Middle East Madness > Gazans Blame Hamas for Food Shortages

 

What the world hasn't come to realize in its deliberate naivety is that Hamas is not fighting for Gazans. They are fighting for Hamas. The more Gazans suffer and die, the better it is for Hamas' propaganda machine, which is so effective in the far-left mainstream, antisemitic media.

Gazans Blame Hamas for Food Shortages

Aug 26, 2025 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

The UN and a host of agencies specializing in famine relief claim that Israel is deliberately starving the civilians in Gaza, while the Israelis blame Hamas, for stealing, hoarding, and reselling so much of the food aid meant to be distributed for free to Gazans. They can’t both be telling the truth. Now the Gazans themselves, suffering from malnutrition — which is not the same thing as enduring a “famine” — have had their say here: 

Are Palestinians really facing a famine in Gaza? – explainer

The Media Line, August 24, 2025:

The UN is preparing a declaration of famine in Gaza City, holding Israel responsible for the humanitarian crisis under its revised criteria, in spite of footage and testimony that Hamas is looting aid and manipulating media coverage.

The Media Line’s reporter has been speaking to Gazans throughout the war. The following is a sampling of their responses. TML was also in Gaza City and witnessed a large amount of humanitarian aid available, including an abundance of food, but offered at exorbitant prices.

The situation for those living several miles away in the refugee camps has been complicated by the lack of access to food available in other areas.

Who is to blame in Gaza?

Gazans described Hamas looting aid and reselling it. “First of all, we have no food, no water, none of life’s basics. And second, we never see any of the aid that comes in,” Ibrahim Atta Hawila of Jabalya said. “Hamas takes the aid. They don’t want anyone else to be in control. They seize it, store it in warehouses, keep what they want, and hand us lentils.”

Ali Khamis al-Tanini, also from Jabalya, expressed grief over the loss of three grandchildren as the crisis continues: “We can’t find food. I have heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure. I can manage a day or two without food, but the children can’t. This little girl can’t eat, can’t even stand; she hasn’t had anything. Why did Hamas leave us with nothing while they eat lamb and beef?”

He added, “Hamas did this to us. We can’t even find a bite to eat. Not even lentils – the merchants have hidden those and everything else.”

Others voiced the same anger. Ahmad Fayad told The Media Line that his young daughter had gone 10 days without milk. “I hold Hamas responsible. They’re the ones who brought us to this point. I blame Hamas, and I also blame the Arabs – and even the Jews.”

Ne’ma Abu Saleh said, “Others are eating and stealing, while we sit here with nothing. I blame Hamas.”

He continued, “Let them release the hostages and stop dragging us into their problems. What do they want from us? Our homes are already destroyed.”…

COGAT emphasized that more than 10,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since May and that the US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has distributed over 2.2 million relief packages.

Each relief package contains enough food for fifty meals. Since May, the GHF has delivered more than 100 million meals to Gazans. In addition, the Israelis have encouraged other countries to airdrop hundreds of tons of food into Gaza. The IDF makes great efforts to protect the food aid it has provided from being stolen and then resold by Hamas.

The IDF has deliberately halted its operations for several hours each day, so that Gazans can be assured they can safely take delivery of food without being caught in the middle of a firefight between the IDF and Hamas. It has also encouraged dozens of countries to make airdrops of food into Gaza. Many thousands of pallets carrying hundreds of tons of food, water, and other relief have been delivered by several countries. That much more of the food aid is now getting through to the Gazans for whom it was intended is shown by the steep drop in the price of food in Gaza. For example, A kilogram of flour fell from NIS 80–100 to NIS 18; a kilogram of sugar has dropped from NIS 300 to NIS 50; a kilogram of pasta has decreased from NIS 100 to NIS 10; a kilogram of rice was reduced from NIS 120 to NIS 30. Such steep drops confirm that much more food aid is now getting through, with much less being stolen, hoarded, and resold at exorbitant prices by Hamas.

