Over the past few weeks the world has erupted in outrage over false claims made about Israel, not over the crimes of Hamas, but over the claims of Hamas.
Every time the terror group falsely accuses Israel of harming aid convoys or civilians, without presenting a shred of evidence, media outlets run headlines, UN bodies issue statements, and Western activists rage online. But when Hamas admits to murdering Palestinian aid workers and kidnapping them, the silence is deafening.
On Wednesday, Hamas killed five humanitarian workers from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and wounded and kidnapped others. All of them were Palestinians.
There was no condemnation from the United Nations. No global outcry. No vigils. No calls for justice. Why? Because Hamas, not Israel, pulled the trigger. And in the twisted morals of international opinion, Palestinian lives only seem to matter when they can be weaponised against the Jewish state.
Let’s be clear: Israel has no reason to harm the people it is working so hard to feed. The IDF coordinates daily aid deliveries, and COGAT has gone to extreme lengths to facilitate food and humanitarian relief into Gaza, often in coordination with international agencies. It makes no sense for Israel to kill the very people it is risking lives to help.
But Hamas? Hamas has every reason to attack those same civilians. Aid that reaches Palestinians is aid that strengthens the reality that Israel is acting with restraint and humanity. For Hamas, that is a threat to their propaganda war. They would rather see their own people suffer than allow Israel to succeed in showing the world what morality looks like. Hamas wants to scare its own people to stop them getting aid, and its actions should not be surprising.
Hamas does not care about the Palestinians. Hamas has bombed aid convoys, fired on civilians trying to collect food, and stolen humanitarian supplies for their fighters. More than this, they have openly turned hospitals into military bases and used children as human shields. They thrive not on victory, but on victimhood. The more Gazans suffer, the more Hamas benefits, politically, financially, and ideologically.
The world claims to care about Palestinians. But where is the outrage when Hamas executes suspected collaborators without trial? Where is the condemnation when they shoot dissenters in the street or use child soldiers in their wars? Where are the urgent UN sessions when Palestinian civilians are killed by Hamas, not as collateral damage, but by direct intent?
There are countless videos of Hamas brutalising Palestinians: beating them, shooting them in the legs as punishment, intimidating families, recruiting and training child soldiers. Meanwhile, there is a noticeable absence of such footage implicating Israeli forces. Despite the mountains of scrutiny placed on the IDF, the evidence simply doesn’t align with the narrative of indiscriminate cruelty.
The truth is that Hamas is barbaric. And Israel, despite being demonised, is doing more to protect Palestinians than their so-called leadership ever has.
If the international community genuinely cared about Palestinian lives, they would demand Hamas be dismantled. They would support aid corridors that bypass terror networks. They would insist that humanitarian relief be protected from militant interference, and that Palestinians be given real freedom, not from borders, but from the tyranny of Hamas.
Instead, they stay silent. Because this was never about justice. It was never about peace. For too many, it’s just about hating Israel.
And that is the real blood libel of our time.
