Published: 24 July 2025
Last updated: 1 August 2025
Twenty-eight countries including Australia are demanding an immediate end to the Gaza war and calling on Israel to lift restrictions on aid in the enclave.
The joint statement, signed by Foreign Minister Penny Wong, comes amid growing international concern over the rising number of deaths at aid distribution sites as well as from malnutrition. It condemns what it describes as the “inhumane killing” of Palestinians and criticises the “drip-feeding of aid”.
The majority of those killed in Gaza in recent weeks were near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) sites, which the US and Israel had backed to take over aid distribution from a United Nations-led network.
“We... come together with a simple, urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now,” read the statement.
The statement sharply criticised the Israeli government’s current aid delivery model. “The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The Israeli government’s aid delivery model is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of human dignity. It is horrifying that over 800 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid... Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law.”
The joint statement also condemned Hamas’s treatment of hostages held captive since October 7. “We condemn their continued detention and call for their immediate and unconditional release. A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and ending the agony of their families.”
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Ian Light25 July at 06:21 am
What is happening in Gaza is a disgrace for Israel.
Young children and non- Combatants ought not suffer so severely for the crimes of the perpetrators of the Atrocious Barbarism of Hamas .
The press is correct to denounce Israel but Hamas is also to blame and severely for the Hamas and other Clans have food which they ought distribute to their vulnerable people .
Hamas ought release all hostages for a UN led pouring in of salvation water food and medicines .
In addition Egypt is failing in not pushing in food and not taking malnourished and the vulnerable .Over 100,000 of Gaza’s people have fled .
They pay a Survival Tax of 5-10,000
Dollars .
Simon Krite24 July at 08:49 am
To the Editors at TJI,
Publishing this Hamas-scripted sob story titled “‘At least heaven has food’: Australia backs global demand to end Gaza war amid rising starvation” is not only journalistically negligent, it’s morally bankrupt.
Let’s get something straight. The author parrots claims from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, yes, the same genocidal terror regime that butchered over 1,200 Israelis on October 7, including babies, elderly women, and entire families. The same regime still holds over 100 hostages in tunnels under hospitals. Yet somehow, your editorial focus is on blaming Israel for the consequences of a war Hamas started and refuses to end.
The only people starving Gazans are Hamas, who steal and sell food, fuel, and medicine meant for civilians. The United Nations, corrupt and complicit funnels aid through Hamas-linked networks, empowers their racketeering, and then cries foul when Israel dares to bypass their incompetence. You quote “aid agencies” and “human rights groups” who’ve turned a blind eye to Hamas’ child soldiers, booby-trapped schools, and systematic abuse of their own people for two decades.
You mention Yousef al-Safadi, the tragic six-week-old baby, with no investigation into why Hamas, a multi-billion dollar organisation flush with Iranian cash can buy weapons but not formula. That question doesn’t seem to bother you. Nor do the hundreds of aid trucks entering Gaza daily!!!!! 146 trucks a day on average, according to the IDF, with hundreds more blocked or looted by Hamas operatives.
You mention Penny Wong’s signature on a letter condemning Israel but barely whisper about the fact that Hamas not only started the war, but chooses to prolong it. You give two lines buried halfway down the piece to the fact that hostages remain in captivity. Where is the outrage? Where are the tears for them?
Your headline might as well have been written in a Hamas PR war room: “At least heaven has food.” What a grotesque piece of emotional manipulation, devoid of context, devoid of facts, and devoid of any accountability for the monsters who brought Gaza to ruin.
TJI has abandoned even the pretence of balance. This is not journalism. This is propaganda. And the fact that it is being published under the banner of a Jewish publication is an insult to history, decency, and every Jew who understands the difference between defending life and enabling terror.
Shame on you.