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Jewish Replacement Axis: Hamas, Ayatollah Iran, Globalist-Oriented Qatar, UN, "Liberal CIA" as Soros and Rockefeller, and Western Media

By: Joel v.d. Reijden | Date: Sep. 17, 2025 (work in progress)

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"As [the] Ford [Foundation] was announcing its decision not to support the [controversial] 2009 anti-racism forum [in Durban], its website touted a 2008-09 grant for $305,000 to the Arab NGO Network for Development, which features a map on its website that fails to note the existence of Israel. One of the two Palestinian members on its coordination committee is the pro-boycott Palestinian NGO Network, or PNGO, a key organizer at Durban."

July 23, 2011, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 'Ford Foundation still funding anti-Israel groups.'



"Why does the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a premier philanthropy based in Manhattan, finance non-governmental organizations intent on annihilating the Jewish state?"

March 27, 2016, New York Daily News, 'Promoting peace or assaulting Israel? The Rockefeller Brothers Fund supports groups that encourage or participate in the BDS movement.'



"Starting in 2001... for the past 16 years, the [Rockefeller Brothers] Fund has organized dialogues between prominent American and Iranian figures. ... [RBF president] Heintz told me that he attended "probably around five or six" Iran Project meetings at [Bush's and Obama's] National Security Council, along with a similar number at the State Department and other agencies. ... RBF was similarly strategic about its own role in funding the Obama administration's public push for the [2015] Iran Deal."

May 25, 2017, Tablet Magazine, 'The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and BDS'.



"Ideally speaking the world shouldn’t care, and ideally speaking perhaps if the Israelis and the Palestinians want to go on killing themselves they should be left ... to do this. But this can't happen because the fighting that goes on in the Middle East immediately has impact on other parts of the Middle East, and in those other parts, there are strategic interests for the rest of the world."

Dec. 19, 2007, Palestinian Authority representative Sari Nusseibeh for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Only cited here for realpolitical freshness in this age of "cancel culture". Similar to Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington and the Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, George W. Bush, Sr.'s secretary of state James Baker has been intensely critical of Israel and its lobby in the United States.



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Intro
Odddities: western globalist elites protecting Hamas, Iran and Qatar

This article really came about as a result of working on the Instagram article, in particualr doing research on the claims of "Dr. Hamas", a.k.a. Dr. Aziz Rahman, on Theo Von's podcast in August 2025. Before I knew it, I was a week, 10,000 words, and 10 appendixes later, and the only way to deal with the information was to put it into a separate article.

Apart from that interview, this article came about due to a number of rapidly succeeding realizations in mid 2025:

  1. Social media as Instagram and TikTok being almost 100% loaded with pro-Iran recommendations during the June 2025 Israel-Iran War, mixed with all forms of propaganda against the Jews, including Holocaust denial.

  2. YouTube comment sections being completely dominated by antifa-type anti-Israel and anti-Jewish content.

  3. Learning that the heavily pro-Palestine, anti-Jewish and anti-white Rockefeller Brothers Fund has been hosting meetings with Ayatollah Iran officials since 2002, ramming through Obama's controversial 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

  4. Learning that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Koch and Soros-funded Quincy Institute - loaded with Israel and Israel lobby opponents - heavily overlaps with the Rockefellers' "Iran Project", which Soros supported as well.

  5. Western media playing dumb when it comes to Hamas hiding amidst civilians and civilian infrastructure, playing along with Hamas' agenda of discrediting Israel in front of the world. Bloody and ruthless as it may be, no media either have suggested alternatives to the Israeli campaign.

  6. Learning just how tolerant the United Nations has been to Hamas' extremism.

  7. The "conservative CIA" / alt right" podcast network that brought Trump to power in 2024, completely melting down from March 2025 and running a propaganda war of its own against Israel and pro-Israel Trump, being praised and supported in the effort by the usually Rockefeller, Soros and Ford foundations funded "liberal CIA" media.

  8. Remembering that the Qatari Al-Thani royal family, which has hosted the multibillionaire Hamas leadership for many years, has countless globalist ties of its own, apart from hosting America's largest military base in the Middle East.

Something is going on here.


Not a geopolitics site

I've said it before: ISGP is not a geopolitical analysis site. ISGP is a conspiracy site researching the covert operations of the globalist superclass. As for the "geopolitics", everybody with a bit of sense and interest knows the following:

  1. Ayatollah Iran - forever desiring to be a nuclear world power - has been sponsoring Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen, all in an effort of primitive religious hatred to wipe Israel off the map.

  2. Qatar, another financier and patron of Hamas, is where the multibillionaire Hamas leadership has been living in luxury for many years. Ironically, it's where America's largest military base in the Middle East is located and is the recipient of high tech military equipment from the West.

  3. There's a major divide in the Arab world between Sunnis and Shiites. Sunni Qatar and Shiite Iran have set most differences aside though. Despite that, Qatar has been having issues with Sunni states Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt over Qatar's support for terrorist groups. But certainly when it comes to Israel, both Sunnis and Shiites have an extreme distaste for Jews.

Globalist ties of Qatari royal family

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Ayatollah Iran - Rockefeller - Soros ties

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Hamas tactics and western love
UNRWA: Hamas shield in war; helped to pro-terror indoctrinate Gaza kids

In 2024 Israeli parliament, with a 92-10 majority, labeled UNRWA a terrorist organization and banned it from its territory, this after all kinds of new "coincidendal" ties between Hamas and the relief agency turned up during the Israel-Gaza War that started in late 2024. From all the "coincidendes" it is clear that UNRWA has to bend over backward to Hamas to be able to work anywhere close to safe in the terrorist-ran mini-state. The United Nations leaders, as anti-Jew as it is, doesn't seem to mind it much.

UNRWA-Hamas ties in Gaza, pre-October 7, 2023:

  1. In January 2009, Israel returned fire by Hamas militants outside an UNRWA school firing mortars into Israel - after a missle failed on them. All impacts and deaths occurred outside of the UNRWA school, but UNRWA immediately gave out a press release that it was a "direct hit" without mentioning the mortar fire - hence a war crime. 1 The UN later backtracked on this statement. 2

  2. At the time of the above controversy, the UN gave a rare condemnation of Hamas when it robbed "thousands of blankets and food packages" from one of its Gaza warehouses, at gunpoint. 3

  3. In September 2012, UNRWA's Gaza staff held an election for its union seats: 25 of 27 seats went to Hamas. 4 In 2017, the head of UNRWA's union was fired after Israeli intelligence officials exposed that "he had been elected to Hamas’ top political leadership." 5

  4. The Center for Near East Policy Research, where this information came from just after Israel's July-August 2014 Gaza operation 6, also mentioned a number of terrorist operatives inside UNRWA with high-level teaching positions, resulting in Hamas having "tremendous impact on the UNRWA education system and the contents taught in it." 7 Persons as Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi and Israeli ambassador Alan Baker were speaking out about Hamas' influence on UNRWA at the time, with Ambassador Baker saying: "Drastic change needs to take place in the way the international community funds UNRWA and the way it is run by its bosses and the United Nations." 8 UNRWA schooling is much more dominent in Gaza than on the West Bank due to the much higher levels of refugee status Palestinians and an "under sourcing" of education by Hamas.

  5. In November 2014 there was an expose from a blogger showing that countless teachers at UNRWA schools make Facebook group posts that "vehemently support Hamad, Jihad, the murder of Jews... terrorism and ... the Holocaust." 9

  6. Earlier, in July 2014, 3 Israeli soldiers died and 15 were wounded while trying to inspect the entrance of a terror tunnel inside what appeared to be an apparent UNRWA health clinic building. As an IDF general explained at the time: "We enter with our people, and [the militants], from the very same terror tunnel, blow up half the clinic on our troops - the UNRWA clinic..." It may have been a false UNRWA sign. 10

  7. Throughout July 2014, in Gaza, with Israeli soldiers running around, at least 30 rockets were fired from UNRWA buildings or right next to them 11, with UNRWA all of a sudden three times finding caches of Hamas rockets inside its facilities. 12 Despite the war with Israel, UNRWA just gave the rockets back to "local authorities", i.e. Hamas. 13

  8. In July-August 2014 Israel soldiers were inspecting a Hamas tunnel entrance in a privately-owned home in Gaza, when they "found UNRWA equipment that has been used to dig the tunnel, along with flour sacks bearing the UNRWA logo that were used for concealment purposes." 14

  9. In June and October 2017 UNRWA reported discovering Hamas tunnels unders a total of three of its schools. 15

  10. In 2020 and early 2021 UNRWA was (finally) criticized by the European Union and various countries for not removing anti-Jewish and pro-terrorists content from its cirriculum, something UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority lobbied against. 16

  11. In August 2021 UN Watch exposed 22 UNRWA "teachers and school principals who quote Hitler and praise Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist attacks." 17 The claims were accompanied by names and screenshots of social media. 18 A very salty UNRWA seemed to whitewash the total of 101 pointed-out problem cases by UN Watch over the previous years, confirming breaches of its "neutrality policy" by staffers, but also seemingly very sneakily that "57% of the allegations could not be tied to personnel employed by the Agency at the time of the reported incident." 19

Now move on to the period after October 7, 2023:

  1. Nov. 2023 - Early Jan. 2024: It is exposed that 14 senior UNRWA personnel were celebrating the attacks on Twitter and in a Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers. While 100 - or 118 to be precise 20 - were confirmed at that point, educational statistics already made it clear that the majority of the October 7 attackers were educated at UNRWA schools, as these were the predominants schools in Gaza. Immediately it was pointed out again that the Biden administration had resumed UNRWA funding in 2021, sending over $1 billion in aid, despite the fact that pupils at UNWRA elementary schools "aren't learning about peace and co-existence". Instead, the U.N. schools glorify terrorists as Khalid ibn al-Walid and Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, who sometimes were cited by Oct. 7 terrorists. 21

  2. Nov. 2023 and on: A freed Israeli hostage freed in November 2023 told the news that he was held captive at the attic of an UNRWA teacher with 10 children. He was barely given any food or medical attention, until his release. 22 In January 2024, an intelligence report to U.S. officials in Washington included the information that "a math teacher [of UNRWA] belonging to Hamas was close enough to a female hostage in Gaza that he took a picture of her." 23 Already on December 1, 2023, UNRWA itself immediately harshly attacked any apparent social media rumors around one of these hostage narratives. 24 A year later though, a British-Israeli hostage who only was released in January 2025, said she had been held captive at several UNRWA facilities. She too was barely given any medical attention, despite having been shot in the hand and leg. 25

  3. Jan. 26, 2024: The Biden administration temporarily suspends aid to UNRWA after Israeli official give an intelligence briefing to U.S. officials in Washington. The Wall Street Journal reported on this briefing, adding the following information to what already had been reported in newspapers at the time:

    "Around 10% of all of [UNRWA's] Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups... The [same] report said 23% of UNRWA's male employees had ties to Hamas, a higher percentage than the average of 15% for adult males in Gaza... Nearly half of all UNRWA employees - an estimated 49% - also had close relatives who also had official ties to the militant groups, especially Hamas..." 26

    In an April 23, 2025-released report on public Israeli intelligence, it is summarized that: "Among the 12,521 UNRWA employees in the Gaza Strip, at least 1,462 (12%) are members of Hamas or other designated terrorist organizations. Out of 546 principals and deputy-principals in UNRWA's education facilities, at least 80 (15%) are members of terrorist organizations." 27 It also details how Hamas has used UNRWA vehicles, how some UNRWA schools have been heavily fortified for Hamas warfare, and how UNRWA has ignored its warnings on specific Hamas-ties of employees going back to 2011. 28

  4. Feb. 2024: Reports come out around February 10 that the IDF has found a "top secret Hamas data center" sitting right underneath the server room of UNRWA's Gaza headquarters, with power (and possibly data) cables running straight down into the floor to power the underground Hamas data center. 29

  5. March 2024: Israeli intelligence has a list of 42 UNRWA teachers, principals and other staffers who were part of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. Open source intelligence NGO IMPACT-SE is doing its continued part as well in identifying Hamas members and Oct. 7 terrorists among UNRWA staffers. 30

  6. April 2024: An "independent" review group of the Israeli claims of Hamas infiltration into UNRWA concludes that it cannot confirm the claims, because Israel "has yet to provide supporting evidence of this." 31 The "independent" review group "was appointed by the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, in consultation with the UNRWA Commissioner-General, on 5 February 2024." 32 So the suspects are picking the detectives to be put on their own case...

  7. June 2024: UNRWA is sued in a New York City lawsuit by about 100 plaintiff, including Oct. 7 survivors, claiming that the relief agency has been aiding and abetting Hamas. 33

  8. Aug. 2024: The United Nations confirms that there's enough evidence - based on CCTV evidence - to assume that at least 9 UNRWA social workers and teachers "may" have been directly involved in October 7 attack. including one who was a "Hamas military commander that helped slaughter Kibbutz Be'eri." 34

  9. Sep. 2024: A regional Hamas commander is killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon, after having been suspended as an UNRWA school principal in March due to UNRWA having received "allegations ... about his political activities." 35

  10. Early Oct. 2024: Once again, repurposed UNRWA (and USAID) flower sacks were found in Hamas tunnels after October 7. This time they had (eventually) been used as sandbags to help build the tunnels, including in a tunnel underneath Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. 36

  11. Oct. 28, 2024: After preliminary approval going back to February 2024, Israeli parliament now officially bans UNRWA from operating in Israel. 37 The ban will become active on January 30, 2025, but already on October 2 Israel banned UNRWA and all other aid agencies from entering Gaza.

