While most media have seen fit to condemn Israel rather than Hamas for the food shortage in Gaza, the food in roughly 950 trucks inspected and approved by Israel was reportedly rotting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing because the United Nations will not distribute it.
“The Humanitarian Relief Fund (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) today offered the UN to distribute the aid free of charge instead – and the UN refused. The UN, in collaboration with Hamas, is starving the population of the Gaza Strip while simultaneously pumping up the false campaign of ‘hunger in the Gaza Strip,’” Tamir Morag of Israel’s Channel 14 reported.
“The common goal of the UN and Hamas: to force the dissolution of the aid fund and obtain exclusivity for the UN on the entry of food, so that almost all of it will end up in the hands of Hamas instead of the Gaza population,” he added.
תמונות בלתי נתפסות: תכולה של כ-950 משאיות מזון שנבדקו ואושרו על ידי ישראל נרקבת בצד העזתי של מעבר כרם שלום, כי האו"ם מסרב לחלק אותה.
קרן הסיוע ההומניטרי (GHF) הציעה היום לאו"ם לחלק במקומו את הסיוע ללא תשלום – והאו"ם סירב. האו"ם, בשיתוף חמאס, מרעיב את אוכלוסיית רצועת עזה ובמקביל… pic.twitter.com/2Dr23A0eWy
— תמיר מורג Tamir Morag (@Tamir114) July 23, 2025
The report of the aid trucks sitting inside Gaza and waiting for the UN to distribute them was corroborated by Trey Yingst, Fox News’ chief foreign correspondent.
On Monday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry released footage of Hamas terrorists gleefully gorging themselves in tunnels underground while Gaza residents above are going without food.
???? Exclusive footage from Hamas tunnels
While Hamas leaders scream “starvation” to the world, this is what’s really happening underground.
????Hamas terrorists are seen boasting about full meals in their tunnels, far from the suffering above and stocked with items not from… pic.twitter.com/ED2GHxwvOB
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 23, 2025
As Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society has pointed out:
As early as late October 2023, Israel began permitting up to 100 aid trucks into Gaza each day, later increasing the quota to 200 trucks daily by late November. By mid-November 2023, Israeli officials announced they would no longer impose a daily limit on aid trucks. …
Crucially, the often-cited figure of “500 trucks per day” that supposedly entered Gaza before the war is a myth. That number originated from a careless statement by UN Secretary-General Guterres, and it spread uncritically through media and NGO reports. In reality, pre-war averages were around 300 trucks per day, of which only about 75 were food trucks. UN data from 2022 shows about 291 trucks per day entering Gaza (via Israel and Egypt), with roughly half carrying construction materials and only about 73 carrying food. …
A massive influx of aid took place during a negotiated pause in hostilities at the start of 2025. During the ceasefire from 18 January to 2 March, Gaza was inundated with approximately 25,200 aid trucks carrying 447,538 tonnes of supplies, nearly 78% of which was food. …
Since the start of the war, the militant group has made it clear that it will not take responsibility for civilians. Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said, “We are not responsible for Gaza’s civilians. Israel and the UN are responsible.”
— Andrew Fox (@Mr_Andrew_Fox) July 24, 2025
GHF spokesman Chapin Fay, standing in Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing, saw “tons of aid from UN organizations sitting on the ground undelivered… desperately needed flour rotting on the side of the road; rice from Jordan baking for over 90 days; expired medical supplies.”