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In a blistering rebuke of what he called a “blatant lie,” Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of the U.K.’s Reform Party, has issued firsthand testimony challenging claims that Gaza is currently facing famine. Having just returned from the Israeli-Gaza border, Tice accused both the United Nations and the British government of ignoring facts on the ground while fueling what he described as antisemitic sentiment disguised as humanitarian concern.
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In a piece titled, “<a href="https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/on-the-gaza-front-line-i-find-the-famine-is-a-blatant-lie/">On the Gaza front line, I find the famine is a blatant lie</a>,” Tice, who has stepped up as one of the few British political voices willing to challenge the dominant Gaza famine narrative, spoke of his visit to the Kerem Shalom crossing — a dangerous checkpoint through which humanitarian aid flows into Gaza. What he saw there contradicts the headlines: “I found myself at an Israeli border crossing into Gaza. I stood among hundreds of pallets of fresh avocados, onions and bananas, along with more flour, sugar and tins than I had ever seen.”
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This wasn’t some isolated warehouse. It was the frontline of a war zone, and yet, he reported, aid is moving.
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More damningly, Tice questioned why organizations like the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) have been so slow in distributing this aid, despite having the largest footprint in Gaza. According to Tice, these organizations are either failing outright or deliberately stonewalling. Some even refuse to cooperate with Israeli vetting procedures — refusals that, as Tice points out, delay the aid and empower Hamas to seize supplies for the black market, driving up prices and manufacturing artificial scarcity. In short, it’s not famine — it’s manipulation. “Why are we still funding the UN and other organisations that fail and lie?” he asked rhetorically.
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Backing Tice’s claims is an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-uns-famine-authority-engaged-in-data-fraud-to-undermine-u-s-humanitarian-aid?utm_source=chatgpt.com">explosive forensic</a> report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a nonpartisan body that analyzed the data behind the UN’s August declaration of famine. The NCRI’s conclusion? The UN&#8217;s claim that famine was “currently occurring” in Gaza City was based on statistically manipulated models, cherry-picked data, and outright suppression of contradictory evidence. For example, the IPC — the UN’s famine classification arm — based its famine alarm on six data points modeled exponentially, even when a linear model fit just as well. Worse, an updated dataset of more than 15,000 children showing malnutrition at 13.5% — below the 15% famine threshold — was available before publication but ignored. In short, famine hadn’t been reached, and the UN knew it.
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Even worse, the UN famine authority buried contradictory hunger surveys, selectively labeled regions to exaggerate suffering, and excluded Rafah — one of the most stable areas receiving U.S.-backed aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — claiming it had been “depopulated,” despite including it in previous reports. The result? A distorted picture aimed at discrediting American-led humanitarian efforts in favor of the UN’s aging, politically compromised machinery.
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Tice called it what it is: fraud. He warned that the real victims here are not just the misled Western public or taxpayers, but the Israeli civilians who continue to suffer from terrorist attacks and the honest Palestinians being manipulated by a terror-controlled regime and corrupt aid networks. He concluded that if the UN and its affiliates are willing to bury their own data to preserve a narrative, they must be held accountable.
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Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage At Bank Of England

UK Reform Party Leader Slams Gaza ‘Famine’ Narrative As ‘Blatant Lie’

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The viral claim that a Gazan boy was “gunned down” by Israel’s military inside a U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation site is false. The Daily Wire has exclusively confirmed that “Amir” is alive — and in a safe, undisclosed location after a false tale about his death was spread by an American contractor.
The news that the boy is alive and unharmed debunks the claim made by former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) contractor Tony Aguilar, who has garnered attention from politicians, major media outlets, and prominent podcasts such as the Tucker Carlson Show.
The child, who was erroneously labeled “Amir” by Aguilar but is actually named Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hamden, can be seen in footage obtained by The Daily Wire smiling and introducing himself to an interviewer.
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Remember ex-GHF contractor Tony Aguilar&#8217;s claim that he saw a little Gazan boy named &#8220;Amir&#8221; run into &#8220;a wall of bullets&#8221; and suffer &#8220;a shot to the torso, a shot to the leg, dead?&#8221;
Well it&#8217;s not true. “Amir” is alive and well.
My latest for <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdailywire</a>: <a href="https://t.co/OMxdNvHIOk">pic.twitter.com/OMxdNvHIOk</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1963572845230878943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Aguilar set the internet ablaze with his claim that he met the boy while working at a GHF aid site on May 28, only to see him killed shortly after by the Israel Defense Forces. His account and video of the boy he called “Amir” walking up to him went viral, fueling criticism of Israel as well as the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-new-evidence-calls-into-question-viral-story-of-gazan-boy-amir-killed-at-ghf-aid-site?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+New+Evidence+Calls+Into+Question+Viral+Story+Of+Gazan+Boy+%E2%80%98Amir%E2%80%99+Killed+At+GHF+Aid+Site" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> that there were major inconsistencies in Aguilar’s story. Not only were the details he shared about their interaction inconsistent with a third party’s footage of it, but the boy’s stepmother said she had seen the boy alive for at least two months after Aguilar claimed he was dead.
In a taped testimonial, Siham Al-Jarabe’a said the boy didn’t go missing until July 28—around the same time Aguilar began telling his story in the media. He insisted that the boy was killed on May 28, and even shared details, saying he witnessed “a shot to the torso” and “a shot to the leg.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-new-evidence-calls-into-question-viral-story-of-gazan-boy-amir-killed-at-ghf-aid-site?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=5&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+New+Evidence+Calls+Into+Question+Viral+Story+Of+Gazan+Boy+%E2%80%98Amir%E2%80%99+Killed+At+GHF+Aid+Site" target="_blank" rel="noopener">READ MORE: New Evidence Calls Into Question Viral Story Of Gazan Boy ‘Amir’ Killed At GHF Aid Site</a>
The Gaza Humanitarian Fund commenced a search for the boy after Aguilar began telling his story in America. GHF’s ex-military contractors — some of whom specialize in hostage rescue — and humanitarian staff took the lead, leaning on connections they had made with local Gazans since beginning operations in May, The Daily Wire has learned.
After interviews with family members and weeks of detective work, the boy, who actually goes by the name Abood, was found living with his birth mother after he abruptly left his stepmother’s home in July. The child’s identity was confirmed through biometrics, and he remained in possession of the shirt he wore in Aguilar&#8217;s viral video.
<div id="attachment_968479" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-968479" class="size-large wp-image-968479" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623-432x576.jpeg" alt="" width="432" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623-432x576.jpeg 432w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-08-22-151623.jpeg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" />Abood&#8217;s shirt seen in Aguilar&#8217;s viral video. (Courtesy)</div>
Abood was escorted in disguise to an undisclosed safe location by the GHF team about two weeks ago for his safety.
“We’re incredibly relieved that Abood is alive and safe,” GHF spokesperson Chapin Fay told The Daily Wire. “That outcome is thanks to the heroic efforts of our team of American veterans, local Gazan staff, and humanitarians who worked quietly for weeks to find him and get him to safety. Their courage and determination saved this boy’s life.”
According to sources familiar with the operation, there was a serious concern that Abood’s life was at risk following Aguilar’s story going viral — his story is being used as a propaganda tool by nefarious actors, including Hamas, in an effort to undermine both Israel and U.S.-backed efforts to deliver food to Gazans.
Fay added that Aguilar’s false story about the boy swept through the media because outlets rushed to publish it without confirming facts.
“They owe Abood — and the public — an apology and a retraction,” said Fay, who is scheduled to hold a news conference later this morning..
Aguilar <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxBUpyb2oI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first spoke about</a> Amir on July 28 on an American podcast called Unxeptable, which discloses on a <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/unxeptable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraising page</a> that it exists only to criticize the Israeli government. During the interview, Aguilar recounted how he met “Amir” at GHF’s Safe Distribution Site 2.
Aguilar said he told the boy, “People care. You’re a human being and people care about you,” before he kneeled and placed his hands on the side of Al-Jarabe’a’s face. He added that Amir responded by kissing him and saying thank you in English, before he walked away and was shot dead, Aguilar said.
<div id="attachment_968529" style="width: 442px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-968529" class="size-large wp-image-968529" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933-432x576.jpeg" alt="" width="432" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933-432x576.jpeg 432w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/09/signal-2025-09-03-224933.jpeg 1200w" sizes=" (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px" />Abood recently posing with a soccer ball. (Courtesy)</div>
“He sets his food down, and he places his hands on my face — on the side of my face, on my cheeks — these frail, skeleton, emaciated hands, dirty. And he puts them on my face, and he kissed me. He kissed me, and he said, ‘Thank you,’ in English. Thank you. And he collected his items, and he walked back to the group, and then he was shot at with pepper spray and tear gas and stun grenades and bullets — shot at his feet and in the air — and he runs away, scared.”
Aguilar told the same story on several large platforms, including MSNBC, the Tucker Carlson Show, and even <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=sByloGU3f60OfLFI&amp;v=cWVC5d4490Y&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in an interview</a> with a sitting Democrat Senator, Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen.
<a href="https://x.com/tcnetwork/status/1951284710149333292?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">On Carlson’s show</a>, released July 31, Aguilar went even further with the story, comparing the child to his own son.
“I see my son’s face when I look at him,” Aguilar said. “I didn’t get this second hand. I didn’t see it from afar and then assume. I saw it. I touched it. I felt it.”
He went on to add that “Amir” was killed by the IDF.
That was all before The Daily Wire’s report last month, in which it was revealed that a review of body cam footage from an American security contractor standing next to Aguilar showed a very different interaction than what Aguilar described.
The footage shows the boy walking up to the man wearing the body cam and kissing his hand. He then turns to Aguilar and appears to ask for help convincing the crowd to let them take food. Aguilar responds by touching the boy’s shoulders and chest.
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The contractor wearing the body cam told The Daily Wire that Aguilar’s story is “fabricated.”
&#8220;There is no profound English dialog, kneeling at his level, nor does the boy drop his aid to kiss Tony and say ‘thank you’ to him in English.&#8221;
Side-by-side video👇 <a href="https://t.co/YaQpDmw4CN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/YaQpDmw4CN</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1954734297379918285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
“This little young man here, obviously pretty young, he has food,” Aguilar says while recording his video. “Go home, go home, okay? Thank you.”
The little boy then walks away toward the crowd.
In response to questions ahead of The Daily Wire’s August 10 report casting doubt on Aguilar’s story, the former contractor clarified that he saw “Amir” lying motionless on the ground, but could not confirm his death.
“I saw Amir’s body on the ground, having fallen/dropped to the ground amidst the gunfire from the IDF, which was being fired toward the crowd as a crowd control measure to keep them moving in a westerly direction to the Morag Corridor as they left the site,” Aguilar said in an email. “It has always been my position that he, and others, were dead. The body wasn’t moving. Others ran or limped away. I, nor anyone, could verify that he was dead.”
“Considering that he has not been found, and he has not been seen, it is safe to say that my assessment is correct,” Aguilar added.
But following the report, Aguilar<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/sLqoPRs9_9I" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> continued to</a> tell the story in various interviews, and even added details.
In an August 23 interview streamed on YouTube, Aguilar told the story again, claiming that the boy ran into a “wall of bullets” and that he suffered “a shot to the torso, a shot to the leg, dead.”
On Wednesday, Aguilar interrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, shouting that the “United States government is complicit in genocide.”
“Off to jail,” Chairman Jim Risch (R-ID) responded.
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Earlier today, Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar — the ex-GHF subcontractor fired for &#8220;creating a hostile work environment&#8221; and who lied about key parts of his story — was escorted from a Senate hearing after interrupting and falsely accusing the U.S. of complicity in genocide <a href="https://t.co/uO6OzmeN1E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/uO6OzmeN1E</a>
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/EFischberger/status/1963352549500883270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
In a video interview with Abood, reviewed by The Daily Wire, he says he has never been hurt inside or outside a GHF site.
The GHF asserts that no incident involving IDF fire on civilians occurred at their distribution site on May 28—the day Aguilar claims. GHF added that even if such an event had happened, Aguilar would not have been able to see it, as its contractors are prohibited from leaving the secure aid sites — which are set back from the IDF positions, lack a direct line of sight, and are separated by physical barriers like berms.
The IDF told The Daily Wire that there were no casualties from IDF fire reported during the operating hours of the humanitarian aid distribution center on that day either.
The stepmother Al-Jarabe’a, who does not own a phone with an internet connection, was initially confused by Aguilar’s story, which she saw two days after she says her step-son went missing on July 28. In an interview filmed on August 5, she said she believed Aguilar mixed up his dates and actually took the footage in July instead of May. Aguilar’s work with GHF ended in June, when he was terminated by the security contractor staffing aid sites “due to poor performance, volatile conflicts with staff, and erratic behavior.”
Reports from both <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/4/relative-of-photographed-boy-killed-at-gaza-aid-site-cant-find-his-body#flips-6376529917112:0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a> and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-family-boy-amir-killed-ghf-site-still-have-not-received-his-body" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> feature edited videos of Al-Jarabe’a, in which she says she is searching for her son, without indicating that she was calling into question when he went missing.
According to GHF, Aguilar’s contract was terminated on June 13 “due to poor performance, volatile conflicts with staff, and erratic behavior.” In multiple screenshots of text messages shared with the press, Aguilar is seen both lashing out at GHF staff and requesting to be rehired. In a screenshot of GHF’s executive team chat provided to The Daily Wire, a leader reiterates on June 13 that Aguilar was fired after being given opportunities at two different locations but still receiving “negative feedback.”
Aguilar claims he was not fired, but resigned.

