Gaza Said To Be Starving But Not 'Release The Hostages' Starving
World·Jul 25, 2025 · BabylonBee.com
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GAZA — Despite reports that multiple men, women, and children had starved to death in the war-torn Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israel-Gaza War, with approximately 50,000 more facing starvation, Hamas sources said they were not "release the hostages" starving.
"We are starving! I mean, not 'release the hostages starving' but, you know, we're pretty hungry," said Gaza spokesperson Ghazi Hamad, also known as the Voice of Hamas. "Shame on Israel for creating a strategic blockade to force us to give up the hostages! Shame!"
Since the start of the conflict that resulted from the October 7, 2023, attack in which Hamas killed approximately 1,200 people and took 251 hostages, Israel has deployed the use of routine military strategies such as fighting back and setting up a blockade on resources to secure the release of the remaining hostages, causing outrage among the Palestinians. "It's unfair!" said one Gazan as he beat a hostage. "I'm hungry! Just not, you know, hungry enough to give up this hostage."
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the number of starving Gazans has increased daily. "As our resources diminish, what may start off as a dozen starving children can quickly turn to hundreds and thousands," said Dr. Marwan Naim. "It's almost enough to make us want to give up the hostages. Not quite. But almost."
According to sources, Hamas leadership (which has seen significant turnover in the last two years) remained confident that Israel would crack any minute and simply hand over their entire nation and kill themselves, turning the conflict into an elaborate game of chicken to see who will blink first, the people starving to death or the people with comparatively unlimited resources.
At publishing time, the Gaza Health Ministry reported that the number of starving had risen to the hundreds of thousands, which was really bad but still not quite bad enough to give up the hostages.
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Who’s Really Starving Gaza?
The world deserves to stop being lied to.
The world deserves to stop being lied to.
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1 Aug 2025 ~~ By Aynaz Anni Cyrus
The Hunger Narrative
“Israel is starving Gaza.”
That’s the line. You’ve seen it splashed across headlines, painted on protest signs, shouted from international stages. The UN calls it a “man-made famine.” Celebrities post black squares with #LetGazaLive. Social media reels show crying children with empty bowls, overlaid with dramatic music and a single, pointed caption:
Genocide by hunger.
The accusation is explicit, and it’s powerful. What better way to cast Israel as a monster than to say it withholds food from children?
No need to mention rockets, tunnels, or terrorists when you can show an empty plate and let the world assume who’s holding it back.
But there’s a problem.
That narrative has a kill switch. It’s called truth.
And the truth is this: yes, Israel has restricted aid into Gaza, especially during periods of intensified fighting. Prime Minister Netanyahu has publicly said that only “minimal” humanitarian aid will be allowed in—not zero, but not full access either. Tactical pauses have been announced to let trucks through. Convoys still move daily. Airdrops are happening. Israel even restored power to water pumps that serve Gaza civilians.
So no—this isn’t a total blockade. It’s a controlled, reduced flow of aid during a war against a terror regime that hijacks every resource it can. Israel’s goal, as stated, is military pressure—not civilian starvation.
But the global narrative ignores all that nuance.
~Snip~
In fact, just this week, Israel announced daily tactical pauses in military operations to allow aid to pass safely. Specific windows were created in areas such as Deir al-Balah, Muwasi, and Gaza City, providing humanitarian workers with a protected corridor to move supplies.
There’s also been airdrops coordinated by Israel, Jordan, and the UAE to deliver food directly into isolated areas that Hamas controls. The same Israel accused of “genocidal starvation” is coordinating with Arab governments to feed its enemy’s civilians.
And then there’s the infrastructure:
- Israel restored electricity to pumping stations that deliver water inside Gaza.
- It allowed fuel shipments for UN operations and hospitals.
- It facilitated evacuation corridors for civilians to flee combat zones—even when Hamas blocked them at gunpoint.
So what’s the problem?
Why are Gazans still dying of hunger?
Because
getting aid into Gaza isn’t the same as getting it to the people.
That’s where the real obstruction begins—and it doesn’t come from the Israeli side of the fence.
Hamas Controls the Food and the Chaos
Once the aid crosses the border, it doesn’t go to the people. It goes through Hamas.
~Snip~
The people of Gaza deserve the truth. Israel deserves justice. And the world deserves to stop being lied to.
Let’s start telling the truth even when it’s not popular.
Commentary:
The most obvious missed observation is the biased Quisling media blaming Israel, while Egypt shares a border with Gaza that it keeps firmly shut, and yet no complaints about Egypt are made.
The problem, of course, is that the media will not concede the truth. The reasons for this are quite clear, but I will leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions. Israeli's are not a genocidal people. That’s the other side.
We see large areas of food supplies and aide lying there guarded by Hamas and not distributed. There are warehouses full of food being attacked attacked by Palestinians. Why is that?
Hamas controls the food and aide once the aide is transported in. They control it and they are starving the women and children while the men are told to fight.