This past Sunday, trucks carrying medical supplies, food, and water entered through the Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza. President Biden has pledged $100 million for similar types of aid from the U.S., and the U.N. and various European governments have called for more.
At first blush, the arrival of this second aid convoy into a besieged and bombarded Gaza would appear to be cause for celebration. In fact it is quite the opposite. Hamas has a long history of diverting humanitarian aid to its own terrorist enterprise. Permitting aid to enter Gaza now — rather than facilitating the evacuation of civilians — only enables Hamas to use those resources for their own ends, thus prolonging its offensive against Israel and causing more casualties. Aid to Gaza means supplying Hamas. It is a gruesome mistake.
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