Posted on 05/18/2025 3:24:21 PM PDT by Words Matter
WFP warns of starvation in Gaza as aid trucks stall at the border but reports highlight high food access to Gazans despite conflicting claims .
The World Food Program (WFP) warned Sunday that families in Gaza are starving while food trucks pile up at the border, calling the situation “a race against time.” The organization urged the international community to take immediate action to restore aid flows into the Strip.
While these allegations dominate political speeches and media headlines, the reality in Gaza appears more complex. Though some markets in Gaza have been photographed empty, residents have also shared images and videos showing bustling food stalls, especially in Gaza City’s Al-Zawiya market. Despite war-related shortages and disruptions, food remains available in many areas, albeit at high prices.
Food market in Gaza City.
“Even during the worst times in northern Gaza, people could still buy things — it was just expensive,” said Jackie Peleg, director of Imshin, a project documenting life in Gaza. She monitors Gaza-based food-related businesses and shares current footage online that contradicts claims of widespread starvation.
“There are gaps. Some people can pay, some can’t. The poor go to soup kitchens, and many of those are privately run.” Peleg added that the narrative of starvation in Gaza long predates the war. “They’ve talked about starvation throughout the war, but I keep seeing other images,” she told Ynet. “Sometimes they relied almost entirely on UN flour sacks. But even when the crossings were open and supplies came in, people still claimed they were being starved. During the start of Ramadan, the crossings were closed, yet people celebrated.” “There’s less meat but there are still plenty of canned meat products, which people started throwing away after a while,” Peleg said. “When people returned to northern Gaza and found their homes gone, many moved into tents in Gaza City or onto the rubble. There’s real hardship, but it’s not uniform. Even people from destroyed areas can reach markets or distribution centers.”
Peleg said prices fluctuate based on border conditions: “Last week, when they thought the border crossings would reopen, prices dropped immediately—then rose again.” According to her, Hamas has been playing “a delicate game for years,” keeping the population very poor but not starving. “Even before the war, the terror group and those tied to it lived well.”
Steve Witkoff (Photo: Shmulik Almani) Israel has also challenged the starvation claims. The IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) recently responded on X (formerly Twitter) to the latest UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) food security report, saying: “Even based on IPC’s own analysis, there is no famine in Gaza.” COGAT called IPC’s terminology—such as “facing famine”—misleading and based on future projections that have repeatedly failed since the war began. “The IPC keeps publishing alarming findings without releasing its data or analysis,” the statement read. “Its lack of transparency has been consistent. Its forecasts have repeatedly overstated the situation. The methodology for assessing Gaza’s food security is deeply flawed.” COGAT also criticized the IPC’s reliance on UN sources that, during the ceasefire, reflected only about one-third of the actual aid entering Gaza. “Israel has published detailed analyses of these failures and the IPC has never responded.” Witkoff said efforts are ongoing to resolve logistical barriers. “The question is: how do we get all those trucks into Gaza and how do we set up the aid stations?” he said. “It’s complicated and the conditions are dangerous. There are still unexploded shells everywhere. But we won’t let a humanitarian crisis occur under President Trump’s leadership.”
In WWII we did not send humanitarian aid to Germany and Japan. We sent bombs, we burnt their cities, we killed their civilians which are part of the war effort and in Japan’s case nuked them. It worked and they surrendered. We then sent massive humanitarian aid to Japan and Germany. The suffering of Gazans is because Hamas will not surrender.
I HAVE NO SYMPATHY. ISRAEL HAS BEEN TO KIND. If you are not willing to kill your enemy and all that stand with him, surrender for he has already defeated you.
If your enemy knows you will go total war on them and their entire society, you will probably not need to go to war. For 75 years the West and the East have had nuclear weapons pointed at each other. We never used them as both sides understood total war and societal collapse.
Well said
liars
no one is starving in Gaza. I saw videos of the terrorist families playing on the beach fat and happy directly after the 1st pause.
Never believe anything a Muslim satanist tells you.
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