Tom Cotton: “well, here we go again. Hamas is on the verge of defeat, so it has cranked up the propaganda machine once again. Now…”

“well, here we go again. Hamas is on the verge of defeat, so it has cranked up the propaganda machine once again. Now Hamas wants the world to believe that Israel has undertaken a campaign of deliberate starvation of the Gazan population, and as usual, Hamas can count on an international media and political chorus to fight their battles for them and try to bully Israel into submission. So I would like to set the record straight. First, let me observe that no decent person wants to see innocent children caught in the crosshairs of war and suffering and hunger and malnutrition. Israel agrees, of course. That is why, since Hamas started this war with its brutal atrocities, Israel has helped bring into Gaza approximately 96,000 trucks containing nearly 1.5 million tons of food, 46,000 tons of medical supplies, 60,000 tons of water, and around 170,000 tons of shelter equipment. Put simply, children in Gaza aren't going hungry because of lack of supplies from Israel; they are suffering because Hamas uses food and humanitarian aid as a weapon to stay in power.”