Hamas survivor Emily Damari shared footage showing a long line of humanitarian aid trucks traveling toward the Gaza Strip and condemned the policy allowing the convoy to enter the territory.
“By myself, I counted over 15 trucks on the road, but it’s hard to believe that hundreds of trucks carrying food are flowing this morning to ‘non-involved’ people in Gaza,” Damari wrote in a social media post accompanying the video.
She continued with a harsh rebuke of the situation, saying, “Don’t you still understand that there are no innocent people there?! Apparently, we haven’t learned anything.”
Israeli officials say that since the ceasefire went into effect, approximately 4,200 aid trucks have been permitted to enter Gaza each week under directives issued by the political leadership. At the same time, senior IDF officials have advised cutting back the volume of humanitarian aid entering the Strip.
Data recently presented in closed-door security briefings and later reported by Ynet paints a stark picture of how the aid is being used. “The population in Gaza could survive with much less. 70% of the trucks belong to the private sector, which Hamas taxes twice, imposing a 15-25% tax on every truck of food, fuel, or medicine, and an additional tax when the goods are sold in the market. Hamas is making tens of millions of shekels a day, and the coffers are only shrinking.”
The report also notes that Qatar, identified as Hamas’s primary financial backer, insisted that thousands of aid trucks continue to enter Gaza each week as a condition of its involvement, effectively ruling out any consideration of stopping the aid flow.
Thank you, Matzav, for being one of the only media outlets to present the correct narrative as stated by someone who knows and was actually there, yet never saw an innocent civilian or bystander:
“Don’t you still understand that there are no innocent people there?!”
Every single Jew understands and agrees with this fact. The problem is that Israel needs the international community for financial support. If they don’t do these things, MAerica will stop assisting them. Even under Republican leadership. In particular under Democrat leadership.
Shmendrik, I’m grateful to hear you understand this. Honestly. It says something very good about you.
At the same time, every single mouthpiece of Jewish media, from secular to charedi, does not seem to understand this, as they continue to blather on about Gazan “civilians.”
Right-wing pundits, both Jewish and non, also seem to refer to Gazan “civilians.”
They defend urban warfare and the low number of “civilians” killed, relatively speaking, as if there are actual civilians in Gaza. This false narrative has me understandably concerned.
Instead of accepting a false narrative, they need to tell the truth:
There are no innocent civilians in Gaza.
The hostage focus makes us ignore the war aim of obliterating hamas down to the ground and below