Former Israeli Government Spokesman Claims Aid Organisations In Gaza Are Not Telling The Truth

Former Israeli Government Spokesman Eylon Levy has accused major humanitarian organizations, including Oxfam, UNICEF, Save the Children, Amnesty International, the United Nations Human Rights Watch, and the World Health Organization, of misleading the public about the situation in Gaza.

Mr. Levy made these claims during an interview with Ali Milani on Politics Uncensored, on FUBAR Radio.: "These are organizations that never at any point in their reports quote any military experts with knowledge of what urban battlefield looks like. They deliberately ignore the voices of experts"

He elaborated: "The organizations may say this. It doesn't make it true. In the early days of the war, Israel went to the United Nations and said, Hamas has deliberately rigged the urban battlefield to hide its military structures under schools and homes and hospitals. We want to set up a tent city in open areas so people can get out of harm's way, and the United Nations and the other organizations refuse to cooperate"

During the interview, Levy also addressed the media presence in Gaza: "A third worked for Hamas affiliated media. Many others Israel has already shown were working for Hamas' military wing, not Hamas media. Hamas' military wing, while moonlighting as Al Jazeera journalist." 

Levy added: " You cannot be a journalist and work for an international terrorist organization. But I'll answer your question specifically about why Israel hasn't allowed international media into Gaza freely. But first of all, it has allowed international media to enter on embeds with the Israeli army. But the fear, as the Supreme Court has accepted the government's claim, is that the presence of international media in Gaza could expose troop movements, and the army needs to thread a very difficult needle. It needs to make sure that soldiers are safe and that reporters will not give away their troop movements in a way that could alert Hamas to where they are and expose our conscripts and reservists who didn't ask to be in the war in Gaza there in the first place."

He continued to emphasize the risks faced by journalists on the ground in Gaza: "On the ground the Gazan journalists, none of them have ever produced a single headline, a single photo, a single piece of information that is inconvenient to the Hamas regime, because they know that Hamas governs through brutality and repression. And there have been cases inside the Gaza strip of individuals who have reported information inconvenient to Hamas who are subsequently executed."