  12. Dec. 2024: UNWRA sacks or boxes are found around weapons caches, including one involving more than 100 rockets in a house in nothern Gaza. 38

  13. Jan. 30, 2025: Israel's ban of UNRWA becomes active, banning all contact with Israeli officials. 39 UNRWA will continue to claim that the Israeli government's claims are "unfounded". 40

Hamas buried into hospitals, mosques, schools; dressed as women; the West mostly silent

Studying the events that led up to October 7 and the Israel-Gaza War, over time you again and again run into trends. And one of those trends is that Hamas clearly has always had a policy to dig itself as deep as possible underneath and within civilian infrastructure of any kind.

Mosques

  1. Mid 2014: On July 17, 2014, the Washington post commented: "During the [ceasefire] lull, a group of men at a mosque in northern Gaza said they had returned to clean up the green glass from windows shattered in the previous day’s bombardment. But they could be seen moving small rockets into the mosque." 41

  2. 2017: "The second belongs to a Hamas-affiliated father of five in Beit Lahia, whose family, brother, and father live above the tunnel opening, which also connects to the “Hope” Mosque next-door." https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/the-hamas-terrorist-organization/hamas-exploits-gazans-to-build-tunnel-network/

  3. Nov. 22, 2023: Rocket lab underneath mosque. youtube.com/watch?v=r7Sj44fyfRM

  4. "he Israel Defense Forces have claimed that they found a Hamas rocket-making lab, weapons, and a tunnel entrance inside a mosque in Gaza City's Zeitoun"

  5. "The soldiers said it became normal to find munitions hidden inside civilian homes and mosques"

2014: Hamas shooting from Wafa hospital

  1. On July 18, 2014 the BBC interviewed Al Wafa Hospital executive director Basman Alashi at a "Gaza City clinic", because the Al Wafa hospital was regularly hit by the Israelis. As the BBC asks, "Why is the hospital..." there's a massive rocket noise, shaking everything, with Basman Alashi closing his eyes with a look of, "Oh no! Not now!" The BBC explains: "While we talk, a salvo of Hamas rockets is fired from a building nearby. How, I wonder, can this be helping?" The executive director just says that Hamas has to fight back, without explaining they're doing it at or right next to hospital grounds. 42

  2. On July 23, 2014, the IDF released video of militants shooting from Gaza's Wafa Hospital, with staff and patients stil being present to a degree. The IDF explained: "Hamas has turned Wafa Hospital into a command center and a rocket-launching site." 43

2008-2024: Hamas bureaucratic, media, torture and missile launch base at Shifa Hospital

  1. 2008-2009: In a Nov. 15, 2023 article on al-Shifa hospital's history, Reuters covers up the proof that al-Shifa was used as a Hamas center, but did mention: "During a 2008-9 war... Israel accused Hamas of using underground areas in Shifa to hide. Hamas denied it and Reuters was not able to verify the accusations." 44

  2. Mid 2014: On July 15, 2014, Washington Post correspondent William Booth, present on the ground in Gaza, commented: "The Shifa Hospital in Gaza City ... has become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be spotted in the hallways and offices." 45
  3. Mid 2014: Wall Street Journal correspondent Nick Casey tweeted, and then deleted, the following: "You have to wonder w[ith] the shelling how patients at Shifa hospital feel as Hamas uses it as a safe place to see media." 46
  4. Mid 2014: On July 18, 2014, the Washington post commented: "Standing in front of Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zouhri said... "We have suffered no injuries." 47
  5. Amnesty International concluded that during the July-August 2014 Gaza War, Hamas not only torture-murdered a number of prisoners out of spite, but also it "used the abandoned areas of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including the outpatients’ clinic area, to detain, interrogate, torture and otherwise ill-treat suspects, even as other parts of the hospital continued to function as a medical centre." 48

  6. Aug. 1, 2014: YouTube video upload of a Finnish reporter for Helsingin Sanomat next to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, saying: "In addition, there was a rocket attack from the backyard of this hospital at 2 am. It really happened right here, because the sound here by the hospital was really loud. Those rockets really come from here, from Gaza, to Israel." 49

  7. Aug. 3, 2014: YouTube video upload of a France24 TV clip in which a female reporter is talking Arabic next to the Al Shifa hospital when a superloud missile launch can be heard. It lights up the whole neigborhood and scares the reporter to death. The video only has 271 views, 11 years after upload. 50

it was where Hamas officials gave statements and press conferences https://www.thetower.org/0764-violating-intl-law-hamas-uses-hospital-patients-as-human-shields/ (2014: hospital use by Hamas) United Nations Relief and Works Agency "Hamas’s media strategy is exemplified by its use of Gaza City's Shifa hospital. There, in one of the conflict’s worst-kept secrets, the group’s leadership has prosecuted the war from an underground bunker. Reporters were denied entry to the bunker and instead invited to a media center in the hospital courtyard. There, journalists seeking interviews with Hamas officials were obligated to line up, in prime position to snap photos as wounded civilians and combatants (the latter inevitably plain-clothed) were rushed into the building." Pressed over the discrepancy last week, Hicks said that “the fighters are virtually invisible to us … It’s impossible to know who’s who. We tried to cover this as objectively as possible.” As the war dragged on, Hamas' tactics became harder to ignore. On July 21, the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Casey tweeted his suspicion that patients at Shifa were less than thrilled at Hamas’s use of the place. That tweet, however, was soon deleted without explanation. The next day, a Palestinian journalist wrote in France’s Liberation newspaper that he had been interrogated by Hamas and threatened with expulsion from the Strip. A colleague had even denied him shelter for the night, explaining, “You don’t mess with these people”—Hamas, that is—“during war.” Two days later, the story was pulled at the journalist’s request.

2024: Major Hamas base in Kamal Adham hospital; director complicit

On the Theo Von podcast, Dr. Aziz Rahman sounds like a laid-back all-American boy, and who spent two weeks working in a Gaza hospital. Rahman already has appeared in the Washington Post and other mainstream media outlets. When you start checking his claims on Von's podcast though, he - like almost all Arabs - comes across as a major Hamas apologizer. For example, during the interview, Rahman says:

"There is a systemic targeting of physicians inside Gaza. ... I think 300 [physicians and nurses] still are in custody. One of the hospital directors, he's a pediatrician, Hussam Abu Safiya - he's been in jail since December [2024]. No charges against him. ... He's an amazing individual and I think one of the most iconic pictures of him being arrested is he's the last person to leave his hospital, because he just would leave the incubated babies behind. And once they left, then Israel basically said, "Come walk to the tanks, so he's in this white coat in this debris-filled Gaza picture, and he gets arrested. He has never been seen since then."

Von's assistent makes sure to show the picture in question on screen, as well as UN data on the deaths of medical professionals.

The thing is, the Jerusalem Post did an extensive article on the final December 2024 raid of the Kamal Adham hospital - named after a Black September terrorist - comparing accounts of three IDF soldiers, including Shayetet 13 special forces, involved. Anti-tank missiles were fired from the hospital and three booby-trapped civilian apartment blocks were found right next to the hospital. Despite that, no Israeli lives were lost. 51 Then, with the use of interrogation and Shin Bet high technology, the soldiers found that hundreds of terrorists were holed up in the hospital, most of them located in "entire sections meant solely for the entry of Hamas terrorists." 52 Some were dressed up as women, one even holding a baby. 53 They pulled additional terrorists with fake injuries out of ambulances, including a senior Hamas commander. 54 At least two IDF soldiers noted how hospital director Hussam Abu Safiya was "strutting around like a peacock ... believing he was untouchable." 55 As he "watched as his doctors were incriminated one by one" through questioning, ID-ing, and searching, Safiya himself was identified as "a senior Hamas operative" and arrested as well. 56 The situation at the hospital seems to have been quite bizarre, and to have involved much more than just a few Hamas tunnels under the premises:

"Every Hamas terrorist we interrogated confirmed that the Kamal Adwan Hospital is their military base: it's where they regroup, store their weapons, and manage the intelligence they gather. Some of the hospital rooms have been converted into Hamas operational rooms. ... It was made to look like a hospital, and patients were brought there just for appearances." 57

Dr. Aziz Rahman made more questionable claims during the Von interview. At 59:30, he specifically singled out a unique 972mag.com article for its AI drone assassination program. 58 While a super-interesting article and probably accurate or largely accurate looking at all the intelligence sources, 972mag.com is heavily funded by George Soros and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund 59, making it problematic to cite.

Western media allows their journalists to spread Hamas and Hezbollah propaganda

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https://honestreporting.com/foreign-journalists-acknowledge-hamas-human-shields-tactics/ The Volokh Conspiracy: Forty questions for the international media in Gaza July 31, 2014 Reprinted with the permission of the author from the (excellent) British “Harry’s place” blog. 1. Have you or any of your colleagues been intimidated by Hamas? By David Bernstein David Bernstein is the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University of Law in Arlington, VA. His latest book, Lawless: The Obama Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law, was published in November. Most read

July 30, 2014 Facebook post by Israeli film director and producer @michael.grynszpan
facebook.com/michael.grynszpan/posts/10152140390486065 (accessed:Sep. 16, 2025) : "I met today with a Spanish journalist who just came back from Gaza. We talked about the situation there. He was very friendly. I asked him how comes we never see on television channels reporting from Gaza any Hamas people, no gunmen, no rocket launcher, no policemen.. We only see civilians on these reports, mostly women and children. He answered me frankly: "it's very simple, we did see Hamas people there launching rockets, they were close to our hotel, but if ever we dare pointing our camera on them they would simply shoot at us and kill us."
Wooh, impressive. Then I asked him "would you mind saying that on camera? I can film you explaining this..."
For some reason I cannot really understand he refused and almost ran away. I guess my camera is as dangerous as Hamas threats...
So just for you to know, the truth will never appear on the images you see on television."

Correspondent Radjaa Abu Dagga for years divided his time between Paris, where his wife and son live, and Gaza, where his parents live and where he works. On 18 June, when he wanted to cross the Rafah border, an officer banned his way and took his passport like all Palestinians trying to cross into Egypt that day. After four blocked attempts to leave Gaza without explanation over weeks, the Palestinian journalist was summoned by the security services of Hamas on Sunday. "I received a call from a private number. They summoned me to Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza City center, " explains Radjaa. He carried with him his two phones, his press card and a small camera. A few meters from the emergency room where the injured from bombings are constantly flowing, in the outpatient department, he was received in "a small section of the hospital used as administration" by a band of young fighters. They were all well dressed, which surprised Radjaa, "in civilian clothing with a gun under one's shirt and some had walkie-talkies " . He was ordered to empty his pockets, removing his shoes and his belt then was taken to a hospital room "which served that day as the command office of three people." A man begins his interrogation: "Who are you? Who do you call? What are you doing?" "I was very surprised by the procedure," admits Radjaa, who showed him his press card in response. Questions came. They asked if he speaks Hebrew, he has relations with Ramallah. Young Hamas supporters insistently ask the question: "Are you a correspondent for Israel?" Radjaa repeated that only works for French media and a chain of Algerian radio. It was then that the three men deliveed this message: "This is yours to choose. We are an executive administration. We will carry the message of Qassams. You have to stay at home and give us your papers. " Stunned to be covered by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Radjaa tried to defend himself and especially to understand why such a decision was taken against him. In vain. "It is impossible to communicate with these people," laments the journalist. He is not the first to undergo this kind of pressure and combatants in front of him did not hide. "They are enraged against the presidency and accused me of collaborating with Mahmoud Abbas," he says. Reporters Without Borders confirms that this is not an isolated case. The organization has indeed been alerted by the threats of Hamas against Palestinian and foreign journalists for their professional activities. Israël torpedeert vredesproces met aanval in Qatar: 'Misdadige actie' https://newrepublic.com/article/119046/gaza-war-media-coverage-lacked-reporting-hamas-fighters-tactics

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Gaza War Aid and IDF Obstruction
68% of Israelis opposed all Gaza aid: the case for genocide

January 2024, Netanyahu "We provide minimal humanitarian aid,...If we want to achieve our war goals, we give the minimal aid."[235]

Neither prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor the Israeli people, ever were keen on delivering any aid to Gaza. Early on in the conflict, Netanyahu said he only delivered the bare minimum, while 68% of Isreali citizens favored cutting of all aid to Gaza, even if it was only administered and paid for through UNRWA 60:

To Israeli citizens it makes a lot of sense. It's war. They're mortal enemies. Why feed your enemy - an enemy that has made itself indistinguishable from citizens and hasn't given up - while fighting him at the same time? With that continuing to kill your own people?

Fact is, 44% of Gazans, in their hate (whether you think it's warrented or not), decided to vote in an extreme, ISIS-like terrorist regime with the aim to commit genocide against Israel. 88% of all Arabs supported the October 7 Hamas attack. 86% thought it involved acceptable violence. So, now what? Arguably blocking all aid and saying, "Give us back 50-80% of the hostages back to resume aid" would possibly be a more humane, and certainly much more cost-effective way, than, say, throwing bombs that kill 70,000+ Gazans, maiming hundreds of thousands more for life, and making 2 million people homeless. Every terrorist Hamas demands back, you execute.

It would get more humane still when you use hunger as a means to turn the population against Hamas, while arming and feeding a portion of the population to overthrow Hamas. "You fight? You get food. Better be quick." Or make positive concessions. You could even drop massive amounts of traceable machine guns, with limited or unique possibly with traceable light machine guns with unique ammo that

Block all aid, Gazans will all be dead if they don't go after Hamas and release all the hostages, and it doesn't cost Israel any money. If all Gazans die, extra land for Israel and no more foreign-funded low IQ/high crime race endlessly shooting missiles at you, possibly one day with dirty or live nukes; digging terror tunnels to torture-murder Israeli citizens, and economic difficulty through this endless war.

