Another lie propagated by CNN and Abby Phillip.
— Brigitte Gabriel (@ACTBrigitte) July 25, 2025
Israel is not preventing anyone from getting food, Hamas is responsible for all the suffering in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/k495XbASAS
In the discussion to which Gabriel refers, Abby Phillip turned to Scott Jennings and summarized the situation, remarking
What is the rationale for blocking aid, period? Israel and the United States have put together a program to distribute food because they don't want the U.N. to be a part of it. They want to do it themselves. But that program is what everyone is saying is failing.
She was referring, as NBC News reported two months ago, "aid groups led by the United Nations" had "carried out a massive operation moving food, medicine, fuel, tends and other supplies across Gaza since the war began in October 2023." However, Israel then blocked distribution of aid while it accused Hamas of hijacking shipments. In late May, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed group approved by Israel assumed responsibility for aid distribution. However
The new mechanism limits food distribution to a small number of hubs under guard of armed contractors, where people must go to pick it up. Currently, four hubs have been set up, all close to Israeli military positions.
The GHF began to take over and
two of the four hubs started distributing food, both in the Rafah area in the southernmost end of Gaza, where few Palestinians are located. On Tuesday, thousands of Palestinians walked from tent camps outside the city of Khan Younis, crossing Israeli military lines, to reach the distribution points.
At one point on Tuesday, chaos erupted as Palestinians overwhelmed a hub outside Rafah, breaking through fences. Nearby Israeli troops fired warning shots, sending people fleeing in panic. The military later said the situation was brought under control but at least three injured Palestinians were seen being brought from the scene.
GHF publicly launched early this year and is run by a group of American security contractors, ex-military officers and humanitarian aid officials. It has the support of Israel and the United States.
Until resigning, Jake Wood was the face of the foundation. Wood is a U.S. military veteran and co-founder of a disaster relief group called Team Rubicon. He said Sunday night he was resigning because it was clear the organization would not be allowed to operate independently.
Soon afterward, Johnnie Moore, described here as "an evangelical Christian and former PR consultant who advised President Donald Trump during his first term," was appointed executive chairman of the GHF. Source of the organization's funding remains in doubt because Moore claims the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is "a private foundation" and "like lots of private foundations, you know, it doesn't disclose its donors."
Swell. Houston, we have a problem. Significantly
Setting up so few sites for food distribution meant crowd control problems were inevitable, according to Ciaran Donnelly, the senior vice president for international programs at the International Rescue Committee, which ran major relief operations in Gaza. “No aid organization would recommend doing it that way,” he said.
Inside Israel, as well, critics have questioned its independence. Last month in front of Israel’s legislature, opposition leader Yair Lapid, without providing evidence, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of funding the GHF through foreign shell companies. And last week, citing unnamed public officials, Israel’s public broadcaster, Kan, reported that the Israeli government had sent hundreds of millions of shekels to the group.
Israel’s government has repeatedly denied it funds the GHF.
Phillip noted
a statement from a hundred human rights groups that say "as the Israeli government's siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed the families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organizations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes. The Government of Israel's restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death."
Those aid groups never have been sympathetic to Israel. Their mission is to feed as many human beings as possible, not to acknowledge that there never would have been a calamity had Hamas not attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 with the aim of killing as many Jews as possible, extra points for raping women.
Nonetheless, Phillip was right when she added
Again, this is within the power of Israel to alleviate this. And even if the idea is that Hamas is stealing some of the aid, the quantity of aid, Scott, that is coming into Gaza right now is not even close to what is necessary to feed the population. So it would be one thing if they were giving as much food as is necessary and Hamas was stealing all of it but that's not what is happening.
At 2:17, former Republican US Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona comments (emphasis his)
I don't- I don't think Donald Trump wants children in Gaza to starve. I think he's simply saying that U.S. cold do more to put pressure on Israel to allow the food in to be distributed, um, that's what I'm saying.
Donald Trump doesn't want children in Gaza to starve. But he doesn't want them not to starve, either. He doesn't care one way or the other, because he is focused on one thing.
Trump relatively recently has been nominated thrice for the Nobel Peace Prize: in November 2024 by the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign committee, a nomination withdrawn on 6/24/25; on June 20, 20245 by Pakistan leaders for his involvement during a recent India-Pakistan crisis; and on 6/24/25 by GOP Representative Buddy Carter of Georgia for the attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Our President is obsessed with this and on June 24 whined on Truth Social "no, I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, whatever those outcomes may be. But the people know, and that's all that matters to me!"
Evidently not. This is what interests him in the Israel/Hamas war. Trump wants to win a Nobel Peace, or two or three or four. That can happen only if this particular Mideast war ends and he has something to do with it. It may not end with the complete destruction of Hamas or security for Israel, with food for Gazan civilians, nor with a solution to the crisis on the West Bank or a homeland for Palestinians. A resolution probably won't be just for both sides and possibly for neither; yet, without at least a cease-fire, there is no chance the American President will get the prize he longs for..
And that illustrates a major tragedy of this conflict. Israel cuts off aid to Gaza, later allowing it but only on a limited and ineffective basis. If Hamas cared about the well-being of the people over whom it rules (or did before 10/7/23), it would have cried "uncle" long ago. However, it does not. It is a brutal, terroristic organization which dreams of the genocide of Jews it and its fellow travelers accuse Israel of committing against Palestinians.
Striving for the capitulation of its enemy and return of the hostages it holds, Israel continues starving Gazans as if that enemy is concerned about the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.
That political policy has not succeeded nearly as well as its military has succeeded in nearly destroying Hamas. That aim, justified and necessary, should have been its sole goal in Gaza. Instead, evidence grows that Israel's goal, in which starvation of Gazans is no objective, extends well beyond evisceration of Hamas.
The latter may have been the nation's major, if not primary, goal six months ago. President Biden, unlike President Trump, thought it a net positive that Gazans be fed, and was not interested in monetarization of the region with a Riviera of the Middle East.
And so while Brigitte Gabriel and Scott Jennings question nothing the Israeli government does, pro-Palestine student organizations throughout the USA protest Israeli policy and anti-Zionist Muslim groups such as Americans for Justice in Palestine Action ramp up their condemnation of the Jewish state. Correction: now that more Gazans are killed with the strategic objective of defeating Hamas no longer operative, these activists have held their tongue.
They did all they could to prevent Israel from defeating Hamas. Having failed to do that, with the lives of Gazan people at stake, they've practically gone into hiding. Jennings, Gabriel, and others are off-base. The other side is even worse.
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