Posted on 08/03/2025 5:20:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
RAFAH, GAZA STRIP—Every day this week, hundreds of U.N. trucks stacked with pallets of humanitarian aid have exited Israeli-patrolled routes and rumbled into population centers across the Gaza Strip, where Israel has implemented daily pauses in military activity.
Many of the trucks, though traveling under enhanced Israeli protections introduced on Sunday, have not reached U.N. warehouses, according to Gazans on the ground. Once the trucks have arrived in the population centers, armed Hamas militants have hijacked the cargo, the Gazans said, and what aid has arrived at the warehouses has disappeared into a patronage system controlled by the Palestinian terrorist group.
Most Gazans have been forced to buy the aid at exorbitant prices from merchants handpicked and heavily taxed by Hamas.
"Fifty trucks arrived yesterday at warehouses in Gaza City, and Hamas stole all of the aid," Moumen al-Natour, a 30-year-old lawyer in the northern Gaza capital, said on Tuesday. "Today, the aid went on sale in the black markets at very high prices."
Al-Natour said a childhood friend, seeking to feed his family, joined a hungry mob trying to loot the trucks and was trampled to death along with a number of other civilians.
Gazans and Israeli military officers say this is the everyday reality in Gaza. Hamas exerts near-total control over U.N.-led aid operations and seizes nearly all the incoming goods to feed and finance its terrorist regime, according to the people. Rather than confront the problem, the United Nations has effectively aligned with Hamas, prolonging the Gaza war and the suffering of Gazans, the people say.
"Hamas has unfortunately been able to infiltrate the mechanism of the United Nations for a long time," said Al-Natour, who has led the We Want To Live protests in Gaza calling for an end Hamas’s 18-year rule and the 22-month war. "They take all the aid for their own people and leave nothing for the civilians. This is how they maintain their criminal government while their popularity is collapsing."
"We’ve seen it with our own eyes and intelligence," said a high-ranking Israeli officer involved in strategic planning. "The U.N. aid is being stolen by Hamas. It is making this war longer and making the situation worse for the people of Gaza."....SNIP
And the MSM plays right along with the plot.
Hamas tells CNN, MSNBC, the AP, and the rest how to report it. Which is, that it’s all the IDF’s fault.
While Israeli propaganda insists in numerous claims regarding Gaza aid diversion, reports from organizations like USAID and internal US govt analysis have not found evidence of widespread or systematic theft of UN aid by Hamas.
There is evidence of interference and obstruction in the aid distribution process, and some instances of theft by “heavily armed groups,” but the extent of systematic aid theft by Hamas is disputed.
Israel is the most “heavily armed” group in the area.
ABC News——U.S. analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid Jul 25, 2025 — The study was conducted by the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) of USAID, which was the largest funder of assistance to Gaza until
Pres Trump boldly stepped up, overshadowing Netanyahu, to assist the starving Gazans.
NBC News-——Human Rights Watch says Israel committing war crimes in ...Aug 1, 2025 — Additionally, a USAID analysis appeared to undercut some of the assertions about the extent to which Hamas had allegedly stolen humanitarian aid.
The UN is Evil and should be shut down and few of the top crazies charged
UN aka UM aka United Muslims
Yup. And even PDJT is partially buying some. Feeding future terrorists is not a good plan.
The UnitedNazis has (for some years) become tremendously evil and destructive of America and American basic values. USA needs to kick the UN’s ass out of America without further delay! Cut back our funding, too. No more paying for our own destruction
BTTT
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