aim of Hamas to wipe out Israel, that IS genocide and ethnic cleansing. The terms have nothing to do with Israel. They are not seeking to wipe out all Arabs and all non-Jews in the region. For heaven’s sake, there are some 2.5 million non-Jews living in Israel!

One might as well idiotically argue that the Allies in WWII were committing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Um no. They were seeking to take out Hitler and the Nazis. They were not seeking to wipe out every last German, or every last Japanese, and so on. They were going after the aggressors.

Israel is specifically and carefully targeting Hamas terrorists, and Hezbollah terrorists, and so on. There has never been any major warfare where some collateral damage does not occur. Sadly some civilians will always be killed. When Hamas deliberately hides behind civilians and sets up its operations in schools, hospitals and mosques, then of course some non-combatants might be harmed as Israel rightly seeks to take out the terrorists.

Coleman Hughes accurately sizes things up:

But there is a moral asymmetry here. When an IDF soldier goes berserk, he is subject to criminal punishment. Hamas’s entire reason for being—its entire mission—is a war crime. Hamas fighters don’t wear uniforms. They have stolen enough aid from civilians to survive in their tunnels for a prolonged period of time. They are completely unaffected by the suffering of their own people.

 

The greatest tragedy of this war is that the excesses of both the IDF and Hamas almost always fall on Palestinian civilians. That’s by Hamas’s design. Is it Israel’s fault that its own civilians are incredibly well protected by defensive infrastructure, including the Iron Dome and bomb shelters? Is it Israel’s fault that Hamas has built one of the most extensive networks of underground bomb shelters in the history of warfare, but doesn’t allow its own civilians to enter them? Is it Israel’s fault that Hamas uses children as lookouts, thereby turning them into combatants under the international laws of war?

 

When we hold Israel alone responsible for the civilian death toll in Gaza—a death toll that is the direct result of Hamas’s barbaric style of warfare—we implicitly blame Israel for war crimes that were committed by Hamas. Hamas’s strategy is to maximize suffering on its own side. It knows it cannot beat Israel on the battlefield, but it hopes that by putting its own civilians in harm’s way, it can galvanize world opinion against Israel and destroy the Jewish State in the long run. This strategy only works if the world blames Israel for the consequences of Hamas’s choices. Our moral confusion is Hamas’s chief asset.

And a major issue here is Western gullibility along with terribly biased reporting:

There’s no doubt that there is a humanitarian disaster in Gaza. But the information pipeline between Gaza and the West is fundamentally broken, biased, untrustworthy, and weaponized against Israel. And the less skeptical that Western journalists are, the more sources like Hamas and the Gaza Health Ministry can disseminate misinformation without penalty, perpetuating the false narrative that Israel is the genocidal aggressor in a war waged against them by a group whose mission is, in fact, genocide. https://www.thefp.com/p/coleman-hughes-the-simple-truth-about

Starvation

The same truths apply to issues of starvation and the like. Hamas deliberately withholds food from its own people. It steals aid sent in from outsiders and either uses it for itself, or sells it at exorbitant prices to those most in need of it. As one report notes:

Israel has delivered more than 1.5 billion meals into Gaza — sufficient to feed two million people for over two years. Hamas diverts up to 90% of humanitarian aid, reselling it to finance terrorism and secure political loyalty. In 2023 alone, Hamas is estimated to have profited over half a billion dollars by exploiting the aid system. UN agencies such as UNRWA have been infiltrated by Hamas operatives, contributing to the spread of misinformation and manipulation of international aid. This isn’t a famine — it’s a terrorist-controlled economy.

Consider this lengthy interview by Konstantin Kisin with someone on the ground there: Major Andrew Fox, a former British Army officer. He brings clarity on what is really happening in Gaza. When asked about Israel committing genocide, he says “emphatically not,” and again stresses the matter of intent. He then says:

If you look at the fact that Israel has sustained 3000 casualties, that Israel has the capability to end this tomorrow if they really wanted to wipe out 2 million Palestinians – they have enough firepower to do that … and yet they’re not using it. There have been more bombs dropped in Gaza than people have been killed. Either the IDF are the worst shots in history, or they are actually taking care with civilian lives. You don’t give vaccines for polio to the entire child population of Gaza if you’re trying to destroy them. You don’t facilitate twice the amount of food aid going into Gaza as was going in before the war, if you are trying to kill everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN2WGZZG-x0

Or as US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said after his recent visit to Gaza: “There is no starvation in Gaza. If Israel is committing genocide, then it is really bad at it. Israel acts well to protect civilians and prevent collateral damage. No country in the world, including the US, takes steps like Israel to minimize harm to civilians.”

