UN: Around 88% of aid trucks collected in Gaza since mid-May did not reach destinations due to looting or theft

[Beastly Boy]

The United Nations Office for Project Services has published data showing that since the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza on May 19 and up until August 5, a total of 2,604 aid trucks were collected by the UN after entering the Strip. Of those, 2,309 did not reach their intended destinations inside the enclave.

According to the organization, this was due to the trucks being “intercepted either peacefully by hungry people or forcefully by armed actors during transit in Gaza.” This accounts for 88% of all trucks.

In recent months, the percentages were even higher. According to UNOPS, in June, 1,155 trucks were collected by the UN and its partner organizations, and 1,048 of them — 90.7% — were intercepted before reaching their destinations. In July, the figure rose to 94%, with 1,161 trucks collected and 1,093 intercepted.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/un-around-88-of-aid-trucks-collected-in-gaza-since-mid-may-did-not-reach-destinations-due-to-looting-or-theft/ar-AA1JWchf

[Sneederbunk]

1. Heaven forbid that the IDF protect the trucks.

[Beastly Boy]

2. Heaven forbid that Hamas stop looting.

[Celerity]

8. Why post easily debunked misinfo/disinfo?

receipts for my claim:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/middleeast/hamas-un-aid-theft.html

also:

Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/usaid-analysis-found-no-evidence-massive-hamas-theft-gaza-aid-2025-07-25/


IDF Officials Say No Evidence Hamas Systematically Stole UN Aid in Gaza

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-07-26/ty-article/idf-officials-say-no-evidence-hamas-systematically-stole-un-aid-in-gaza-nyt-reports/00000198-46ed-db91-a1df-efef44060000


US government review found no evidence of widespread Hamas theft of Gaza aid

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/politics/us-government-review-no-evidence-widespread-theft-gaza-aid


NYT: Israel has no evidence of systematic Hamas looting of UN aid in Gaza

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/nyt-israel-has-no-evidence-of-systematic-hamas-looting-of-un-aid-in-gaza/


related:


Armed by Netanyahu, gangs of Gaza hold sway in the rubble. The Israeli prime minister admited arming Gazan clans.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220537754#post7

[Beastly Boy]

10. USAID analysis only tracks aid that comes from them.

That leaves aid deliveries unaffiliated with USAID, such as aid financed by Saudi Arabia, EU, the Emirates, Britain, Bahrain, etc., out of their analysis.

That's the majority of aid being delivered in Gaza that was left out.

And as far as I know, the vast majority of aid in Gaza is being distributed by the UN, the author of the aforementioned report.

[Celerity]

12. The IDF said the same thing. As I posted. But you knew that.

[Beastly Boy]

29. Then my response was not unexpected

Not too difficult to figure it out, IDF or not.

[Melon]

23. There is countless video of Hamas taking trucks.

My post on it was removed as a right wing talking point. TikTok and X were full of videos last week of armed Hamas taking multiple semi’s of relief supplies. The argument is that it was not “routinely “ occurring, but this is not what was being said by Palestine commentators.

[AZProgressive]

24. Are they criminal gangs?

Those are the ones looting the food and selling it higher prices. Even a salafist/wahabbi group was allowed to steal aid which was blamed on Hamas.

Israel killed the police force in Gaza so there is no law enforcement to deal with the gangs looting and stealing food and selling it at higher prices. They used to escort the aid convoys.

[Melon]

27. Could be valid....i don't know that.

I was going off of what was written and my belief that Hamas was somewhat still in control.

[lapucelle]

41. Argumentum ad ignorantiam: argument from ignorance.

aka an appeal to ignorance

Description: The assumption of a conclusion or fact based primarily on lack of evidence to the contrary. Usually best described by, “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

https://www.logicalyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Argument-from-Ignorance

For those who prefer pictures:

[Eko]

19. Your own post say that is not the problem.

"Majority are overrun by ‘starving, desperate people,’ not Hamas or other armed groups, UN staffer tells ToI, adding problem didn’t exist during January truce, when aid was sufficient."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-9-in-10-aid-trucks-looted-before-reaching-gaza-destinations-un-figures-show/

If you follow it to the original link.