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EXCLUSIVE: Viral Story Of Gaza Child ‘Gunned Down’ By Israel Officially Debunked — The Boy Is Alive

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On August 22, the United Nations declared that famine was “currently occurring” in Gaza City. Within hours the claim drove headlines, advocacy, and legal filings.
All of it based on flawed science. A forensic review of the data by our team at the Network Contagion Research Institute found that the declaration leaned on flimsy modeling, and buried evidence. That matters because the declaration undercuts a U.S.-backed aid model that is actually delivering.
With confidence in international institutions eroding, the United States launched a new experiment in humanitarian aid. Working through the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) with State Department support, this model represents the first serious alternative to the UN&#8217;s decades-old aid machinery. Early evidence suggested it was working: food reached people more reliably, nutrition outcomes improved, and distribution was more predictable.
That all changed when the UN&#8217;s famine authority, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), declared a famine in Gaza City. The announcement instantly shaped headlines, influencers, and legal forums. But behind the language of science was something else entirely: manipulated modeling, buried evidence, and a systematic effort to discredit the new, U.S.-led approach that was actually working.
This was not a mistake. It was a set of choices. And every choice cut in the same direction: toward alarmism, toward distortion, and away from the success of American leadership.
<h2>A Case Study in Statistical Malpractice</h2>
The UN famine authority’s declaration rests most centrally on a claim that child malnutrition in Gaza was “increasing exponentially.”
This was not a side note. It was the foundation of the UN famine authority’s entire argument that famine was not only happening, but already locked into a death spiral. The projections of catastrophe — and the justification for the world&#8217;s response – hinged on that exponential model. But the model was a scatterplot of just six data points, with a trend line fit by an excel spreadsheet regression function. Any introductory statistics class warns against fitting exponentials to tiny samples. The first point sat out of line with the second in a way that can create the illusion of acceleration.
There is more. The UN-backed analysts did not tell readers that a plain linear model explained the same six points just as well. They did not share the fit statistics that would let others judge. They did not present alternative trend-lines. And they did not acknowledge that a larger, updated dataset of more than 15,000 children, available two weeks before publication, broke the exponential story entirely.
READ THE FULL REPORT: <a href="https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Starving-for-the-Truth_-Fraud-Famine-and-the-Collapse-of-Rigor-in-IPCs-Gaza-Declaration.pdf">Starving for the Truth: Fraud, Famine and the Collapse of Rigor in IPC&#8217;s Gaza Declaration</a>
Not only this, but the fresh data disproved the UN famine authority’s central allegation. Their famine declaration rested on the claim that child malnutrition had surged beyond the 15 percent threshold required to trigger a famine classification. Yet the updated data set the rate at 13.5 percent. By the UN famine authority’s own standard, famine had not been reached. To repeat: the UN’s adopted famine threshold was not met, and their own data source proved it.
Let’s be clear. At each step, the United Nations’ famine authority made a decision:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">They chose to fit an exponential model to six data points, a textbook statistical error.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">They chose to hide the fact that a less incriminating, linear model fit the data just as well.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">They chose to ignore updated data from a far larger sample that contradicted explosive growth of famine.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">They chose to declare famine even though their own updated data showed child malnutrition at 13.5 percent, below the 15 percent threshold required by their own standard.</li>
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These are not neutral omissions. These are consistent, directional decisions. And that direction points squarely at undermining evidence of improvement, especially improvement linked to U.S.-backed aid.
<h2>Buried Evidence and a Double Standard</h2>
Statistical modeling was not the only method manipulated. In July, the UN’s famine authority commissioned two hunger surveys in Gaza. One found that 73 percent of households suffered “severe” or “very severe” hunger. The other, conducted at the same time, found that number to be just 21 percent. Both were described as representative. Only the more extreme figure appeared in the final report. The other was buried in a back annex.
Even where the numbers were similar between governates, the classifications shifted without explanation. Gaza Governorate and Deir al-Balah returned nearly identical scores. One was labeled famine. The other was two full phases lower.
And then there is Rafah, the epicenter of Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution. It is also the region with the most stable nutrition outcomes. The UN famine authority excluded it entirely from its analysis, claiming it had been “depopulated.” Yet in prior reports, Rafah was included without issue. Was this about unavailable data or was it about removing inconvenient results?
<h2>Attacking What Works</h2>
According to the UN famine authority’s own report, recipients of GHF aid were better nourished. They averaged 1,700 kilocalories per day, hundreds more than those relying on other sources. Meanwhile, violence around GHF distribution sites fell by more than 25 percent between June and August.
But rather than highlight those results, the UNs’ famine authority dismissed GHF’s efforts outright. They said the aid did not meet their internal definition of “humanitarian assistance.”
Reverend Johnnie Moore, the head of the GHF, said the results of his group&#8217;s effort can&#8217;t be dismissed.
“Where GHF distributions operate, nutrition outcomes improve and violence now decreases,&#8221; Moore says. &#8220;Any responsible body should recognize and reinforce these results, not dismiss them. If the international community truly wants to help, it must build on what works rather than undermine it.”
The UN&#8217;s famine authority did not just dismiss these gains. They erased them. They redrew the map, suppressed the results, and changed the rules, which all happen to preserve a narrative that painted American-led aid as irrelevant or worse.
<h2>A Sabotage of American Legitimacy</h2>
In Gaza, U.S. leadership has taken the form of a new, evidence-based model of humanitarian aid and, in this context, these systemic, unsubstantiated accusations take on the appearance of a coordinated attempt to delegitimize a rival approach.
The UN famine authority based its mortality estimates on Hamas-controlled data. It failed to disclose forecasting errors. It buried evidence of U.S. progress. It downgraded one region and inflated another, despite similar conditions.
Even within the UN famine authority’s  global record, Gaza stands out. In <a href="https://networkcontagion.us/reports/8-25-25-between-data-and-agenda_-questioning-the-ipcs-gaza-famine-projections/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NCRI’s independent audit</a> of their forecast accuracy across eight countries, Gaza was the worst overprojection NCRI could detect in the records on their website. 80 percent of subregions were misclassified at a higher level than what actually occurred. That fact was never disclosed publicly. It had to be reconstructed from raw data.
<h2>The Truth Is the First Casualty</h2>
Every decision made by the UN famine authority in this process, every model they selected, every figure they buried, every area they excluded, had the effect of obscuring evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were showing positive results.
This was not a transparent application of data science. The choices made functioned less as neutral analysis and more as narrative shaping.
The UN famine authority’s report seemingly attempted to obscure evidence that U.S.-backed aid programs were delivering food more effectively, contributing to improved nutrition outcomes, reduced violence, and greater predictability in distribution.
If a small data science organization based in New Jersey can identify systemic irregularities at the core of the UN famine authority’s assessments, there is strong reason to call for a deeper, independent investigation. Congress, the State Department, and external watchdogs should review how the UN and its affiliates produced findings that diverged from their own data and thresholds, and why contradictory evidence was excluded or downplayed.
The implications go beyond Gaza. If a UN agency can misclassify famine through methodological or reporting failures, confidence in global humanitarian assessments is at risk. An investigation is essential to safeguard the integrity of humanitarian science and restore trust in international reporting.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) is a nonpartisan research institute leading the field of cybersocial science a discipline that studies how technology, psychology, and society interact in the age of algorithmic influence.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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How the UN’s Famine Authority Engaged in Data Fraud to Undermine U.S. Humanitarian Aid

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An international aid worker who worked in Gaza in July has accused United Nations agencies of inhibiting the delivery of aid to Gaza, as well as blocking the efforts of the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to deliver food and aid. He also questioned whether the refusal to coordinate with Israel Defense Forces was at the direction of the UN Secretary General.
The whistleblower’s report to the Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) alleged &#8220;gross misconduct and misuse of humanitarian funds by the World Food Programme and other U.N. Agencies,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/exclusive-whistleblower-alleges-misconduct-united-nations-gaza">Fox News Digital</a> reports. The whistleblower also attested that there was “no evidence of ‘starvation’ or ‘famine’ in Gaza. There are pockets of severe hunger, but they are not systematic or pervasive.&#8221;
The report delineates “a firsthand eyewitnessing of senior Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials offering any support necessary, including security protection and coordination, to representatives from the World Food Programme (WFP) and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) only to have WFP and OCHA respond that they were not prepared to discuss such coordination.”
“The IDF is actively helping the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation get food into the hands of civilians while U.N. agencies, including WFP and OCHA, through their unwillingness to coordinate with the IDF, are inhibiting the distribution of such aid,” the whistleblower reported, adding, “As has been recently shown through openly available imagery, the IDF has provided clearance for thousands of tons of U.N. humanitarian goods that are now sitting inside of Gaza, awaiting distribution. The U.N. must be held accountable to pick up and distribute such aid. I urge you to launch an independent investigation into this matter to determine the extent to which U.N. agencies, by refusing to coordinate with the IDF on essential issues, including security, are abusing U.S. taxpayer funds rather than using them to deliver the aid the American people are donating – and whether such actions are being taken independently by U.N. officials in Gaza or at the direction of the U.N. Secretary General or other senior U.N. officials in New York.”
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“There is a concerted effort to discredit GHF and any attempts to provide aid out of [the] U.N.,” the whistleblower informed Fox News Digital.
“The fact of the matter remains that GHF is a threat to how Hamas functions and enriches itself because GHF provides meals to those in need with safeguards to minimize Hamas from stealing. This is why Hamas continues to attack GHF aid sites,” a senior U.S. State Department official told Fox News Digital. “Aid diversion to terrorists frequently occurs in conflict zones under Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) control. It is a moral and legal obligation, and our duty to the American taxpayer, to work with our partners to ensure this ends immediately. There is endless video evidence of Hamas looting, not to mention members of the aid-industrial complex who have admitted that looting exists by reporting it as &#8216;self-distribution,&#8217; in a poor attempt at an aid corruption coverup.&#8221;
Former White House and National Security Council official Richard Goldberg commented:
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The U.N. is playing hunger games with the people of Gaza to drive a crisis, try to get the GHF to fail and resuscitate UNRWA as the dominant aid facilitator. We are talking about an enormous amount of taxpayer money being provided to WFP and the U.N. writ large with an expectation that aid be delivered in coordination with Israel. The allegations here suggest a directive from the Secretary General himself across the U.N. system to cause aid disruptions for the benefit of Hamas, which would be the biggest U.N. scandal since oil for food. Secretary Rubio would be more than justified in calling the Secretary General and telling him that the U.N. won’t get another dime from U.S. taxpayers unless he submits to an independent investigation and orders all agencies to cooperate with Israel.
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The UN’s Oil-for-Food program, initiated in 1996, was intended to feed the Iraqi population after the first Gulf War. But the program was used by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to generate billions in illegal revenue.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

