Have you ever heard of the name Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib? I’m betting the answer is no.
According to C. Douglas Golden, whose article at The Western Journal I’m quoting from below, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib is a Gazan activist; one who is anti-hamas but, based on his affiliations, probably shares hamas’ attitude toward Israel.
Here is alkhatib’s account of the much-publicized claims that Israel was starving Gazans, which international media were so willing – and eager – to believe: particularly the lack of food for babies and young children:
In what was arguably both the 1) most infuriating and 2) least shocking story to come out of Tuesday, a Palestinian activist says that Hamas hoarded food meant for Gazans during the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including massive amounts of baby formula.
The accusation came from Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, an anti-Hamas activist, who hails from Gaza originally. He’s currently a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council and a team member with the Council on Foreign Relations, so we’re not precisely talking a pro-Israel voice here.
In an X post, Alkhatib said that authorities had the ability to feed people despite claims of looming famine.
As for the receipts, he definitely had them, in the form of a video which allegedly showed a Hamas warehouse with a massive amount of baby formula and nutritional shakes for children purposely discarded.
“During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health,” Alkhatib said.
“The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Now, activists in the Strip are documenting the waste and deliberate disposal of tons of infant formula, nutritional children’s shake, and children’s powdered milk, which Hamas had hoarded away, given the saturation of the coastal enclave with humanitarian aid after the ceasefire two months ago.”
The article has more – a lot more – to say about the reality versus fantasy of Gaza’s lack of food. I strongly urge you to use the link (here it is again) and read every word.
Then you can wait for the same media which had no problem blaming Israel for any food shortages in Gaza, to talk about Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib’s allegations, and to try explaining how to reconcile the warehouse video with hamas’ claims that there was no food available.
Trust me: it will be a long, long wait
