Overview
- U.S.-based Palestinian activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib posted footage showing stacks of infant formula and children’s nutritional shakes in what he says were clandestine Gaza Ministry of Health storage sites.
- Alkhatib alleges Hamas withheld infant supplies to intensify hunger and advance a famine narrative aimed at undercutting Israel and reshaping aid control.
- He says the goal included forcing a shift away from the U.S.-created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which distributed aid independently of Hamas.
- GHF operations faced violence at distribution points, and Hamas warned Palestinians to stay away from the sites during a period of severe shortages.
- A UN Office for Project Services review previously attributed most looting of aid convoys to armed gangs, and Alkhatib’s new allegation has not been independently verified.