The Gaza Aid Plan Exposes the Moral Bankruptcy of Israel’s Critics

If aid doesn't get laundered through Hamas, better to let Gazans starve

The Gaza Aid Plan Exposes the Moral Bankruptcy of Israel’s Critics

The double standards applied to Israel are staggering.

Start with the headlines:

• “US-backed aid group to start work in Gaza under heavily criticized plan”

• “U.S.-Backed Group Created to Distribute Aid in Gaza Says It’s Ready to Go – but other groups have raised doubts about the feasibility of its plan.”

Right now, there is zero aid reaching many parts of Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) offers a transparent, secure plan to deliver food directly to civilians. Yet the same organizations that claim to care about starving Gazans are doing everything they can to undermine it.

Wouldn't any genuine humanitarian group welcome a lifeline, no matter who proposes it?

Here’s what the critics say, according to the BBC:

UN agencies have insisted they will not co-operate with the plan - which is in line with one previously approved by Israel's government - saying it contradicted fundamental humanitarian principles.

A spokesperson for the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) accused Israel of seeking to use "food and fuel as leverage, as part of a military strategy".

"All aid would be channelled through a handful of militarised hubs," Olga Cherevko told BBC Verify.

Meanwhile, Bushra Khalidi of Oxfam described the new plan as a "farce".

"No logistical solution is going to address Israel's strategy of forcible displacement and using starvation as a weapon of war. Lift the siege, open the crossings and let us do our job."

These criticisms aren’t new. Khalidi made the same accusation back in October 2023 – long before anyone could even pretend to claim there was starvation in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the UN’s OCHA has spent 19 months repeating Hamas’ unverifiable, manipulated casualty statistics as if they were gospel. These are not neutral players. They begin with the assumption that Israel is guilty and shape their narratives around it.

The reality? While Hamas hoards aid and uses it to control civilians, Israel is funding and facilitating the creation of a vast new infrastructure: secure distribution sites, real-time monitoring, audited logistics, and direct-to-civilian delivery channels. GHF’s plan includes:

• Four secure distribution hubs, serving over a million people

• Real-time oversight to prevent diversion

• Transparent cost structure ($1.31 per meal)

• Medical supplies, hygiene kits, and food rations

• A model designed to scale and adapt rapidly

Critics dismiss it without even reading the proposal. They certainly don’t want you to read it. Because if you did, you’d see that this is the most robust humanitarian logistics effort in the region – not a “farce,” but a serious attempt to bypass Hamas while helping civilians.

Why the opposition? Because Israel supports it. That alone is enough for some NGOs to condemn the entire plan – no matter the human cost.

This isn’t just hypocrisy. It’s cruelty disguised as virtue. These organizations are more invested in demonizing Israel than in feeding Gazans. If Hamas benefits, so be it. If Gazans starve, blame Israel.

None of them can explain why a country supposedly committing “genocide” would invest in feeding its alleged victims – building new delivery infrastructure from scratch at enormous cost. Israel’s actual explanation – to deny Hamas access to aid while helping civilians – fits the facts. The conspiracy theory that it’s all a smokescreen does not.

Their opposition exposes where their loyalties truly lie.