In July 2025, as displaced Gazans faced mass hunger, a series of videos spread across social media claiming to show Israelis attempting to block aid trucks to Gaza. In the 21 months since militant group Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and capture of Israeli hostages, around 60,000 Palestinians were killed in Israel's ensuing offensive, 90% of Gaza's population was displaced and vast swathes of the enclave destroyed by Israel's bombardment according to The Associated Press.
One widely shared video showed Israeli men walking alongside a slow-moving truck, with one man standing in front and attempting to push against it. Other videos showed groups of men and women standing in front of trucks, shouting and being pushed aside by law enforcement.
Gazan writer Mosab Abu Toha said the videos showed Israelis attempting to stop the trucks as recently as July 27: "These are videos from last night (8 hours ago) showing Israelis trying to block food trucks from going to Gaza."
We were able to confirm the location, time and context of at least one of the videos above, showing young Israeli men trying to stop an aid truck headed for Gaza in late July 2025. Israeli media corroborated the above event showing the actions of Tsav 9, an Israeli extremist group whose members often attempt to stop aid to Gaza.
Although we are unable to confirm definitively that the second and third videos show the same group at the same time and place, the actions in the videos were reported on in Israeli media and some of the people in those videos reappear in social media footage shared by Tsav 9 over the course of that night.
Abu Toha told Snopes the clips came from an Israeli Telegram channel that posted daily from within Israel. According to the Telegram channel, the videos were shared late on July 27. Another video from the same channel showed Israeli law enforcement holding down and tying up an individual blocking the roads.
We looked closely at the first video showing a young man walking before a slow-moving truck and trying to push against it. A Hebrew-language speaker told Snopes over WhatsApp that someone in the video is shouting, "Stop! Stop! Stop!"
The video was reported on extensively in Hebrew-language media, including Kore, a right-wing outlet, Radio Darom (Radio South) and Arutz Sheva (also known as Israel National News). All the outlets reported the video was taken in the southern Israeli city of Dimona and showed members of Tsav 9 trying to block aid trucks to Gaza.
Israeli media claimed the truck dragged or ran over a young man and did not stop for him. However, it is clear from the first video that the truck was moving very slowly and honking multiple times as the man deliberately put himself in its path and tried to push against it. The truck stopped and the young man got out of the way.
Our Hebrew-language translator could not determine what the girls or women in the second video were saying as too many people were speaking over each other. In the third video our source told us someone yelled "Go to hell!" The responses were difficult to decipher and could have either meant, "We are sick" or "We can."
Tsav 9 is the name of a far-right Israeli group whose stated goal is to bring back Israeli hostages by putting pressure on Hamas in Gaza. Its activities include blocking aid supply trucks to Gaza and delegitimizing the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
While Tsav 9 claimed aid was going to Hamas, numerous investigations by independent organizations and even the Israeli military found no systematic or widespread aid diversions by the militant group.
According to Israel National News, Tsav 9 called for a blockade of such aid trucks via group chats and wrote:
They surprised us this time; they sent a convoy under the cover of night. As if the airdrops to the enemy weren't enough, as if the tactical pause that harms our soldiers wasn't already too much. But the residents of the south will not surrender to defeat. From Dimona and Arad, Yeruham and Mitzpeh [Ramon], they're all on their way to block the disgrace. Come make history.
The second video showed Israeli women arguing and being pushed off the road by law enforcement. The road signs and road itself are similar to the one shown in the first video. We found footage of a woman in the same headscarf and another woman in a skirt of the same color confronting the officers in a different instance from that night. This footage was reposted by Tsav 9's X account and showed police shoving the woman in the headscarf to the ground.
It is not immediately clear which agency or group was sending these aid trucks, though we know they were traveling from the Israeli city of Dimona to Gaza.
The European Union sanctioned Tsav 9 and the United States sanctioned its co-founders. The White House has repeatedly accused the group of violently disrupting aid trucks, dumping supplies, looting and setting fire to trucks in the West Bank sending aid to Gaza.
According to experts, aid groups, and the World Food Program, Gaza is facing catastrophic food, water and medicine shortages. The WFP said a third of the population is going multiple days without eating. United Nations agencies and independent aid groups accuse Israel of not allowing enough aid into Gaza and warn of impending famine.
This is not the first time we have covered Israelis stopping humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza. In February 2024, we reported on authentic footage and photographs of Israelis dancing to rave music at the border with Gaza while blocking aid trucks.