Hamas Bears All the Guilt

The Western media have been very vocal in condemning Israel for alleged starvation in Gaza, even to the point of using photos of children with Cerebral Palsy as instances of starving children, but an article in the Free Beacon by Andrew Tobin paints a much different picture of the situation in Gaza. Everyone who thinks Israel is to blame for hungry Gazans should read it.

Here's the lede:

Every day this week, hundreds of U.N. trucks stacked with pallets of humanitarian aid have exited Israeli-patrolled routes and rumbled into population centers across the Gaza Strip, where Israel has implemented daily pauses in military operations.

Many of the trucks, though traveling under enhanced Israeli protections introduced on Sunday, have not reached U.N. warehouses, according to Gazans on the ground. Once the trucks have arrived in the population centers, armed Hamas militants have hijacked the cargo, the Gazans said, and what aid has arrived at the warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by the Palestinian terrorist group.

Most Gazans have been forced to buy the aid at exorbitant prices from merchants handpicked and heavily taxed by Hamas.

"Fifty trucks arrived yesterday at warehouses in Gaza City, and Hamas stole all of the aid," Moumen al-Natour, a 30-year-old lawyer in the northern Gaza capital, said on Tuesday. "Today, the aid went on sale in the black markets at very high prices."

Al-Natour said a childhood friend, seeking to feed his family, joined a hungry mob trying to loot the trucks and was trampled to death along with a number of other civilians.

Gazans and Israeli military officers say this has been the reality in Gaza since fighting resumed in March. Hamas exerts near-total control over U.N.-led aid operations and seizes nearly all the incoming goods to feed and finance its terrorist regime, according to the people. Rather than confront the problem, the United Nations has effectively aligned with Hamas, prolonging the Gaza war and the suffering of Gazans, the people say.

"Hamas has unfortunately been able to infiltrate the mechanism of the United Nations for a long time," said Al-Natour. "They take all the aid for their own people and leave nothing for the civilians. This is how they maintain their criminal government while their popularity is collapsing."

Tobin goes on to explain how Hamas and the U.N. essentially work together in a way that results in the immiseration of the Gazan people. Contrary to what the antisemites in our media and universities want us to believe, the war, the thousands of casualties, and the suffering of the Gazans are all crimes perpetrated by Hamas, and it is Hamas who bears the guilt and the blame for them.

Those critical of Israel in this war would be hard pressed to think of any other country in history that has done more in wartime to avoid civilian casualties and done more to try to ease the suffering of the very people (the Gazans) who have overwhelmingly supported their government (Hamas) in its efforts to annihilate the very people (the Israelis) who are coming to their aid.