Who’s Really Behind Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis?

Let’s get one thing straight: the suffering in Gaza is not Israel’s fault. It’s not a failure of policy, not a failure of diplomacy, and certainly not a failure of compassion. It’s the direct, intentional result of Hamas—a barbaric terrorist organization that thrives on death, chaos, and manipulation. The international community, with its usual moral blindness, wants to blame Israel for the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But if we’re going to be honest—and we must be—then we need to start holding the real perpetrators accountable.

Hamas launched this war. Not Israel. Not Netanyahu. Not the IDF. In October of last year, Hamas crossed a red line with its brutal terror assault on Israeli civilians—slaughtering women, children, and the elderly in a grotesque campaign that shocked even hardened observers of the Middle East. In response, Israel did what any sovereign nation must do: defend its people. Yet ever since, the global media complex, the United Nations, and the usual chorus of anti-Israel activists have twisted the narrative to turn the aggressors into victims and the defenders into villains.

Let’s be clear: Hamas is not just indifferent to the suffering of the Palestinian people—it actually welcomes it. As Rich Lowry put it this week, “From this perverted point of view, a famine would be welcome news.” He’s absolutely right. Hamas uses the people of Gaza as human shields, embeds its weapons in schools and hospitals, and hijacks international aid for its own war effort. This is not conjecture—it’s a documented, repeated pattern.

When Israel permitted humanitarian aid into Gaza during a temporary cease-fire earlier this year, what did Hamas do? They stole it. They diverted food, fuel, and medicine from civilians to support their fighters. They sold it on the black market to turn a profit. They weaponized it. And when that cease-fire expired in March, Israel halted aid shipments again—because Hamas, once again, refused to disarm, refused to release hostages, and refused to negotiate in good faith.

But instead of blaming the terrorist regime responsible for prolonging this conflict, critics heap blame on Israel for “blockading” Gaza. That’s like blaming a homeowner for locking his doors while a gang of armed thugs is trying to break in. Israel has every right—and every obligation—to control what goes into Gaza. Would any sane country allow unchecked shipments into a region controlled by a sworn enemy?

And yet, the Biden-era leftists, now thankfully out of power, still act like Hamas is some kind of misunderstood resistance group. They parrot Hamas propaganda. They amplify distorted casualty figures. They push for “restraint” from Israel while demanding absolutely nothing from Hamas. It’s moral insanity.

President Trump has been clear-eyed on this issue from day one. Under his leadership, America stands unequivocally with Israel. No more moral equivalence. No more appeasement. No more funding to UN agencies that function as Hamas enablers. Trump understands what many in the West refuse to admit: that peace is impossible until Hamas is defeated, disarmed, and dismantled.

The sad truth is, if Hamas surrendered tomorrow, the war would end. The suffering would stop. Humanitarian aid would flow. Infrastructure could be rebuilt. But Hamas doesn’t want peace—it wants war. It wants martyrdom. It wants the images of starving children and bombed-out buildings to circulate endlessly in the press because it knows that’s where its real power lies: not on the battlefield, but in the propaganda war.

That’s why every time we hear about a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we need to ask: who’s really causing the crisis? Who’s stealing the aid? Who’s prolonging the war? Who’s rejecting cease-fires?

The answer is always the same: Hamas.

And until the world wakes up to that fact, the suffering will continue—not because Israel chooses it, but because Hamas demands it.