CLAIM: Israel periodically cut food and other humanitarian aid since Hamas was elected in 2006.
RATING:
True
Israel has deliberately cut humanitarian aid into Gaza for certain periods following Hamas’s election victory.
In 2006, after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections, Israel decided to blockade Gaza and reduce the amount of food that entered, while Western governments' imposed an aid boycott (preventing food, medicine, and aid funds from entering Gaza). As Dov Weisglass, adviser to then-president Ehud Olmert said in early 2006, "It's like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner, but won't die."
To cope with these restrictions, it is likely that some food and aid continued to be smuggled in through tunnels. The diet of Palestinians would also have been supplemented from fishing and growing their own food.
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.