Everyone admits Hamas uses civilians as human shields. That?s not controversial, it?s documented. They hide weapons under hospitals, put rocket launchers in schools, and launch attacks from apartment blocks, knowing Israel will be blamed for the inevitable civilian deaths.
Why, then, does no one follow that logic to its next step? If Hamas is willing to kill its own civilians for propaganda, why wouldn?t they starve them too?
Israel has let in hundreds of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid - food, water, medicine, fuel. International agencies have funneled in endless shipments.
If famine is real, it's not because supplies aren't arriving.
It?s because Hamas seizes them at gunpoint.
Hamas hoards aid to feed its fighters.
Hamas sells flour at extortion prices to desperate families.
Hamas sits on warehouses of supplies, as civilians line up in hunger.
That isn't mismanagement.
It's terrorism by design.
Hamas understands the modern battlefield.
They know a malnourished child on the evening news is worth more than ten rocket attacks.
They know the image of a starving family is more valuable than a battalion of fighters.
They know famine, real or staged, is the ultimate propaganda goldmine. And they are exploiting it with surgical precision.
Western journalists, either too lazy or too eager to believe the narrative, don't question it. They parrot "Famine!" as though it's a proven fact instead of asking the only question that matters: "Who is causing it?"
Spoiler alert: It's not Israel. It's Hamas.
The United Nations, whose agencies have been riddled with Hamas sympathizers and employees, dutifully plays along.
Their reports provide the credibility the media craves.
They wring their hands about starvation, but never once confront the gangsters actually hoarding the food.
They'd rather accuse Israel because that fits the script.
The same UN that barely acknowledged Hamas? massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, is now an "unimpeachable" authority on food shortages? Spare me.
What's worse than Hamas? cruelty is the media?s willful blindness:
Where are the stories about Hamas gunmen stealing food aid?
Where is the outrage when Hamas beats civilians for trying to grab bread before it's confiscated?
Where are the front-page photos of Hamas warehouses stacked with supplies while children go hungry outside?
They exist, but you?ll never see them, because they puncture the narrative.
The press isn?t covering Gaza. It's laundering Hamas' lies. These reporters aren?t journalists anymore. They?re stenographers for terrorists.
Make no mistake: the famine narrative is not about food. It's about crushing Israel in the court of global opinion. Hamas is losing militarily; its tunnels destroyed, its commanders killed, its arsenal depleted.
So, it's doing what every losing regime does: switching to the propaganda war. They can't win with rockets, so they try to win with headlines.
Shamefully, it's working.
Here's the truth: if the world cared about Palestinians, it would stop blaming Israel and start confronting Hamas.
Demand transparency for aid deliveries.
Expose the theft, the hoarding, the extortion.
Punish the terrorists who use starvation as a weapon.
Stop letting Hamas trade Palestinian suffering for propaganda points.
But that won?t happen because the UN is corrupt, the media is cowardly, and the world is addicted to the easy narrative that Israel is always guilty. So, Hamas will keep winning the public relations war, and innocent Gazans will keep paying the price.
The famine in Gaza isn?t a tragedy of logistics.
It isn't a natural disaster. It isn't Israel "blocking" food.
It's Hamas deliberately starving its own people in the hope that the world will scream "genocide" at Israel.
And the media, the UN, and every so-called humanitarian who refuses to call Hamas the culprit are complicit in the suffering.
This isn't mere hypocrisy. It's blood on their hands.
By Robert Chernin Friday, 05 September 2025
