Central Gaza is “drowning in goods and aid”
PA TV: There’s food in Gaza, but public employees can’t buy it because they can’t get to their salaries
PA TV contradicts its own war libels: Central Gaza is “drowning in goods and aid”
Terror organization Hamas and the PA want the world to believe that there is no food in the Gaza Strip and that Palestinians there are suffering a famine. But the PA’s own TV reporter in Gaza tells another story: While claiming that Gazans in the northern Strip suffer starvation and high prices, she also explained that central Gaza is overflowing with products and aid:
Official PA TV reporter in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: “The central district [of the Gaza Strip] is drowning in goods and aid while the northern [Gaza Strip] is suffering from a crisis of starvation and a very great increase in prices.”
[Official PA TV, June 26, 2024]
Also reporting directly from the Gaza Strip last month, official PA TV’s reporter explained that what prevents the PA’s public employees from buying food and other necessities is the fact that they “can’t get to their salaries” and that the goods therefore “sit and spoil.” PMW already reported that Gazan residents complained that they can’t take their money from the banks because Hamas is acting as if the ATMs are their “private property” and no one else can make withdrawals:
Official PA TV reporter from Deir Al-Balah, Gaza: “It is impossible for the public employees to get to their salaries. Therefore, the goods that are with the merchants sit and spoil, or they are sold at prices lower than they were, even though not long ago they were sold at a price several times higher than their price in the past.”
[Official PA TV, May 22, 2024]
Palestinian Media Watch has already reported that Hamas also is controlling the food and aid.
Note: The UN admitted in late June 2024 that there was no evidence of famine in Gaza during the 2023 Gaza war.