Fox’s Bill Hemmer Reports On Aid Distribution From Inside Gaza, Weighs In On Netanyahu’s Plan to Occupy It

Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer reported from inside Gaza this week as he joined the mission to bring more aid to Palestinians amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by the Israel-Gaza war that began after the October 7th attack.

Hemmer joined Harris Faulkner on her show Tuesday and explained what he’s seen, “The scenario went a little bit like this, to sketch it out for you. Before dawn, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF, which is run by a bunch of American former special forces operating in southern Israel, they have these giant pallets of food that are laid out across the desert floor, that sit there on the gravel, and there are box after box after boxes sitting there.” He continued:

We were given a quick tour of that, and then we watched the procedure for how Palestinians living in that area are able to get in. There are three areas where you can enter. One on the left, one on the right, one down the middle. There are thousands of Gazans waiting for the flag to go from red, literally, to green. And once that happens at 9 o’clock local time, the green flag goes up and you start to see hundreds at the beginning.

Hundreds of young men mostly 12, 14, 16 years old, and then thousands that follow after them and they go for these boxes. They are sitting on these pallets and they rip them open and mostly they are looking for items like flour and potatoes. They are very hot commodities inside Gaza today. The supply that was put out lasts about 15 minutes, and after about 15 minutes, it’s pretty much spoken for and it’s gone.

And after about, I would say, 45 to 50 minutes after we arrived, we would start to pack our things up, talk to a number of Palestinians about what they want for their future and how they’re getting through their daily lives. And a lot of them told us they’re hungry, they don’t want Hamas, and they want to find a way to peace yet again. One specific woman said she wants out of there, but she’s going nowhere, Harris, because she, like about two million others in Gaza behind me, are trapped for the time being until and unless you reach some sort of peace deal or if the prime minister orders a further invasion of Gaza to go after Hamas. That was basically what we saw today. It’s the first time we’ve been able to report this in some time and the operation we saw today will continue yet again tomorrow and the day after that as the beat goes on, Harris.

“Look, you know, Bill, it’s so interesting to get your fantastic and deep reporting and watch it coincide with what we saw. It’s been like two or three months ago now. But there was a point where people were in the streets trying to push back against Hamas. It was a very small period of time, maybe across a weekend, just a few days. But they knew then that it was hell where they were. Hamas wasn’t going to do anything for them. They were setting food pallets on fire and doing things against their own people,” Faulkner noted, adding:

And now what you’re reporting is so consistent with that. They want the change. The question is, how fast can it come? I mean, there are politics involved, as you’ve just said. And I don’t know, we’re dealing with non-humans in Hamas. I don’t know what they’ll agree to.

“Well, Hamas is still in control of Gaza, and so long as that is the case, unless they have been uprooted, and they have not as of now, they’re going to call, they are going to make the decisions for so many millions now. You mentioned those food convoys. We saw the aid trucks. Some of them had been brought in by the UN. I mean, they were ripped to shreds. I don’t know how long they’ve been sitting out there in the desert,” Hemmer replied, before discussing more of what he saw.

Faulkner then asked about Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to go ahead and “occupy the Gaza Strip.”

“So that is a huge decision in all of this. It means that it puts operations to do that, to root out Hamas right where the hostages would be. It will put it where civilians are. What is the – and I know you talked with that one woman who said look I can’t leave, I’m trapped – what is the expectation of the people on the ground as Israel moves in? What are they? What are they looking at? What are they facing?” Faulkner asked.

“A couple of things to address on that. If the Israelis, on behalf of the IDF, go forward with an operation, what does it look like? And what do the Israeli people think? Some people here in Israel, lockstep with what the prime minister is doing. Others, not necessarily so,” replied Hemmer, adding:

We have not seen large, large protests in the streets of places like Tel Aviv, but maybe that’s something that develops. Harris, I will have an opportunity in two days to ask these questions to the prime minister when he sits down with us on Thursday afternoon, Israeli time, and we’ll find out what’s in store then and whether or not Israel has the capacity to do what he is suggesting. It would be a significant move in this war that is coming up in October on three years, Harris.

Faulkner concluded by adding, “And to quote that source now, ‘The prime minister’s goal is to expand the military action in Gaza to occupy the entirety of Gaza.’ I don’t have a timeline on that. So it could be that this is in motion by the time you sit down with the prime minister. We will watch for that. We shall see. Thank you so very much.”

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