Whistleblower Accuses UN Of Blocking Aid To Gaza

Crime

Whistleblowers

Pro-Palestinian activists reportedly spray-painted “Death to the GHF” on the driveway of John Acree, acting director of U.S. aid group Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, at his Virginia home and vandalized his car, according to multiple sources.
The GHF has repeatedly asked the United Nations to join it in its mission of feeding the people of Gaza, as United Nations trucks are routinely looted by Hamas terrorists intent on starving the people of Gaza in order to create a public outcry against Israel, but the United Nations has rebuffed them time and again.
On August 4, Acree released a public statement on video explaining his fervent desire to feed the people of Gaza and his frustration at the United Nations’ refusal to work in tandem with GHF.
“I’m an American and a lifelong humanitarian leader, starting with the Peace Corps in the early 80s and continuing throughout my career,” he began. “I’ve served the United States in some of the world‘s most disadvantaged countries and complex crisis zones, leading response efforts in active war zones, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean, and amid collapsing political systems in Pakistan and Tajikistan.”
“At GHF,  I’m proud to lead a team that shows up every single day with one mission: to feed people,” he continued. “Not to take sides, not to take credit, just to save lives. Since launching food delivery operations, we’ve delivered more than 105 million meals safely and directly to Palestinian civilians in need. We built a secure and affecting distribution model that works, and we’re scaling it to reach even more people faster. This is hard work. It’s dangerous work, but it’s the right work and I’m proud to do it alongside our Palestinian partners, our US colleagues, and the international allies committed to keeping food from becoming another victim of politics.”
He referred to the Hamas forces stealing food, saying, “We all share the same passion to help the hungry Palestinians. In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed scenes no humanitarian should ever have to witness: the United Nations aid convoys looted in broad daylight, aid workers endangered on unprotected trucks, and above all, breakdown and access to life-saving assistance for the people of Gaza. This chaos is not just tragic; it’s unacceptable. Since the United Nations resumed its vital mission to deliver aid in Gaza in May, the effort has been consistently undermined by a harsh and dangerous reality on the ground: lawlessness, the presence of armed gangs, and the absence of a functioning civil order.”
“As a result, too many people in desperate need, children, families, the elderly, are going without aid at precisely the moment their need is greatest,” he pointed out.
“But I’m here to say today there is a better way; one that helps the UN fulfill its humanitarian mandate while also adapting to the evolving conditions on the ground,” he declared. “That way is, specifically, a partnership between the United Nations and the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. This partnership could take several practical forms. First, operational support and escorting. GHF can provide logistical support to UN convoys to help ensure aid reaches its destination safely. And we can advise on timing and potential routes. Second:  distribution of existing aid. Much of the UN’s aid stock is already inside Gaza, but it’s sitting idle. We can move it to our SDS sites today and tomorrow. Using our secure, proven distribution networks and with the access to their aid, we can expand our access points across Gaza, including hopefully the north. Finally, community-based expansion. Together, we can reestablish neighborhood-level trust and access, expanding food delivery to areas that are currently out of reach or too dangerous for centralized distribution. There are likely other ways we can support the United Nations that would come to life if they came to the table and engaged with us, but so far they have not.”
He then explained how GHF had repeatedly tried to reach out to the UN:
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On June 4 we met in person with senior leaders from the United Nations’ World Food Program, deputy executive Director Carl Skau and Country Director Antoine Renard to present practical proposals for how GHF could help deliver their food to civilians in Gaza. Unfortunately the meeting was cut short by the WFP before our ideas to be discussed.
On June 24 we sent a letter to (UN) Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, urging direct collaboration and stating what remains true today: The UN has the means, GHF has the mechanism, what remains is simply the will. We followed up again on July 22, writing to Under-Secretary Tom Fletcher to reiterate our commitment to partnership. On July 23 GHF made the offer to deliver all of United Nations sitting in Gaza for free given the situation on the ground.
And most recently we were planning a meeting with the UN originally scheduled for today. Unfortunately, that meeting was obstructed by some within the UN system and is no longer taking place.
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“Despite this repeated outreach, the United Nations continues to struggle to get aid to those in need; their trucks are looted, by their own figures, at a rate of 95%. That’s their own figures,” he noted. “Hundreds of truckloads sit inside Gaza; cleared, stocked, but untouched. GHF has offered to deliver that aid for free, as I’ve mentioned. We’ve asked the UN to join us on the ground side-by-side; so far, they’ve declined.”
“If there was a time to adapt, to innovate, and above all to partner, it is now. We urge the UN to join us in &#8230; a new way forward. Together we can break through the chaos and deliver hope where it is needed most,” he concluded.
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Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid continue to enter the Rafah border crossing

