Who’s Afraid of Feeding Gaza?

It was never about famine or human rights

Amnesty International, Greenpeace and Code Pink signed a petition demanding that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stop handing out food to Gaza’s Arab Muslim settlers. The Center for Constitutional Rights, a Communist-founded group which on Oct 7, declared that it “stands in solidarity” in response to “Palestinian armed resistance”, demanded that GHF “cease” handing out millions of free meals to Muslims or face charges of “genocide” and “war crimes”.

The only thing worse than bombing terrorists in Gaza is giving away food in Gaza.

“It is immoral and inhuman when those committing the genocide take responsibility to feed those whom they have starved,” the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights complained.

“This initiative of what’s called a foundation, a private foundation, to supply food, is what I see as outrageous,” UN official Navi Pillay fumed.

The media calls the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation “controversial” several times in every story. Goldman Sachs and UBS refused to open bank accounts for the aid distribution group. Switzerland, which happily hosted stolen Nazi gold and only got around to banning Hamas in May 2025, quickly shut down a GHF office in its country.

Why is an American group supplying free food being treated like a terrorist organization?

Before GHF, the UN and other “international humanitarian groups” kept Hamas in business by supplying it with endless billions worth of food that the terrorist group then resold. The UN and other international groups routinely employed Hamas terrorists or ‘fixers’. Either a portion of the aid was ‘paid’ to Hamas as a tax or the Muslim Brotherhood terror group simply took it.

The UN and the NGOs refused to blame Hamas. Instead they colluded with Hamas to manufacture fake ‘famines’. No matter how much aid entered Gaza, it was never enough. Israel was constantly accused of starving everyone in Gaza while Hamas terrorists were the ones actually appropriating the food and charging top dollar for it. Then the Islamic terrorist group used that money to pay its Jihadis and the war continued. But ever since the GHF stepped in, Hamas has started to run low on money and manpower. Stopping GHF is about saving Hamas.

Hamas and its allies haven’t given up. Instead, the terrorists targeted aid distribution points and GHF personnel. 12 local GHF employees were murdered. Some were also tortured. The same media that hyped up the previous deaths of Hamas terrorists working for “international aid” groups shrugged. The Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post insisted on describing the aid group as “controversial” even while reporting on the brutal murder of its aid workers.

The media doesn’t tend to describe Hamas as “controversial” because apparently feeding people in Gaza is “controversial”, but Islamic terrorism isn’t.

Rather than accurately reporting that Hamas has been targeting aid distribution sites, the media decided to blame all the terrorist attacks on GHF. It circulated a conspiracy theory, originated by Hamas supporters, that GHF and Israel are using aid distribution to deliberately murder the local population. Why Israel would want to randomly kill people trying to pick up aid, instead of just carpet bombing Gaza is one of those questions that the media can’t answer.

But in its trademark moral inversion, the media along with the political allies of Hamas blames the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation for the deaths caused by Hamas at aid distribution points. The UN and Rep. Rashida Tlaib slurred the aid distribution as “death traps” and efforts by Israel to protect civilians during terrorist attacks as “massacres”. Hamas is almost never mentioned.

And what the media dare not mention is that the entire reason for the struggle over GHF is that Hamas, some of whose members work the media, desperately need the aid to resell for cash. Without that explanation, none of the manufactured controversy over the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation makes any sense.

NPR ran an article titled “Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza” by Anas Baba whom it dubbed its “producer in the Gaza Strip” despite his social media previously featuring a photo of Hamas terrorists and hailing “the volleys of the resistance’s rockets, without exception, are music to my ears, with bursts surpassing fifty. May Allah guide your shooting; avenge our martyrs.”

Now after it was announced that Hamas had put a bounty on the American GHF personnel in Gaza, the terrorists ran into a crowd of civilians, threw grenades and wounded two American security officers protecting aid distribution. Even though the United States and GHF both blamed Hamas, the AP, which had previously shared an office building with Hamas, insisted that there was no evidence that Hamas was to blame. It didn’t suggest who else might be running around Gaza throwing hand grenades at an aid group that Hamas tried to shut down.

How badly does Hamas want to shut down GHF? So badly that’s one of its ‘ceasefire’ demands.

Why does Hamas want GHF out and the UN in? That’s a question that no one in the media will ask, let alone provide the obvious answer for. The attacks on GHF by the UN and other “aid groups” has made the collaboration between them and Islamic terrorists all too obvious.

After over a year of false famine claims, the same organizations that claimed Gaza was starving have done everything possible to stop aid from being handed out. They have accused the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation of genocide and war crimes for distributing food, they’ve blamed it for Hamas terrorist attacks meant to stop food distribution and they have circulated conspiracy theories claiming that its aid distribution is deliberately set up to trap and kill Arab Muslims.

Behind all the lies is the underlying truth that they never cared about bringing food to Gaza, but only using food deliveries to aid Hamas and undermine Israel. The moment food aid bypassed Hamas, the food had to be stopped at any cost using the same moral inversion, the lies and attacks against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation that had been previously used against Israel.

How does free food become “genocide” and a “war crime”? These terms have long since become meaningless war propaganda buzzwords. Anything that gets in the way of Islamic terrorists accomplishing their mission is by their definition “genocide” and a “war crime”. It was never about human rights. It was always about destroying Israel.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.