[News] Israel is fully integrating its Gaza 'food aid hubs' into the genocide

Tue Jun 3 11:06:21 EDT 2025

Israel has been caught once again in a lie. For a genocidal state, there 
are no red lines. No one should be surprised that Israel is using its 
bogus 'aid system' to lure Palestinians into a death trap
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      Israel has been caught once again in a lie. For a genocidal state,
      there are no red lines. No one should be surprised that Israel is
      using its bogus 'aid system' to lure Palestinians into a death trap

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Jun 3. 2025

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It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in 
a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news 
services.

Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queueing 
on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised "aid 
distribution hubs" – a system Israel imposed on Gaza in place of a 
long-established and successful aid network run by the United Nations.

More than 30 Palestinians are known to have been killed and dozens more 
injured in the weekend incident.

Israel blamed Hamas fighters for shooting Palestinian civilians, saying 
they were trying to stop the crowds from taking food boxes. the Israeli 
military dished up a video 
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taken by one of its drones, as supposed proof.

The BBC broadcast that video on its main shows, and then did one of its 
standard "Israel said, the Palestinians said. Who can really know the 
truth?" reports of the incident.

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The BBC should never have taken Israel's disinformation seriously – not 
least because Israeli claims are always shown to be lies when subjected 
to any serious independent scrutiny. The default position should be that 
Israel is lying until it can demonstrate convincingly that it is not.

Doctors treating the dead and wounded immediately pointed out that their 
injuries were consistent with Israeli gunfire. The victims had single 
shots to the head or chest, in line with targeting by Israeli snipers. 
Others suffered shrapnel wounds from tank shells. Hamas has no tanks.

Now expert analysis of the video itself – paradoxically confirmed 
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BBC Verify – shows that the footage was filmed in Khan Younis, far from 
Rafah, where the Palestinians aid seekers were killed. It is also 
apparent from the shadows that the video was taken in the evening, not 
in the morning when the Palestinians in Rafah were shot.

Despite this, the BBC still writes: “The circumstances of this strike 
are unclear.”

No, it is entirely clear that the Israeli army disseminated lies, and 
that the BBC lapped up those lies and spread them to its audiences via 
its main news shows, before tentatively retracting the lies quietly on a 
live feed on its website.

The reality is that the video doesn't show Hamas fighters shooting 
Palestinians to stop them getting aid. Rather it shows a criminal 
Palestinian gang – of the kind Israel has been cultivating and allying 
with – looting aid so that it can be sold back to Palestinians on the 
open market, where prices have been massively inflated by Israel's 
blockade on food.

There are no police in Gaza maintaining law and order because Israel 
kills any Palestinian seen wearing a police uniform.

It was for these very reasons that international aid organisations 
refused to take part in Israel's scheme. They understood it was never 
about distributing humanitarian aid because the UN was best placed to do 
that.

It was not even chiefly about weaponising aid to lure Palestinians into 
what are effectively Israeli military bases so that soldiers can use 
biometric data to snatch any Palestinians they want, disappearing them 
into Israel’s torture camps, as they have been doing.

Rather it is about giving the appearance of providing food – most of it 
useless because it is dried staples that need cooking, when there is 
almost no water or fuel available – while continuing to starve the vast 
majority of Palestinians. And it is about using the aid hubs as another 
front for killing Palestinians.

In other words, after taking the aid system out of the UN's hands, 
Israel is successfully enfolding the so-called "humanitarian effort" 
into its genocide.

If that sounds too cynical, mark this. Israel again shot at crowds 
gathering on Tuesday morning to get aid from one of its “distribution 
hubs”, killing at least 27 Palestinians and wounding more than 180.

Several witnesses say there was no aid available when they arrived.

There is no way to be too cynical about what Israel is doing. Israel is 
utterly committed to its genocide – and a genocidal state has no red lines.

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