A Gazan Warehouse of Baby Formula Exposes the Media’s Vilest Hamas-Fed Lie

Key Takeaways:

• Video evidence published online this week shows tons of baby formula and nutritional shakes that were kept in Hamas warehouses and intentionally withheld from Gazan civilians.
• For months, the media has blamed Israel for the lack of formula and food for infants, yet Israel never restricted the amount of baby formula.
• The media spread a false narrative about starvation in Gaza as a result of Israel, leading to the publishing of stories of starving Gazan children. But when evidence surfaced showing Hamas was the perpetrator, the same outlets failed to apply the same scrutiny.

 

Throughout the summer of 2025, doctors in Gaza repeatedly warned that babies were going hungry due to a shortage of infant formula. These claims were amplified across global media and social platforms, often delivered in dramatic appeals for urgent international intervention. Over time, the narrative became one of the most prominent humanitarian storylines of the season.

The New York Times wrote that “Parents in Gaza Are Running Out of Ways to Feed Their Children,” and The Guardian urged action as babies were “at risk of death from lack of formula.”

Perhaps most widely known were the stories of malnourished children in Gaza whose gaunt images dominated front pages around the world. Families of these young children pleaded for international intervention, saying they had “no formula, no supplements, no vitamins” to feed their babies.

Although some of these children were later reported to have had pre-existing medical conditions that contributed to their malnourishment, much of the media continued to advance a narrative suggesting that Israel was deliberately targeting children by restricting adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Israel, however, consistently maintained that there was a steady supply of infant formula entering Gaza. At the height of the media frenzy over alleged starvation, Israeli records showed that more than 1,400 tons of baby formula, including specialized formulations for infants with medical needs, had been delivered into the Strip.

So where was all the formula?

In Hamas-controlled warehouses.

This week, Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a widely respected Gaza-born analyst known for his independent criticism of Hamas, published video evidence showing a warehouse operated by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health stocked with massive quantities of baby formula and children’s nutritional shakes. These supplies never reached the desperate families whose stories filled international headlines.

During the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months, Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

The goal, as I said… pic.twitter.com/pANo9uHfAb

— Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@afalkhatib) December 9, 2025

This is the terror organization Israel has been fighting for the past two years, and precisely why its removal from power in Gaza remains a central condition of any lasting ceasefire. Hamas’s campaign is not driven solely by hostility toward Israel, but by a calculated willingness to endanger its own civilians to advance its goal of dismantling the Jewish state. That strategy has included obstructing or diverting humanitarian aid when it suited its aims – even when the victims were children.

By placing Gazan lives in harm’s way and exploiting their suffering, Hamas weaponized heartbreaking images to sway global opinion against Israel. In the process, it manipulated media narratives while evading responsibility for the humanitarian consequences of its own actions. Tragically, it did so with considerable success.

The same outlets that aggressively promoted the claim that Israel was withholding aid and deliberately starving children by blocking access to infant formula have since gone conspicuously silent. A story that once dominated front pages around the world has virtually disappeared now that evidence has emerged showing that Israel was not the perpetrator.

Hamas manipulated the media – and they fell for it. By laundering terrorist propaganda through headlines, imagery, and selective outrage, then declining to correct the record once that narrative unraveled, major outlets exposed how vulnerable they are to manipulation when facts complicate preferred storylines.

Hamas has been the agitator all along, recklessly endangering both Palestinian and Israeli lives. It is time the media confront that reality and their role in falsely accusing Israel of starving innocent Palestinians.