Pro-Palestinian Vandals Paint Death Threat At Virginia Home Of GHF Director

Pro-Palestinian

Vandalism

Virginia

The viral story of a Gazan boy killed by Israel’s military at an aid distribution site is under question in light of new body cam footage from the day of the incident and an interview with a woman who&#8217;s been identified as the boy&#8217;s stepmother who insists he was alive after it occurred.
In a video exclusively obtained by The Daily Wire, a woman who says she is the boy&#8217;s stepmother, Siham Al-Jarabe&#8217;a, disputes the account given by former Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) contractor Tony Aguilar. Aguilar says he met a boy named “Amir&#8221; while working at a GHF aid site on May 28, and saw him killed by the Israel Defense Forces that day. His account has since gone viral, fueling criticism of Israel as well as the United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
But Al-Jarabe&#8217;a — who has been interviewed on several media outlets — says her stepson, Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hamdan Al-Jarabe&#8217;a, went missing on July 28 and was alive with her for two months after the date Aguilar claims he saw him die.
Al-Jarabe&#8217;a says she believes Aboud, as he’s known to family (Al-Jarabe&#8217;a says Aguilar was responsible for spreading the nickname “Amir”) is still alive, as she has seen no death certificate or body, and suspects he may have been kidnapped.
In a video filmed on August 5, Al-Jarabe&#8217;a is asked repeatedly what day her son went missing, to which she replied July 28 — about a week before.
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Al-Jarabe&#8217;a said that she left Amir at home at 6AM on July 28 and went to a GHF site for aid. When she returned home, Amir was missing. Two days later, she saw Aguilar’s footage from May and thought he was the last person to see her son.
Interview 👇 <a href="https://t.co/nMN2Y6EbuW">pic.twitter.com/nMN2Y6EbuW</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1954734310499516580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
“July 28 is the last time you saw the boy? Today is August 5,” the Arabic-speaking interviewer says to Al-Jarabe&#8217;a. The Arabic interview’s translation into English has been independently verified by The Daily Wire.
“Yes,” she replied.
“So almost a week ago?”
“Yes.”
<h3>Aguilar’s Video and New Footage</h3>
Aguilar <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmxBUpyb2oI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first spoke about</a> Amir on an American podcast called Unxeptable, which discloses on a <a href="https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/unxeptable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fundraising page</a> that it exists only to criticize the Israeli government. The interview took place on July 28, the same day Al-Jarabe&#8217;a says her son went missing. During the interview, Aguilar recounts how he met Amir at GHF’s Safe Distribution Site 2.
Aguilar says in the interview that he told the boy, “People care. You&#8217;re a human being and people care about you,” before he kneeled down and placed his hands on the side of Amir’s face. He adds that Amir, the boy, responded by kissing him and saying thank you in English, only to walk away and get shot an hour later.
“He sets his food down, and he places his hands on my face — on the side of my face, on my cheeks — these frail, skeleton, emaciated hands, dirty. And he puts them on my face, and he kissed me. He kissed me, and he said, ‘Thank you,’ in English. Thank you. And he collected his items, and he walked back to the group, and then he was shot at with pepper spray and tear gas and stun grenades and bullets — shot at his feet and in the air — and he runs away, scared.”
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<div id="attachment_959265" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959265" class="size-large wp-image-959265" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-1024x576.jpeg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-300x169.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-768x432.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_0624-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hamdan al-Jarabe&#8217;a kissing the hand of a GHF contractor.</div>
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His story was picked up days later by MSNBC, which did a special report on Aguilar’s allegation that the boy was “gunned down” and killed. He was <a href="https://youtu.be/cWVC5d4490Y?si=sByloGU3f60OfLFI">also invited</a> to tell his story to a sitting Democrat Senator, Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen.
But in response to questions from The Daily Wire, Aguilar clarified that while he saw “Amir’s” motionless body on the ground, he could not verify that he was dead. Aguilar said that, based on his 25 years of experience in the Army, he assessed the boy was “dead or, at a minimum, fatally wounded.”
“I saw Amir&#8217;s body on the ground, having fallen/dropped to the ground amidst the gunfire from the IDF, which was being fired toward the crowd as a crowd control measure to keep them moving in a westerly direction to the Morag Corridor as they left the site,” Aguilar said. “It has always been my position that he, and others, were dead. The body wasn&#8217;t moving. Others ran or limped away. I, nor anyone, could verify that he was dead.”
“Considering that he has not been found, and he has not been seen, it is safe to say that my assessment is correct,” Aguilar added. “However, if he were to be alive, that would be a blessing. Yet it does not excuse the firing of ‘warning shots’ at/toward/near a group of unarmed civilians.”
The GHF maintains that no incident involving IDF fire on civilians occurred at their distribution site that day. It adds that even if such an incident had taken place, Aguilar could not have witnessed it, as GHF contractors are prohibited from leaving the secure aid sites — which are set back from the IDF’s position, lack a clear line of sight, and are separated by physical barriers such as sand mounds.
The IDF did not report any incidents taking place on May 28.
A review of body cam footage of an American security contractor standing next to Aguilar also shows a very different interaction than what has been described by Aguilar.
The boy is seen walking up to the man with the body cam and kissing his hand. He then turns to Aguilar, and appears to ask for assistance with getting the crowd to let them take food. Aguilar then touches the boy’s shoulders and chest.
“This little young man here, obviously pretty young, he has food,” Aguilar says while recording his video. “Go home, go home, okay? Thank you.”
The little boy then walks away into the crowd.
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The contractor wearing the body cam told The Daily Wire that Aguilar’s story is “fabricated.”
&#8220;There is no profound English dialog, kneeling at his level, nor does the boy drop his aid to kiss Tony and say ‘thank you’ to him in English.&#8221;
Side-by-side video👇 <a href="https://t.co/YaQpDmw4CN">pic.twitter.com/YaQpDmw4CN</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1954734297379918285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
Aguilar confirmed to The Daily Wire that the footage below is the full extent of the interaction. Asked why the video does not show the full interaction he described, Aguilar insisted in a statement that it transpired off camera, and that the hand shown being kissed was his.
“The video you show misses the moments of the key elements you are claiming to discredit, yet your video doesn’t ‘not’ show it, and you weren’t there, and I am on the record,” Aguilar said. “I did not embellish. And it is clearly evident that Amir and I had the interaction.”
The security contractor wearing the body cam told The Daily Wire that Aguilar’s story is “fabricated.”
“The hand in his picture is my hand,” the contractor said, describing how he knows it’s not Aguilar’s. “I have discolored pigment from a burn on that hand, and I see the blood under my fingernail growing out from smashing it at home before coming here. The boy disappeared back into the aid after Tony walks off from him. There is no profound English dialog, kneeling at his level, nor does the boy drop his aid to kiss Tony and say ‘thank you’ to him in English. Tony completely fabricated this story.”’
On May 29, a day after the alleged incident, Aguilar sent a “daily impact report” to his fellow teammates where he praised them for their work and included two pictures of Amir.
“Your efforts have brought families back together and have severely weakened the image of Hamas,” Aguilar wrote in the texts released by the GHF after Aguilar first went public with his accusations. “GREAT JOB.”
