\nPalestinians run towards airdropped aid packages, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, August 19, 2025 (credit: REUTERS\/Ramadan Abed)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\u201cWe make clothes for women, and we believe that fashion is also a political thing, like food, like anything in culture,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The campaign lands as conditions facing Gazans after nearly two years of war are gaining attention among Israelis in new ways. Israel has long rejected claims of starvation in the enclave, but last month, a global hunger monitoring group released a report stating that parts of Gaza meet its standards for declaring a famine. Amid an international outcry and growing opposition among the Israeli public to the war, Israeli news organizations have begun reporting more often on the plight of Gazans and some anti-war protesters have started incorporating the photographs of Gazans into their demonstrations.<\/p>\n
Humanitarian aid to Gaza<\/h3>\n But some Israelis have rejected the expressions of concern, charging that they represent giving aid to an enemy and place the onus of responsibility unfairly on Israel \u2014 criticism also leveled recently at efforts by Diaspora Jews to blunt the privations of war on Gazans.<\/p>\n
Such sentiments exploded in the comments of Comme Il Faut\u2019s Instagram posts.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell it to Hamas. The food is at their place,\u201d wrote one user. Another posted, \u201cThe only ones who are starving are our kidnapped. Shame of a campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kaminer Goldfainer said the expectation of such a response deterred some potential participants in the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are very afraid for their businesses and for speaking up,\u201d she said. She said Comme Il Faut had reached out to almost 100 Israeli chefs and restauranteurs to see if they would participate in the campaign, but many said no or did not respond to their inquiry. Others cancelled after initially saying yes for fear of the backlash.<\/p>\n
In the end, the campaign featured a dozen Israeli chefs and restauranteurs, including Michal Levit, a food culture researcher; Tamar Cohen Tzedek, the chef and owner of the restaurant Cucina Hess 4; Avivit Priel Avichai, the chef and owner of Ouzeria restaurant; and Aviram Katz, the restauranteur behind HaBasta, Mifgash Rambam and Morris Bar.<\/p>\n
In the caption of some of the posts, the chefs wrote in Hebrew, English and Arabic that they \u201ccan no longer stay silent in the face of the systematic starvation of the people of Gaza and the hostages among them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur stomachs turn. From its depths, from the abysses of the soul, we cry out against the starvation of millions of innocent people and children, who are perishing and dying en masse,\u201d the captions continued.<\/p>\n
Comme Il Faut also collaborated with Parents Against Child Detention, an Israeli organization that raises awareness about the mass detention of Palestinian children, on the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur protest against hunger is a protest on behalf of the children and girls, who have no voice in the public sphere. For us this is not a political question but a basic moral responsibility \u2014 no boy and girl should starve,\u201d PACD wrote in an Instagram post of the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe voices that arise from the food community, from people and women whose lives are devoted to food and filling, echo our call: you must not comply with the reality of empty pots,\u201d the post continued. \u201cWe will continue to fight \u2014 until the pots are full.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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