The IDF has published footage purporting to show armed Hamas militants looting a truck of humanitarian aid in Gaza amid an ongoing war of words over whether Israel is subjecting the strip to a policy of forced starvation. 

Releasing the video on X on Tuesday, the Israeli military accused the terrorist organisation of 'spreading false campaigns about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza'.

It comes as Israel faces widespread condemnation from the UN, international aid groups and foreign governments over the humanitarian situation in Gaza, amid an influx of photographs of emaciated Palestinian children and reports of hunger-related deaths in the war-torn enclave. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sternly refuted the claim that the Jewish state is enforcing a policy of deliberate starvation as a war tactic and insists that Gaza is not facing a starvation crisis. 

In the footage released by the IDF, which they say was filmed on Friday, armed gunmen can be seen standing on top of a truck stacked with boxes as crowds of Palestinian civilians surround the vehicle. 

One of the men points his gun downwards at the crowd at he stands atop the truck.

The Israeli army claims the footage shows armed Hamas operatives 'violently looting humanitarian aid that was brought into the Gaza Strip, preventing it from reaching the civilian population'.

'Contrary to Hamas's false claims that these are security personnel, these are Hamas terrorists who arrived to loot the humanitarian aid from Gaza residents. 

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Releasing the video on X on Tuesday, the Israeli military accused the terrorist organisation of 'spreading false campaigns about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza'

Releasing the video on X on Tuesday, the Israeli military accused the terrorist organisation of 'spreading false campaigns about a deliberate starvation campaign in Gaza'