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This Is the Actual Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
Trucks carrying aid move, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Hussam Al-Masri
The humanitarian aid situation in Gaza has been receiving overwhelming media coverage lately. While it was a good military move to stop Hamas-controlled food trucks from entering Gaza, Israel should have expected the world’s PR machine would be turned against it — even though there has never been an actual famine or anything close to it in Gaza.
Israel didn’t/doesn’t/won’t let people starve. Hence the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the US-run, Israeli secured food distribution system in Gaza. On June 2, The Jerusalem Post reported:
According to the organization, 21 truckloads of food aid were delivered from its Tel Sultan distribution site, totaling 18,720 boxes – enough to provide approximately 1,081,080 meals. This brings the cumulative total to an estimated 5.8 million meals distributed since operations began.
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee corroborated the figures in a stiff statement denouncing the flood of international media using “Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States.”
Huckabee called it “sloppy journalism.”
Respectfully, Mr. Ambassador, it is more. It is a collaboration among terrorists, international “aid” organizations, and the media in which each has something to lose if the truth wins. Consider:
“Gaza is the hungriest place on earth,” said the UN’s Jens Laerke. But Laerke should check Action Against World Hunger, which reports Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan, and Sudan at the top of the list of people facing famine. Yemen and the DRC are right up there. The UN began yelling about famine in Gaza less than six weeks after Israel’s entry into Gaza following the 10/7 massacres. It never happened.
Then, Tom Fletcher, a UN humanitarian aid official, told the BBC on May 20, “There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them. I want to save as many as these 14,000 babies as we can in the next 48 hours.”
It was strange from the beginning — if there was a famine and genocide, how did 14,000 babies get born and survive? It may be the only genocide in the world that resulted in a larger, not smaller, victim population. The UN actually said, “Nearly 71,000 children under the age of five are expected to be acutely malnourished over the next 11 months … Of these, 14,100 cases are expected to be severe.”
Eleven months, not 48 hours. And even then, malnourished is bad and Israel is working to prevent that, it’s not the same as dead. But how many news outlets reported the lie but not the follow up?
Most recently, Hamas reported an Israeli tank attack at a GHF site last weekend.
The media reported it without question. A BBC news summary said, “At least 31 people have been killed after Israeli tanks opened fire near an aid center in Gaza, Hamas-run health ministry says, and 150 Palestinians have also been injured according to the Red Cross hospital in Rafah … ‘We have had an extortionate [sic] amount of people come through the door… The injuries are all gunshot wounds.’”
Gunshot wounds from a tank attack? Oops.
It is true that there was shooting; you can see it here — Hamas operatives are shooting at Palestinian civilians.
The Center for Peace Communications posted this video: “An eyewitness speaks out. ‘Hamas attacked queues of people waiting to receive aid from the American company in Gaza … while on social media, Hamas threatens and incites against those who receive American aid.’”
A later BBC article changed it without comment. The Washington Post removed its story altogether.
Amjad Taha, a political strategist and astute observer from the United Arab Emirates, was fabulously blunt on X:
LET ME TRANSLATE FOR YOU in simple terms: Welcome to the Middle East, where reality hits harder than Macron’s wife mid-argument and your hormone-fueled activism melts faster than a vegan at a Gulf barbecue. Here, logic took the first flight out, and Hamas shoots Palestinians to stop them from eating because starving children are the main course for protest menus in London and Paris.
Now — we have come to the central issue. Hamas is losing the war. Its commanders are gone, its tunnels are severely degraded, its weapons are low, Iran largely gone from the region, and — with an alternative source of food — the people of Gaza are turning on them. Hamas is desperate.
“Aid” agencies are desperate to help. Part is reputational — having claimed to be feeding starving Gazans, they are not happy to see Gazans welcoming food from the US in cooperation with Israel.
The uglier part is financial — having received billions in aid money, as the world finds out that Hamas was not only stealing the food but charging “starving people” exorbitant prices for donated goods, they are understood to be thieves. The media fronted for all of it. The ugliest part is anti-Zionist/antisemitism; they can’t be separated from each other or from their proponents.
The easiest way to end any food shortages is for Hamas to release the hostages, and end the war. That won’t happen of course — and Israel will still be blamed for a war Hamas could end right now.
Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center and Editor of inFOCUS Quarterly magazine.
