A pro-"Palestinian" analyst from Gaza reveals how Hamas hid tonnes of baby food to stage an artificial famine. Yet in the West, people stubbornly cling to the narrative that Israel is starving children. The refusal to look has long been part of the problem itself.
There are moments when a single video can shake an entire moral architecture. The footage published by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an analyst from Gaza, falls squarely into this category. It shows cats running over boxes of baby food. A desperate voice can be heard swearing and crying: ‘Our children are dying of hunger and they are hoarding all this instead of distributing it.’
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No Israeli spokesperson, no foreign journalist, no activist said these words. Instead, they were spoken by a man who describes himself as ‘pro-Palestine, anti-Hamas’ and who lost 31 relatives in the war. Alkhatib is anything but a friend of Israel. But he is an enemy of lies. And that makes him more dangerous to Hamas than any Israeli press release.
He describes how the Ministry of Health in Gaza (Hamas' civilian front) hid tonnes of baby food for months. Not because of logistical problems. Not because of shortages. But deliberately, to exacerbate the disaster, create images of misery and serve a political narrative that had been prepared long before the war began: Israel is starving Gaza.
This narrative dominated Western reporting for months. Major media outlets proclaimed that Israeli restrictions were the cause of an ‘artificial famine.’ International organisations spread alarming figures without questioning who was controlling them. Headlines became moral accusations, often without any empirical basis. And anyone who disagreed was defamed.
Alkhatib speaks openly about this: those who pointed out the manipulation were threatened. Not by Israel, but by those in the West who dominate the discourse and punish any deviation from the desired narrative. He calls them ‘the pro-"Palestinian" activist cartel’. These are precisely the groups that reflexively reject any responsibility on the part of Hamas and brand any criticism as treason, no matter how many facts are on the table.
But the West plays along. Not because it doesn't know the truth, but because the truth is uncomfortable. The mechanism is an old one: when it comes to Jews, many find it easier to believe the worst. The words have changed, but the reflexes have not. Medieval ritual murder legends have become modern accusations against a democratic country that protects its population against terror. The structure, however, has remained the same: insinuation of evil first, investigation later – if at all.
It is this cultural bias that Hamas continues to exploit to this day. And it does so unscrupulously. The supposed Ministry of Health, whose figures are accepted as ‘neutral’ by many media outlets, hides life-saving food. The same ministry provides death statistics that no one is allowed to verify and yet are considered indisputable. How credible can an actor be who withholds food from babies in order to create a narrative?
Alkhatib's warning is crystal clear: there is no such thing as ‘pro-"Palestinian"’ that absolves Hamas of responsibility. Anyone who takes the suffering of the civilian population seriously must name the perpetrators – even if they are based in Gaza and speak Arabic. Morality does not mean always condemning the same side. Morality means looking at where the blame actually lies.
If people in the West continue to serve as ‘useful idiots’ and reinforce Hamas' propaganda, the cycle of lies will continue. And others will pay the price, Israelis, "Palestinians", everyone who wants to live in truth and not in an artificially created tragedy.
But this video breaks something open. It shows that even in the heart of Gaza, there are people who refuse to be part of the game. The truth does not come from Jerusalem, nor from Washington, but from the ruins of a city betrayed by its own leadership.
It asks the crucial question: How long will the West continue to look away when reality reveals itself?