‘Hold On!’ CNN’s Kaitlin Collins Stops Israeli Spokesman After He Blames Hamas For Lack of Aid to Gaza

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins stopped an Israeli Government spokesman as he blamed Hamas for preventing aid from getting to starving Palestinians in Gaza.

Eylon Levy claimed Friday that, “We want to see as much humanitarian aid get into Gaza, to the people who need it, while making sure that Hamas cannot steal it“:

COLLINS: Ok, but there’s also a lot of aid on the other side of the border where this was posted by the former, the former humanitarian coordinator for the United Nations, who’s now working for the Norwegian group here. And he was saying that aid that cannot get in. But I want to get to aid—

LEVY: The amount of aid is actually increasing—

COLLINS: But, hold on! Hold on. I want to get to aid generally and what, how much is getting in. But on the fact that the U.S. is now orchestrating air drops to go into that, is that really the solution Israel thinks is the way to get out of this, the way to help feed these starving people in Gaza?

LEVY: Well, there were two questions. One is the question of aid getting into the Gaza Strip, and there is enough capacity at Israel’s crossings to get in as much aid as the international community is sending—

COLLINS: But, clearly, clearly there’s not.

LEVY: I know, but then there’s a question of how aid is being distributed inside Gaza. And we’re talking about airdrops into areas that are difficult to reach because they are active war zones. Because Hamas is still fighting in the northern Gaza strip, and because these are dangerous areas…

So one option is to airdrop aid, and there was a successful pilot this week in cooperation with, I believe, Jordan, Egypt, the U.A.E., France, and the United States to airdrop aid into Gaza. And we’re looking into other ways to deliver aid into northern Gaza and make sure, again, it gets to civilians who need it while making sure Hamas cannot steal it.

Levy concluded, “It’s a unique challenge to work out how you distribute aid in an active war zone, where we know that the terrorist organization Hamas is hijacking aid, that the U.N. agencies that are supposed to distribute aid has been covering up for Hamas. And worse than that, have been relying on Hamas protection for the ships, for the cargo.”

Also Friday, President Biden announced that the U.S. will work around Israel to airdrop aid into Gaza.

Watch the clip above via CNN.