Greetings on this Monday, August 4th, 2025.

Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison.

Steve Whitkoff, President Trump's Middle East envoy, joined U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee,

on a visit to a U.S.-backed aid operation in Gaza on Friday.

The Israeli military said 200 trucks of aid were distributed by the U.N. and other organizations

on Thursday, with hundreds more waiting to be picked up from

border crossings inside Gaza. Food is now being airdropped into Gaza by six countries,

including for the first time France, Spain, and Germany. By way of background, in March

after a ceasefire with Hamas fell apart, Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip in a move aimed at pressuring the terror group to accept a new proposal to extend the ceasefire.

Many in Israel also viewed the agency that had been aiding the Palestinians as complicit with Hamas and terrorism.

However, the Wall Street Journal reports,

quote, photos of starving children are proved too much for most Israel's leaders to withstand. As a result, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly bypassed extremists in his cabinet to expand

opportunities for the delivery of vital supplies.

I must begin by stating the obvious. The suffering of even a single person grieves the heart of God

who made them. But there's more to this tragic story in Gaza, a factor that is relevant to the

way we see all conflicts and all peoples today.

Ahmed Fuad al-Katim is a native of Gaza and a political analyst.

His recent article in the Atlantic is titled Hamas wants Gaza to starve.

He writes,

Despite the surge of hundreds of trucks into Gaza over the past four days,

very few supplies have made it into warehouses to be distributed to the population.

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