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Surge of Antisemitic Incidents Rocks France Amid Growing Security Concerns
The Paris Holocaust Memorial, three synagogues, and a Jewish restaurant were all vandalized with green paint last weekend. Photo: Screenshot
France has been hit by a wave of antisemitic incidents in recent days, despite increased security at Jewish sites nationwide following last month’s antisemitic shooting in Washington, DC — prompting urgent calls from the country’s Jewish community for stronger government action amid growing fears of escalating violence.
On Friday, a French rabbi was violently assaulted by three drunken individuals in the town of Deauville, located in the Normandy region of northwestern France.
According to local police, Rabbi Eli Lemel — a prominent figure in French Jewry — was attacked around 3:30 pm by three men who approached him, repeatedly punched him in the stomach, and shouted antisemitic slurs.
French authorities have launched an investigation into the assault, but no arrests have been made so far.
After the incident, Lemel called on the Jewish community to draw spiritual strength amid the increasing hostility that Jews are facing across France.
“I’m deeply moved by the outpouring of support following the attack. Thank God, I’m okay,” the Jewish leader wrote in a post on X. “I was struck and verbally abused in a language I didn’t understand.”
In a separate incident, a 21-year-old man was arrested on Saturday after climbing a synagogue in the town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine in north-central France, removing an Israeli flag from its façade, and attempting to set it on fire.
According to local media, the suspect — who was already known to authorities for prior offenses — confessed to committing the attack and admitted to being intoxicated at the time.
French police confirmed that the man is being charged with trespassing in a place of worship, theft by climbing, and causing damage to property on religious grounds.
The local Jewish community has voiced deep concern following this incident, viewing it as part of a broader surge in hostility targeting Jewish institutions across France.
Sandrine Dos Santos, the city’s mayor, expressed “[her] solidarity, as well as that of the city, toward the Jewish community directly targeted by these unacceptable antisemitic acts.”
“Faced with the increase in violence, our commitment against discrimination remains unwavering and will not waver. We repeat it loud and clear: no form of racism or rejection of others has a place in Poissy,” the French leader said.
In a separate incident on Saturday, three Serbs were arrested near Antibes in southeastern France, suspected of painting several Jewish community buildings green in Paris — an act currently under investigation as possible foreign interference.
Last weekend, the Paris Holocaust Memorial, three synagogues, and a Jewish restaurant were all vandalized with green paint in an incident denounced by the French government.
On Monday, an elementary school in Lyon, east-central France, was set on fire and defaced with antisemitic and pro-Palestinian slogans, as well as swastikas, marking one of the latest antisemitic incidents to impact France in recent days.
As the school had no direct connections to the Jewish community, local police have launched an investigation to determine the motive behind the attack.
French authorities reported that the fire was limited to the outdoor bathrooms, causing no significant damage to the school. They also found antisemitic graffiti and swastikas in three classrooms.
Yonathan Arfi, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), denounced the attack, saying that “the Palestinian cause is used as justification for burning down a school” and that the “Nazification of Israel serves as fuel for crass antisemitism.”
“When a populist pro-Palestinian narrative is allowed to take hold, it is French Jews who ultimately pay the price,” Arfi wrote in a post on X. “The twisted use of the Palestinian cause is turning into a rallying cry of hatred against both Jews and the Republic itself.”
Voilà où nous en sommes !
La cause palestinienne sert de justification pour incendier une école
Quand on laisse gagner un discours populiste propalestinien, ce sont les Français juifs qui en paient le prix.… https://t.co/dMaQBnbfqi
— Yonathan Arfi (@Yonathan_Arfi) June 1, 2025
Beyond France, other European countries have also experienced a surge in antisemitic incidents in recent weeks.
On Monday, several headstones were vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in a suburb of Belgrade, located in north-central Serbia, marking the second such incident in the country in recent weeks.
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US Vetoes UN Security Council Demand for Gaza Ceasefire
Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, as seen from Israel, June 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
The United States vetoed a UN Security Council demand on Wednesday for an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” between Israel and Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza and unhindered aid access across the enclave.
“The United States has been clear we would not support any measure that fails to condemn Hamas and does not call for Hamas to disarm and leave Gaza,” Acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea told the council before the vote.
“This resolution would undermine diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire that reflects the realities on the ground, and embolden Hamas,” she said of the text that was put forward by 10 countries on the 15-member council.
The remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the draft resolution.
Israel has rejected calls for an unconditional or permanent ceasefire, saying Hamas cannot stay in Gaza. It has renewed its military offensive in Gaza – also seeking to free hostages held by Hamas – since ending a two-month ceasefire in March.
The war in Gaza has raged since 2023 after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 people in Israel in an Oct. 7 attack and took some 250 hostages back to the enclave.
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