How the World Is Using Lies About Gaza Aid to Demonize and Poison Israel

In a recent in-depth Times of Israel interview, Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) executive director Rev. Johnnie Moore charges that a “disinformation” campaign is fueling hostility towards the American and Israel-backed aid organization.

Considering the wild accusations in Arab media outlets that GHF is distributing bags of flour laced with oxycodone, he probably has a good point. The fever pitch is reminiscent of Hamas’ 2009 fabrication that Israeli intelligence distributed aphrodiasic chewing gum to corrupt Gaza’s youth.

The same terror organization behind the sex gum and oxycodone-spiked flour fables is also the source behind the unsubstantiated claim that more than 500 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect food at the GHF sites established to circumvent Hamas control over humanitarian aid, depriving the terror organization of a major source of income.

And yet, 170 non-profit organizations yesterday parroted Hamas’ latest unverified claim, stating as fact and with no attribution to the terror organization: “In less than four weeks, more than 500 Palestinians have been killed and almost 4,000 injured just trying to access or distribute food.”

Reuters, for its part, concealed the real source of the unverified figure, dressing up the lie-prone terror organization as credible medical professionals, reporting (“Over 170 charities call for end to deadly new Gaza aid distribution“):

More than 500 people have been killed in mass shootings near aid distribution centres or transport routes guarded by Israeli forces since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation started operating in late May, according to medical authorities in Gaza. (Emphasis added.)

The medical authorities in the Gaza Strip are controlled by Hamas. Worse than the lack of transparency about the unreliable source is Reuters’ grossly tendentious headline about the “deadly new Gaza aid distribution,” perfectly echoing Hamas’ charge that the aid centers are “traps and death ambushes.”

Hamas is not wrong entirely. It’s in fact true that GHF has a target on its back. It’s just that Hamas itself put it there.

Earlier this month, Hamas and its terror allies marked Palestinians working with the GHF as legitimate targets. They threatened (translation by Joe Truzman):

The American aid distribution centers have turned into traps and death ambushes targeting our starving people, who are driven to them by hunger and thirst. These illusionary centers have become daily scenes of massacres and bloodshed in full view of the world. . . .

We affirm that the resistance security forces and units now have full authorization and mandate to strike forcefully and decisively against any entity or individual that collaborates or coordinates with the enemy’s schemes or any treasonous entity outside the law and the traditions of our people. All collaborators, thieves, and criminal armed gangs are legitimate targets for the resistance units and security. Let those who are warned take heed.

While GHF has indeed taken heed of Hamas’ brutal threats — both verbal and physical — against its Palestinian employees, 12 of whom have already been executed at the hands of terror thugs, the outraged NGOs and other hyper-vigilant international press corps are decidedly disinterested about Hamas bounties.

Thus, GHF’s alarming statement Sunday alleging that Hamas has placed bounties on the aid group’s Palestinians employees was met with a giant yawn. The outraged statement from 170 charities charging that “Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families” said not a word about the Hamas bounties reported by GHF just two days earlier. International media outlets laser-focused on the reported deaths at the sites were likewise almost entirely mum.

The Telegraph’s coverage was a striking exception to the mainstream media’s across the board silence on the reported bounty. Henry Bodkin commendably reported (“Hamas accused of placing bounties on aid staff”):

. . .  it was claimed that Hamas has put a bounty on the heads of American contractors who are distributing food in Gaza and the Palestinians who support them.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said it had received credible reports that the terror group was offering cash for the killing of contractors distributing food.

In a statement late on Saturday, the GHF said Hamas had also “pre-positioned” operatives near its distribution centres in a bid to disrupt the flow of aid.

It follows the massacre of 12 Palestinian GHF staff earlier this month.

The international media was likewise indifferent to the horrific account from the sisters of one of the executed victims. The bereaved siblings reported that Hamas prevented staff at Nasser Hospital from treating GHF employees whom the terror organization shot. Times of Israel reported (“GHF says Hamas preventing wounded in attack from being treated at hospital“):

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation releases new details about the alleged Hamas attack on its local workers in the Gaza Strip last night, accusing the terror group of preventing the dead and wounded from being allowed into Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis this afternoon.

The organization says that eight of its workers were killed and 21 seriously wounded when Hamas attacked a bus headed to its aid distribution sites. A crowd soon gathered at the scene, forcing the gunmen to retreat, according to the GHF update.

The dead and wounded workers were transported by the International Red Cross Committee to Nasser Hospital, where Hamas members threatened staff against providing the injured with medical treatment, says GHF. The update adds that “all wounded and dead local workers were piled in the Nasser Hospital parking lot,” where, as of 2 p.m., they have remained without treatment.

“This is not a humanitarian response,” the 170 NGOs accuse the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with great moral indignation as they remain totally silent on Hamas’ shootings, bounties, threats and denial of medical treatment.

Since GHF began distributing life-saving food aid in Gaza – nearly 50 million meals and counting – we’ve been the target of relentless disinformation: doctored images, fake news, and outright lies. Many of them trace back to Hamas.

Why? Because we’re getting food to the people.…

— Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (@GHFUpdates) June 27, 2025

Tamar Sternthal is director of the Israel office of CAMERA, where a version of this article first appeared. 

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