In all fairness, cutting off Gaza aid has a lot of ups, not just for Israelis, but all Middle East and global stability. Except for one thing: the globalist movement, largely working through the United Nations, will use the genocide or attempted genocide - self-defense or not - to cut off all U.S. aid to Israel and possibly have NATO and the Arab world invade Israel and genocide all Jews, directly or indirectly. The hatred of globalists for whites just as much goes for Jews.

"Ideally speaking the world shouldn’t care, and ideally speaking perhaps if the Israelis and the Palestinians want to go on killing themselves they should be left ... to do this. But this can't happen because the fighting that goes on in the Middle East immediately has impact on other parts of the Middle East, and in those other parts, there are strategic interests for the rest of the world." - December 19, 2007, Sari Nusseibeh for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. James Baker III has been part of the Anglo-American establishment. He was also deeply involved in the world of national security. Like Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington and the Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Baker has been intensely critical of Israel and its lobby in the United States.

Initial 2024 Gaza aid: plenty, but already up to 89% looted

In the years after the October 7, 2023, massive amounts of United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations refugee agency (UNRWA), Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and the IDF's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) trucks continued to move into Gaza. If this did not happen, the entire population would long be dead, as pre-October 7 Gaza needed 500 trucks a day delivering food, fuel and other supplies to keep its population healthy. 61 That having been said, there have been ever-longer fluctuations and gaps in aid as the war went on.

A scientific study of the Israeli military's COGAT aid to Gaza over the January to July 2024 period showed that, except for February 2024, plenty of food had been shipped into Gaza. Not enough food reached all Gazans though, for which countless reasons were mentioned, including "theft, looting, and hoarding." 62 To illustrate, in May 2024, over a period of a week, 89% of aid trucks from a U.S.-built pier in Gaza were looted, prompting "the Pentagon and UNWFP ... to find alternate routes and sort out better security." 63 In June 2024 the Gaza head of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated that "three-quarters of the goods on board lorries entering from the crossing were stolen." 64 While much of it appears to have been done by regular citizen crowds, with some reselling the free goods at market stalls 65, a good portion of the transports were "systematically attacked and stopped by armed gangs", especially those looking for cigarettes and fuel. 66

"Armed gangs" stealing aid: Hamas, Shabbab, or others?

In April 2024 it actually was Fatah that claimed that Hamas, which initially, from October 2023 on, "secured" the aid convoys, was hoarding all the food into its own warehouses, sold everything at inflated prices, and generally let the population starve - with the intention of claiming to the world that Israel is "starving" the Palestinian people. 67 Already in December 2023, Al Jazeera (funded by the Qatar government, which housed the billionaire Hamas leaders), seemingly by accident, interviewed an old woman saying that the food all went to the homes of Hamas members and "underground", into the Hamas tunnels. 68 Bizarrely, none of the children and adult men around opened their mouths, or even showed the slightest sign of agreeing or disagreeing with what the woman said.

This (regularly cut) video shows 12 large stolen aid trucks, each with on average 10-12 armed militants, plus at least 3 support cars each loaded with about 6 militants. That's at least 150 militants, continually shooting their rifles in the air. Then there's a bulldozer spreading a thin layer of flower across to road to help stop people from following the convoy.

Israel paid attention, and started bombing police forces escorting aid convoys no later than the first days of February, leading to a refusal of any police forces to protect aid convoys anymore. Top U.S. envoy David Satterfield confirmed explained that development as follows to the elite and very globalist Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:

"The IDF 10 days, two weeks ago, did indeed strike at seven, eight, or nine police officials, including a commander whose units had been involved in providing escorts... With the departure of police escorts, it has been virtually impossible for the UN or anyone else, Jordan, the UAE, or any other implementer to safely move assistance in Gaza because of criminal elements... [The police] certainly include Hamas elements. They also include individuals who don't have a direct affiliation with Hamas who are there as part of the Palestinian Authority's remnant presence and security." 69

Hamas eventually complained that "over 800 Hamas-affiliated police and security officers had been killed while escorting aid convoys — missions allegedly coordinated with the U.N." 70

While it seems only logical to assume that Hamas delegated a considerable portion of the aid to its own soldiers, and to underground storage, it is not clear to what extent Hamas ended up looting convoys at a later stage.

One thing that is very odd is that - away from Google - there are quite a few gore and "war crime" personal videos to be found in Gaza. But none show any aid stealing. One exception seems to be from mid 2025. It involves a heavily armed gang of at least 150 militants spread out over at least a dozen aid trucks being driven into a city, with additional cars full of AK-47's sticking out of them. All the time, shots are being fired into the air. A bulldozer spreads a thin layer of grain on the road, apparently to distract hungry people long enough so that they won't try to follow the trucks. This video - which only has had about 28,000 views 1.5 months after posting - was uploaded to a pro-war Israeli news channel 71, so it may not be surprising that it automatically blamed Hamas, similar to all the comments:

  1. 130 likes: "This will never be put on mainstream media."
  2. 111 likes: "What a UN aid delivery looks like!!!"
  3. 126 likes: "What a Palestinian state looks like."
  4. 44 likes: "Al Jazeera 's innocent Palestine fighters😢😢😢"
  5. 20 likes: "Israel should allow people from all around the world to use this videos in other languages so the world can see the truth."
  6. 25 likes: "It showed that the aid was not meant for palestinians but hamas."
  7. 18 likes: "Why doesn’t mainstream media ever show this? What the hell is wrong with them?"
  8. 15 likes: "The HOSTAGES look alot worse than these people!!!"
  9. 10 likes: "Big shame. This is what Macron, Starmer, David Lammy and the rest recognize."
  10. 9 likes: "ALJAZEERA DONT CARE ABOUT THIS. THEY WILL NOT REPORT ABOUT AGAINST THEIR HAMAS BROTHER😱👹"

However, was it Hamas? Or was it the Israel-backed, anti-Hamas militia of Yesser Abu Shabbab. In mid 2025 it controlled various checkpoints in southern Gaza, with Abu Shabbab having admitted he looted a number of aid trucks out of necessity. Shabbab's army would have the ability to openly display weapons without being targeted by the Israelis. For Hamas it would be safer during ceasefires. At the very leats it would be handy if the video was dated and it is known where this event took place.

USAID studied 156 incidents of theft and other losses of aid trucks in Gaza from October 2023 to May 2025. While in the media it was widely propagandated that USAID had found "no evidence of Hamas theft", the main fact is that at least 22% of the aid disappearance was due to armed Gazan gangs, more than incidents of unarmed Gazans, with a whopping 40% of the incidences not being explained. Even USAID admitted that Hamas could definitely have played a role. 72 A summary list:

  1. Unarmed Gazans: 25 (16%).

  2. Armed Gazans: 35 (22%).
  3. Direct Israeli military action: 11 (7%).
  4. Corrupt subcontractors: 11 (7%).
  5. Corrupt aid personnel: 5 (3%).

  6. Unknown perpetrators: 63 (40%).
  7. "Unknown circumstances": 6 (4%). 73

These percentages amount to 99%, so it is a full breakdown. However, the USAID report also noted that in an overlapping 21% (33) of cases, the Israeli military played an indirect role in the loss of the aid, with USAID analysts explaining this "included cases where [the IDF] compelled aid groups to use delivery routes with high risks of theft or looting, ignoring requests for alternative routes, the analysis said." 74

In the same period, the IDF has estimated that "Hamas has diverted up to 25 percent of aid supplies to its fighters or sold them to civilians ... by "both covertly and overtly" embedding themselves on aid trucks." 75

Late 2024: Israel blocks and targets Gaza aid; looting at up to 89%

By October 2024, UNRWA complained that Israel had allowed no food into Northern Gaza - where Israel was fighting Hamas - from October 2 to 15, and also that aid to other areas of Gaza was largely obstructed. 76

On October 28, 2024 the Israeli parliament, labeling UNRWA a "terrorist organization" 77, signed a law that banned UNRWA in Israel, to be active from January 30, 2025. It was a 92-10 vote. Aid continued to be virtually blocked, with the prediction being that the situation was going to be many times worse without UNRWA's network of contacts. 78 Israel was doing its part though well before this ban went into effect on January 30, 2025. On December 22, 2024, Oxfam reported similar obstructions as UNRWA by the Israeli military with regard to northern Gaza:

"From 6 October, Israel has permitted just 34 UN trucks of food and water to enter the North Gaza Governorate. A convoy of 11 trucks last month was initially held up at the holding point by the Israeli military at Jabalia, where some food was taken by starving civilians. After the green light to proceed to the destination was received, the trucks were then stopped further on at a military checkpoint. Soldiers forced the drivers to offload the aid in a militarised zone, which desperate civilians had no access to. ...

"The following week, Israel permitted 14 more trucks. Due to the delay in receiving the final authorisation from the Israeli authorities, only three trucks were able to enter. They carried ready-to-eat rations, wheat flour and water and reached the intended destination of Mahdia al-Shawa school in Beit Hanoun where displaced families were sheltering. While the aid was distributed, within hours soldiers and quadcopters fired on the school and people were ordered to leave. The next day the Israeli military returned and shelled the school, burning down the buildings." 79

What's going on here? Clearly the Israeli government and army have purposely been limiting food supplies to areas where it is fighting Hamas. That only makes sense, if only to not undermine the morale of its own soldiers. For the rest, was Hamas trying to steal or obstruct the aid? Or purposely trying to make victims out of aid receivers? Or was the Israeli army bitter and purposely tried to crush the morale of all northern Gazans? It's hard to say. Possibly all played a role. Looking at various videos, IDF soldiers have definitely been shooting at anything even remotely suspicious that moved, which isn't strange looking at the tactics Hamas has employed and the widespread support for October 7 among Arabs.

On November 4, 2024, UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini explained how "Israel [only] allowed a daily average of 30 humanitarian trucks into [non-northern] Gaza, which is only six per cent of ... supplies allowed in before the war." 80 Needless to say, this caused a lot of anxiety with the Gaza population. On November 16, 2024, this resulted in a convoy of 109 UNRWA and WFP trucks being looted, with drivers "forced at gunpoint to unload aid." 81 98 trucks - representing 90% of the convoy - was lost. UNRWA explained that the reason was that local escorts had disappeared due to a "total breakdown of civil order." 82 Two weeks later, after more armed lootings, UNRWA temporarily canceled all aid shipments, estimating that "about one-third of aid is stolen by armed gangs who resell it at extortionate prices." 83 It blamed the IDF for destroying too much infrastructure and causing too much desperation. 84 That may well be true, but at the same time already has been discussed that also in May and June 2024, 75 to 89% of aid was being looted. So for an outsider it's hard to get a grasp as to what exactly was different here. In any case, it is this November 16 happening that finally led to an arrest warrent being extended for prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu by the United Nations and globalist-oriented International Criminal Court with accusations of genocide.

Early 2025: Ceasefire, aid increases by (rather pro-Hamas) NGOs, and UNRWA phased out

The situation cooled down a bit in January. From January 19 to March 18, 2025 there was a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Until February 22, there were 8 rounds of hostage exchanges, in which 27 hostages and four bodies were released. In return, 596 Palestinian prisoners had to be released by Israel, including 100 with life-sentences for terrorism. After the exchanges, only 24 hostages - all male - of the original 251 still were expected to be alive. 85

From the beginning of the ceasefire on January 19, Israel allowed 600 trucks a day to drive into Gaza, relieving most of the pressure that had been building since October 2024, the most extreme in northern Gaza. Looting went down a lot it appears, because very few deaths among aid seekers were recorded in January and February. UNRWA announced it "will continue to do its work until it no longer can", just after the Israeli ban for its ties to Hamas came into effect on January 30, 2025. 86 As so often, "experts" from Soros' International Crisis Group were cited by western media outlets - as far as they dared to mention the criticism on UNRWA - to underplay Israel's criticism on UNRWA:

"Much of Israel's political class rejects UNRWA," said Daniel Forti, an expert on the UN at Brussels-based think tank International Crisis Group, in a 2024 briefing. "They argue that any entity that stands for the preservation of the Palestinians' right of return directly threatens the Israeli state's existence." 87

Ironically, at the same time, "aid" agencies (quietly also) funded by Soros, Rockefefeller Brothers Fund and the Ford Foundation essentially were praising Hamas in "restoring order":

""There's now the political will to make everything else work," said Tania Hary, executive director of [the Soros, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Oxfam-funded pro-Palestine group] Gisha... "The cease-fire is allowing Hamas forces to operate freely to stop looting … and the lack of hostilities allow aid agencies to move freely and safely." ... Before the cease-fire... delivery was complicated by armed gangs looting the trucks, attacks on aid workers, arduous Israeli inspections, and difficulties coordinating with COGAT [the same worker said]." 88

March 2025-: Israel again shuts down and targets aid

In early March 2025 Israel and Hamas could not agree on "phase 2" of the ceasefire agreement though. Israel wanted proof of life for the remaining hostages and that as many as possible would be released without any guarantees, while Hamas wanted Israel to withdraw from Gaza and allow it to continue its rule. Both demands were unreasonable in terms of expecting the other party to accept to them.