Many stories can be recounted here. Consider two of them. One headline says this: “She fed 100K Gazan families for free – now terrorists and local merchants want her dead.” The report begins:

When much of the world had written off northern Gaza as unreachable, 30-year-old east-Jerusalem resident Sarah Awaidah and her team carved out a lifeline. Under the umbrella of Mena Aid, a regional partner coalition operating through the Multifaith Alliance (MFA), and in coordination with Israeli authorities, she built a system that moved hundreds of trucks of food and supplies into Gaza – bypassing Hamas and private contractors who had turned hunger into a business.

 

The result: more than 100,000 families fed. The cost: her own safety. “I never imagined that creating a safe, independent humanitarian route would become the reason my life might end,” Sarah Awaidah told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that took place in a safe house in Israel.

 

“After delivering 346 trucks of aid between September 2024 and February 2025, we reached 100,622 families,” Awaidah said. “We decided to scale up distribution on June 30, 2025, at a time when no one was able to get anything into Gaza because of looting, chaos and multiple layers of obstruction on the ground.”

She continues:

“There’s a lot of private sector businessmen – some associated with Hamas and other political groups – who try to use aid to make millions,” she said. “Because there’s such a shortage of goods, and prices are so high, some steal aid and sell it in the market. Others try to take over the supply routes so they can resell it.”

 

According to Awaidah, her team’s success threatened those who profit from scarcity. By flooding the market with free goods, they not only fed families but also drove down the inflated prices charged for basics like sugar and flour.

 

“If there’s no sugar in Gaza, and we bring it in for free, they can’t keep selling it at outrageous prices,” she said. “So we became their problem.” https://www.foxnews.com/world/she-fed-100k-gazan-families-free-now-terrorists-local-merchants-want-her-dead

Another article makes clear Western media bias in all this:

A leaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The memo, titled ‘Covering the food crisis in Gaza’, amounts to a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality, elevates one side of a deeply contested narrative, and imposes a specific anti-Israel legal-political framing as settled fact. The existence of this email is a telling sign of how the Corporation works to ensure its journalists stick to its own ideological angles.

 

The email, which was sent to BBC staff on Friday, begins by declaring that ‘the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant’ and instructs staff that ‘we should say’ the current distribution system ‘doesn’t work’. It explicitly favours a particular explanation of suffering in Gaza: one that blames the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a relatively new aid body established with US and Israeli cooperation, while glossing over the role of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza and a proscribed terrorist organisation under British law.

 

But the quantity of aid entering Gaza is not irrelevant. If Hamas is hijacking, obstructing, or reselling aid, as Israeli and independent reports suggest, and as documented footage and testimony have supported, then the location, handling, and efficacy of aid delivery become vital indicators of where the problem lies. Blaming Israel alone for the humanitarian breakdown while exonerating or ignoring Hamas is not responsible or fair journalism, especially as Israel argues it is going to extreme lengths to try to mitigate the jihadi terrorists’ efforts to persecute and deprive Gazan citizens. https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-leaked-email-that-blows-apart-the-bbcs-impartiality-claims-over-gaza/

The mainstream media war against truth has a lot to answer for. As Andrew Fox said in his interview

There are two wars going on in Gaza – there’s what’s actually happening in Gaza, and then there is the entire bubble of media and information manoeuvre going on around it. And that information campaign is designed to enable Hamas’ survival – it’s designed to force the Israelis due to international pressure to a ceasefire. And it’s working to an extent: we saw that letter just this week from 28 countries telling Israel to ceasefire, and curiously omitting the fact that it was Hamas that turned down the last 6 ceasefire deals. So there are two wars going on here….

Saying all this of course does not mean Israel is a paragon of virtue. No country is. But foolish claims of Israeli genocide and war crimes and the like need to be seen for what they are: far more myth than reality, peddled by those who hate Israel and the Jews.

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