Clip of Israeli protesters blocking aid convoy from entering Gaza is from 2024

"Israelis are blocking aid trucks while the children in Gaza starve," reads the Malay-language caption of a Facebook video shared on July 27, 2025.

The video shows a group of people carrying Israeli flags chanting in front of a convoy of white trucks, preventing them from moving forwards.

Its caption claims the food the trucks were carrying was left at the border while babies die just a few kilometres away.

"Maybe this is what Israel means when it claims Hamas has been stealing all the food and aid," it adds.

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Screenshot of the misleading Facebook post captured on August 5, 2025, with an orange X added by AFP

The clip, which was also shared in similar Facebook and X posts, surfaced as UN agencies warned that Gaza was "on the brink of a full-scale famine" and as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the Palestinian death toll in the nearly 22-month war had topped 60,000 (archived link).

The war was sparked by Hamas's October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, the majority civilians, based on an AFP tally of official figures.

Israel began allowing a small trickle of aid to enter the densely populated territory in late May -- having imposed a total blockade in March after ceasefire talks broke down -- and started a series of “tactical pauses” while allowing deliveries from aid trucks and airdrops in Gaza.

But the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Initiative (IPC) -- a group of monitors who advise the United Nations on impending crises -- said this effort would not prove enough unless aid agencies were granted “immediate, unimpeded” humanitarian access.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, meanwhile, has accused Hamas of looting food intended for civilians.

"We already allow significant amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza every single day, including food, water and medicine. Unfortunately, Hamas... has been stealing aid from the Gaza population, many times by shooting Palestinians," the office said.

While The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli activists are continuing to block humanitarian aid convoys to Gaza, the clip circulating online was in fact filmed in January 2024 (archived link).

A reverse image search on Google led to a TikTok video posted by broadcaster Al Jazeera's digital-only AJ+ channel on January 25, 2024 (archived link).

Its description reads: "Dozens of Israelis blocked aid trucks from entering Gaza as Palestinians are on the brink of famine."

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Screenshot comparison of the misleadingly shared clip (left) and the TikTok post from AJ+ (right)

Further keyword searches found similar footage published in reports by Al Jazeera and The Washington Post (archived here and here).

AFP reported the protest took place at the Kerem Shalom crossing, one of two border crossings used for aid delivery to Gaza's roughly 2.4 million residents (archived link).

The protesters included family members of hostages taken by Hamas during its October 2023 attack who had assembled at the crossing for days, and opposed aid reaching Gaza while Israeli hostages remained in the custody of Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.

AFP has previously debunked other misinformation about the war here.