<div id="attachment_959267" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959267" class="wp-image-959267 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/3-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/3-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/3.jpg 1280w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Tony Aguilar praising his teammates on May 29 along with two photos of Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hamdan al-Jarabe&#8217;a aka &#8220;Amir.&#8221;</div>
<h3>Amir’s Stepmother Says The Boy Was Alive After May 28</h3>
According to Amir’s stepmother, the boy was not killed on the day he appeared in Aguilar’s footage — he lived for at least another two months after May 28.
News of Aguilar’s story greatly confused Al-Jarabe&#8217;a, who does not own a phone with an internet connection and first saw his footage about two days after she says her son went missing on July 28.
Until the August 5 interview, she believed that Aguilar mixed up his dates and actually took the footage in July instead of May. Aguilar’s work with GHF ended in June, when he was terminated by the security contractor staffing aid sites “due to poor performance, volatile conflicts with staff, and erratic behavior.”
“The American made a mistake by saying he saw the boy May 15,” the grieving mother said, mixing up the May dates. “This is from two months ago. No, the boy went to the Americans on July 28.”
When she is told Aguilar’s photo is from May, she denies it, affirming that the footage must have been taken on July 28, the day her son went missing.
“I tell you that this picture that was on the news, was not from July 28,” the interviewer says, showing a picture of Amir.
“No, it was July 28.”
Al-Jarabe&#8217;a said that she left Amir at home at 6:00 a.m. on July 28 and went to a GHF site to pick up aid with her daughter. When she returned home, Amir was missing. Two days later, her neighbor saw Aguilar’s story and footage and told her that Amir was killed when visiting GHF’s SDS2 site.
“A woman came and told me that it looks like your son Aboud was martyred,” she said. “I told her I’m shocked.”
Aguilar’s claim of where the incident happened also confused Amir’s mother who said in the interview that her son had never been to SDS2 — which she calls Al Shakosh — before, and that she was confused when she heard where he was because it was much further from their home from the SDS3 site where the family has been going to get aid.
Aguilar repeated the claim that he met Amir at SDS2 in several interviews, but clarified to The Daily Wire after being presented with evidence from GHF’s daily operational emails that SDS2 was not operational on May 28, that it must have happened at SDS3.
<div id="attachment_959255" style="width: 964px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959255" class="size-large wp-image-959255" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM-954x576.png" alt="" width="954" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM-954x576.png 954w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM-300x181.png 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM-768x464.png 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM-1536x927.png 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Screenshot-2025-08-10-at-9.09.17-PM.png 2008w" sizes=" (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px" />GHF Operational Update emailed to press on May 28.</div>
“I was surprised to find out he was at Al Shakosh,” Al-Jarabe&#8217;a said, adding that the only reason she thought Amir went to the site was from Aguilar’s claims in the press.
“How did you find out he was at Al Shakosh?” the interviewer asked.
“The American released his photo.”
“Okay, so you’re basing your information on the story by the American?”
“Yes.”
“So not because you knew he was going to Al Shakosh?”
“No. I thought he was going to Al Tina (SDS3).”
The Daily Wire reviewed interviews with two of Al-Jarabe&#8217;a’s neighbors also confirming that Amir went missing on July 28.
Al-Jarabe&#8217;a said upon realizing Amir was missing, she thought he must’ve followed her after she left for SDS3.
The photos and videos of Aguilar shared with the press gave his stepmother hope she would find Amir, because she did not realize they were taken in May. She has spent over a week going to morgues, hospitals, and humanitarian organizations in search of a sign of life, she says.
In the interview, she said she had spoken with Aguilar days before, but wanted to clarify with him what exactly he saw.
“I want to reach the American whom my son kissed his hand, to talk to him and ask him: did you see him die in front of you? Did you see the boy die with your own eyes? I mean, you said you gave your resignation when you saw the moment in front of you.”
Aguilar provided The Daily Wire with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKsNF0z3fL8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a Zoom recording</a> where he, Al-Jarabe&#8217;a, and activists were present. In the Zoom, Aguilar shares the same claims he has made about Aguilar, and mentions that the incident took place on May 28. When Aguilar’s comments are translated into Arabic, the translator does not mention when Aguilar took the video. Aguilar says the Zoom, during which Al-Jarabe&#8217;a was having connection issues, took place on August 3.
Al-Jarabe&#8217;a responds in Arabic, stating that she’s been searching for her son since the 28th — without specifying which month, and says she has still yet to find any evidence showing if her son is dead or alive.
Reports in both <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/8/4/relative-of-photographed-boy-killed-at-gaza-aid-site-cant-find-his-body#flips-6376529917112:0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a> and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-family-boy-amir-killed-ghf-site-still-have-not-received-his-body" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> share heavily-edited videos of Al-Jarabe&#8217;a, who says she is searching for her son without any mention of when he went missing.
Both reports accurately name Amir as Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hamdan al-Jarabe&#8217;a. According to al-Jarabe&#8217;a, she saw Aguilar call her son “Amir” and believed it was because the boy had kissed the hand of an Amir (Arabic for &#8220;prince&#8221;) — referring to Aguilar.
“He was named Al Amir when he kissed the hand of the Amir,” she said. “And the nickname stuck.”
When asked how she found out about the nickname, she said it came from the internet.
“From the internet, they said ‘the child Amir.”
Aguilar told The Daily Wire that he believes Amir was an already existing nickname.
“Surely, as anyone can understand, Amir was his nickname,” he said. “My name, for example, is Anthony Aguilar, but I go by ‘Tony.’”
Despite Aguilar’s insistence, Al-Jarabe&#8217;a still believes that her son is alive.
“I believe my son is alive — he didn’t die,” she said. “I feel strong because if he died in Al Shakosh — I entered Al Shakosh — they for sure would have given him treatment,” she added, referring to the basic medical attention GHF provides to aid seekers.
She adds that in Aguilar’s footage, Amir is surrounded by a crowd, and someone would have been able to provide her more information.
“My son was not alone,” she said. “When the American said he was shot and fell, he was surrounded by a lot of people.”
According to GHF, Augilar’s contract was terminated on June 13 “due to poor performance, volatile conflicts with staff, and erratic behavior.” In several screenshots of text messages provided to the press, Aguilar is seen both lashing out at GHF staff and asking for his job back. In a screenshot provided to The Daily Wire of GHF’s executive team chat, a leader reiterates on June 13 that Aguilar was fired after being given a chance at two different locations and still getting “negative feedback.”
<div id="attachment_959257" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-959257" class="size-large wp-image-959257" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Cover-images-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Cover-images-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Cover-images-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/Cover-images.jpg 1280w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Screenshots of text messages regarding Tony Aguilar&#8217;s employment at GHF. (Courtesy)</div>
“Last straw was planning today and being disruptive and unprofessional,” the leader writes.
On June 22 Aguilar wrote to a GHF employee: “I can be your best friend, or your worst nightmare. Stop F-ing around, put me back to work, and let’s get this mission done.”
Aguilar claims he was not fired, but resigned.
After returning to the United States, Aguilar went to the media — first anonymously, then on the record — to voice his grievances about GHF operations, including the story of Amir.

