Staging the Gaza Famine
Maintaining the famine narrative by confiscating humanitarian aid, starving the Gaza population, and staging emotional photographs is Hamas’s deceptive war strategy to vilify Israel.
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by Bennett Tucker
December 22, 2025
One of the most powerful weapons Hamas has wielded against Israel over the past two years is not used on the battlefield, but propagated through the media.
Not standing a chance in combat against the Israeli Defense Force (IDF), Hamas’s most effective war strategy has been the global propagation of false narratives that accuse Israel of war crime violations, such as genocide and famine. These allegations work to delegitimize the IDF’s presence in Gaza and distract the world from Hamas’s atrocities.
With help from the U.N., select heads of state across the so-called civilized world, and the biggest names in mainstream media (what Lee Smith called the Global Empire of Palestine), Hamas managed to wrangle global sympathy almost immediately after Oct. 7 as the victims of an Israeli genocide and famine in Gaza.