[EdmondDantes_]

25. Literally the quote excerpted said this

Weird to not just ignore the inconvenient part, but to do so after citing it.

[Eko]

26. Are you saying that I am ignoring an inconvenient part?

[EdmondDantes_]

33. No, not you. The OP is ignoring it

You're pointing out the inconvenient part.

I'm sorry about the confusion.

[Eko]

35. All good, I thought that was what you were saying just wanted to check.

Keep on keeponing.
Eko

[sarisataka]

4. Let's be honest

Would the response be if the IDF did protect the trucks?

[Sneederbunk]

5. A win win. Israel would look good and Gazans would be fed.

[sarisataka]

20. I said let's be honest

Honesty is any any action the IDF had to take to protect the food convoy would be perceived in the most negative light possible. We already see Israel, being accused of using the food distribution points as bait stations to hunt. The convoy would be said to be rolling bait stations that the IDF is using simply to draw their quarry in closer.

[Sneederbunk]

21. However, the IDF shooting starving people honestly is not positive.

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[Mossfern]

6. "She was wearing provocative clothing."

Gimme a break...

[Eko]

3. "Majority are overrun by 'starving, desperate people,' not Hamas or other armed groups"

"Majority are overrun by ‘starving, desperate people,’ not Hamas or other armed groups, UN staffer tells ToI, adding problem didn’t exist during January truce, when aid was sufficient."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/almost-9-in-10-aid-trucks-looted-before-reaching-gaza-destinations-un-figures-show/

[Beastly Boy]

9. UN failure to control crowds in majority of looting incidents?

Quite possible, if UN felt compelled to report on themselves.

[Eko]

18. Jeeze man, everything you say just ends up with everyone being responsible except for Israel.

Is Israel currently letting armed UN forces into Gaza? No. To be completely fair neither is hamas. Your attempt to blame the UN for something falls completely flat.
One other small thing to consider is the rest of the quote, "adding problem didn’t exist during January truce, when aid was sufficient"
Imagine that, when people aren't starving they act a bit more reasonable. When starving, they don't. But you got to bash the UN for what Israel has done .

[Beastly Boy]

28. A rather predictable counterpoint to everything being Israel's fault, no?

[Eko]

30. Except that at no time have I said everything is Israel's fault.

If you remember I said that both Israel and hamas won’t let UN armed forces in. In other words, both their fault.

[Beastly Boy]

31. Nor did I end up with everyone being responsible except for Israel with everything I say.

Didn't stop you, did it?

[Eko]

36. Here you attribute blame only to the UN

Knowing full well that they and hamas control who and what goes in and out of Gaza.
"UN failure to control crowds in majority of looting incidents?"
So, yeah, you did.

[Celerity]

7. Armed by Netanyahu, gangs of Gaza hold sway in the rubble. The Israeli prime minister admited arming Gazan clans.

One member, Abu Shabab, who denies all ties to Israel, now controls aid distribution

https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-war/article/armed-by-netanyahu-gangs-of-gaza-hold-sway-in-the-rubble-gzqqgh9z3

https://archive.ph/MORKK


Yasser Abu Shabab belongs to a Bedouin tribe opposed to Hamas, but has been disowned since ties to Israel were revealed

Amal Helles, Gabrielle Weiniger Sunday June 08 2025, 10.15pm BST

Yasser Abu Shabab found freedom in the form of an Israeli airstrike. Weeks after a prison break from a Hamas cell where he was jailed for drug trafficking, Abu Shabab is thought to be part of Israel’s grand plan to weaken Hamas. The 31-year-old Bedouin from the powerful Tarabin desert tribe has risen to the top of the Israeli war experiment in eastern Rafah, where Israeli tanks surround a barren sector teeming with the hungry and displaced, dependent on a new aid distribution system said to be run by contractors and secured by Abu Shabab.