In response, on Sunday, March 2, after 42 days of greatly increased aid, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu blocked all aid, with the argument that "Hamas steals the supplies" and apparently resells them at high prices to "finance its terror machine". 89 This blockage remained in place until an announcement on May 18, that aid would partially be allowed again. 90 Not a whole lot changed though in the days after. 91 And even in August aid organizations were complaining that still almost all aid remained blocked. 92

As a result of this policy, with the war continuing, the hunger in Gaza became even worse, with the first reports coming out of several hundred children in particular having died of starvation. The looting went back up to even higher numbers. In May 2025, 89% of United Nations trucks (2,309 of 2,604) were looted before reaching their destination in Gaza. 93 In June, 91% was looted. 94 In July, 94%. 95 While the United Nations did not distinguish the looting beyond "either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors" 96, USAID looked deeper, pointing fingers to desperate individuals, armed gangs of unknown origin, corrupt aid members (who have been claimed to work for Hamas), and, to a considerable degree too: direct and indirect actions of the IDF. We alreayd discussed those results.

The role of the Israeli government blocking anything but the minimum amount of aid seems quite clear at this point. But also the IDF on the ground regularly blocking Palestinians from reaching aid seems to be a reality. And those reports came again. In the evening of July 20, 2025, for example, this time the United Nations World Food Program reported:

"On the morning of 20 July, a 25 truck WFP convoy carrying vital food assistance crossed the Zikim border point destined for starving communities in northern Gaza. Shortly after passing the final checkpoint beyond the Zikim crossing point into Gaza, the convoy encountered large crowds of civilians anxiously waiting to access desperately needed food supplies. As the convoy approached, the surrounding crowd came under fire from Israeli tanks, snipers and other gunfire ... resulting in the loss of countless lives. ... These people were simply trying to access food to feed themselves and their families on the brink of starvation." 97

Mid 2025: GHF's "death traps" "replacing" UNRWA aid

As UNRWA and its network of distribution sites was being choked out of Gaza by Israel due to its new "terror organization" status, ban to deal in any way with Israeli officials, and the wholesale Gaza blockade, the U.S.-Israel Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) came to Gaza. It became operational on May 27, 2025. Instead of relying on a large network of distribution point all over Gaza, the GHF, at least initially, involved just four major sites: three in central Gaza and one in southern Gaza. The idea is not bad, at least on paper. Fox News was invited to a GHF site. With Gaza kids rather relaxed checking out the cameras, the reporter described the process as follows:

"When you enter the distribution site, the pallets of food have been laid out in a gravel lot ahead of time. This was done hours before we had arrived there at sunrise. The IDF has several snipers and cranes overhead, and the IDF fires numerous warning shots that are clearly audible. The GHF tells us that is for crowd control on the ground. On the other side of a man-made berm... several thousand [Gazan] people are waiting there, waiting for a red flag to change to green. And off they run, towards you, in a flat-out sprint. The men get there first, mostly young men, I would say anywhere between the age of 12 and 16. ...

"We spoke to several Palestinians, almost to a person they said they were hungry, they were all tired of war, and they did not want Hamas involved." 98

Apparently GHF sites make extensive use of AI face recognition software to spot for any militants - which would be quite smart. 99

Video leaked by aid workers. "Doctors Without Borders is calling it slaughter, masquerading as humanitarian aid.," Cameras equipped with facial recognition software.

Other media outlets reported on the GHF sites as well. From the Palestinian perspective the two main problems seemed to be:

  1. The travel distance is way too great for most, especially because most had to travel by foot.
  2. There's not nearly enough aid at the sites. It's not uncommon for people, especially the older, slower and weaker, to leave empty-handed after a grueling journey. It also leads to people having to fight for scraps.

And mainly from a whistleblowers' perspective:

  1. The Israelis and mercenaries at the GHF sites go overboard with "crowd control". There exists footage that shows that just to intimidate and "warn", they machinegun fire very close to the crowds, sometimes just a meter away. IDF snipers seem to shoot at anything that's suspicious, as seemingly evidence by a guy standing on the back of a pick-up truck driving amidst a crowd of people carrying aid bags. It's quite possible they shoot at anyone trying to steal, anyone fighting, and anyone ID-ed as a Hamas operative. Hidden camera at a GHF site, broadcast by the Associated Press, also revealed an American mercenary shooting about 15 bullets in the direction of Gazans who didn't clear out quick enough, with fellow-soldiers going, "I think you hit one." "Hell yeah, boy." The AP did not show the full context though - what was discussed beforehand. But it came across very callous. 100

The talk about "death traps" - used by the rival UNWRA chief and Israel-hating Arabs as Dr. Aziz Rahman - is very propagandist. They're designed to be just that: death traps. But for security purposes: if people misbehave. That having been said, there are a lot of deaths surrounding these GHF sites:

Once again though: what's the cause? The three above-mentioned problems seem to be a cause, in addition to the overall state of starvation. In addition, Hamas may have been instigating a number of incidents. They've ambushed and killed some of the GHF personnel. In the most widely-reported GHF fatalities case, GHF personnel explained.

Despite these major issue, the way these sites have been structured, doesn't seem to be much of an issue in a "special case" as Gaza, with its Hamas government. In the end, people can get fed this way, while gangs can't get to the supplies. Hamas can't get to them either - unless they want to rob individual people all across Gaza. And they better do that far outside the range of the GHF site and nearby IDF base.

GHF: why hire CIA-tied, anti-Islam, pro-Crusader motorcycle gang members?

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youtube.com/shorts/Mt_wxsR-ktU: "I swear to Allah, we were humiliated. We've never been humiliated like this before! They crushed us and walked over us, as if we weren't even human." youtube.com/watch?v=C7NjmJT9-x0: "There is no policy of starvation Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza." youtube.com/shorts/hzShlHYMKhQ (Palestinian on truck sniped). 40:10: "Listen to Mearsheimer on Tucker. He talkes about this." UNWRA head: "death trap" Sunday March 2 Israel blocked all aid entering the strip for 11 weeks, from March 2 to May 21. Israel blocked all aid entering the strip for 11 weeks, from March 2 to May 21. A USAID report 800 people mkilled at GHF sites. 5000 injured. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MuPfkxQns1k (warning shots at GHF site. Very close to people. But clearly serious warnings.) 27 May - 17 Augist 2025: 1857 Palestinians killed seeking food. 1,021 near GHF sites. "But there are so few boxes. Imagine, five trucks for thousands of people [who] come from ... everywhere." A bag of flower and a bottle of oil. ... Everyone [of her kids] shouts, "Me first, me first!" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4aEJTeKl_2k: The Economist Israel correspondent: "The crowd surged forward and broke into the compound. When teargas grenades failed to stop the surge of desperate people, the guards stopped handing out boxes and closed the center." 20 people were killed at a stampede at the same site the next day. Haaretz: 'It's a killing field. IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid.'' IDF officers amnd soldiers ttold Haaretz theu were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites, even when no threat was present. On July 26th Israel allowed small amounts of aid into Gaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7NjmJT9-x0 (July 30): UN stopped delivering aid the moment the GHF sites opened. "I'm at the Karim Shalom border crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip. It's one of only two entry points for humanitarian aid. The Israeli military invited journalists here to show us what they say are piles and piles of aid that the UN and other relief agencies are refusing to pick up and distribute. The UN is used to working in war zones all over the world. Why won't they do it here? They stopped distributing food since we opened the distribution centers ourselves on the GHF. Now, you will judge yourself, is it from political reasons, or is it because they care about feeding the people of Gaza? The UN is telling a different story. They say the Israeli authorities are creating obstacles that are making it impossible for them to do their job. These include restrictions on movement, security concerns for humanitarian workers, and long wait times at border crossings. Obstacles like those have created what residents and humanitarian..." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BFbAq4LpM2M (Chris Newton for The Guardian): "You don't distribute assistance that's meant to be humanitarian at the point of a gun. I'm an early warning analyst for [George Soros'] Crisis Group. I also look into the use of starvation as a weapon of war and the role of resources in conflict. ... The system under UN Coordination had 400 distribution sites. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is starting off with four [and] is providing food and nothing else. That is not how human beings live. You need water. You need healthcare. ... Israel claims the new system is needed because Hamas has been systematically stealing the assistance that was going in and being distributed under the previous UN-led system. Israel has never offered any meaningful public evidence of those claims. ... [This] is the sort of thing that, to any respectable humanitarian organization, is something they would never do. The previous humanitarian system was working with and through a wide range of community actors to maintain order without violence, without weapons." Crushing, trampled. Gunshot wounds. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nLLp25duNUU: "They shouldn't be throwing aid on the ground, forcing us to run after it like dogs. We demand the return of the UNRWA operations. ... Some people received aid once, twice, three times, without IDs or registration. They opened the doors and people helped themselves repeatedly." "Some received 20 or 30 aid boxes, while others got nothing. .. Distribute the aid fairly." https://nypost.com/2023/12/07/news/palestinian-criticizes-hamas-in-al-jazeera-interview-for-taking-aid/ "Netanyahu said food deliveries would continue only until the Israeli military and private companies had set up hubs to distribute aid under a US-backed plan rejected by the UN." "The [air-dropped] aid that arrives is stolen, we don't get to see anything from the aid … we want our share." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOjMHoHm5iA (GHF site: propaganda and "death traps"). Al Jazeera. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-29/israel-aid-drops-and-food-into-gaza-story/105583522: "Last week more than 100 humanitarian agencies warned mass starvation was spreading across the strip." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Hamas had been stealing aid and impeding its distribution, and also blamed groups such as the UN for failing to deliver the aid. Israel claimed the UN had left hundreds of truckloads of food waiting at depots inside the Gaza border — criticism the UN and humanitarian agencies have rejected. Since the GHF sites began operating, Palestinians say Israeli troops open fire almost every day toward crowds on roads heading to the distribution points, through Israeli military zones. Several hundred people have been killed and hundreds more wounded, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry and witnesses. Food Aid to Gaza Is Getting Stolen as Fast as It Can Be Delivered?: maybe everyone grabbing those boxes and running off like a looter is just desperate for food. But since the beginning of the war, there have been accusations that Hamas steals donated food aid and sells it to desperate Palestinians. Don’t take the Israelis’ word for it, take it from Fatah’s state-run television, representing the other big political party that runs Palestinian territories: Fatah-run Awdah TV host: “Hamas’ persecution of any party who is a source for distributing the [humanitarian] aid or securing it began from the start of the war (i.e., 2023 Gaza war), as Hamas persecuted well-known figures and teams of volunteers on the ground in mid-October [2023]. It attacked them and killed some of them for two reasons: Firstly, preventing any activity by any [other] party in the Gaza Strip; and secondly, ensuring Hamas control over the aid and its storage, which of course leads to these crazy and unreal prices that no one can pay in the shadow of this destruction. After the occupation (i.e., Israel) bombed storehouses controlled by Hamas, the accumulation of tons of various food and aid products that Hamas had taken exclusivity over became clear, at a time when the Gaza Strip is suffering from hunger.” Part of an interview on Al-Jazeera TV from the Gaza Strip is shown: Woman from the Gaza Strip: “The aid isn’t reaching all the people.” Al-Jazeera TV reporter: “Few things are arriving and they [Hamas] claim they are distributing them.” Woman: “It is all to their [own] homes. Let Hamas catch me and shoot me and do what they want to me.” U.S. taxpayers have now spent $320 million to build a pier on the Gaza Strip to make it easier for people to steal food aid off of trucks. Former GHF employee, Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, in July 2025, made all kinds of wild claims of the IDF machine gunning Palestinian crowds at Gaza, and even shooting tank rounds into the crowds. He was interviewed by the BBC 101 by the "liberal CIA" outlets Democracy Now! 102 and PBS 103, with additional reports in France 24 104 and, a very late one, by Al Jazeera. 105 The problem? He had zero proof. Within days the GHF showed evidence that Aguilar had falsified documents and had been fired for "misconduct" in June 2025, with him threatening he could a "best friend or worst nightmare" to his former employer, based on whether they take him back or not. 106 Finally, in September 2025, a boy Aguilar said he witnessed being murdered by the IDF was tracked down by GHF - for his own safety, as Hamas would want to kill him - and turned out to alive without any issues or memories of what Aguilar said. 107 Maybe equally telling, Aguilar is a rabid pro-Hamas/pro-Palestine Greta Thurnberg-type activist. For example, he was arrested for interrupting a Senate hearing, saying to the American people on camera: "You are paying for a genocide", with an aggressive female soldier with him screaming, "Rise up! Rise up! ... Congress is paying for the death of children! ... They are complicit in the slaughter of babies!" 108 It makes one wonder if there was more to this affair than just a disgruntled employee. On April 7, 2014 Ana Kasparian appeared on Russia Today with "liberal CIA" asset Abby Martin (of Project Censored and such). https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/inside-gaza-doctor-recounts-unimaginable-conditions/1442488067077094/, 12:25: Kasparian: "Both parties are completely captured by the Israel lobby" https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/uefas-stop-killing-children-banner-isnt-fooling-anyone/ 40:10: Listen to Tucker and mearsheimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrn5fRpBtp4: Nasser hospital double strike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTrtqLUY7w tyt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7DuNZgu58s: "How the mornings starts in Gaza: ... It starts with the farewell of the martyrs. With the shelling of houses on civilians. With a wound. With sadness. With hunger." Abban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FxBXcXaZnU: Killed journalist. Everybody refers to October 7 as the end. 16:30. If my wife and kid died, I'm going to a GHF site and I hope I'm taken. ... The GHF [Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] has basically taken over aid delivery to Gaza, and no one wants to work with them. ... So even though the UN does have food ready to go, in warehouses, on trucks, waiting in Egypt and Jordan, it is not allowed in, because Israel has only given authority to GHF. Now, GHF is ran by private military contractors, so it is militarized aid, which is against international rules. ...
We did not see a combatant. We did not talk about combatants. None of the patients talk about that. Honestly, everyone's just concerned about how they're going to eat. No one's talking about Hamas. ... I did ask many people privately, not patients, but co-workers and stuff like, what's going on out there? "To go to the GHF site, you have to go in an active war zone. There's tanks. There's private military contracts from the US, which are all special forces. There's IDF, the Israeli military." It doesn't even make sense that they would go out there. And even if they did, the question is, Von: "IDF... they speak highly of their ... abilities but then you're like, well, why not just send in Marines or your Navy SEAL group to seek out Hamas instead of blanketly bombing thousands of people... Why wouldn't you send them to pick off the bad guys one at a time? That's the part that sometimes I don't understand." https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250828-un-did-not-say-87-humanitarian-aid-gaza-looted-hamas "More than 23,000 tons of humanitarian aid entered Gaza last week, with 1,200 trucks having been successfully collected by the United Nations and international organizations." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA7J64faCc4&t=200s (posted Aug. 5, 2025): "1,200 trucks moved in last week by Israel. And 1,200 were delivered by the UN. ... Hundred more continue to rot. UN is not moving at proper pace. Israel is blamed. UNRA stonewalls and works with Hamas. Attacked GHF." 8 years old Abdul Rahim Mohammad Hamdan. Said the boy was killed. Predictably, he also spoke out against the U.S. siding with Israel in its war with Ayatollah Iran. 109


^Aspects ignored in anti-Israel social media propaganda

I am definitely not saying that the Israelis are saints. Far from it. I have raised plenty of questions about Israeli conservatives as Benjamin Netanyahu from ISGP's "conservative CIA" article to ISGP's article about historic joint CIA-Mossad operations. Also in the new Hamas article, I acknowledged that Israel is purposely using starvation tactics and can be quite indiscriminate in its bombings, seemingly out of spite.

