One of CBC News’ most consistent purveyors of anti-Israel coverage has produced another article purporting to convey that Gazans are “barely making ends meet” as a result of Israeli policies during the Hamas-Israel war.

The March 29 article entitled: “As Ramadan comes to a close, Palestinians say finding and affording food in Gaza a challenge,” was written by reporter Sara Jabakhanji, who signed a scandalous 2021 open letter calling for more anti-Israel news content, and yet remains employed by the publicly-funded broadcaster, writing on the very subject she protested about.

In the report, Jabakhanji – who is based in Canada – wrote that she relies on Aboubaker Abed, “a Palestinian freelance journalist,” for his first-hand accounts. Incredibly, what Jabakhanji did not share with readers is that Abed has spread virulent anti-Israel hateful content on his social media channel, and that he is also employed by Press TV, operated by none other than the fanatical and theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran and is its state-funded propaganda outlet.

Given Abed’s open expression of anti-Israel hostility and work for the Iranian regime – combined with Jabakhanji’s past anti-Israel activism, which she has never disavowed – the article’s resultant bias is self-evident.

The article reported that “children in Gaza are so hungry that they are drawing pictures of food in the sand.”

Given the source of this claim, that may or may not be true at all, but even if it is, Jabakhanji makes it clear that Israel is the culprit, given that it has stopped food deliveries “for nearly a month.”

Once again, the article is characterized by what remains unsaid. With this information alone, readers were left with the impression that Israel has starved Gaza. What she neglected to add is that there are many months’ of food inside Gaza, given the enormous amounts of humanitarian aid that flooded the territory during the monthslong ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

In short, if children in Gaza are “so hungry that they are drawing pictures of food in the sand,” it is not because there is insufficient food in Gaza; it is because the party overseeing distribution of said food – namely Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization – is responsible.

This is not simply a matter of deductive reasoning. Hamas’ theft of aid from its own people has been well-established, even if it has also been widely ignored by Canadian news media outlets. Investigations have found that by stealing humanitarian aid, creating artificial shortages, then reselling that aid at huge markups, Hamas has made hundreds of millions of dollars in the first year of the war alone. In fact, as one reporter described it, the aid has “become the main oxygen pipeline for the terrorist organization.”

No less importantly, it is noteworthy that under Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, if Israel has reasons to suspect “that a definite advantage may accrue to the military efforts or economy” of Hamas as a result of permitting aid into Gaza, then it is entirely within its rights to stop it. In other words, according to the laws of war, Israel is well within its rights to choke off Hamas’ ability to fund its terrorism.

However, Jabakhanji’s article focused its gaze squarely on Israel, not Hamas, blaming Jerusalem for the supposed shortage of food in Gaza when it is the Palestinian terrorist group that is sorely responsible.