Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) falsely claimed Wednesday that “6,000 food trucks are lined up at the border” of Gaza—a convoy that would stretch anywhere from 45 to 67 miles—in an attempt to accuse Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of starving Palestinian civilians.
“Netanyahu’s government has created an epic disaster in Gaza,” Warren wrote on X. “6,000 food trucks are lined up at the border, children are starving, and still Netanyahu blocks help. History will remember this moment.”
The Democratic senator appears to have misunderstood a claim by U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) chief Philippe Lazzarini, who said last week that the agency had “the equivalent of 6,000 loaded trucks of food and medical supplies,” according to the BBC. Lazzarini did not mean 6,000 trucks physically lined up at the Gaza border—that many trucks would stretch anywhere from 45 to 67 miles, depending on the size of the trucks.
Warren’s Wednesday post is far from her only criticism of Israel and Netanyahu since Hamas’s horrific Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack, which killed over 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages in southern Israel.
Warren has accused Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza, boycotted Netanyahu’s address to Congress last summer, and used the first anniversary of the October 7 attack to accuse Netanyahu of having “unleashed unthinkable violence on innocent civilians in Gaza.”
UNRWA, meanwhile, is facing international scrutiny over its anti-Israel bias and ties to Hamas. A Wall Street Journal report last year, citing Israeli intelligence, found that roughly 1,200 UNRWA staffers—about 10 percent of the agency’s workforce—were linked to terrorist groups and that 49 percent of the employees had close relatives with ties to terrorism. The agency later fired nine staffers for participating in the October 7 attack.
Reports also broke last year that Hamas was using UNRWA’s facilities in Gaza as command centers and weapons storage depots. Lazzarini denied that his agency knew of Hamas’s presence, even after Israel unearthed a Hamas data center in UNRWA’s Gaza offices.
As for Palestinian aid, Israel on Sunday began pausing its military operations for 10 hours each day in three populated areas of Gaza to allow the flow of more humanitarian aid, NPR reported.
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