That having been said, almost anything in the suggestions of Instagram and TikTok is one-sided, anti-Israel propaganda, and often outright disinformation. In contrast, you never see any of the fololowing points being discussed or propagandized:

  1. Average IQs in the entire Middle East, from Morocco to Pakistan, average at 82-83, 20 points lower than in the West and barely enough to be able control impulses, problem-solve, and fully grasp the consequences of actions.
  2. European and American Jews have the highest IQ in the world, consistently scoring 110-115. Coincidentally, Jews have been massively overrepresented in science, Nobel prizes, banking, law, entertainment and high technology development. IF all things are equal, except IQ, the Arabs don't stand a chance at beating Israel: not on the battlefield and not in terms of dynamic civilization-building. Not just look at Iron Dome, but also how the kibbutzes looked that were invaded by Hamas terrorists on October 7. They are well-maintained and very green oases.

  3. Due to lower IQ, Arab immigrants have vastly higher (violent) crime numbers than Jews or whites. All of it translates to self-destructive behavior.
  4. It becomes problematic talk about "innocent civilians" when you see all the crime statistics and polling data below. Only 5-12% of the Arab population can be considered not an enemy of Israel. You reap what you sow.
  5. 88% of Arabs consider Hamas' October 7, 2023 torturous, genocidal attack on Israel "legitimate". 86% of Arabs say it involved "acceptable violence". There was 82% support among West Bank Palestinians, and still 57% among post-invasion Gazans. The obvious reasons a relatively large share of Gazans disagreed is because they were fully aware of the repercussions.
  6. 67% of all Arabs said they "stand with Hamas" after the 2023 Hamas attack.
  7. Just 10% of Palestinians believed Hamas committed war crimes after the October 7 attack.
  8. 84-89% of Arabs oppose recognition of Israel as a state, versus 5-8% support.
  9. 58-71% of Arabs supported Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks against American targets, to force the U.S. out of the Middle East.

  10. As a result of these widespread Arab convictions, aid organizations active in Gaza all end up becoming compromised by Hamas, most notably the United Nations. 110 But also an aid group as World Vision employed a person who diverted $7.2 million of aid a year to Hamas. 111
  11. As a result of these widespread Arab convictions, Hamas became the formal government of Gaza, elected in 2006. 112 In 2007 Hamas killed and forced out all Fatah opposition. Actually George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Hamas were in favor of elections. Israel and Fatah were not, anticipating what was to come. 113 What was to come was Gazans voting in the most violent terrorist group, Hamas, with 44% of the popular vote. Fatah, of Yassar Arafat (d. 2004) and Mahmoud Abbas, which has an extensive terrorist history too but largely is focused on negotiations with Israel, received 41% of the vote. Two communist groups with a history of terrorism as well together received 5.6% of the vote. The only group not focused on terrorism and simply negotiation, received 4.2% of the vote.
  12. Looking back, already in 2017 (and clearly also earlier), the IDF had described the growing number of terror tunnels being constructed in Gaza, with entrances inside newly-built civilian homes, often owned by Hamas members. It also demonstrated how these tunnels were being connected to "civilian infrastructure like homes, schools, mosques, hospitals, and other public buildings [to] make them harder for the IDF to locate and engage [and also] in the hopes that an IDF strike ... will result in Gazan deaths that can cause a blow to Israeli legitimacy." 114 Already in 2014 the IDF did interviews with residents of nearby kibbutzes, who described how scared people were of Gaza terrorists once again suddenly popping out of a freshly-dug Hamas tunnel. 115 All these kibbutzes were attacked on October 7, 2023. It's quite fascinating how Bush allowed Hamas to run for elections, and how this situation was allowed to fester, with tens of billions in aid continuing to flow into Gaza.

  13. From the 1993 Oslo Accord to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, per capita Palestinian received 35x more aid than Europeans during the Marshall Plan of 1948-1952. Despite that, nothing but problems.

    Explanation with sources: Based on OECD data, from 2002 to 2022 the Palestinian territories received $42 billion in international aid. 116 From the 1993 Oslo Accord to late 2001, the Palestinian received $4 billion. 117 For 2023 it's an easy 2.5 billion more. All ran through ChatGPT for inflation correction for 2025, gives a total of $83 billion in aid. That aid went to an average of just 4 million Palestinians, so that's $20,750 per capita / per person, or $700 per year per person. In contrast, about 270 million Europeans in 16 countries merely received about $600 per capita as part of $13.3 billion ($162 billion in 2025) in Marshall Plan aid to Europe over 1948-1952 - and that is inflation-adjusted. That's 35x more aid than European received under Marshall Plan. This comparison has been done multiple times since at least 2002 118, when per capita aid still only was 4x higher. In a 2017 flyer the Jerusalem Institute of Justice already calculated it as being 15.3x 119, almost four times higher. In 2025 this multiplying factor has doubled again. In other words: Palestinian aid seems to be a bit of a bottomless pit.

  14. Yasser Arafat - an old Black September terrorist - siphoned off an estimated $1.3 to $3 billion in aid and tax money that should have been spend on the Palestinian people, much with the knowledge of Israel that wanted him to control the terrorists with it. Worse still, Arafat created monopolies by handing out business to his cronies, receiving kickbacks in return. As a result his own people were overpaying for various goods, including gasoline, which secretly was diluted with kerosine to increase the profit margin, while helping to destroy car engines at the same time. After this monopoly was broken, gasoline became "pure", with prices dropping 20%. For diesel they dropped 80%. 120
  15. Polls reveal that the Palestinian Authority under Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, is considered corrupt by 87% of Palestinians. 78% wants Abbas to resign. Despite not having a business background, for a long time now Abbas' wealth has been estimated at over $100 million. 121 Against regulations, Abbas appointed old Arafat-loyalist Ramzi Khoury as CEO of the Palestinian National Fund, giving a large degree of personal control over how funds are dispensed.
  16. As the Times of Israel asked: Palestinian leaders are billionaires. Why is the West still paying?. 122 Hamas leaders were and are worth billions and have lived in luxury in Qatar, forever protected by the Qatari Al-Thani family (which is very globalist-oriented). Qatar has provided $1.3 billion in aid to Gaza between 2012 and 2023, also helping to pay the government salaries of Hamas bureaucrats. 123 Meanwhile, the top 3 overseas Hamas leadership was worth $11 to $13 billion by 2023:
    • Ismail Haniyeh: Palestinian National Authority prime minister 2006-2007, and 2013-2014 - disputed in between. Leader Hamas in Gaza 2007-2017, followed up by Sinwar, 2007-2017. Chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination by Israel in Iran in July 2024. Worth over $4-5 billion by 2023.
    • Khaled Mashal: Worth $4-5 billion. Survived the Sep. 2025 Qatar strike by Israel.
    • Mousa Abu Marzouk: 1981 founder of the Islamic Association of Palestine, with donations running through the Holy Land Foundation. Co-founder of Hamas in 1987. Head of Hamas' "international relations office". Worth $3 billion. 124

  17. Geopolitical and realpolitical aspects of conflicts seem to be of zero importance to politicians all of a sudden. Everything is about "the women and children"... But only when Israel kills them due to the overwhelming presence of Hamas terrorists.
  18. There doesn't seem to be much concern by western leaders that all Muslim countries - not just Iran 125 and Qatar - only are all too happy to use Gaza and Palestine as a sacrificial lamb and proxy to destroy Israel. That's also why no one wants to evacuate the Gazans, depite the fact that millions of Palestinians already are living in Jordan, and intermarry with native Jordanians.
  19. Anti-Israel and anti-Jew social media and NGO-tied street activism is barely seen as worrisome in the West, despite the fact that most of it is very pro-Hamas and genocidal towards the state of Israel. Similarly, western governments appear to be way too open to negotiate with Hamas, or allow it to do so through countries as Qatar. It's against protocol to negotiatate with terrorists. In fact, Hamas' torture of Jews during October 7, 2023 has been described as "worse than ISIS" by Hamas' own terrorists.

  20. Reality: Expecting Israel to be a toothless tiger begging for its hostages back is not realistic - if they are allowed to value their own people and credibility as a country.
  21. Reality: You can't reason with Hamas. Western governments have said plenty of times that Hamas needs to release the hostages and surrender. Except the only times Hamas did release hostages was after maximum military pressure by Israel. Of course, Israel-hating liberal-globalist and "liberal CIA" forces have their own "diversity" agenda. Their ideals of Israel bringing down the walls and accepting Palestinians in a mixed one-state society (where Jews become the minority), or least a separate state without walls; will do nothing but continue the endless terrorist bombings and shootings against Israeli civilians.
  22. Major reality: fighting a war in fully urban territory to retrieve hostages and neutralize rocket barrages from a terrorist group is always going to lead to a huge amount of civilian deaths and destruction. Now imagine Hamas having dug around 700km of tunnels over a period of 17 years, deliberately having put tunnel exits and entrances in and around hospitals, schools, kindergartens, mosques, United Nations buildings and then putting their weapons caches and command centers right inside or underneath these structures. 126 Not only that, whole hospitals are converted to Hamas headquarters, with ambulances 127 and apparent United Nations vehicles 128 being used to transport terrorists, explosives and other terrorist goods. Now imagine Hamas militants running through tunnels, coming up inside buildings, firing a rocket or sniper rifle at Israeli troops, and disappearing again. It gets worse still. Imagine Hamas even using childrens' toys with recording devices of children to draw Israeli troops towards boobytraps. 129
    • Ironically, first it was completely ignored and denied in western media that Hamas had dug its tunnels under hospitals and schools, despite Israeli intelligence and the IDF publicly documenting since since at least 2017. 130 Only over the course of 2024 did it become somewhat accepted that this was the case. 131 It was still largely ignored though, and the narrative in alternative circles - for example by an Israel-hating Theo Von and pro-Houthi, pro-Hamas, pro-Ayatollah and pro-Hitler Dan Bilzerian - became that you had to surgical raids by special forces in every hospital, school, or apartment in Gaza to minimize civilian casualties. How practical is that? It isn't. More practically, Israel called for Gazans to leave war zones, even texting people to leave. But even then it is impossible to "Delta Force" every house, especially not with all the booby traps and tunnels. You survive searching a house and a day later they're back.

