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Media Keep Parroting a Starvation and Blockade Narrative Even While the Facts on the Ground Change
Parcels of humanitarian aid await transfer into Gaza, at the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the Gaza Strip, July 24, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen
The media keep running with the “intentional starvation,” “famine,” and “blockade” narrative, despite weeks of proof that Israel is doing everything possible to get aid into Gaza. This as Hamas promotes its propaganda through distorting the truth about “starvation,” and the UN is finally picking up and distributing aid from the border.
100 Aid Orgs Put Their Agenda Before Gaza Civilians
Let’s take this headline as an example:
Word of the statement spread like wildfire across Western media over the weekend, further feeding the narrative that Israel was enforcing a blockade on Gaza and “intentionally starving” civilians.
The accusations in the statement were quickly rebutted by the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the IDF unit responsible for facilitating aid into the Gaza Strip, which clarified the so-called “restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid.”
Here’s the reality: These organizations refuse to cooperate with a security screening process, which would ensure that their Gaza-based employees are not linked to Hamas. It was established to safeguard aid and prevent terrorist infiltration, ensuring that aid reaches civilians in need.
This, among other reports of famine erupting across Gaza, including harrowing images of emaciated children, comes after a series of claims made by the UN that Israel wasn’t letting its aid across the Gaza border. But back in July, the IDF released drone footage of truckloads of aid waiting at the crossing to be picked up. Furthermore, the IDF also revealed that the UN declined its offer to collaborate on the successful pickup and distribution of aid.
Shortly after, the UN began collecting aid from the border in droves.
Yet the media turn a blind eye to the truth, while continuing to regurgitate Hamas propaganda. Even when videos of armed Hamas terrorists on a stolen aid truck are uncovered, and a fake World Central Kitchen (WCK) vehicle with terrorists posing as employees was exposed, no one batted an eye. They just continue screaming that Israel is starving Palestinians.
Israel is also collaborating with various countries to deliver aid via air drops, but the press focuses on the dangers posed by dropping heavy pallets of goods into populated areas. While the risk to life is real, it fails to emphasize that Israel is doing the opposite of blocking aid — it’s doing everything possible to deliver it.
Gaza Food Prices Drastically Drop
More information the media ignore: prices of food have drastically decreased at Gaza food markets, The Jerusalem Post announced in an exclusive on Sunday evening.
Officials say the price cuts reflect the impact of continuous aid convoys, which have flooded the Strip with flour, rice, sugar, and other staples.
According to the Israeli security establishment and confirmed by aid organizations in the Strip, basic essential food items such as rice, hummus, lentils, flour, oil, and sugar, among other things, dropped in price by an average of about 80%.
This is, yet again, more evidence that Israel is not blocking aid and that aid organizations can deliver aid if they have the will.
The UN proves yet another week it can step up collection efforts.
But the UN isn’t the only actor. Other organizations and countries send in the majority of aid.
There’s no quantitative limit to the number of trucks. The UN just has to bring in all the trucks they say they… pic.twitter.com/UgNvLxiYqb
— COGAT (@cogatonline) August 17, 2025
Nearly a month later, it’s impossible to deny that Hamas is the real obstacle. Will the media finally report the truth?
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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After False Dawns, Gazans Hope Trump Will Force End to Two-Year-Old War
Palestinians walk past a residential building destroyed in previous Israeli strikes, after Hamas agreed to release hostages and accept some other terms in a US plan to end the war, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa
Exhausted Palestinians in Gaza clung to hopes on Saturday that US President Donald Trump would keep up pressure on Israel to end a two-year-old war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced the entire population of more than two million.
Hamas’ declaration that it was ready to hand over hostages and accept some terms of Trump’s plan to end the conflict while calling for more talks on several key issues was greeted with relief in the enclave, where most homes are now in ruins.
“It’s happy news, it saves those who are still alive,” said 32-year-old Saoud Qarneyta, reacting to Hamas’ response and Trump’s intervention. “This is enough. Houses have been damaged, everything has been damaged, what is left? Nothing.”
GAZAN RESIDENT HOPES ‘WE WILL BE DONE WITH WARS’
Ismail Zayda, 40, a father of three, displaced from a suburb in northern Gaza City where Israel launched a full-scale ground operation last month, said: “We want President Trump to keep pushing for an end to the war, if this chance is lost, it means that Gaza City will be destroyed by Israel and we might not survive.
“Enough, two years of bombardment, death and starvation. Enough,” he told Reuters on a social media chat.
“God willing this will be the last war. We will hopefully be done with the wars,” said 59-year-old Ali Ahmad, speaking in one of the tented camps where most Palestinians now live.
“We urge all sides not to backtrack. Every day of delay costs lives in Gaza, it is not just time wasted, lives get wasted too,” said Tamer Al-Burai, a Gaza City businessman displaced with members of his family in central Gaza Strip.
After two previous ceasefires — one near the start of the war and another earlier this year — lasted only a few weeks, he said; “I am very optimistic this time, maybe Trump’s seeking to be remembered as a man of peace, will bring us real peace this time.”
RESIDENT WORRIES THAT NETANYAHU WILL ‘SABOTAGE’ DEAL
Some voiced hopes of returning to their homes, but the Israeli military issued a fresh warning to Gazans on Saturday to stay out of Gaza City, describing it as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Gazans have faced previous false dawns during the past two years, when Trump and others declared at several points during on-off negotiations between Hamas, Israel and Arab and US mediators that a deal was close, only for war to rage on.
“Will it happen? Can we trust Trump? Maybe we trust Trump, but will Netanyahu abide this time? He has always sabotaged everything and continued the war. I hope he ends it now,” said Aya, 31, who was displaced with her family to Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
She added: “Maybe there is a chance the war ends at October 7, two years after it began.”
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Mass Rally in Rome on Fourth Day of Italy’s Pro-Palestinian Protests
A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag during a national protest for Gaza in Rome, Italy, October 4, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Claudia Greco
Large crowds assembled in central Rome on Saturday for the fourth straight day of protests in Italy since Israel intercepted an international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, and detained its activists.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags, chanting “Free Palestine” and other slogans, filed past the Colosseum, taking part in a march that organizers hoped would attract at least 1 million people.
“I’m here with a lot of other friends because I think it is important for us all to mobilize individually,” Francesco Galtieri, a 65-year-old musician from Rome, said. “If we don’t all mobilize, then nothing will change.”
Since Israel started blocking the flotilla late on Wednesday, protests have sprung up across Europe and in other parts of the world, but in Italy they have been a daily occurrence, in multiple cities.
On Friday, unions called a general strike in support of the flotilla, with demonstrations across the country that attracted more than 2 million, according to organizers. The interior ministry estimated attendance at around 400,000.
Italy’s right-wing government has been critical of the protests, with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni suggesting that people would skip work for Gaza just as an excuse for a longer weekend break.
On Saturday, Meloni blamed protesters for insulting graffiti that appeared on a statue of the late Pope John Paul II outside Rome’s main train station, where Pro-Palestinian groups have been holding a protest picket.
“They say they are taking to the streets for peace, but then they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace. A shameful act committed by people blinded by ideology,” she said in a statement.
Israel launched its Gaza offensive after Hamas terrorists staged a cross border attack on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 people hostage.
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Hamas Says It Agrees to Release All Israeli Hostages Under Trump Gaza Plan
Smoke rises during an Israeli military operation in Gaza City, as seen from the central Gaza Strip, October 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of US President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details.