Al Arabiya Report Claims Gaza Aid Looters Make $900 Per Day
The Saudi news channel exposes Gaza's "aid economy," with looters boasting a $900 daily profit from international aid channels
Saudi state broadcaster, Al Arabiya, released a little-seen video in August about Gaza’s underground “aid economy” and put Western media narratives about an alleged famine in the strip under the microscope.
Al Arabiya’s TikTok and Facebook channels recently captured scenes as young men — affiliated with Hamas or armed gangs — in Gaza were filmed ripping open truckloads of aid, looting high-value staples like flour, sugar, oil, and chocolate. According to the videos, the most coveted goods are swiftly offloaded and funneled onto Gaza’s thriving black market.
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Witnesses report that these looters operate as organized units, each group specializing in stealing a particular category of essential goods. One team goes for flour, another targets oil or sugar, and so on. At least one man, emboldened by his illicit success, boasted to cameras that he makes 3,000 shekels per day (approximately $900) from this racket, underscoring how lucrative the “aid economy” has become for those exploiting the system.
The Al Arabiya video may have unintentionally broken taboos by broadcasting these aid scams openly and in detail. In stark contrast, many continue to highlight “no food in Gaza” narratives and accusations of deliberate starvation, even as visual evidence increasingly contradicts claims of a complete humanitarian blockade.
As Jewish Onliner previously reported, IPC’s declaration of famine in Gaza is based on inconsistent, incomplete data and compromised methodology, raising concerns about author bias and politicization of humanitarian reporting.
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That stack of 200nis bills brings up an interesting question: what would happen to the illicit Hamas economy if the (previously considered and discarded) out of the box idea of the Israeli government voiding all 200nis bills were to be implemented?
Yes, the 21st century version of Brecht's, "Mother Courage and Her Children" playing out in real time.