^Notes

  1. unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/direct-hit-unrwa-school-kills-three-gaza (published: Jan. 6, 2009): "The school was clearly marked as a United Nations installation. ... Under international law, installations such as schools, health centres and UNRWA facilities should be protected from attack."
  2. Feb. 6, 2009, The Australian, 'UN backs down on 'school massacre' in Gaza': "Israeli army spokesmen during the war said Israeli troops had fired three mortar shells in response to mortar fire from the area near the school, not from the school itself. They said the dead included two identifiable Palestinian militants believed to have been involved in the mortar firing. That denial, however, did not convince critics around the world, who continued to accuse Israel of deliberately targeting schools harbouring civilians seeking shelter, a belief buttressed by the UN statement. ... Military analyst Anthony Cordesman, in a study of the Gaza conflict released this week, concluded that the Israeli Defence Forces did not violate the rules of war during the three-week campaign."
  3. Ibid.: "A UN spokesman, in a rare public clash with Hamas, accused Hamas police of breaking into a Gaza warehouse full of UN humanitarian supplies and seizing thousands of blankets and food packages. "They were armed, they seized this, they took it by force," said UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness, who described the incident "absolutely unacceptable"."
  4. cfr.org/blog/business-usual-unrwa ('Posted on: Nov. 28, 2014 by Elliott Abrams'): "Think about the discoveries of last summer, during the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas. July 17: 20 rockets found in a vacant UNRWA school. July 22: more rockets found in another UNRWA school. July 30: rockets found in an UNRWA school for the third time. Nor was that all. In the first case, it seems that Hamas was called upon to remove the rockets, which suggested that UNRWA was turning them back over to Hamas rather than seizing them or asking the UN for help."
  5. Jan. 29, 2024, Wall Street Journal, 'Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack'.
  6. Aug. 31, 2014, Israel365news.com, 'Is UNRWA Aiding Terrorism?'.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid.
  9. Nov. 26, 2014, Israel365news.com, 'UNRWA Teachers Publicly Support Terrorism and the Holocaust on Social Media'.
  10. July 30, 2014, Times of Israel, 'Militants ‘blow up UNRWA clinic,’ killing 3 soldiers'.
  11. Aug. 31, 2014, Israel365news.com, 'Is UNRWA Aiding Terrorism?'.
  12. Ibid. Also: cfr.org/blog/business-usual-unrwa ('Posted on: Nov. 28, 2014 by Elliott Abrams').
  13. Ibid.
  14. Ibid.
  15. Oct. 29, 2017, Times of Israel, 'Israel’s UN envoy blasts discovery of Gaza tunnel under UNRWA school'.
  16. April 28, 2021, Ynet News, 'EU condemns UNRWA for 'hate speech and violence' taught in PA schools'.
  17. unwatch.org/unrwa-announces-investigation-into-10-teachers-staffers-for-anti-jewish-hate-supporting-terror/ (published: Aug. 2, 2021).
  18. unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ UNW_094_UNRWA_Report_2021 __RC_5_Singles.pdf (published: Aug. 6, 2021).
  19. unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/unrwa-statement-un-watch-allegations (published: Aug. 5, 2021): "UNRWA confirms that 10 of the 22 persons mentioned in the report are UNRWA personnel; the others are not associated with the Agency."
  20. Dec. 15, 2023, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), 'Hamas used UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels; IMPACT-se identified at least 118 participants in the Oct. 7 Hamas assault as former students of UNRWA schools'.
  21. *) Nov. 7, 2023, Fox News, 'Employees at US-funded United Nations agency celebrated Hamas terror massacre'.
    *) Jan. 10, 2024, UNwatch.org, 'Group of 3,000 UNRWA teachers celebrates Hamas massacre and rape'.
    unwatch.org/group-of-3000-unrwa-teachers-celebrates-hamas-massacre-and-rape/.
    *) Jan. 11, 2024, Fox News, 'UN teachers celebrated Oct. 7 attack, praised Hamas terrorists as ‘heroes’ on Telegram: watchdog'.
  22. Nov. 30, 2023, Jerusalem Post, 'Released hostage says he was held by UNRWA teacher in Gaza - report'.
  23. Jan. 29, 2024, Wall Street Journal, 'Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack'.
  24. unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/spreading-unsubstantiated-claims-about-unrwa-must-immediately-stop (published: Dec. 1, 2023): "The post claims that there is an alleged connection between an Israeli hostage held in Gaza and an UNRWA school teacher. ... UNRWA requests that the journalist immediately deletes the post."
  25. Jan. 29, 2024, Wall Street Journal, 'Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack'.
  26. Jan. 29, 2024, Wall Street Journal, 'Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack'.
  27. govextra.gov.il/unrwa/unrwa/ (Israeli National Digital Agency; linked intelligence reports dates to April 23, 2025): "Naji Abdalla Abu Aziz - A Military Wing Member that Israel Notified UNRWA about in 2011: .... A tunnel shaft was found in 2023, near a school run by Naji Abu Aziz. [Satellite picture:] Three Anti-Tank positions and a Tunnel Shaft in Khuzaa Prep Boys School. [Satellite picture:] Hamas’s armed terrorists using UNRWA vehicles for transportation."
  28. Ibid.
  29. Feb. 10, 2024, Times of Israel, 'Directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters, IDF uncovers top secret Hamas data center: Subterranean facility for terror group’s intelligence needs... discovered after interrogations of Palestinian prisoners'.
  30. March 7, 2024, i24news.tv, 'New report confirms 3 UNRWA workers took part in Oct 7 attack; The new survey by IMPACT-SE confirms members of Hamas & PIJ were employed by UNRWA, among 42 agency workers accused by Israel of participating in the massacre'.
  31. April 22, 2024, Washington Post, 'Report says Israel has not provided evidence of widespread militancy among UNRWA staff'.
  32. unrwa.org/resources/reports/independent-review-mechanisms-and-procedures-ensure-adherence-unrwa-humanitarian (published: April 22, 2024).
  33. June 26, 2024, New York Post, 'UNRWA ‘aided and abetted’ Hamas terror attack on Oct. 7 by sending $1B in aid to Gaza: suit'.
  34. Aug. 5, 2024, New York Post, 'UN admits nine UNRWA staffers ‘may have been involved’ in Oct. 7 attack on Israel'.
  35. Sep. 30, 2024, New York Post, 'UNRWA worker who doubled as Hamas leader killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon'.
  36. Dec. 15, 2023, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), 'Hamas used UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels'.
  37. Oct. 29, 2024, BBC, 'What is Unrwa and why has Israel banned it?'.
  38. Dec. 15, 2023, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), 'Hamas used UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels'.
  39. unrwa.org/unrwa-claims-versus-facts-2025 (accessed: Sep. 15, 2025): "Since the law endorsed by the Israeli Parliament (the Knesset) came into effect on 30 January 2025, Israeli officials are banned from being in contact with UNRWA."
  40. unrwa.org/unrwa-claims-versus-facts-2025 (published: July 2025; accessed: Sep. 15, 2025): "Over the past 20 months, the Government of Israel has continuously made unsubstantiated claims against UNRWA and its neutrality."
  41. July 17, 2014, Washington Post, 'Israel launches ground invasion of Gaza'.
  42. Jul 18, 2014 YouTube upload by 'BBC News', 'Inside a Gaza hospital during Israeli ground offensive - BBC News' (Basman Alashi, executive director, Al Wafa Hospital).
    youtube.com/watch?v=8O9AHzUKYk8 (accessed: Sep. 16, 2025): "[BBC] Gravely ill patients were rushed to this Gaza City clinic late last night, their [Wafa] hospital under fire. ... Why is the hospital... *Massive rocket noise, shaking everything, with Basman Alashi closing his eyes with a look of, "Oh no! Not now!"* [BBC:] While we talk, a salvo of Hamas rockets is fired from a building nearby. How, I wonder, can this be helping? [Basman Alashi, executive director, Al Wafa Hospital:] Give me a human being that, "I hit you, I kill you, I put you in a corner." I ask you, "Don't respond." [BBC:] We travel through deserted streets to see the Wafa Hospital for ourselves. The border is just across the nearby fields. Israel says rockets were fired from the hospital..."
  43. Jul 23, 2014 YouTube upload by 'Israel Defense Forces', 'Warning Call to Wafa Hospital Before IDF Targets Site'.
    youtube.com/watch?v=8O9AHzUKYk8 (accessed: Sep. 16, 2025): "Hamas has turned Wafa Hospital into a command center and a rocket-launching site. Hamas has fired at Israel and at IDF forces from the hospital. As a result, the IDF repeatedly conveyed warnings to the hospital staff and urged civilians to leave the area. Hamas continued firing from the hospital. In response, the IDF targeted specific sites and terrorists within the hospital grounds. Secondary explosions can be seen, confirming IDF intelligence about the site. July 21-23, 2014."
  44. Nov. 15, 2023, Reuters, 'Al Shifa: What to know about Gaza's largest hospital'.
  45. July 15, 2014, Washington Post, 'While Israel held its fire, the militant group Hamas did not'.
  46. July xxx, 2014, Washington Post, 'xxxxx'.
  47. July 18, 2014, Washington Post, 'Israel concentrates incursion along Gaza borders as Netanyahu warns of ‘expansion’'.
  48. May 27, 2015, Amnesty International report, "Strangling Necks", p. 6, 15: "Hamas forces used the abandoned areas of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, including the outpatients’ clinic area, to detain, interrogate, torture and otherwise ill-treat suspects, even as other parts of the hospital continued to function as a medical centre. ...
    [Brother of Atta Najjar, a policeman in prison since 2009 for "collaboration" with Israel:] It was a friend who called us, nobody official informed us of his death, nor anyone from the prison. [He] was killed at about 8am or 9am and moved to al-Shifa hospital mortuary by an ambulance an hour later. I went to the mortuary and found they had cut off the electricity to the fridge. This was an act of oppression and aggression. Why do you want to torment him in his death? It is a sign that this was the act of a gang rather than an official body. ...
    His body was riddled with about 30 bullets. He had slaughter marks around his neck, marks of knives. And from behind the head – there was no brain. Empty. His arms were broken. It was difficult for us to carry him. We needed six people to carry him. He was heavy, like when you put meat in a bag; no bones. His bones were smashed. They broke him in the prison. They killed someone who was not a danger to them. He’d almost finished his sentence. He’d worn himself out for three years going to courts, and being tortured."
  49. youtube.com/watch?v=MmQpiUvS2PQ (uploaded: Aug. 1, 2014; ChatGPT's excellent audio translation was used to verify the accuracy of the translation.
  50. youtube.com/watch?v=MmQpiUvS2PQ (uploaded: Aug. 1, 2014, 'Hamas Launch Missile next to Shifa Hospital and breaking international law'.
  51. Dec. 28, 2024, Ynet News, 'IDF arrests over 240 terror suspects in raid on northern Gaza hospital'.
  52. Jan. 4, 2025, Jerusalem Post, ''His disguise was a facade': How IDF revealed identities, Hamas's plans in hospital - N12': "IDF reservist, Lt. (Res.) D. ... recalled that during the raid on the hospital, the hospital director, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyeh, was “strutting around like a peacock” and was “confident he wouldn’t be arrested, believing he was untouchable and in control of the situation." Sgt.-Maj. (Res.) A., another investigator present during the raid, confirmed that they discovered that the hospital director was a senior Hamas operative. Master-Sgt. (Res.) G., a commander and combatant in Shayetet 13 who was also at the raid, also said that the hospital director “really did walk around the premises like a peacock. [He] watched as his doctors were incriminated one by one. He thought he wouldn’t be arrested. We realized that his disguise was just a facade—they were terrorists with blood on their hands." ...
    “I approached the ambulance area and questioned a man who seemed suspicious from the outset,” A. continued. ... The man who was posing as a wounded civilian [inside the ambulance, with others in the know] was actually a Hamas commander... The unit also noted that when they conduct medical checks of those who are in ambulances and the checks show that nothing is wrong with them, usually the terrorist who is claiming to be a wounded civilian confesses. ... During these interrogations [at the hospital], he realized the extent of the terrorist operations inside the hospital. ... New details surfaced about specific rooms inside the hospital. [Here] they found terrorists disguised as women and even one who disguised himself as a woman holding a child. ... [The] intelligence revealed there were hundreds of terrorists hiding inside the compound. ...
    "We determined who each person standing before us was... Despite the claims made around the world, with the help of techniques and technologies, we can identify who is innocent. Those individuals are released and provided with water, food, and anything else they need. The terrorists who are captured are interrogated in accordance with international law," Sgt.-Maj. (Res.) A. added. ...
    "[During the IDs and interrogation], they start telling us everything that happens in the hospital. Without a doubt, every Hamas terrorist we interrogated confirmed that the Kamal Adwan Hospital is their military base: it’s where they regroup, store their weapons, and manage the intelligence they gather. Some of the hospital rooms have been converted into Hamas operational rooms. ... It was made to look like a hospital, and patients were brought there just for appearances. In reality, there are entire sections meant solely for the entry of Hamas terrorists,” G. explained."
  53. Ibid.
  54. Ibid.
  55. Ibid.
  56. Ibid.
  57. Ibid.
  58. Aug. 21, 2025, 972mag.com, 'Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians; classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed some 8,900 militants in its attacks on Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare, a joint investigation finds': "A new investigation by +972 Magazine and Local Call reveals that the Israeli army has developed an artificial intelligence-based program known as “Lavender,” unveiled here for the first time. According to six Israeli intelligence officers... Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets. The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender, which clocked as many as 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants — and their homes — for possible air strikes. ...
    [Human overseers] would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing [due to a manual screening] that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases... The Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity. [This because] it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences. ...
    The army preferred to only use ... “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs)... “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],” said C., one of the intelligence officers. ...
    In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander. ...
    Senior officer B. [said:] “They wanted to allow us to attack [the junior operatives] automatically. That’s the Holy Grail. Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”"
