Gazan activist: Hamas hid tons of baby formula for months to manufacture starvation crisis

Alkhatib, a Gazan native and anti-Hamas activist who resides in the US, shared video footage of the "literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes," which he says were hidden "during the worst of the days of the hunger crisis."

"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," he wrote.

"What those in the West continue to fail to understand is that there is no being pro-Palestine without also having a serious vigilance against Hamas’s continued manipulation of international public opinion to hide behind the Strip's civilian population's suffering, something that the terrorist organization’s own actions have led to and created," he continued.

"Never allow yourself to be a useful idiot in Hamas’s propaganda. You can have compassion for the real suffering of the Palestinian civilians of Gaza, and demand Israeli action to facilitate aid entry into the coastal enclave, while still holding Hamas accountable for its part in causing a hunger and starvation crisis in the first place," he concluded.

Israel's Foreign Ministry responded to the footage, saying "Hamas will starve their own people if it can be leveraged into political gain."

"Creating the crisis and branding it a tragedy is their playbook," the Foreign Ministry accused.

"Until then, we will continue to expose the truth and protect Israeli citizens," Danon wrote.