Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine), 17.04.2025
According to the Jerusalem Post, Zionist war criminal Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday confirmed that Israel is not allowing the provision of more humanitarian aid to Gaza before the Israeli hostages are returned. That aid could be restarted in the future, though private companies would be used to circumvent Hamas. Katz’s admission follows a flurry of leaks in recent weeks that Israel would need to restore the flow of aid to Gaza soon if no new ceasefire deal is reached, given Gaza has been cut off for around six weeks. The Zionist Monster had initially said it would permanently cut off aid to starve the Gazans to death and that there were no international law questions at stake, given the excess food that Hamas had obtained during the 40-day-plus ceasefire from January 19 to early March.
Katz’s statement acknowledged the reality that without restoring aid soon, Israel would run into alleged starvation. While he referenced private companies for handing out food to Gaza’s population, which he said would sideline Hamas as the party distributing food aid, he did not provide names or details. This is not the first time that Israel has tried to cut Hamas out of the food aid distribution chain. As early as January 2024, then-war minister Yoav Gallant tried to initiate such a program in northern Gaza for the direct provision of food to Palestinian civilians without Hamas’s intervention, but the program was never workable and faced pushback within the government from hard-right ministers Betzalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir.
Israel tried to use the World Food Program and the World Central Kitchen to replace UNRWA for handing out aid, however, these organizations, at one point or another, withdrew due to being struck by the Zionist goons in uniforms. Private contractors would not have large enough and powerful enough armed forces to distribute food aid to over two million Palestinians throughout Gaza daily, and would not be able to stay in the field long enough, even if they use crime gangs as it happened before to ensure that Hamas did not take it at some point.
To stop attacks from Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, Katz buried the food aid admission in a longer statement about crushing Hamas, regaining all of the hostages, and threatening a wider war. Katz said that Egypt is pressuring Hamas to give up its weapons, though Hamas has made it clear that such a condition is a non-starter. According to Israeli intelligence, Hamas has also rebuilt and is back up to 20,000-25,000 fighters.
Ben-Gvir responded to Katz’s statement in a post on X/Twitter, saying:
“As long as our hostages are languishing in the tunnels, there is no reason for a single grain of food or any aid to enter Gaza. Halting the aid is one of the central pressure points on Hamas, and returning it before Hamas is on its knees and has released all our hostages would be a historic mistake. I will do everything in my power to ensure that this historic mistake does not happen, and I call on the prime minister and the defense minister not to take this foolish step, which would harm our ability to defeat Hamas and safely bring all our hostages home,”.
Following Ben-Gvir’s latest criticism of Katz for acknowledging that food aid to Gaza may resume in the future, the war minister released a statement in which he said repeatedly that food aid would not be restored at this time, but that it would be restored in the future after Hamas is disarmed. And if starvation is not enough, the Zionist monster bombs hospitals, ambulances, and shoots journalists, and kills children, women, and old men.
This monster must be destroyed and replaced by a Palestinian state – red and free from the river to the sea!