There is food in Gaza. The war would not be possible if the fighters were not eating. Hamas has not explained why the military has so much food, but the civilians right next to them have no food.
They have also not explained why there are people starving, but also a thriving food market where obvious humanitarian aid is being resold and taxed at inflated prices. The taxes and resale are being used to buy weaponry, just as Hamas has always done. That is how the West unwittingly pays for the war to continue. That is why people there are starving, but munitions mysteriously never run out, and the fighting goes on and on and on. The border is actually quite porous.
Hamas is shooting at people giving out food aid, and the food aid people are panicking and shooting at hysterical crowds of exhausted, starving people, who now have to travel long distances to get food aid because the UN refuses to stop funelling the food aid through Hamas and closed down their Hamas-led distribution centers in protest at the idea that they should hand out the aid themselves.
Hamas considers feeding the civilians to be pro-Israeli propaganda and a way to lure civilians away from frontlines and make fighting less political because of reduced civilian casualties (which Hamas doesn't want). Which it is. But it is also food. Both sides are using food as a weapon. Israel wants to be seen handing out the food, but Hamas also wants to be seen doing so, so they fight over who gets to pose as the Great Humanitarian for the Western news cameras and The Bleeding Heart Social Media People instead of just handing out the fucking food.
The food trucks are also being attacked in the lawless border zone, by black market gangs, and they occasionally get hit by a stray bomb (from either side), so they're increasingly having trouble recruiting drivers. Because it's a war zone. Nobody wants to drive a truck through a rain of bombs and Israel hasn't managed to gain control of the sky and provide the promised security paths in adequate numbers, so there are only half as many trucks getting through as planned. Through one end of Gaza. The other is open, but the hungry people are on the other side, and it is too dangerous to drive through.
I have not forgotten how my entire Nostr feed was full of people cheering on this Fun Little War, when it started. This is so great! Should be over fast, since we have God on our side and nobody likes the other guys. Yay! Finally have our war!
It is a tragedy for the civilian population, and I hope they each get their food and soon. But the next time I see some dumb fucks cheering on a war, like it is a damned video game, rather than a guaranteed absolute horror show, I'm going to remind everyone else how their last game round went down.
And that's all I have to say about that.