  59. 972mag.com/how-we-are-funded/ (accessed: Sep. 12, 2025): "A grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (USA): ... 2013: ... $30,000. ... 2014 [and] 2015: ... $50,000. ... 2016 [and] 2017: ... $60,000. ... 2018 [and] 2019: ... $70,000. ... 2020 [and] 2021: ... $75,000. ... 2022 [and] 2023 [and] 2024 [and] 2025: ... $100,000. ...
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    2011: $10,000 – A travel grant from Social Justice Fund (Institute of International Education, USA). ... 2012: ... $60,000 – A grant from the Social Justice Fund (USA)...
    2012: ... $10,000 – A grant from the Moriah Fund (USA-Israel). ... 2013 [and] 2014: ... $20,000. ... 2015: ... $25,000. ...
    2020: ... $5,000 – A grant from the Google News Initiative. ...
    [OTHERS:] 2022: $385,000 – Reader support. $148,000 – from [the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford, and Nathan Commings Fdn.-funded] Just Vision toward supporting staffing and operations of Local Call. ... $25,000 – A grant from Rosa Luxemburg Foundation for +972 Magazine. $20,000 – A grant from the Foundation for Middle East Peace. ... $12,000 – A grant from Heinrich Böll Stiftung Israel for Local Call. $11,000 – A grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. ...
    2025: ... $122,000 – A grant from the Sigrid Rausing Trust... $55,000 – A grant from the Mizrahi Family Foundation...
    2024: $1,222,000 – Reader support [went up a lot since the Gaza War from 2023 on]..."
  60. Feb. 23, 2024, MondoWeiss.net, 'Over 2/3 of Jewish Israelis oppose humanitarian aid to Palestinians starving in Gaza; A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”'
  61. Nov. 4, 2024, ungeneva.org, 'Aid restrictions and dismantling UNRWA will compound Gazans’ suffering': "UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on Monday that last month, Israel allowed a daily average of 30 humanitarian trucks into Gaza, which is only six per cent [so 500 normally] of the commercial and humanitarian supplies allowed in before the war. “This is the lowest in a long time, bringing the assistance back to the level of the beginning of the war...”"
  62. Feb. 12, 2025, Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 'Food supplied to Gaza during seven months of the Hamas-Israel war'.: "Except in February, food crossing the borders into Gaza exceeded per capita minimal requirements for humanitarian aid... [The] average amount of energy available per person per day was 3,004 kcal, with 98 g of protein (13% of energy), 61 g of fat (18% of energy), and 23 mg of iron. ... Thus, the evidence at hand is not consistent with claims that food aid delivery was deliberately restricted from entering Gaza during the period included in the study. ... Food insecurity in Gaza has more likely been related to difficulties in reliably distributing [due to] security risks to aid workers [37, 38], the theft, looting, and hoarding of food and other supplies [39–41], and attacks against soldiers at humanitarian aid crossing points and corridors [42–44]. Damaged infrastructure, lack of aid workers, trucks, parts, and fuel have also impeded aid missions."
  63. May 25, 2025, New York Post, 'Looting of pier aid shows who’s really at fault for Gazan misery'.
  64. June 22, 2024, BBC, 'Inside Gaza aid depot: Food waits as Israel and UN trade blame'.
  65. Ibid.
  66. Ibid.
  67. April 1, 2024, Palwatch.org/page/35074, 'Fatah: Hamas killed aid workers to control the foreign aid and to seize the food for themselves': "The [YouTube] video shows a news broadcast by Fatah-run Awdah TV... Fatah-run Awdah TV host: “Hamas’ persecution of any party who is a source for distributing the [humanitarian] aid or securing it began from the start of the war (i.e., 2023 Gaza war), as Hamas persecuted well-known figures and teams of volunteers on the ground in mid-October [2023]. It attacked them and killed some of them for two reasons: Firstly, preventing any activity by any [other] party in the Gaza Strip; and secondly, ensuring Hamas control over the aid and its storage, which of course leads to these crazy and unreal prices that no one can pay in the shadow of this destruction. After the occupation (i.e., Israel) bombed storehouses controlled by Hamas, the accumulation of tons of various food and aid products that Hamas had taken exclusivity over became clear, at a time when the Gaza Strip is suffering from hunger.”
    Part of an interview on Al-Jazeera TV from the Gaza Strip is shown:
    Woman from the Gaza Strip: “The aid isn’t reaching all the people.”
    Al-Jazeera TV reporter: “Few things are arriving and they [Hamas] claim they are distributing them.”
    Woman: “It is all to their [own] homes. Let Hamas catch me and shoot me and do what they want to me.”"
  68. Dec. 26, 2023 YouTube upload by 'Tikva International', 'Elderly Gazan woman accuses Hamas of stealing aid in rare criticism'.
    youtube.com/watch?v=8YcQXCyX0fY (accessed: Sep. 14, 2025).
  69. Feb. 16, 2024, Times of Israel, 'US envoy: IDF killed Palestinian cops escorting Gaza aid convoy, leading them to refuse missions'.
  70. July 25, 2024, Caliber.az, 'Internal US review undermines claims of Hamas theft of Gaza humanitarian aid '.
  71. Aug. 4, 2025 YouTube upload by 'IsraelEnglishNews', 'Clear footage shows armed Hamas militants stealing humanitarian aid meant for Gaza civilians.'.
    youtube.com/shorts/5bf5P6tNEIM (accessed: Sep. 14, 2025).
  72. July 25, 2025, Times of Israel, 'USAID finds no proof Hamas systematically loots aid; State Department, IDF push back'.
  73. Ibid.
  74. Ibid.
  75. Ibid.
  76. un.org/unispal/document/security-council-press-release-16oct24/ (published: Oct. 16, 2024): "Also reporting that no food aid entered northern Gaza from 2 October to 15 October, when a trickle was allowed in, she said: “Given the abject conditions and intolerable suffering in north Gaza, the fact that humanitarian access is nearly non-existent is unconscionable.” Less than a third of the 286 humanitarian missions coordinated with Israeli authorities in the first two weeks of October were facilitated without major incidents or delays. “This woeful and unacceptable trend must change,” she stated. However, the second polio campaign began in northern Gaza, with teams from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) vaccinating 43 per cent of children the first day, thus demonstrating the critical role of the Agency. ... On 12 October, an inter-agency team — from the United Nations, an international, non-governmental organization and the Palestine Red Crescent Society — was finally able to reach the Kamal Adwan and Al-Sahaba hospitals in northern Gaza, “after nine separate attempts where they were denied or impeded by Israeli forces,” she pointed out, stressing that “humanitarian aid cannot be provided in one-off batches”."
  77. Oct. 29, 2024, Eunews.it, 'Israel will ban UNRWA from its territory. Criticism from the EU and US: “It is irreplaceable”: Tel Aviv's crusade against the United Nations and international law continues: the Knesset overwhelmingly adopts two bills that define UNRWA a terrorist organization and ban its activities on Israeli soil and in the occupied territories'.
  78. Oct. 29, 2024, BBC, 'What is Unrwa and why has Israel banned it?': "Along with the Palestinian Red Crescent, Unrwa handles almost all aid distribution in Gaza through 11 centres across the enclave. It also provides services to 19 refugee camps in the West Bank. Unrwa director William Deere told the BBC that on a practical level, the ban on interacting with Israeli officials meant it would become almost impossible for the agency's staff to operate in the country. "We won't be able to move in Gaza without being subject to possible attack, international staff won't be able to get visas any longer," he said. The executive director of the UN's World Food Programme said without Unrwa's presence in Gaza, aid agencies will be unable to distribute... "They do all the work on the ground there," Cindy McCain told the BBC. "We don't have the contacts. We don't have the ability to get to know the contacts... International law must be respected, and the Council must exert all their influence to ensure it. The wounded and sick must receive the care they need, and hospitals and medical personnel must be protected. The provisional orders and determinations of the International Court of Justice must be respected. There must be accountability for international crimes."
  79. Dec. 22, 2024, Oxfam.org, 'Just twelve aid trucks of food and water into the North Gaza Governorate in 2.5 months'.
  80. Nov. 4, 2024, ungeneva.org, 'Aid restrictions and dismantling UNRWA will compound Gazans’ suffering'.
  81. Nov. 18, 2024, UNgeneva.org, 'Lazzarini: Annexation of Gaza won’t create lasting Middle East peace': "“More than 100 trucks have been looted, primarily [carrying goods for] UNRWA and the WFP, basically, 80-90 per cent of the convoy on that day,” said Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General. “What does it show? We [began] warning a long time ago about the total breakdown of civil order; until four or five months ago, we still had local capacity, people who were escorting the convoy. This has completely gone.” According to UNRWA, the incident happened on Saturday and involved a 109-truck convoy. “The vast majority of the trucks, 97 in total [note: 98 in later reports], were lost and drivers were forced at gunpoint to unload aid,” it said in an online post on X."
  82. Ibid.
  83. Dec. 1, 2024, The Guardian, 'Unrwa suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza route after convoy attacked'.
  84. Ibid.
  85. March 7, 2025, Times of Israel, 'The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza'.
  86. Jan. 31, 2025, cgtn.com (Chinese news), 'UNRWA defies Israeli ban, vows to continue aid amid backlash'.
  87. Jan. 22, 2025, Die Welt, 'As Israeli ban on UNRWA looms, what next for aid into Gaza?'.
  88. Feb. 3, 2025, english.alarabiya.net, 'Aid is surging into Gaza under the ceasefire. Is it helping?'.
  89. March 7, 2025, Times of Israel, 'The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza': "Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza, something we've done for the past 42 days. We've done that because Hamas steals the supplies and prevents the people of Gaza from getting them. It uses these supplies to finance its terror machine, which is aimed directly at Israel and our civilians – and this we cannot accept."
  90. May 18, 2025, NBC News, 'Israel says it will allow a limited amount of aid into Gaza after nearly 3 months of blockade'.
  91. May 21, 2025, New York Times, 'Israel Said It Eased Its Blockade, But Gazans Are Still Waiting for Food'.
  92. Aug. 13, 2025, NRC.no (Norwegian Refugee Council), 'Gaza joint statement: Israel threatens to ban major aid organisations as starvation deepens': "Together with more than 100 organisations we are calling for an end to Israel’s weaponisation of aid. Despite claims by Israeli authorities that there is no limit on humanitarian aid entering Gaza, most major international NGOs have been unable to deliver a single truck of lifesaving supplies since 2 March."
  93. Aug. 5, 2025, Times of Israel, 'Almost 9 in 10 aid trucks looted before reaching Gaza destinations, UN figures show; Majority are overrun by ‘starving, desperate people,’ not Hamas or other armed groups, UN staffer tells ToI, adding problem didn’t exist during January truce, when aid was sufficient'.
  94. Ibid.
  95. Ibid.
  96. app.un2720.org/tracking (accesssed: Sep. 11, 2025): "The following is a breakdown of aid movements into Gaza from 19 May to 11 Sep 2025: ... Arrived: to the intended destination in Gaza: ... Trucks: 939. ... Intercepted: either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors, during transit in Gaza: ... Trucks: 5511 [6450, or 85%]."
  97. Jan. 22, 2025, Die Welt, 'As Israeli ban on UNRWA looms, what next for aid into Gaza?'.
  98. Aug. 5, 2025, Fox News, 'NEW: Exclusive tour of Gaza aid site'.
  99. July 3, 2025 YouTube upload by 'Al Jazeera English', 'Israel's war on Gaza: US contractors fired on civilians at GHF aid sites, AP probe finds.'
    youtube.com/watch?v=2hGCCU7FZvw (accessed: Sep. 16, 2025):
  100. July 3, 2025 YouTube upload by 'Al Jazeera English', 'Israel's war on Gaza: US contractors fired on civilians at GHF aid sites, AP probe finds.'
    youtube.com/watch?v=2hGCCU7FZvw (accessed: Sep. 16, 2025):
  101. July 26, 2025, BBC, ''I witnessed war crimes' in Gaza, former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC'.
  102. July 29, 2025 YouTube upload by 'Democracy Now!', 'Fmr. Green Beret Who Worked at Gaza Food Sites Reveals Rampant War Crime'.
  103. Aug. 1, 2025, PBS News Hour, 'Security contractor says he witnessed ‘barbaric’ and un-American tactics at Gaza aid sites': "[We] spoke with former security contractor Anthony Aguilar..."
  104. July 30, 2025, France 24, 'Exclusive: GHF ‘complicit in war crimes’ in Gaza, says former aid contractor'.
  105. Sep. 5, 2025 TikTok upload by 'aljazeeraenglish', 'Video shows US Army veterans Anthony Aguilar and Josephine Guilbeau, interrupting a Senate hearing denouncing US support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Both were arrested and reportedly released later.'.
  106. July 30, 2025, Jerusalem Post, 'Ex-US contractor who accused IDF of war crimes at aid sites ‘falsified documents’ to spread ‘false narrative,’ GHF says, sharing evidence'.
  107. Sep. 4, 2025, Fox News, 'Exclusive video reveals Gaza boy, said to be killed by IDF, is alive'.
  108. Sep. 4, 2025 YouTube upload by 'DawnNews English', 'US Army Veterans Escorted Out Of Senate Hearing For Protesting Gaza Genocide | Dawn News English'.
    youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Wb7DgzWk (accessed: Sep. 10, 2025).
  109. June 19, 2025, The Hill, 'Theo Von speaking out against US military action in Iran': "Von addressed the possibility Israel is "trying to get us [the United States] into a war with Iran. ... I don’t trust the Israel leader at all... I don’t believe anything that guy says, and I don’t think that our soldiers should have to go and defend stuff that they start. ... Because it feels like they’re trying to push Trump to go do that."
  110. *) Dec. 3, 2023, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), 'Rockets under relief supplies raise questions about UNRWA'.
    *) Dec. 15, 2023, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), 'Hamas used UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels'.
  111. Aug. 4, 2016, Ynet News, 'Senior employee of international aid group diverted humanitarian funds to Hamas militants; A senior official at World Vision, a Christian aid organization, diverted millions of dollars...'.
  112. Jan. 26, 2006, Al Jazeera, 'Hamas wins huge majority': "Of the 132 seats in Parliament, Hamas won 76 and Fatah 43, the election commission announced on Thursday."
  113. Oct. 24, 2023, Slate, 'How George W. Bush Helped Hamas Come to Power': "Bush ... assumed that democracy was the natural state of humanity. ... Fatah and Israel were against holding the elections; Hamas and President Bush were in favor."
