Soon after the ceasefire was announced, The Washington Post front-page photo was of Hamas fighters driving through the street. The fighters were the first overweight Gazans I had seen in the media in at least a year.
It's understood by humanitarian providers as well as drafters of the Geneva Conventions that, when food is scarce, young men (especially men with guns) will obtain it ahead of everyone else. Women, children, and the elderly will divvy up whatever remains. This is why starvation of an enemy force within a civilian population is a war crime, because the fighters will be the last to feel the effects. The only way to starve Hamas is to starve everyone else in Gaza first.
It's understood by humanitarian providers as well as drafters of the Geneva Conventions that, when food is scarce, young men (especially men with guns) will obtain it ahead of everyone else. Women, children, and the elderly will divvy up whatever remains. This is why starvation of an enemy force within a civilian population is a war crime, because the fighters will be the last to feel the effects. The only way to starve Hamas is to starve everyone else in Gaza first.