Hebrew Media: Israel Fails Against International Media Coverage Regarding Gaza Famine

SadaNews Translation - On Friday, Yedioth Ahronoth reported that media coverage across international outlets forced Israel to decide to increase the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip.

According to the Hebrew newspaper, as translated by SadaNews, the political level instructed the military late Thursday to bring in more aid trucks to the sector, even if it meant reaching Hamas.

The newspaper noted reports from international newspapers and channels such as CNN, The New York Times, The Telegraph, The Washington Post, BBC, and other influential media in the United States, Britain, and other major countries worldwide.

It pointed out that the reports included written articles and accompanying images, as well as video reports from inside Gaza showing the suffering within the sector.

The newspaper outlined that these reports have contributed to significant international pressure on Israel, leading the political leadership in Tel Aviv to issue orders to increase and expedite the flow of aid to the sector.

SadaNews’s correspondent in Gaza commented that this information is inaccurate, stating that what little was allowed in consisted of very small quantities of flour, which were brought into specific areas and were subjected to looting and theft, indicating that Israel is interested in maintaining the chaos.

The New York Times titled a leading report on its front page "Gaza Residents Dying of Hunger," documenting cases of children who have died and others who are starving, and published a painful video from Gaza on its website, with a side headline: "A Strangling Famine Sweeps Gaza, and People Are Dying of Hunger."

The Times highlighted the deteriorating situation of malnutrition among children, describing them to its readers as "emaciated children resembling skeletons, with sunken eyes, lying exhausted in hospital beds... their limbs so thin they appear like fragile sticks."

Meanwhile, CNN ran a headline on its website "Gaza Is Starving and Anger Is Widening; Will Netanyahu Listen?"

Paula Hancock, an international affairs commentator for the network, referred in her report to statements from international organizations warning about the crisis in Gaza, questioning the significance of such words even from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who described the situation as a "theater of horror," while famine continues to escalate.

She responded with one word: Trump. Indicating that he is the only one who might compel Israel to act as he wishes, as he did during the Iran War, and after the attack on the church in Gaza. She stated: "It seems that a tense phone call from the leader of the free world is the fastest way to change the mind of a leader who appears unaffected by increasing international pressure," referring to Netanyahu.

The international media reports called for the necessity of ending the famine in Gaza.

They also referred to previous Israeli statements, including from the extremist minister Amichai Eliyahu, who confirmed that the current government policy is to starve the population and displace them, which led the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to tweet in English, denying this.

In the same context, the Hebrew newspaper Maariv published a report indicating Netanyahu's government’s failure to manage the war in Gaza following the current humanitarian crisis, which has changed global stances against it.

The newspaper stated that the political leadership's management of the war is not amateurish, but rather far worse; it is a near-criminal neglect.

It added: Israel has failed to achieve its goals and exploit international support. What it is currently doing is changing plans and goals, insisting on making deals in stages to preserve the political survival of a government that drags the entire state into military adventures that remain unresolved in reality. As translated by SadaNews.

It believed that Israel could have flooded Gaza with goods, ensuring that every Gazan receives what is needed to prevent Hamas from controlling and selling them, as the population would be self-sufficient without the need to purchase them, pointing out that Israel preferred the approach of the extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich to reduce supplies to create a humanitarian crisis and push the population to be displaced from the northern Gaza Strip, with the known result that Hamas is at its strongest since the beginning of "Gideon's Chariots."

It added: Hamas has translated Israel’s mistakes into its successes. It realizes that a war of attrition against a large regular army is a painful blow to the regular army, and it is clear that the army is being worn down day after day, with incidents increasing daily in Gaza. It understands that the food shortage increases the population's dependence on it, and it knows that market prices are subject to supply and demand laws.

The newspaper concluded in an analytical report by its military correspondent Avi Ashkenazi: We know that international pressure on Israel will weaken it in negotiations, and now, Israel has brought the delegation back to the country, and the goal is to recalculate the political course. The question is: Who will take charge? Will we take steps that will extract us from the quandary of Gaza, or will we sink further?