Tony Aguilar and Amir

EXCLUSIVE: New Evidence Calls Into Question Viral Story Of Gazan Boy ‘Amir’ Killed At GHF Aid Site

A senior State Department official is firing back at a group of Senate Democrats who sent a letter earlier this week urging the Trump administration to halt its support for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The group, led by Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen (MD), accuses GHF of being a “scheme” that endangers the lives of civilians and requested that support instead be given to United Nations-led aid efforts.
“We urge you to immediately cease all U.S. funding for GHF and resume support for the existing UN-led aid coordination mechanisms with enhanced oversight to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches civilians in need,” the senators wrote.
But the official told The Daily Wire that senators are failing to look at the successful track record of the foundation — which is on track to deliver its 100 millionth meal this week— and instead “offering nothing of value.”
“While these members waste time complaining in a letter offering nothing of value, President Trump and Secretary Rubio are actually putting in the work to help find innovative solutions to help get aid into Gaza,” the official said. “To date, GHF is the only pipeline that denies Hamas resources and control.”
The State Department pledged $30 million to fund Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operations last month.
The foundation is responsible for carrying out President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-orders-humanitarian-aid-delivered-gaza?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Sends+Aid+To+Gaza.+Israel+Will+Not+Distribute+It." target="_blank" rel="noopener">aid initiative</a>, which aims to deliver humanitarian aid directly to Gazan civilians while preventing Hamas from intercepting supplies — a challenge that has persisted since the war began.
“The United States supports the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation because it offers a direct delivery model in a setting where alternatives frequently have abetted diversion to terrorist networks,” the official continued. “Hamas has systematically looted humanitarian aid, turning relief into a tool of control. Aid is part of their strategy to stay in power, leaving civilians to navigate chaos and lawlessness.”
As of July 30, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has delivered over 98.5 million meals directly to civilians since starting operations on May 26.
“No other aid channel has come close,” the official said. “Gaza is a collapsed operating environment.”
<a href="https://app.un2720.org/tracking/intercepted" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to United Nations</a> data, between May and July of this year, 1,753 trucks meant to distribute aid were &#8220;intercepted either peacefully by hungry civilians or forcefully by armed actors,” leaving a limited number of trucks to successfully arrive at UN warehouses.
A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-new-footage-shows-un-convoy-driving-into-mob-of-gazans-casualties-reported?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+New+Footage+Shows+UN+Convoy+Driving+Into+Mob+Of+Gazans%2C+Casualties+Reported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video obtained</a> by The Daily Wire shows a chaotic scene in southern Gaza last Thursday, as more than a dozen UN aid trucks enter a dense crowd along the Morag route. As the convoy attempts to pass through, a mob swarms the vehicles, climbing aboard and looting the supplies.
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EXCLUSIVE: A new video obtained by The Daily Wire shows a chaotic scene in southern Gaza last Thursday, where Gazans swarm and loot a U.N. aid convoy.
The IDF says it received reports of casualties in the same area and on the same day involving aid trucks. <a href="https://t.co/TP0hhl0bms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/TP0hhl0bms</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1950605086058598840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
Due to the constant looting of UN trucks, GHF has repeatedly offered to help the UN distribute aid, but the offer has gone unanswered. Instead, the UN has continued <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/well-break-your-legs-un-accused-of-mafia-type-response-to-u-s-led-gaza-relief-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to vilify</a> the group.
The GHF has pushed back on accusations that its distribution sites are dangerous, noting that aid supplies are emptied daily by Gazan civilians, many of whom express thanks for the free assistance.
“The media says our sites are a death trap, but our workers are interacting with these people every day,” Johnnie Moore, the GHF executive chairman, said. “We see at our distribution sites something people haven’t seen in a long time in the Gaza Strip: we see smiles every single day on the faces of women, on the faces of children.”
According to GHF, security issues at its sites have been limited and are typically instigated by individuals the GHF believes are affiliated with Hamas. Incidents include <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-veterans-injured-in-grenade-attack-while-distributing-aid-in-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a grenade attack</a> by terrorists that injured two American contractors, and a stampede earlier this month triggered by armed men inciting chaos in the crowd that resulted in the deaths of 20 Gazan civilians.
The <a href="https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/van_hollen_ghf_letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats’ letter</a> also accuses GHF security contractors of “having no combat experience or proper training on offensive weapons.”
Moore pushed back hard on the accusation, claiming that GHF’s security contractors are among some of the most decorated and experienced special forces veterans.
“For over a dozen senators to make an accusation like that with information that is so readily available makes me wonder if it was a 17-year-old intern who wrote the letter,” Moore said.
He noted that the contractors showed incredible restraint, experience, and professionalism when the grenades were thrown at them as the perpetrators ran into the crowd to hide and blend in.
“Hamas’s intention was to get the contractors to fire into the crowd of civilians during the incident,” Moore said. “But the level of experience of the people on the ground helped them in that 0.0001 seconds to make the correct decision to lose the assailants in order to not injure any civilians.&#8221;

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State Department Slams Senate Democrats Over Calls To Defund Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Chris Van Hollen

Donald Trump

Marco Rubio

State Department

A leaked internal memo at the BBC reveals the news corporation instructed its staff to slant its reporting of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza to vilify Israel and the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which is trying to feed the citizens, according to a new report.
As Jonathan Sacerdoti of The Spectator <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-leaked-email-that-blows-apart-the-bbcs-impartiality-claims-over-gaza/">reports</a>, “A leaked internal email from a BBC executive editor reveals that the Corporation has issued prescriptive instructions to staff on how to cover the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The memo, titled ‘Covering the food crisis in Gaza,’ amounts to a top-down editorial diktat that discards impartiality, elevates one side of a deeply contested narrative, and imposes a specific anti-Israel legal-political framing as settled fact.”
The email was sent on Friday, June 25. It commences by contending that “the argument over how much aid has crossed into Gaza is irrelevant,” while enjoining the staff that “we should say” the current distribution system “doesn’t work.”
“It explicitly favours a particular explanation of suffering in Gaza: one that blames the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a relatively new aid body established with US and Israeli cooperation, while glossing over the role of Hamas, the rulers of Gaza and a proscribed terrorist organisation under British law,” Sacerdoti writes, adding that by arguing that the amount of aid doesn’t matter, the BBC ignores that Hamas has been widely reported to be hijacking, obstructing, or reselling aid.
“The BBC’s memo labels the GHF system a failure and instructs staff to say so,” Sacerdoti reports, pointing out, “The BBC – which declined to comment on the email – appears content to accept casualty figures and starvation claims from Hamas-linked bodies or sympathetic NGOs as definitive, while dismissing or omitting Israeli data and counterclaims. The email directs staff to reference ‘mounting evidence’ of starvation and deaths around aid centres, yet makes no mention of Hamas operatives looting convoys, obstructing access, or even firing on civilians attempting to collect food – allegations which have been made publicly by Israel and backed at times by video and eyewitness testimony.”
“Nor is the GHF model simply an improvised, amateur system as the memo suggests,” he continues. “On the contrary, it is a tightly managed, military-grade distribution network designed to ensure aid reaches civilians directly and safely. Operated by vetted personnel with logistical oversight, GPS tracking, and on-the-ground medical and security staff, the GHF has reported a zero aid diversion rate. By contrast, the UN system the BBC nostalgically defends saw multiple convoys looted at gunpoint, with documented losses reaching 90 per cent in some cases.”
Sacerdoti notes that the BBC’s contention that the older model of supplying humanitarian aid (prior to the advent of the GHF) “did work” fails the acid test, as the BBC itself “breathlessly reported widespread hunger under that very system well before the GHF system was in place.”
He then turns to the email’s declaration that it is “indisputable” that Israel is the occupying power in Gaza and thus the entity responsible for preventing hunger. “This claim is presented without qualification, despite the fact that the status of Gaza under international law is disputed,” he points out, adding that Israel has stated it neither governs Gaza nor maintains a permanent presence.
“The BBC’s own editorial guidelines insist that politically contested labels such as ‘occupation’ should be attributed and contextualised, not asserted. That rule has been disregarded,” he states.
“Why is it our national broadcaster seems so desperate to attack the one non-Israeli body which is doing the most to undermine the Hamas stranglehold over Gaza and its people?” Sacerdoti asks rhetorically. “The closer the GHF and Israeli army get to finally defeating the terrorists, the more shrill the BBC’s insistence that the Jewish state is deliberately starving children. They have trouble believing a self-declared Islamic jihadist dictatorship might have designed this level of suffering and torture, but none in believing the Jewish democratic state did so.&#8221;
“The BBC is publicly funded and legally obligated to remain impartial. This latest leaked email suggests it is failing in that duty. As ever, there is virtually no chance the organisation will admit, redress or be penalised for this failing. They never are,” he concludes.

