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Israel does not block aid to Gaza

The Citizen

October 09, 2025

Faizel Patel, like the Global Sumud Flotilla that he is writing about, is spreading blatant misinformation about Israel and the debacle surrounding the flotilla (Free Mandela, says SA, The Citizen, 3 October).

- Nicholas Woode-Smith

Israel has not stopped humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. In fact, Israel has been instrumental in ensuring aid reaches Gazans, and doesn't merely enrich or arm Hamas a terrorist organisation that perpetrated the mass rape and slaughter of Israeli civilians on 7 October, 2023 and also oppresses the people of Gaza.

This story is from the October 09, 2025 edition of The Citizen.

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