Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has similarly denied a starvation policy, insisting that aid is permitted throughout the war. Yet, critics, including some of Israel’s allies like Canada and Australia, argue that restrictions, blockades, and shootings near aid sites contribute to the crisis. The limited effectiveness of airdrops further complicates the narrative. Some Palestinian and international voices call it a deliberate policy of forced starvation, while Israel counters that Hamas’s actions and aid mismanagement are to blame.
The hundreds of trucks filled with medicines and humanitarian aid, which the UN refuses to distribute and allows to sit in the extreme summer heat, rotting, back up Charlie's assertions.
US Military expert John Spencer takes it even further.
In an article on X, he wrote:
"There is no historical precedent for a military providing the level of direct aid to an enemy population that Israel has provided to Gaza
This aid has taken place:
- While the war is ongoing
- While the enemy, Hamas, continues to control territory
- And while that enemy is still fighting, launching attacks, and holding hostages
Israel is delivering fuel, food, medicine, and water into territory still under the command of the very group that murdered its civilians on October 7, that continues to fire rockets into Israeli towns, and that openly declares it will repeat those atrocities again and again.
There is no precedent for this. None.
Throughout history, wars between nations or between governments and insurgent groups have often involved humanitarian disasters. And in most of those wars, the fighting side does not provide relief to the enemy’s population. In World War II, the Allies provided no aid to German or Japanese civilians while those governments were still fighting and in control of their territory. In Vietnam, the United States never delivered humanitarian assistance to North Vietnamese or Viet Cong–held areas. Even during battles against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, U.S.-backed forces facilitated aid only after clearing territory, not while ISIS still held it.
But Israel is doing what no military has done. It is facilitating direct humanitarian aid to the population of a territory governed by a terrorist army that it is still fighting in close-quarters urban combat.
Whether this fact is recognized or not by the international community, it is a historic first."
As we know though, facts don't matter these days. All that matters is Hamas' relentless propaganda machine which spews Israel hatred, and a world which is only to eager to lap it up.