BBC Announce Plans For A Major Shake-Up Of The Corporation

BBC Ordered Staff To Slant Reporting Against U.S.-Backed Gaza Aid Group, Israel

Media

Media Bias

Pro-Hamas

While most media have seen fit to condemn Israel rather than Hamas for the food shortage in Gaza, the food in roughly 950 trucks inspected and approved by Israel was reportedly rotting on the Gaza side of the Kerem Shalom crossing because the United Nations will not distribute it.
“The Humanitarian Relief Fund (Gaza Humanitarian Foundation) today offered the UN to distribute the aid free of charge instead &#8211; and the UN refused. The UN, in collaboration with Hamas, is starving the population of the Gaza Strip while simultaneously pumping up the false campaign of ‘hunger in the Gaza Strip,’” Tamir Morag of Israel’s Channel 14 reported.
“The common goal of the UN and Hamas: to force the dissolution of the aid fund and obtain exclusivity for the UN on the entry of food, so that almost all of it will end up in the hands of Hamas instead of the Gaza population,” he added.
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תמונות בלתי נתפסות: תכולה של כ-950 משאיות מזון שנבדקו ואושרו על ידי ישראל נרקבת בצד העזתי של מעבר כרם שלום, כי האו&quot;ם מסרב לחלק אותה. 
קרן הסיוע ההומניטרי (GHF) הציעה היום לאו&quot;ם לחלק במקומו את הסיוע ללא תשלום &#8211; והאו&quot;ם סירב. האו&quot;ם, בשיתוף חמאס, מרעיב את אוכלוסיית רצועת עזה ובמקביל… <a href="https://t.co/2Dr23A0eWy">pic.twitter.com/2Dr23A0eWy</a>
&mdash; תמיר מורג Tamir Morag (@Tamir114) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tamir114/status/1948074134551863425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The report of the aid trucks sitting inside Gaza and waiting for the UN to distribute them was corroborated by <a href="https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/1948124844622856255">Trey Yingst</a>, Fox News&#8217; chief foreign correspondent.
On Monday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry released footage of Hamas terrorists gleefully gorging themselves in tunnels underground while Gaza residents above are going without food.
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🎥 Exclusive footage from Hamas tunnels
While Hamas leaders scream “starvation” to the world, this is what’s really happening underground.
📍Hamas terrorists are seen boasting about full meals in their tunnels, far from the suffering above and stocked with items not from… <a href="https://t.co/ED2GHxwvOB">pic.twitter.com/ED2GHxwvOB</a>
&mdash; Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1947991429747216848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As Andrew Fox of the Henry Jackson Society has pointed out:
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As early as late October 2023, Israel began permitting up to 100 aid trucks into Gaza each day, later increasing the quota to 200 trucks daily by late November. By mid-November 2023, Israeli officials announced they would no longer impose a daily limit on aid trucks. &#8230;
Crucially, the often-cited figure of “500 trucks per day” that supposedly entered Gaza before the war is a myth. That number originated from a careless statement by UN Secretary-General Guterres, and it spread uncritically through media and NGO reports. In reality, pre-war averages were around 300 trucks per day, of which only about 75 were food trucks. UN data from 2022 shows about 291 trucks per day entering Gaza (via Israel and Egypt), with roughly half carrying construction materials and only about 73 carrying food. &#8230;
A massive influx of aid took place during a negotiated pause in hostilities at the start of 2025. During the ceasefire from 18 January to 2 March, Gaza was inundated with approximately 25,200 aid trucks carrying 447,538 tonnes of supplies, nearly 78% of which was food. &#8230;
Since the start of the war, the militant group has made it clear that it will not take responsibility for civilians. Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouk said, “We are not responsible for Gaza’s civilians. Israel and the UN are responsible.”
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GHF spokesman Chapin Fay, standing in Gaza at the Kerem Shalom crossing, saw “tons of aid from UN organizations sitting on the ground undelivered… desperately needed flour rotting on the side of the road; rice from Jordan baking for over 90 days; expired medical supplies.”

NGOs Allege ‘Mass Starvation’ In Gaza And Renew Calls For Ceasefire

Hundreds Of Aid Trucks Sit Idle In Gaza As The United Nations Stalls Food Distribution

Food

Politics

The Israel Foreign Ministry has released footage of Hamas terrorists gleefully gorging themselves in tunnels underground while Gaza residents above are going without food.
The Foreign Ministry noted that the terrorists were “stocked with items not from humanitarian aid.”
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🎥 Exclusive footage from Hamas tunnels
While Hamas leaders scream “starvation” to the world, this is what’s really happening underground.
📍Hamas terrorists are seen boasting about full meals in their tunnels, far from the suffering above and stocked with items not from… <a href="https://t.co/ED2GHxwvOB">pic.twitter.com/ED2GHxwvOB</a>
&mdash; Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1947991429747216848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Israel Defense Force&#8217;s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, stated, “This is how the organization’s terrorists behave underground, far from the suffering of the population and contrary to the lie of starvation &#8230; Once again, the blatant disregard of Hamas saboteurs for the suffering of the population is evident. This organization, which promotes lies to the world about alleged starvation, mocks the destruction it has inflicted on the sector’s residents. Oh people of Gaza, this is the truth: These saboteurs are not heroes, but thieves who care about themselves at your expense and hide in the tunnels out of fear of the consequences of their actions.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#خاص</a> مشاهد حصرية من أنفاق حماس: هكذا يتصرف إرهابيو التنظيم تحت الأرض بعيدًا عن معاناة السكان وخلافًا لكذبة التجويع 
⭕️ينشر جيش الدفاع مشاهد تكشف نمط حياة عناصر حماس داخل الأنفاق خلال الحرب.
⭕️في حين يتهم قادة الحركة إسرائل بكذبة التجويع، تُظهر المقاطع عناصر التنظيم وهم يتباهون… <a href="https://t.co/3GjEKagJEo">pic.twitter.com/3GjEKagJEo</a>
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The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has been trying desperately to feed the citizens of Gaza but has been impeded by the United Nations, posted on X: “Hamas is holding up the ceasefire over who controls food aid. They’re demanding GHF be removed and the @UN put back in charge. Why? Because control of aid means control of Gaza. With the UN in charge, Hamas steals, taxes, resells, and stays in power.”
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Hamas is holding up the ceasefire over who controls food aid.
They’re demanding GHF be removed and the <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> put back in charge.
Why? Because control of aid means control of Gaza. With the UN in charge, Hamas steals, taxes, resells, and stays in power.
And don’t forget: UNRWA… <a href="https://t.co/vUcrpRAVNM">https://t.co/vUcrpRAVNM</a>
&mdash; Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (@GHFUpdates) <a href="https://twitter.com/GHFUpdates/status/1947793518899998793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The UN trucks, when they arrive into the Gaza Strip, they are immediately either taken by Hamas or Hamas-affiliated groups that have guns and Hamas decides what to do with the food,” Gaza Humanitarian Foundation chairman Rev. Johnnie Moore told the <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/411972">Epoch Times</a>. “We have one mission: to feed the people of Gaza in a way that Hamas, a designated terror organization, can’t steal the food. &#8230; One of the things that Hamas is trying to do, is they were trying to make Gazans afraid to come to our distribution center. Hamas killed twelve of our local Gazan aid workers.”
“The problem with Gaza is the United Nations and other international organizations created a system which empowered virtually every bad actor to make a bad situation worse,” he declared.

