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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee lashed out at virtually 30 Western international locations who on Monday known as for Israel to finish the warfare in Gaza, saying in a put up on X that “when Hamas thinks you do good work, you’re doing evil.”
“How embarrassing for a nation to aspect w/ a terror group like Hamas & blame a nation whose civilians have been massacred for combating to get hostages launched,” wrote Huckabee after Hamas – whose Oct. 7, 2023, mass terror assault on Israel sparked the continued warfare in Gaza – mentioned it welcomed “the contents of the joint assertion issued by the UK Authorities together with 25 different international locations, calling for a right away finish to the warfare on the Gaza Strip.”
The U.S. and EU-designated terror group additionally reiterated its claims that Israel was finishing up a “coverage of hunger” on the coastal enclave amid unverified studies that individuals have died attributable to hunger-related causes. Fox Information Digital has not been in a position to independently confirm such studies.
STUDY CLAIMS US NEWS OUTLETS SERVED AS ‘MEGAPHONES’ FOR HAMAS IN GAZA WAR
Hamas terrorists stand guard on the day of the handover of hostages held in Gaza because the lethal Oct. 7 2023, assault, in Rafah, Feb. 22, 2025. (Reuters/Hatem Khaled/File Photograph)
“The assertion’s condemnation of the killing of over 800 Palestinian civilians on the gates of U.S.-Israeli-controlled help checkpoints underscores the brutality of this mechanism,” Hamas wrote following a statement issued by the U.K. Overseas Workplace and U.Okay. Overseas Secretary David Lammy.
“The struggling of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths,” learn Lammy’s assertion, which was additionally signed by the overseas ministers of 28 international locations.
“If Hamas embraces you – you’re within the improper place,” Israel’s Overseas Minister Gidon Saar responded on X. “Hamas’s reward for the assertion by the group of nations is the most effective proof of the error they made – a part of them out of excellent intentions and a part of them out of an obsession towards Israel.”
France’s Minister for Europe and Overseas Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, from left, Britain’s Overseas Secretary David Lammy, Germany’s Overseas Minister Johann Wadephul and European Union Excessive Consultant for Overseas Affairs and Safety Coverage, Kaja Kallas, pose within the places of work of the honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Geneva, June 20, 2025. (Fabrice Coffrini/Keystone through AP)
Since launching a brand new mannequin for meals help distribution within the war-torn strip in early Could, Israel and the U.S. have come below fireplace from the worldwide group over near-daily studies of individuals dying whereas trying to obtain help or not receiving any help in any respect.
Israel has refuted claims that there’s starvation in Gaza or that it’s utilizing hunger as a tactic of the now 22-month-old warfare. Relatively, officers have mentioned they’re working to forestall Hamas from stealing help being distributed by veteran, principally U.N.-run, humanitarian businesses and offered for exorbitant costs in a bid to proceed funding terror operations.
US-BACKED GAZA AID GROUP LAUNCHES BOLD NEW SYSTEM TO DELIVER FOOD DIRECTLY TO FAMILIES
Ambassador Mike Huckabee speaks to Fox Information Digital throughout an interview on the American embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-IL)
Israel, which is tasked with securing routes to 4 help facilities run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Fund, has additionally denied that its troopers deliberately kill Palestinian civilians however is quite issuing warning photographs as a measure of crowd management. The GHF has to date delivered some 85 million meals because it began its help operation in Could.
U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric mentioned on Monday that Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres “deplored the rising studies of each youngsters and adults affected by malnutrition and strongly condemned the continued violence, together with the capturing, killing and injuring of individuals trying to get meals.”
“As somebody who has spent over 40 years in Israel’s Safety Institution – each as IDF Chief of Workers & Minister of Protection, I can say this unequivocally: Not solely has Israel by no means starved or focused civilians, however it goes above and past to guard civilians in probably the most advanced of warfare zones like Gaza,” Israeli opposition chief Benny Gantz wrote on X.
“We should be clear – culpability for hurt inflicted to civilians rests on terrorist Hamas and Hamas solely,” he added.
HAMAS LOSING IRON GRIP ON GAZA AS US-BACKED GROUP GETS AID TO PALESTINIANS IN NEED
Protesters rally towards Hamas within the Gaza Strip. (Fox Information)
On Tuesday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Medical Advanced in Gaza, mentioned in a press release that “twenty-one youngsters have died attributable to malnutrition and hunger in numerous areas throughout the Gaza Strip.”
“Each second, new instances of malnutrition and hunger are arriving at Gaza’s hospitals,” he mentioned.
Kobi Michael, a senior researcher on the Institute for Nationwide Safety Research in Tel Aviv who has been monitoring the scenario in Gaza intently, instructed Fox Information Digital that he was “not conscious of a single official report that individuals died due to hunger or starvation.”
“I am not acquainted with any such report, however I’m acquainted with many warnings that have been printed by worldwide organizations in regards to the disaster that exists in Gaza and the way in two months or so, 40 or 50,000 individuals will die due to starvation, however no one has died due to starvation, as a result of there is no such thing as a starvation,” he mentioned, including, “if there are some native issues of provide, it’s due to Hamas – not due to the IDF.”
Michael, who can be a fellow on the Misgav Institute in Jerusalem, identified that Hamas “loots, robs and steals the humanitarian help, partially for themselves, to feed themselves and the remainder is offered in very excessive costs to the native inhabitants with the intention to generate profits.”
Palestinians carry luggage and packing containers containing meals and humanitarian help packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Basis in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP Photograph/Abdel Kareem Hana)
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Israel’s aim of weakening Hamas’s grip on the Strip – and on help businesses – seemed to be engaged on Monday, with The Washington Post reporting that the phobia group “is going through its worst monetary and administrative disaster in its four-decade historical past” and is struggling to search out the useful resource it must proceed combating Israel or rule Gaza.
Quoting a former high-level Israeli intelligence officer, and present Israel Protection Forces officers, the report mentioned that Hamas might not pay its fighters or rebuild its underground terror tunnels, the place it’s believed to be holding some 50 hostages, each alive and useless, who kidnapped throughout its Oct. 7 assault.
