July 30, 2024 | National Review

Kamala Harris Misleads on Gaza Food Shortage

Despite what Harris deceptively implied, the truth is that Israel facilitated a surge of aid that prevented a famine.
July 30, 2024 | National Review

Kamala Harris Misleads on Gaza Food Shortage

Despite what Harris deceptively implied, the truth is that Israel facilitated a surge of aid that prevented a famine.

Excerpt

Kamala Harris met with Benjamin Netanyahu last Thursday, then went right out to tell journalists that Israel wasn’t doing enough to prevent suffering in Gaza. Harris spoke about shortages of food across the coastal strip, including “catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity” affecting half a million people, roughly a quarter of Gaza’s population.

If Harris had paid closer attention to Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress, she might have understood that Israel has facilitated a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza, which prevented a famine that the world’s leading experts on food security declared to be “imminent.”

David Adesnik is a senior fellow and the director of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. @adesnik

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