UN Reports 88 Percent of Aid Trucks Slated for Delivery in Gaza Since May Looted Along Routes

Foundation for Defense of Democracies ^ | 08/05/2025

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Latest Developments

• Aid Trucks Looted: Data from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) showed that between May 19 and August 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza. However, only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza during that period, with some 2,309 trucks being “intercepted” and looted along their delivery routes — undermining the recent claim of Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, that “the vast majority of the aid gets to civilians.” UNOPS’s data did not distinguish between the parties responsible for the interceptions, noting only that the aid was stolen by either “armed actors” or “hungry people.”

• Private Merchants Permitted to Deliver Gaza Aid: Israel will begin to allow the controlled entry of goods into Gaza through local merchants, expanding the humanitarian effort to the private sector, according to an August 5 statement by the IDF’s unit for the Coordination of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT). The move “aims to increase the volume of aid entering the Gaza Strip, while reducing reliance on aid collection by the UN and international organizations,” COGAT said. The humanitarian expansion includes goods like “basic food products, baby food, fruits and vegetables, and hygiene supplies,” with payments for the purchase of the goods being “conducted via bank transfers only, under a monitoring and oversight mechanism.”

• GHF Provides Operational Update: Amidst the expansion of aid delivery efforts to Gaza, the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced that it had delivered 1.8 million meals on August 5 alone, bringing the total number of meals delivered to date to over 108 million. “To meet the moment, we are working to expand operations and improve our communication channels to reach more people, and we continue to invite others in the humanitarian community to join us,” GHF Executive Director John Acree said. Separately, as part of a joint effort involving Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, Belgium, and France, the IDF stated that 110 aid packages were airdropped into Gaza on August 5, bringing the total number of aid packages dropped since July 26 to 785.

FDD Expert Response

“The United Nations’ own statistics confirm that all of its aid mechanisms in Gaza are plagued by the same Darwinian obstacle — that strong and well-armed Palestinians loot and hoard aid that could feed the populace, reducing the effectiveness of centrally planned distribution. Even if Israel guarantees the supply of adequate amounts of aid into the territory, the uneven, cutthroat distribution of the aid within Gaza will lead to preventable suffering. But Hamas and other armed groups make out like bandits.” — David May, Research Manager and Senior Research Analyst

“The failure of the United Nations to effectively distribute aid in Gaza, as well as its grotesque practice of blaming Israel while turning a blind eye to Hamas, emphasizes the crying need for an alternative system of aid delivery. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has developed a model to bypass Hamas by directly distributing aid to those who need it; sadly, instead of helping the GHF refine that model and limit the risks to Palestinians arriving at its distribution sites, the international community seems determined to reinstate the failed UN system.” — Ben Cohen, Senior Analyst and Rapid Response Director

FDD Background and Analysis

“Palestinian Terror Organizations Release Videos of Emaciated Israeli Hostages as Witkoff, Huckabee Visit Gaza,” FDD Flash Brief

“Israel enables increased humanitarian aid for Gaza,” by Seth J. Frantzman

“Israel Announces Humanitarian Pauses and Safe Aid Corridors to Support UN Aid Delivery in Gaza,” FDD Flash Brief

“UAE, Jordan Slated to Resume Humanitarian Air Drops in Gaza,” FDD Flash Brief

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[ConservativeMind]

Hamas and the UN should both be eliminated.

Israel is doing the right stuff.

[PGalt]

F UN

[Track9]

If the aid trucks work as fly paper, why not take advantage of that? Maybe the answer is the UN likes it this way.

[Pete Dovgan]

UN relief trucks and Gaza itself are intercepting the food and supplies sent for relief. I didn’t say HAMAS because they are the elected government of the People of Gaza.

Then they blame the innocent Israeli’s for starving their fellow people after they attacked them on Oct. 7th.

Just so the facts are out there for the people who have supported Hamas.

[econjack]

“Looted” is the wrong word. “Commandeered” is better, as that’s what Hamas does with aid trucks coming into Gaza. They take the aid, give it to their soldiers and, if anything is left over, they add a 16% “peace tax” onto its value and then sell it to the people of Gaza. The MSM has known this since the Hamas attack, but chooses not to report it, since it would make Hamas look like the monsters they truly are.

[Clean_Sweep]

Obviously the UN intended for Hamas to take the supplies. Any reasonable person would prevent the thefts after the first occurrence.

[packrat35]

And yet they blame Israel...

[gildafarrell]

And all those items looted will appear on the black market, courtesy of Hamas and the UN who will undoubtedly receive significant benefits from the sales.

[dfwgator]

From the river to the sea
Gaza will be Hamas free

[Organic Panic]

EIGHT
EIGHT
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Heil Hitler

Hamas = NAZIS