Hamas activists are seen during a military demonstration

Shocking Video Shows Hamas Terrorists Gorging Themselves While Gaza Starves

Terrorism

A new study reveals how media in the United States and Europe simply parroted inaccurate information from the terrorist group Hamas and represented it as truthful.
The Network Contagion and Research Institute released their comprehensive report, titled, “<a href="https://networkcontagion.us/reports/7-15-25-the-4th-estate-sale-how-american-and-european-media-became-an-uncritical-mouthpiece-for-a-designated-foreign-terror-organization/">The 4th Estate Sale: How American and European Media Became an Uncritical Mouthpiece for a Designated Foreign Terror Organization</a>.”
The report started by illuminating how the media virtually unanimously purveyed a uniform narrative in which they lied about the efforts of the U.S. Department of State’s aid initiative, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which was delivering meals and direct food assistance to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
“Within days of GHF’s first meal deliveries, it became the target of a deliberate narrative assault, driven less by verifiable facts than by the demands of a competing narrative,” the report states. “Reports and evidence of violence at aid sites began to surface, and international and U.S. media outlets, social media influencers, and NGOs started publishing articles that ascribed blame to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) or GHF for intentional violence against civilians, war crimes, and complicity in the crime of genocide. The reports quickly condensed into viral headlines, but the claim that the IDF was systematically murdering civilians was usually sourced from Hamas-run ministries or anonymous accounts, and often unverified. Moreover, evidence that Hamas could be responsible for violence around aid sites – evidence provided by non-Hamas Palestinian sources, by Hamas’s online communications, and by video that in some cases shows Hamas operatives deliberately firing on Palestinian civilians– was almost never suggested.”
“A core failure of media coverage is the routine elevation of the Gaza Health Ministry, a Hamas-run agency, as a trusted source on culpability for violence. &#8230; many mainstream media outlets remain willing to rely on figures and ‘facts’ taken from the Gaza Health Ministry,&#8221; the report continues. “The media framed a narrative sourced unreflexively from Hamas affiliates – a narrative which aims to uproot any challenge that undermines the terrorist-designated entity’s governance over aid distribution in the Gaza Strip. This effort transformed reporting into narrative laundering: the process of circulating unverified or unreliable information and framing it as a legitimate window into truth.”
“Our results suggest that the GHF was targeted and undermined by a collection of adversarial actors and institutional amplifiers acting synchronously and convergently,” the report continues. “Major media headlines cited Hamas-linked officials more than any other source – making a foreign terrorist organization one of the leading voices shaping news about GHF. Of the high-engagement news articles NCRI analyzed, Hamas-linked officials and organizations, such as the Gaza Health Ministry, were directly cited in headlines more than any other named source. In nearly three-quarters of those cases, it was not disclosed in the headline that the source was a Hamas affiliate.”
One example from the report: “The Washington Post retracted early versions of a report that explicitly stated Israeli troops killed over 30 Palestinians near a U.S. aid site in Gaza. The original headline attributed to ‘health officials’ the claims about Israeli troops being responsible for the deaths, but the journalists failed to clarify that this attribution solely reflected a claim from the Gaza Health Ministry. This consequently gave readers a false impression that Israeli responsibility had been independently confirmed.”
Another: “CNN corrected its report of a shooting near a Gaza aid site in which at least 31 Palestinians were allegedly killed. The original article uncritically reported the Gaza Health Ministry’s claim that the Israeli military was responsible without making clear that this accusation had not been independently verified.”
“A particularly salient example of this occurred when Gazan pharmacist Omar Hamad introduced the conspiratorial narrative that the GHF intentionally laced bags of flour with the narcotic Oxycodone. This claim went viral on X, racking up over 25.7M views across just 21 posts,” the report noted.
“While originating from traditional sources (NGOs, UN bodies, humanitarian advocates), these narratives are rapidly absorbed by future assassins like Elias Rodriguez or online networks that reframe them through radically different lenses on both the right and left,” the report opines.
“The belief that Israel is intentionally starving children or deliberately targeting hospitals under the pretense of counterterrorism is not grounded in verifiable fact. These are not legitimate policy critiques; they are fabricated atrocity narratives that reframe Israel&#8217;s actions as genocidal, regardless of evidence to the contrary. What’s most alarming is the shift from political disagreement to dehumanizing conviction. The experimental results show that exposure to these narratives moves individuals to endorse conspiracy-level accusations and adopt a moral framework in which Israel is no longer a flawed actor, but a fundamentally evil one,” the report concludes.

Pinocchio

Study Shows How U.S. And European Media Parrot Hamas Propaganda, Present It As Truth

Legacy Media

Critics of the United Nations have slammed the international organization for hindering the work of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has reportedly donated more than 50 million meals to Gazan residents.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres claimed on Friday that the GHF in Gaza is “inherently unsafe” and “killing people.” “Guterres said U.N.-led humanitarian efforts are being ‘strangled,’” Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-chief-says-us-backed-gaza-aid-operation-is-unsafe-killing-people-2025-06-27/">reported</a>.
GHF chairman Johnnie Moore responded on Monday, “I’m surprised that something so right, something so simple as feeding people, has become so controversial. We have poked a lot of bears.” He added that the GHF thought it was only “poking the bear of a designated terrorist organization that wants to steal the aid from people,” but in the process unveiled “the underbelly of the United Nations and all of these organizations around the world,” JNS <a href="https://www.jns.org/ghf-lack-of-un-condemnation-of-hamas-killing-of-aid-workers-shows-bodys-underbelly/">reported</a>.
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Asked about reports that the U.N. is pressuring agencies to cut ties with the GHF, U.N. Watch’s Hillel Neuer stated, “It’s not surprising because we’ve seen this attitude consistently from the leadership at the UN; Guterres over a year ago instructed all UN agencies, basically forbade them from dealing with any other effort that would replace UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] in any way. There were reports from several of these agencies that Guterres gave an order to the heads of all UN humanitarian agencies, do not deal, cooperate in any way with any US-led initiative to replace any of the work that UNRWA is doing. So the latest reports are just a continuation of that kind of policy. In my opinion, it’s kind of like a Mafia-type approach; if you dare cooperate with this entity, we’ll break your legs.”
“I think it is politically motivated because we’re seeing an incredible amount of inversion; the argument put out by the UN — and they’ve been vehement in the past several weeks, more than we’ve ever seen on almost any other issue, certainly from UNRWA,” Neuer explained. “Because they see it as existential, that a more effective non-politicized, authentic, sincere humanitarian effort— would show that UNRWA is the opposite. And it is the opposite. &#8230; UNRWA has a whole political pathological agenda telling Palestinians they have a ‘right of return,’ which means the right to invade Israel on October 7 and massacre Israelis. That’s the true agenda of UNRWA.”
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Israel and US expected to shield attempts at the UN to close the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
UNRWA &#39;sees it as existential that a more-effective, non-politicized, authentic, sincere humanitarian effort would show that UNRWA is the opposite,&#39; <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillelNeuer</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/natasharaquel_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@natasharaquel_</a> <a href="https://t.co/AsErvnJwB0">pic.twitter.com/AsErvnJwB0</a>
&mdash; i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) <a href="https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1939729929622503503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Three weeks ago, Hamas terrorists murdered clearly identified GHS staff as they were returning from a day feeding Gazan civilians,” Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., stated. “All those pictures; they stopped the bus, tortured them in the middle of the road, and executed them. The Secretary-General said nothing. OCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory): nothing. UNRWA: nothing. Silence. &#8230; Outrageously, the UN has also emboldened false allegations against the GHF about violent incidents, shamelessly promoting claims from Hamas-controlled sources. The blindness and hatred &#8230; exploded into absurdity, with some actors even promoting the insane conspiracy that the aid being distributed contains drugs and that the people risking their lives to feed families are secretly pushing narcotics. It’s delusional. I don’t get it. Why don’t they cooperate? Why not to work together? Let us speak plainly. If you really care about Gazan children, stop sabotaging the only program that reaches them instead of terrorists.”
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I strongly condemned the UN&#39;s conduct toward the GHF, which provides aid to civilians directly, away from the hands of Hamas. 
Instead of supporting the initiative, the UN is actively trying to undermine it and is intimidating organizations willing to collaborate with the GHF.… <a href="https://t.co/K2i7oMmOTc">pic.twitter.com/K2i7oMmOTc</a>
&mdash; Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) <a href="https://twitter.com/dannydanon/status/1939784445218771260?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Moore issued a post on X on Monday in which he pleaded for the media to stop lying about GHF’s efforts, writing, “If you see some piece of info reported by the press from the Gaza Health Ministry then you can know that piece of information is not accurate. It is a LIE. It is part of the info war in an active war &amp; when you see a media outlet report stats from the Gaza Health Ministry it shows their bias. Some press try to justify this by saying the ‘Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’ but adding ‘Hamas-run’ isn’t to scrutinize the data … it’s often to JUSTIFY their use of the stat for other reasons. It is no better. It’s often a disingenuous tactic at best but sometimes intentionally deceptive. It causes further harm to the Gaza people and prolongs a terrible war.”
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: if you see some piece of info reported by the press from the Gaza Health Ministry then you can know that piece of information is not accurate.
It is a LIE.
It is part of the info war in an active war &amp; when you see a media outlet report stats from… <a href="https://t.co/B4lwc6e2AA">pic.twitter.com/B4lwc6e2AA</a>
— Rev. Johnnie Moore ن (@JohnnieM) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnieM/status/1939608691264655614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ahmed al-Masri, 26, a key organizer of protests against Hamas in April and May, was cruelly tortured by Hamas. “His feet were deliberately broken with large stones and iron crowbars; he was also shot in the legs,” the Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/29/hamas-tortures-gaza-civilians-while-world-distracted/">reported</a> this week, adding, “The atrocity is part of an escalating wave of bloodshed unleashed by Hamas against the ordinary Gazans it purports to represent.”
“In recent weeks, reports have multiplied of people being dragged out of aid lines, tortured in basements, or simply executed in broad daylight,” the Telegraph continued.

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