He claims his group, self-styled as the Anti-Terror Service or Popular Forces, has no ties to Israel and has inherited the weaponry it has used to arm its estimated 300 fighters, many of whom are members of his clan, paid mercenaries and locals. “We have not and will not work with the occupation,” Abu Shabab said in his first public statement this week. “We’ve never met any Israeli officer,” he insisted, adding that his mission was a humanitarian project that welcomes families to areas under his control, fleeing war-torn Gaza and famine.



This week, however, Binyamin Netanyhu, Israel’s prime minister admitted arming Gazan clans, without naming Abu Shabab. “We made use of clans in Gaza that are opposed to Hamas… What’s wrong with that?” Netanyahu said on Thursday. “It’s only good. It saves the lives of IDF soldiers.” The outing met severe criticism from Israel’s opposition, its leader Yair Lapid accusing Netanyahu of arming an organisation “close to Isis”. “After Netanyahu stopped giving millions of dollars to Hamas, he moved on to giving weapons to organisations close to Isis in Gaza, all off the cuff, all without strategic planning, all leading to more disasters,” Lapid posted on X.



Abu Shabab’s force protects the distribution of aid by the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, sources said. The group has been mired in controversy after tens of thousands of Palestinians descended on newly opened distribution points last week and several dozen people were killed. Abu Shabab’s militia has filled the vacuum left by the retreat from eastern Rafah, where civil infrastructure has all but collapsed. For months, gangs and groups such as Abu Shabab’s have seized aid trucks coming in from Kerem Shalom, sources said, demanding protection money for their release while claiming to protect them from Hamas theft.

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[Beastly Boy]

11. No shit. Netanyahu is arming the enemy of their enemy.

Someone must tell Iran's ayatollahs about it. They probably never considered doing the same thing for Hamas.

[Celerity]

13. Netanyahu-funded gangs were stealing a shedload of the aid. He bloody well knows that.

You are the one who posted about aid not getting through.

Well, there is a massive part of the problem; Bibi-paid gangsters.

[Beastly Boy]

14. Ayatolla funded gang, the biggest gang in Gaza, was stealing a shedload of food too, for much longer

The UN report doesn't tell us the relative standings of Netanyahu-funded thugs vs Ayatolla-funded thugs, but I doubt that a 900-member gang can physically steal as much aid as a 15,000 member gang.

[Celerity]

15. For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it's blown up in our faces

The premier’s policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group.

The idea was to prevent Abbas — or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government — from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state. Thus, amid this bid to impair Abbas, Hamas was upgraded from a mere terror group to an organization with which Israel held indirect negotiations via Egypt, and one that was allowed to receive infusions of cash from abroad.

snip

Additionally, since 2014, Netanyahu-led governments have practically turned a blind eye to the incendiary balloons and rocket fire from Gaza. Meanwhile, Israel has allowed suitcases holding millions in Qatari cash to enter Gaza through its crossings since 2018, in order to maintain its fragile ceasefire with the Hamas rulers of the Strip. Most of the time, Israeli policy was to treat the Palestinian Authority as a burden and Hamas as an asset.

Far-right MK Bezalel Smotrich, now the finance minister in the hardline government and leader of the Religious Zionism party, said so himself in 2015. According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinian state should support the transfer of funds to Gaza, because maintaining the separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

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[Beastly Boy]

16. We have known this for a while. How does it change the UN report?

[Celerity]

17. It is all part of the Netanyahu and his ultra RW religio-fash suppoters' (ie Ben-Gvir, Smotrich, etc) long term game.

They want it all. All of Gaza, all of the West Bank, and then they can work on booting out/extirpating the Palestinians left in Isrel proper, plus move on to taking other parts of their Eretz Yisrael vision, such as Jordan.




