Randy Fine: "Release the Hostages. Until then, Starve Away."
If Hamas gave back the hostages, the war could be over in minutes. So the suffering is on them, not on Israel, and not on Randy.
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Florida Congressman Randy Fine’s inflammatory X post, “Release the hostages. Until then, starve away,” has stirred further controversy amid revelations that the United Nations is refusing to cooperate with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a U.S.- and Israel-backed group offering to distribute 2,500 tons of stockpiled food aid in Gaza, per *Townhall* and *The Times of Israel*.
The UN’s rejection of GHF’s assistance, coupled with its dismissal of five proposed safe routes for aid delivery, has fueled arguments that the UN’s inaction is exacerbating Gaza’s famine crisis.
Fine’s remark drawing condemnation from groups like CAIR, who branded it “genocidal.”
Yet, the UN’s refusal to work with GHF, which has delivered 87 million meals since May 2025, has given Fine’s claims ammunition to claim the UN is obstructing solutions. GHF, operating four militarized distribution sites in southern and central Gaza, offered to handle UN aid to bypass alleged Hamas looting, a claim the UN and aid groups like Oxfam reject as unproven.
*The Times of Israel* reports GHF’s spokesperson, Chapin Fay, stating, “We can get their aid into Gaza safely and have offered to help repeatedly, but they continue to reject our offers.” The UN counters that GHF’s system, reliant on armed U.S. contractors and Israeli oversight, violates humanitarian principles of neutrality and puts Palestinians at risk (never mind that Hamas instigates stampedes by stabbing Gazans waiting for food). Just yesterday, Hamas launched a rocket at GHF site, which landed merely 250 meters away. If it landed landed closer, it would have blown Gazans up. But Hamas doesn't care. It's ready to kill every single Gazan for its great war on Israel.
Obviously, the media prefers to believe the tiresome and blatantly false narrative of the "woeful Gazans and Big Evil Israel."
The UN also cites Israel’s restrictions, including a March 2, 2025, blockade and frequent denials of mission requests, as the primary barrier, with 6,000 trucks of aid stuck in Jordan and Egypt, per UNRWA’s X posts.
Five suggested routes to streamline deliveries, detailed in a June 2025 UN-GHF correspondence, were rejected by the UN, citing safety concerns and Israel’s failure to ensure secure access, per *Reuters*. Critics, including *Doctors Without Borders*, describe GHF sites as “death traps,” with chaotic crowds facing gunfire from Israeli forces or contractors, as seen in a July 16 crush killing 20 in Khan Younis. Fine’s defenders argue the UN’s refusal to adapt or collaborate with GHF, despite its proven delivery of 2-3 million meals daily, suggests a prioritization of bureaucracy over lives, lending credence to Fine’s harsh stance. However, the UN insists that only a ceasefire and unrestricted access for established agencies like UNRWA can address Gaza’s 1.95 million people facing acute food insecurity, per the IPC report.
(And yes, UNRWA has scarily close ties to Hamas, but no one wants to hear that. And the Gazan Health Ministry lies about Gazan casualties through its teeth. But BBC and CNN and NYT and WSJ and Reuters parrot their numbers anyway.)
As Fine’s comments amplify calls for Hamas to release 58 hostages (23 believed alive), the deadlock between the UN and GHF leaves Gaza’s civilians caught in a deadly limbo. Whether Fine’s point holds or not, the standoff could point to a brutal reality: political choices, not just logistics, are driving Gaza’s starvation crisis.
Also, is there really any starvation crisis at all?
Hamas has warehouses filled with food, and every time aid trucks enter Gaza, Hamas manage to steal at least some of them.
So, it's not Randy Fine who has the problem, it's the Gazans, paying the price for Hamas' endless genocidal war on Israel.