Israel’s main justification for its starvation of Gaza was built on a lie. The New York Times repeated it for months.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33945303

Minnah Arshad
July 30 2025 2:40pm

The U.N. agency tasked with distributing aid in Gaza, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has maintained for months that it has received no specific evidence that Hamas or other armed groups were diverting its humanitarian aid in Gaza.

“These claims are used as a pretext to justify the aid distribution system supported by the Israeli authorities and the United States of America (so called GHF), which falls far from abiding to the humanitarian principles and international humanitarian law,” an UNRWA spokesperson told The Intercept in a statement.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    The implication of Hamas stealing aid because they’re just awful people doesn’t track. There’s essentially no point to it. Trying to drum up sympathy with starving children? Sympathy for bombed children didn’t happen so this shouldn’t be any different. As usual, Israel is controlling the narrative by controlling the flow of journalists and independent orgs in and out of Gaza.