Smotrich says there’s no Palestinian people, declares his family ‘real Palestinians’

In Paris, far-right minister says Palestinian nation is ‘an invention of past 100 years,’ and ‘world should hear this truth’; speaks in front of Israel map that includes Jordan

https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-lawmaker-bezalel-smotrich-declares-himself-his-family-real-palestinians/



Far-right lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich said Sunday that the Palestinian people were “an invention” from the last century and that people like himself and his grandparents were the “real Palestinians.”

Speaking in Paris at a private memorial service for prominent right-wing Likud activist and Jewish Agency board member Jacques Kupfer, who passed away after a long battle with cancer in 2021, Smotrich said there was “no such thing as Palestinians because there’s no such thing as the Palestinian people,” a comment that was met with applause and cheers from attendees, as seen in a video from the event posted online.

“Do you know who are the Palestinians?” asked the head of the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party and Israel’s finance minister. “I’m Palestinian,” he said, also mentioning his grandmother who was born in the northern Israeli town of Metula 100 years ago, and his grandfather, a 13th-generation Jerusalemite, as the “real Palestinians.” Smotrich was speaking from a podium that featured a map of “Greater Israel” that included the territory of modern-day Jordan, in accordance with hardline aspirations by some early Zionist groups.

Smotrich has a history of making inflammatory statements against Palestinians, Arab citizens of Israel, non-Orthodox Jews, and the LGBTQ community including once declaring himself a “proud homophobe.” In 2021, he said David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, should have “finished the job” and kicked all Arabs out of the country when it was founded. Earlier that same year, he said members of Israel’s Arab minority communities were citizens “for now at least.”

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[Beastly Boy]

22. Netanyahu and his ultra RW religio-fash suppoters came to power in late 2022

The war started October 2023.

Netnyahu tacitly allowing funds to go to Hamas happened a decade earlier.

Did Netanyahu anticipate the UN report back then to make it part of his and his fascist supporters' plan?

I don't get the connection.

[Nanjeanne]

32. Its very sad to see people twist themselves into pretzels to deny the starvation going on in Gaza and only able to blame

Hamas (and poor starving people) - without recognizing that the IDF/Israel are complicit. There may be many factors for why this starvation is going on. But dammit all -- it's happening and it should be stopped. End of story.

[Beastly Boy]

34. It is equally sad to see people twist themselves into pretzels to only blame Israel

without recognizing a number of other parties, including Hamas, for being complicit in the starvation that is going on in Gaza.

It should be stopped, but it is only possible when all factors that contribute to the starvation in Gaza are taken into account.

[lapucelle]

37. Did the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs clarify

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why there is more aid being offloaded than being collected for distribution?

What happened to the 13,000 pallets/9,000 tons of aid?

[Beastly Boy]

38. Ouch!

In totally unrelated news, Gaza markets, where Gazan civilians are forced to pay an arm and a leg for the goods, are bustling!

[lapucelle]

39. "Aid parcels sell for 'crazy prices' at local markets, says Gazan man"

From the BBC

Aid parcels sell for 'crazy prices' at local markets, says Gazan man

From the window of his apartment in central Gaza, Anas Al-Masry has spotted the silhouettes of parachutes dropping food from the sky.

But he's never been close enough to get his hands on any. Within a couple of hours, he sees the same parcels of aid for sale at local markets.

"The problem is that the packages are sold at crazy prices," he tells me. "This requires cash, and cash is also not generally available in Gaza."

In order to buy cash with funds in his bank account, he says, vendors charge a 55% fee, which he simply cannot afford.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvgvnp57yp7t?post=asset%3A490b94e8-ec2f-48af-9a66-1f3116880e78#post

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Imagine profiteering in a time of war by selling donated humanitarian aid to your neighbors at exorbitant prices.

[EdmondDantes_]

40. Why would you expect anything different than prices going up after a disaster?

The way to stop that is to provide enough aid.

[lapucelle]

42. People are selling donated humanitarian aid. They are making their neighbors pay

for what is supposed to be free.

Is the claim that profiteers were always selling donated humanitarian aid to their neighbors, but now the prices are higher?