Israel is not deliberately starving the Gazans. The Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has made tremendous efforts to feed people in Gaza, with more than 100 million meals delivered to Gazans since May. Those Gazans have testified as to the maleficent role of Hamas in stealing so much of the food aid. Just look again at what those ordinary Gazans — Al-Tanini, Abdul Rahim Bakr, Ibrahim Atta Hawila, and many others — have been saying, denouncing Hamas for their misery. For these Gazans there is no doubt who is to blame. It is Hamas that is making their lives miserable, Hamas that has been stealing, hoarding, and reselling food aid at exorbitant prices. Shouldn’t the international media be reporting on what they have to say?

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This Day in History > Islam's precurser to Oct 7, '23 in Hebron, Oct 15th, 1929

 

Hebron, 1929, and the Al-Aqsa Flood, 2023

Aug 13, 2025 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald7 Comments

In 1929, marauding Arabs, having whipped themselves up into a murderous fury in Hebron, the second holiest city in Judaism, turned on their Jewish neighbors and slaughtered every last Jewish man, woman, and child — 69 in all — who did not manage to escape. The attacks, which began on August 24, saw mobs armed with knives, axes, and clubs targeting Jewish homes and institutions.

Elder of Ziyon notes that the anniversary of the Hebron riots is coming up in less than two weeks. Looking forward to this ghoulish anniversary, Arabs have been publishing articles about their “great victory” at Hebron in 1929 over the Jews. More on their celebration of the Hebron massacre, and the link being made to the 2023 Al-Aqsa Intifada, can be found here:

Palestinians don’t only celebrate October 7.

They also celebrate Hebron 1929.

Elder of Ziyon, August 10, 2025:

The anniversary of the deadly 1929 riots that killed over 100 Jews in Palestine is coming up.

Nesan.net has an article about 1929 painted in glowing colors and lies:

The “Buraq Revolt” was the first Palestinian uprising against the attempts to Judaize Jerusalem during the British Mandate. Large-scale clashes broke out between Arabs and Jews at the Buraq Wall (the western wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque) on August 15, 1929. The revolt culminated on August 23, 1929, with dozens killed and wounded.

The Buraq Revolt erupted when Jews organized a massive demonstration at the Buraq Wall on August 14, 1929, to mark what they called the “anniversary of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple,” claiming it was a place reserved for Jews alone.

The next day, August 15, 1929, they followed it with a massive demonstration through the streets of Jerusalem, reaching the Buraq Wall. There, they chanted, “The Wall is ours,” and sang the “Zionist national anthem,” while simultaneously insulting Muslims.

The British police had been informed of the demonstration in advance and sent large forces to escort the Jewish demonstrators.

On the third day, Friday, August 16, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Muslims rallied to defend the Buraq Wall, which the Jews intended to seize. Violent clashes erupted between the two sides, sweeping across much of Palestine.

None of this is true.

The revolt saw clashes between Palestinians on one side and Jews and Mandate forces on the other in Hebron, Safed, Jerusalem, Jaffa, and other Palestinian cities, lasting for days.

Nesan.net’s use of the word “Palestinian” is an anachronism. The word “Palestinian” in 1929 referred only to Jews. And there were no “clashes” between Arabs and Jews in Hebron — only murderous attacks by Arabs, armed with axes, knives, and scimitars, on helpless Jews.

The Palestine Bulletin at the time shows that the only violence in the first days were by the Arabs against a single Jew – a shammash, or beadle – who didn’t flee the Kotel on that Friday:

Many have previously noted the parallels between the 1929 atrocities and October 7. Women raped, their breasts cut off, children murdered, men castrated, unarmed Jews burned alive by a bloodthirsty Arab crowd in an orgy of antisemitic violence.

But it is not only Jews who draw the parallel – Arabs do as well. The  Arabic Post wrote about 1929 also in glowing terms, exactly thirty days after October 7, to cement the idea that they were both glorious rebellions against the Jews.

