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Who Is Really to Blame for Gazans Going Hungry?

(Spiked-UK) Maj. (ret.) Andrew Fox interviewed by Brendan O'Neill - Andrew Fox says that the reality on the ground in Gaza bears little resemblance to the Western media narrative. Gazans are indeed going hungry - not thanks to Israel, but mostly due to Hamas's theft of aid and the UN's complicity in this racket. O'Neill: What was your sense of the condition people were in? Fox: The people I saw were okay, in the sense that they're trying to survive in a warzone. There wasn't anywhere near the sort of Biafran levels of famine that we've been hearing about. Unquestionably, there are pockets of Gaza where people are going genuinely hungry, but the bulk of the people appear to be getting by. At the aid-distribution sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, "the vast majority of people there are younger males, and they have...a Lord of the Flies kind of situation. There was certainly a free-for-all at the aid site, lots of knives." "The women and children came afterwards, in a second wave. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation crew kept back around 5% of the aid, which they released once they'd cleared out all the men. It was really orderly, actually. Very chilled. Everyone knew they were going to get something. Lots of smiles, lots of people really delighted to be getting free food for the first time during the war." "There is enough food in Gaza for everyone. There are 3,000 calories per person a day that have gone into Gaza throughout the war, on average. That's more than you or I would need to eat a day to stay healthy. The question then is why are people going hungry? Well, if you look at UN figures, 85% of its trucks transporting aid have been intercepted and didn't make it to their destination. This is a staggering failure on the UN's part....The UN's one job is to distribute this aid in Gaza, and it has catastrophically failed to do so for the past year." "What you can't do is create a society in Gaza where there will be no militant groups hostile to Israel....You can keep killing the fighters, you can keep destroying their infrastructure, you can keep taking out their leadership. But as long as there are people in Gaza who hate Israel, there will be militias that are hostile to it."
2025-08-12 00:00:00
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