Gosh. This was a heart-wrenching headline in my little Reuters email this morning:

Israel assaults southern Gaza as hunger tightens grip

GAWD those Israelis are mean as sneks, aren’t they?

Israeli tanks and warplanes struck at southern Gaza on Tuesday, while the United Nations said aid supplies to desperate Palestinians had largely dried up because of the intensity of fighting in the Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month.

In Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city which Israel troops stormed last week, residents said tank shelling was now focused on the city centre. One said tanks were operating on Tuesday morning in the street where the house of Yahya Al-Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, is located.

And the United Nations – no partisan player there, just here for the ‘peace on earth, friends’ – says supplies for “desperate” people “dried” up because of the fighting.

I’m not sure that that wasn’t some sort of a typo, because in lots of videos I’m seeing, supplies haven’t so much “dried up” as “BEEN DRIVEN OFF.”

Trucks bringing food for the Palestinians are being commandeered by Hamas, with scraps thrown to starving people. Hamas is the true oppressor of Gaza. #FreeGazaFromHamas #BringThemHomeNow #Blackout pic.twitter.com/kzm43AYfeU

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) December 11, 2023

Granted semantics, but kinda makes a difference doesn’t it? Unless you need Israel to be the bad guy.

Wasn’t the UN supposed to be guaranteeing the delivery of this stuff to people not terrorists?

The terrorists then brought the supplies to the organization's warehouses. Gaza MUST be freed from Hamas, for the sake of innocent Gazans and Israelis alike.

— Rat Bastard (@RRespawned) December 9, 2023

Even the BBC has video of Hamas in action.

Footage showing #Hamas stealing humanitarian aid in #Gaza.
Hungry civilians fight over scraps thrown from trucks while the bulk of the supplies goes to the terror group.#HamasRapists #HamasisISIS#October7 #October7massacre #Israel pic.twitter.com/8yZgqSlj2Q

— Erez Neumark 🇮🇱🇧🇪 (@ErezNeumark) December 11, 2023

Yeah. The supplies haven’t dried up because of the fighting. It’s because the Gazans may have run out of rocks to keep Hamas from pilfering their only food sources.

The UN told the world they had a plan to prevent humanitarian aid from being confiscated by Hamas.

Was this it?

Rely on Gazans to risk their lives against Hamas gunfire to stop Hamas from stealing supplies?

Sec. Gen. @antonioguterres you need a better plan! https://t.co/KrvZ8XSrRM

— Democratic Majority for Israel (@DemMaj4Israel) December 5, 2023

For all the mainstream media embargo on what is actually happening to the bulk of relief supplies…

Hamas is stealing supplies .
They have no shame and the don’t care. pic.twitter.com/2nHHXcb8aQ

— YYKK (@1122183k) December 8, 2023

…complaints are managing to slip through even the hard core Arab channels. One little old lady was so fed up, she blasted Hamas for stealing ALL the relief aid and supplies to an Al-Jazeera reporter. Bless her brave heart, she basically said, “I don’t care if they hear. They can shoot me if they don’t like it” and set his Hamas propaganda spewing butt straight.

An elderly Palestinian woman standing outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis told an Al-Jazeera Network (Qatar) reporter that Hamas takes all the aid that is coming into the Gaza Strip for themselves during a December 6, 2023 live broadcast. In response to the reporter’s assertion that no aid is coming into Gaza, she said: “All the aid goes to [the tunnels] underground.“ The reporter then claimed that a lot of aid is coming in and distributed to the people of Gaza, to which the woman replied:

“Hamas take everything to their homes.”

The reporter said: “It seems that the situation is unclear.“ During another portion of the Al-Jazeera broadcast the woman said that she was at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City but thanks to coordination between the hospital and Israel, she was able to evacuate by bus along with other people who could not walk the distance because of illness or injury.

Elderly Palestinian Woman to Al-Jazeera Reporter Near a Khan Yunis Hospital: Hamas Takes All the Aid to Their Tunnels and Their Houses; They Can Shoot Me, I Am Not Afraid of Them #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians pic.twitter.com/QEj9ahUfU8

— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) December 7, 2023

“Unclear” my asterisk. What is clear is precisely what’s happening to the aid and why people are hungry.

The word is starting to counter the Hamas pity-party offensive.

The Saudi media increasingly publishes accounts of Gaza residents who criticize Hamas. This woman makes explosive statements such as:
"we paid the prices for the actions of Hamas, we paid it"
"Hamas has lost [the faith] of the people." pic.twitter.com/1XfoKesnq5

— Gaza Report – اخبار غزة (@gaza_report) December 12, 2023

Reuters paints a terrible, Israeli inflicted picture of suffering.

…”At night we can’t sleep because of the bombing and in the morning we tour the streets looking for food for the children, there is no food,” said Abu Khalil, 40, a father of six.

Gazans were battling hunger and thirst to survive, resident Mohammed Obaid said as he inspected debris in Rafah.

“There’s no electricity, no fuel, no water, no medicine.”

All brought to them by the guys with slung weapons on the loaded semis parading past on their way to the Hamas warehouses.

How nice for Gazans that Al-Reuters is basically acting as the Ministry of Public Affairs for Hamas, while UNRWA handles all their logistics.

And Israel’s the problem, right?

RIGHT