  114. idf.il/en/mini-sites/the-hamas-terrorist-organization/hamas-exploits-gazans-to-build-tunnel-network/ (published: Aug. 10, 2017; accessed: Sep. 12, 2025): "... the uncovering of two terror tunnel openings located in [freshly constructed] civilian homes, linked to a network built for the purpose of infiltrating Israeli territory. ... The first, a six-floor building constructed in the past two years [is] situated close to other homes and a gas station. The second belongs to a Hamas-affiliated father of five in Beit Lahia, whose family, brother, and father live above the tunnel opening, which also connects to the “Hope” Mosque next-door. [This] was no mistake... Hamas’s military infrastructure makes use of civilian infrastructure like homes, schools, mosques, hospitals, and other public buildings. [This way] they make them harder for the IDF to locate and engage. It also turns these civilian spaces into legitimate targets in wartime, in accordance with international law. Hamas strategically places their terror sites near and within civilian buildings in the hopes that an IDF strike, aiming to eliminate real and deadly threats to Israeli civilians, will result in Gazan deaths that can cause a blow to Israeli legitimacy. In the process, they sacrifice the citizens they claim to defend."
  115. youtube.com/watch?v=wMzMkSpXAcw (uploaded: July 28, 2014 by the IDF).
  116. Feb. 26, 2025, Higher Education journal (SpringerLink), 'Analysis of two decades of aid flows to higher education in Palestine': "OECD data: ... During 2002–2022, Palestine received a total of $42.374 billion in ODA [Official Development Assistance]."
  117. Aug. 9, 2002, Washington Institute of Near East Policy (WINEP), 'The Palestinians' Lost Marshall Plans': "A comparison to the Marshall Plan is telling. The Marshall Plan distributed $60 billion (at today's prices), which worked out to $272 per European in the main participating countries. By contrast, by the end of last year according to the World Bank, the Palestinians had received $4 billion since Oslo, which translates into $1,330 per Palestinian. In other words, the Palestinians have already gotten more than four times as much as the Europeans got from the Marshall Plan. Or if done on an annual basis, the Palestinians have gotten $161 per person per year compared to $68 per person annually under the four-year Marshall Plan meaning the Palestinians have gotten more than twice as much aid for twice as long as Europe got under the Marshall Plan."
  118. Ibid.
  119. jij.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JIJ-Fact-Sheet-2-Money-EN-A4-ver-12.pdf (accessed: Sep. 17, 2025).
  120. Nov. 7, 2003, CBS: 60 Minutes, 'Arafat's Billions': "All told, U.S. officials estimate Arafat's personal nest egg at between $1 billion and $3 billion. ... He sure isn't spending it to live well. He's holed up in his Ramallah compound, which the Israelis all but reduced to rubble a year-and-a-half ago. Arafat has always lived modestly, which you can't say about his wife, Suha. ...
    Rachid [is] saying the [Bank] Leumi money was sent to the Palestinian Authority. But, in fact, much of it was sent to Switzerland, to the prestigious Lombard Odier Bank, for yet another secret investment account that held over $300 million. In a letter obtained by CBS News, Rachid tells the bank that the funds will come from Palestinian "taxes" and "customs revenues." ... Minister Fayyad says that this pot of money, too, was available only to Arafat. The Swiss account was closed out in 2001. No one really knows where that money is today. ...
    Palestinians certainly paid dearly for something else Fayyad uncovered: a system of monopolies in commodities -- like flour and cement -- that Arafat handed out to his cronies, who then turned around and fleeced the public. ...
    Fayyad says it could accurately be seen as gouging his own people. "And especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something that is totally unacceptable and immoral, actually."
    Of all the monopolies, none was as lucrative or as corrupt as the General Petroleum Corporation, the one for gasoline. The corporation took the fuel it purchased from an Israeli company and watered it down with kerosene, not only defrauding the Palestinian drivers, but wrecking their car engines. Fayyad says the Petroleum Corporation charged exorbitant prices, and Arafat got a hefty kickback. ... With the monopoly broken up, Palestinian drivers have paid 20 percent less for gas and 80 percent less for diesel fuel. ...
    Jim Prince and a team of American accountants - hired by Arafat's own finance ministry - are combing through Arafat's books. Given what they've already uncovered, Arafat may be rethinking the decision. ... So far, Prince's team has determined that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $1 billion. ... Although the money for the portfolio came from public funds like Palestinian taxes, virtually none of it was used for the Palestinian people; it was all controlled by Arafat. ...
    The stockpile went well beyond the portfolio. Arafat accumulated another $1 billion with the help of -- of all people -- the Israelis. Under the Oslo Accords, it was agreed that Israel would collect sales taxes on goods purchased by Palestinians and transfer those funds to the Palestinian treasury. But instead, Indyk says, "that money is transferred to Yasser Arafat to, amongst other places, bank accounts which he maintains off-line in Israel." Until three years ago, Israel put the tax revenues into Arafat's account at Bank Leumi in downtown Tel Aviv, no questions asked. But why? According to Indyk, "The Israelis came to us and said, basically, 'Arafat's job is to clean up Gaza. It's going to be a difficult job. He needs walking-around money,' because the assumption was that he would use it to get control of all of these terrorists..." ... Obviously, that hasn't happened."
  121. Feb. 21, 2024, Mid East Journal, 'The Corruption-Fueled Wealth Gap in Gaza and the West Bank': "Today, 87 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza believe that the Palestinian Authority is corrupt, 78 percent want Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to resign, and 62 percent believe that the Palestinian Authority is a liability to the Palestinian people. ... Abbas is reportedly worth over $100 million, even though he has never owned a business or invested well. Abbas, too, has seemingly stolen foreign aid meant for his people."
  122. July 9, 2025, Times of Israel, 'Palestinian leaders are billionaires. Why is the West still paying?'.
  123. Feb. 21, 2024, Mid East Journal, 'The Corruption-Fueled Wealth Gap in Gaza and the West Bank': "Qatar has provided $1.3 billion in aid to Gaza since 2012 for construction, health services, and agriculture. That includes $360 million pledged in January for 2021 and another $500 million pledged for reconstruction after the Israel-Hamas war. Qatar’s aid also goes to needy families and to help pay Hamas government salaries.
    If billions of dollars have been deposited into Gaza over the past 10 years, why do so many reports of poverty come out of Gaza? The answer speaks to the corruption of Palestinian leadership. ... Mashaal ... Marzook [and] Haniyeh ... have been siphoning off foreign aid and charity meant for the people of Gaza to fund their own bank accounts and investments."
  124. *) Oct. 29, 2023, i24news.tv, 'Hamas sits on extreme wealth while Gaza falls further into collapse: Taxes on smuggled goods, real estate portfolios across the Middle East, banking and cryptocurrencies - just some of the millionaires' assets and revenue streams'.
    *) Nov. 7, 2023, New York Post, 'Hamas leaders worth staggering $11B revel in luxury — while Gaza’s people suffer': "The terror group’s three top leaders ... enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of Qatar."
  125. Feb. 6, 2024, Times of Israel, 'IDF says troops find material in Gaza tunnel showing direct links, coordination with Iran': "IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says: ... "We found official documents of Hamas from 2020, including the details of the funds transferred from Iran to Hamas and [Yahya] Sinwar, between 2014 and 2020 [involving] more than 150 million dollars..."
  126. July 13, 2024, New York Times, 'How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes': "They hide under residential neighborhoods, storing their weapons in miles of tunnels and in houses, mosques, sofas — even a child’s bedroom — blurring the boundary between civilians and combatants. [They're] using civilian homes and infrastructure - including medical facilities, U.N. offices and mosques...
    They emerge from hiding in plainclothes ... before firing on Israeli troops, attaching mines to their vehicles, or firing rockets from launchers in civilian areas. They rig abandoned homes with explosives and tripwires, sometimes luring Israeli soldiers to enter the booby-trapped buildings by scattering signs of a Hamas presence. ... They have hid among the few civilians who decided [note: or were forced] to remain in their neighborhoods despite Israeli orders to evacuate... Hamas’s strategy relies on: Using hundreds of miles of tunnels...
    At the start of the war, Hamas and its allies fired a barrage of rockets toward civilian areas of Israel, including roughly 3,000 on Oct. 7 itself, often using launchers hidden in densely populated civilian neighborhoods in Gaza ... Dozens of Hamas propaganda videos [show] firing rocket-propelled grenades from residential buildings [etc.] It also expanded a vast network of tunnels, creating entry points in houses across Gaza that would allow fighters to enter and exit without being seen from the air but made targets of civilian neighborhoods. The network was fitted with a landline telephone network that is difficult for Israel to monitor...
    Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official based in Qatar: ... “If someone takes a weapon from under a bed, is that a justification to kill an entire school and destroy a hospital?” ... Other Hamas members acknowledge and defend the movement’s use of civilian clothes and civilian homes, saying the group had no alternative. ...
    Hamas’s strategy has helped the group fulfill some of its own goals. The war has tarnished Israel’s reputation ... exacerbated long-running rifts in Israeli society ... And it has restored the question of Palestinian statehood to global discourse, leading several countries to recognize Palestine as a state."
  127. Jan. 4, 2025, Jerusalem Post, ''His disguise was a facade': How IDF revealed identities, Hamas's plans in hospital - N12'. Article extensively cited elsewhere in this article.
  128. Aug. 21, 2025 YouTube 'AiTelly', 'My Experience Fighting Inside Gaza - Israeli Paratrooper Master Sergeant Interview': "So where we would find these hotbeds [of terrorist bases] were hospitals, schools, mosques, kindergartens. Yeah, in any one of those places you would find the terrorists either had the caches of weaponry they were operating out of. Most of them were operating in civilian clothing... As far as Hamas is concerned, [when killed] that's another civilian ... casualty. ...
    As the military progressed down south, is that what I noticed is that everywhere you looked, there was a terrorist infrastructure within every corner of society. ... Imagine ... first thing when you walk out of your house, there's a terror tunnel shaft... Then you walk to the grocery store. Along the way, you'll see another terror tunnel just by a kindergarten, and then you'll see another one by the local mosque, or you go into a hospital, and in the hospital there's an opening, another shaft leading down into a tunnel out of the local hospital, right.
    UNRWA, the United Nations compound in Gaza, the headquarters, was used to house ammunition... Vehicles that are marked with United Nations, right, the big UN, and using that to transport either munitions and or terrorist fighters from a location to another, using ambulances as well as using that undercover to maneuver the different terrorists from one place to another. ...
    What I kept seeing is [a] culture of terrorism is in every part of life. ... The one house that we were in, for example, I remember seeing a report card from one of the kids of the family that had resided in the home that we were using, and ... you see a picture of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, you know, walking together, right? Like, that's on the front cover of your report card. You open it up and inside, again, you have Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and then congratulations... Ah, I'll get it for ya. You guys gotta see this: ... This [mug with rockets and Islamic fighters using mortars] is what we found in a home. I'm not talking about a terrorist [hide-out]. Their flags are in every corner of the strip, here with the Hamas green colors. ...
    What I've learned is that there are no civilians in this war. ... Since I was last in Gaza in 2004 ... before the pullout in 2005, [it wasn't] at all like what we're seeing right now. What it used to be is that we knew what families, which groups were not pro-terrorist. We knew who we could have good relationship with. We knew which of the Palestinians could work in farms and agriculture, what have you, in the Jewish areas where they would come in and work and then go back home. Like we knew who we could trust, you know. And it's like now, it's like I don't know who is innocent here. It's like what the terrorists have managed to do since 2005 is to brainwash a whole generation of young kids into hating Israel, into embracing terrorism as a means of life. ...
    The mafia at least takes care of their own. ... What Hamas does, it creates a reality of Hell both for the supporters of Hamas and for those that don't support.
    Israel doesn't occupy the Gaza. The Gazans occupy their own area. ... Nobody is controlling them. They are self-governed [so] they need to stop blaming Israel. Israel is not interested in the Gaza strip and we have not been interested in the Gaza strip since 2005. And even today I don't think anybody cares for the Gaza strip. We are happy for them to be happy in their own strip of land. ... And all we reap is terror. ... A lot of times it's ... Hamas that kept [civilians] there in the battle space. Because essentially before we go into operating in an area, we clear the area of civilians. We let them know ahead of time, we call their cell phones directly, we send them text messages, and we send in leaflets before we even get to operate in that area. So ... I've seen where you have civilians stuck in the battle space. ...
    Even the building of their own hospitals has been done with 100% cooperation with Israeli medical professionals."
  129. Dec. 19, 2023 YouTube upload by 'The Sun', 'Hamas play recordings of kids crying ‘save me’ to lure troops into booby traps' (words of Israeli government spokesperson Avi Hyman, but backed up by battlefield footage): "We've heard reports of [Hamas] setting up scenarios by which the soldiers would think that there's hostages in a specific area to then ambush them. So we've heard reports of them playing Israeli toddlers saying, "Save me, save me!" you know, from within buildings that are booby-trapped. We saw video evidence of, like, a circle of baby toys, childrens' toys, that were all booby-trapped. [video is shown] And again, in the middle, there was some sort of a device that was playing Israeli music and making noises as if there were young children there. Because we know, obviously, that they've taken many hostages and we still have that nine-month-old baby, who's now 11 months in their custody. Psychological warfare is rife."
  130. idf.il/en/mini-sites/the-hamas-terrorist-organization/hamas-exploits-gazans-to-build-tunnel-network/ (published: Aug. 10, 2017; accessed: Sep. 12, 2025).
  131. July 13, 2024, New York Times, 'How Hamas Is Fighting in Gaza: Tunnels, Traps and Ambushes'.