A fearless elderly woman in Gaza has courageously spoken out against Hamas, accusing the terror group of stealing food and essential aid from desperate families.
Footage showed her wagging her finger at a TV news reporter as she claimed that “all aid goes underground” to tunnel networks used by Hamas.
Last night, other Palestinians also spoke out, claiming that Hamas had looted their homes and drawn Israeli bombardments into civilian areas.
The Israeli army said it was fighting house-to-house and carrying out lightning strikes in an attempt to free dozens of Israeli hostages.
The elderly woman wearing a headscarf was filmed berating an Al Jazeera reporter who suggested international aid would not reach her because of the “difficult” situation.
Last night, other Palestinians also spoke out, claiming that Hamas had looted their homes and drawn Israeli bombardments into civilian areas.
The Israeli army said it had carried out “house-to-house” fighting and lightning strikes in an attempt to free dozens of Israeli hostages.
She told him, “All aid goes underground. The aid does not reach the nation and the entire people. There's a lot to come. Only a little comes and it is distributed – so they say.'
When the reporter again suggested that the situation was “difficult,” the woman shook her finger in front of a shocked crowd of Palestinians and said, “Everything is going to their homes.” They will take it, they will even shoot me and do whatever they want to me, Hamas.”
In separate footage, a young Palestinian mother also accused Hamas of stealing aid. As she cradled her baby, she told a reporter that she wanted her message to “reach all the countries of the world.”
She added: “You send us humanitarian aid, but I swear to God we get nothing. Only if we chase them and beg. They mock us when we ask. They humiliate us.'
She said Hamas is “taking advantage of us” and added: “May God take revenge on them.”
Last night, a father of two in Gaza told The Mail on Sunday that ordinary people wanted Hamas to fall.
“This is Gaza's shared dream,” he said, on condition of anonymity, as part of a press call from the Center for Peace Communications.
Despite living under constant Israeli bombardment, he said, “We are afraid of most of Hamas.”
He said Hamas was monitoring social media for dissent, adding: “I heard they took people away and executed them. They'll accuse anyone of being a cop and they'll be gone.”
He said his brother was killed by Hamas when Hamas seized power in 2007 and rounded up political opponents. He added that his neighborhood was looted by Hamas looters at the outbreak of this war on October 7, when the terrorists killed more than 1,200 civilians and took 240 men, women and children hostage.
“My house and the entire neighborhood have been completely evacuated,” he said. He claimed that Hamas fighters were “hiding among the people” and stationed terrorists on the roofs of hospitals and schools, adding: “It's like saying to Israel, 'Come and bomb this place.'
On Friday evening, the United States blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. Britain abstained because the UN resolution failed to condemn Hamas as terrorists.
During a seven-day ceasefire, Hamas released 105 hostages last month in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
Carl Skau, deputy director of the UN World Food Programme, said half of Gaza's population was “starving”. Israeli Lt. Col. Richard Hecht said it was doing “everything it could” to get help to Gaza.
It came as it emerged that Hamas tortured and executed an Israeli hostage after a rescue mission to save him was foiled.
The terrorists released a video showing the mutilated body of 25-year-old Sa'ar Baruch after special forces failed to free him on Thursday.
Baruch was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, while his brother Idan, 20, was shot dead after militants set fire to their house.
Israel said two soldiers were “seriously injured” during the mission, but “numerous terrorists” were killed.