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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/07/hunger-gaza-israel-hamas-blame/
Hunger in Gaza Has Many Authors, but Israel Isn't One of Them
(Washington Post) Marc A. Thiessen - The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation reports that it has distributed 108 million meals in Gaza since May 26. According to the Israel Defense Forces' Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Israel has facilitated the delivery of 1.9 million tons of international humanitarian aid to Gaza since the start of the war. Far from deliberate starvation in Gaza, Israel is doing something no nation has ever done, or even been expected to do: Feed the population of the aggressor force that attacked it while the war is still going on. The normal way to get humanitarian relief to civilians in wartime is allow them to leave the conflict zone as refugees. During the civil war in Syria, more than 4.2 million civilians fled that conflict. But Gaza's neighbors Egypt and Jordan refuse to allow its civilian population to flee. The real reason is that they do not want to import Gaza's problems. Of course there is a policy of deliberate starvation in Gaza. It is being carried out by Hamas, which last week released photos of two emaciated Israeli hostages. In Hamas's tunnels, the terrorists have plenty of food. The only ones starving are the hostages. To lay the blame for the situation in Gaza at Israel's feet, rather than on Hamas, requires a stunning level of moral blindness.