Hamas hoarded baby formula to starve infants and blame Israel

Gazan-American journalist reveals footage of baby formula hoarded by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, says the terror group intentionally created a shortage in order to encourage international pressure on Israel.

By David Rosenberg, World Israel News

Hamas hoarded baby formula in order to create an artificial shortage in the Gaza Strip with the goal of using the hunger of Gazan infants to foment international pressure against Israel, a Gaza journalist has reported.

On Monday, Saudi-born Gazan American journalist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib released footage of piles of boxes of baby formula in the Gaza Strip, one of many hoards he claimed Hamas maintains as part of a broader effort to impose hardships on Gaza’s civilian population which the terror group then used to strengthen its accusations against Israel of a war-related famine.

Alkhatib said the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry removed baby formula from the market over a period of six months, hiding the formula in order to “worsen the hunger crisis.”

“During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health,” the 35-year-old journalist wrote.

“The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).”

Gaza activists have discovered the hidden stashes of baby formula, and have filmed the sites to expose Hamas’ hoarding, Alkhatib said.

Alkhatib emphasized that the hoarding was discovered months ago, but previous reports were largely ignored or vilified by “pro-Palestine” outlets.

“When countless other Palestinian activists and I from Gaza said this back in July, August, and September, we were villainized, attacked, threatened, and made into pariahs by the ‘pro-Palestine’ industrial complex and activist mafias, even though for Gazans, the evidence was so clearly apparent before our eyes,” Alkhatib wrote on X.

“What those in the West continue to fail to understand is that there is no being pro-Palestine without also having a serious vigilance against Hamas’ continued manipulation of international public opinion to hide behind the Strip’s civilian population’s suffering, something that the terrorist organization’s own actions have led to and created. Never allow yourself to be a useful idiot in Hamas’ propaganda.”

A United Nations report published on Sunday claimed that thousands of Gazan children have been treated for malnutrition in recent months, but ignored reports of Hamas intentionally depriving infants of baby formula.

Alkhatib blasted media coverage of the UN report, noting the failure to highlight Hamas’ role in the food shortages.

“Hamas propagandists and mouthpieces continue to whitewash the terror group’s narratives and propaganda in the United States when it comes to the humanitarian suffering of Gazans and the harsh conditions they endure.”

“Despite providing video evidence from Palestinians on the ground in Gaza, which they are calling ‘unverified,’ Hamasniks are working overtime to manufacture an appeal for Hamas’ fraudulent narrative with massively fake, manipulative, and erroneous numbers and data that is both unverified and part of a narrative offensive.”

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