Since October 7, the Al-Aqsa Intifada, Gaza City has been witnessing a war that has resulted in the deaths of more than 10,000 people and the injury of more than 30,000 in just one month. Some have described the war as a genocide of the city’s population by the Israeli occupation army.

However, this uprising was not the first in the history of occupied Palestine. The year 1929 witnessed the first uprising against the Jews in the city of Jerusalem, which is also called the Three Martyrs’ Uprising or the Buraq Revolution.

The Buraq Revolution was the first Palestinian uprising against the attempt to Judaize Jerusalem during the British Mandate.

The “Palestinian” Arabs make a direct connection from the murderous Arab attack on the Jews of Hebron in 1929, to the even more murderous Al-Aqsa Flood attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023. In both cases, civilians were the targets — men, women, children, babies. Torture, rapes, mutilations and murders characterized both the attacks in Hebron in 1929, and those carried out by Hamas in 2023. The Arabs depict themselves as brave warriors, fighting the perfidious Jews who had supposedly planned to attack the Arabs in Hebron. but were foiled by the Arabs who struck first. The systematic killing of every Jewish man, woman, and child who could be found in Hebron is presented as a necessary preemptive attack. In the same way, the Al-Aqsa Flood attack has been described as an act of “resistance against the occupation,” even though there had not been a single Israeli “occupier” in Gaza since 2005.

The Palestinian Arabs are proud of what Hamas on October 7, 2023, and just as proud of what other Arabs did, in similar fashion, in Hebron 96 years ago. Here’s a brief summary of that earlier attack:

The massacre began on 23 August when local Arabs began staging small-scale attacks. American Jewish immigrant Aharon Reuven Bernzweig, who was visiting Hebron with his wife at the time, later wrote to his family, “We had forebodings that something terrible was about to happen—but what, exactly, we did not know.” He added, “I was fearful and kept questioning the local people, who had lived there for generations. They assured me that in Hebron there could never be a pogrom, because as many times as there had been trouble elsewhere in Eretz Israel, Hebron had remained quiet. The local population had always lived very peacefully with the Arabs.”

By the next day, the violence had escalated, and mobs went door to door screaming, “Kill the Jews.” The angry crowd broke into Jewish houses and castrated, raped, and murdered the inhabitants. Many Jews went into hiding, and some were saved by Arab neighbors who hid Jewish friends until the violence had ended.

In his letter, Bernzweig described an Arab family who had protected him and dozens of other Jews: “Five times the Arabs stormed our house with axes, and all the while those wild murderers kept screaming at the Arabs who were standing guard to hand over the Jews. They, in turn, shouted back that they had not hidden any Jews and knew nothing.”

British High Commissioner Sir John Chancellor later wrote of the massacre: “The horror of it is beyond words. In one house I visited not less than twenty-five Jewish men and women were murdered in cold blood.”

The massacre marked the end of the Hebron Jewish community’s continuous presence in the city. While a few Jews returned to Hebron two years later, they were eventually evacuated by British authorities, who did not want to risk the outbreak of another massacre. Jews would eventually return to live in Hebron after the Six-Day War, but the dynamic coexistence that had prevailed up until 1929 would never be restored.

This is the massacre that Arabs are proudly celebrating just now, and presenting it as a harbinger of greater massacres to come, including the latest and the bloodiest, that took place on October 7, 2023.

Let Elder of Ziyon have the last mordant word:

“Let’s give them a state!”

The Absurdity of the two-state solution > And the loss of the West's moral compass - Melanie Phillips

 Perfectly accurate in her analysis of the Middle East Madness

Although she neglects to discuss the spiritual aspect of the Arab/Islamic hatred of the Jews and the effects of their godlessness on godless societies in the West.

Melanie Phillips

@MelanieLatest

How the Palestinian cause has destroyed the moral compass of the west

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