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July 28, 2025

Claims of Famine Are Currently Hamas’s Strongest Weapon

Exploiting a sick child to create a Palestinian pietà.

Among the demands put forth by Hamas in the last rounds of negotiations was that the U.S.-based and Israeli-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—which has taken over aid distribution in southern Gaza—cease its operations. That is, Hamas’s main concern isn’t that not enough food is getting into its territory, but that the wrong people are bringing it in. The terrorist group has also activated one of the few remaining strategies at its disposal: convincing the world that Israel is starving Palestinians en masse.

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