More food aid is flowing into Gaza after Israel‘s authorization of new United Nations aid transit routes. This is a welcome development amid a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory. International organizations, the United States intelligence community, and many other nations assess that the civilians are going hungry, some of them dangerously so. The most sympathetic people, the elderly, infirm, and children, are the most vulnerable as they are the least capable of using force, the way young men and Hamas terrorists do. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have recently emphasized as much.

Most blame goes to Hamas. Its terrorists intercepted aid convoys, threatened security, and ensured that its fighters hijacked supplies from aid collection points, which they then use to feed themselves and illegally sell to civilians for whom the world provides it for free. Hamas lines its pockets on the black market for future attacks on Israel. It is also true that the U.N. has tolerated too many Hamas infiltrators in its ranks.