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Is Gaza Starving? Searching for the Truth in an Information War.
Matti Friedman
July 27, 2025

…It’s impossible to know how many Palestinians have been killed in these [aid delivery] incidents, because Hamas numbers are part of the group’s information war. But my friends serving nearby told me that there have been fatalities in multiple incidents, and that poor Israeli planning is partly to blame. One friend, a committed and capable officer, told me despondently that the distribution effort “isn’t working and can’t work.” It’s not that they’re not trying. The army simply doesn’t have the ability to run orderly food distribution in a hostile and war-ravaged territory that has devolved, to a large extent, into the rule of gangs and clans. READ MORE

SPENCER GARD John Spencer: Israel’s Aid to Gaza Is Historically Unprecedented But there is another truth that must be acknowledged. One that is rarely said out loud, despite being plain and provable: There is no historical precedent for a military providing the level of direct aid to an enemy population that Israel has provided to Gaza.